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Am I going crazy or is our thread gone?
mare:
Thanks for the suggestions, guys. I don't have a team of anyone to help with anything, but I have been looking up YouTube videos for building upper arm strength. We'll see how it goes. When I taught, my classroom was up a flight of steps and to get to the bathroom, I had to go down and walk across the gym floor to get to the bathrooms behind the bleachers. I only had about a five-minute gap between classes and it would take me that long just to make it down the steps, so I would have to wait until the end of the school day before I got to go. I can't even tell you the number of times I almost peed myself. That was another place that was not handicap accessible. They were the barest minimum to get the ADA approval. There was an elevator and a ramp leading into the gym, but there was no way for someone in a wheelchair to get to the main school from the gym without having to climb steps. :shrug:
Kieran was at the play yesterday, so it was probably a stomach bug or something. I'm sure a video of a fan asking will pop up at some point.
I love that you are lurking on my videos, Dee. lol I keep forgetting to ask my sister for the one where I actually interact with Bill Burr.
Stage Door has become a whole culture now. I know the Outsiders, even though there's no one famous in that show, they have a bunch of groupies that go to the plays all the time and religiously wait for them afterwards. Apparently, they are rude as well. They treat the play like a rock concert and yell out the actors' names. Since Broadway is right now comprised of a lot of A list celebrities it's been kind of crazy, although not many do stage door regularly. I think George Clooney comes out once in a while. No offense to Joey Fatone, but nobody seems to care about him. I don't even think they have a barricade for & Juliet. I might be wrong, but who knows? lol
When do you guys go to Vegas?
I can't type anything on my phone. Even to post here, I have to be on the computer. The only time I post from my phone is on Twitter and sometimes FB. I don't know how people write on their phones, but I guess if that's all your used to. So many people I know who write also don't do it on Word, but directly on the AO3 site. I would be way too paranoid to do that.
I'm glad you're both writing. I have about two more chapters to write on this one and then I think I'm taking a break. I've been wanting to paint again, and I can't do both.
RokofAges75:
YouTube is a great starting point! I learn so much from YouTube LOL.
Ugh, the bathroom situation at your old school sounds like a nightmare. I am fortunate to be in a fairly new school building (built in 2001), where there is a staff bathroom located in each hall. The building is also very accessible; it has two stories, but there is an elevator to get to the second floor and a ramp anywhere that requires a few steps up or down. My classroom is on the first floor and is closest to the nurse's office, so I tend to get the students with physical disabilities. The one problematic thing is that the art room is on the second floor, so once a week, those students have to take the elevator to get upstairs to art. Not a big deal, except for that if there were ever a fire and the elevator were out of order, no one has ever been able to give me a satisfactory answer as to how we would get students who are, say, full-time wheelchair users downstairs and out of the building. "Have the art teacher carry her" was the answer I got the last time I had a student who used a wheelchair and couldn't walk at all. Our art teacher is close to retirement; I'm not sure he could carry some of these kids. They really need some kind of stair lift that could be operated manually in case of an emergency.
Glad to hear Kieran is back!
I've only been to two Broadway shows (on actual Broadway), and both times, I was on a bus trip with a big group of people, so I don't think waiting at the stage door was an option, if that was even a thing back then. I haven't been to NYC since 2009, so I'm sure the culture has grown since then. That's crazy that people are yelling out the actors' names during the show. No matter what kind of music it is, a musical is not the same as a concert. I've been to musicals where I know every lyric and would love to sing along, but I don't because we paid to hear the actors sing, not random people in the audience LOL. I do sing along at concerts, but quietly - and not when someone is recording next to me. We're doing the July 27 and 28 shows in Vegas.
I only post here on my computer too. I occasionally tweet or comment on Reddit from my phone, but that's about it. Writing directly on AO3 is idiotic! Rookie mistake! Wait until they accidentally lose everything, and they'll learn. I've switched to Google Docs out of convenience; I don't even have Word on my desktop computer anymore (well, I do, but I haven't paid for it, so I can't edit documents on it). The only thing I miss about Word is that there's no limit to how long documents can be. Google Docs can't handle some of my docs. 🙃
Does that mean you're two chapters away from finishing your story? That's exciting! Painting sounds nice. Maybe you could paint something related to your stories and say it's inspiration for writing. That's sometimes how I justify playing The Sims instead of writing in the summer LOL.
mare:
I wish I was talented enough to paint freestyle. When I say painting, I mean those elaborate paint by number ones I make. They are hard and look really good when I'm done but I could never do it freeform. I would love to do that. I have so many visual images in my mind of certain scenes in my stories that I'd love to see come alive. Yes, I only have two chapters left of this story I'm working on. Technically I could finish in one, but I have had an ending in my mind from the start and time has to go by between the second to last chapter and the last chapter, so I'm stretching to two more.
The last time I went to Broadway before seeing this one was when I went to see Kevin in Chicago. There were only a small handful of people waiting at the backstage door and no barricades at all. When I was very young and living in the Bronx, we used to go very often to see a lot of shows and we almost always waited backstage afterwards. I was so young though, I don't really remember caring about anything except getting a NYC pretzel afterwards. lol
We did quite a few trips into the city to see shows when I was in high school, but like you, because it was an entire marching band or chorus, we never did the stage door.
You were told that the art teacher should carry them down? Wtf? Jesus! The kids who were in wheelchairs because of injuries wouldn't even be able to come to music class at all because the only way to get up to my classroom was an entire flight of steps. I used to physically wince when a kid came up on crutches. Afriad that they'd fall and break their little necks. I know they have since FINALLY moved the music room into the main building where there is an elevator and they turned my old room into a storage closet, which is what it should've have always been in the first place.
End of July is a good time for a concert. I don't know about heat wise with Vegas, but it'll be a nice way to bring your summer to an end. Are you guys doing the whole Meet and Greet thing? I'm sure if they are even doing those, it will be off the wall expensive.
mare:
Happy Brithday, Lindsey! If you haven't disappeared again because the forum is being stupid! lol
RokofAges75:
Happy birthday, Lindsey!
Ah, paint by number sounds fun! I'm not a good freestyle painter or drawer either. It is fun to bring your stories to life in a visual way. That's what I do with The Sims. My characters and settings never look quite the same as they do in my head, but I still have fun creating them and playing with them in my game.
Yay for being so close to finishing your story! I know you said you'll probably take a break to paint, but do you have more ideas waiting to be written when you're ready?
Yep, no one had a better answer than to have someone carry the kid down the stairs. Let's hope there's never an actual fire. 😳 Putting the art room on the second floor (with no windows, I might add) was a dumb decision in the first place. But he has a kiln in there and his own storage closet, so moving it downstairs isn't really an option either. Clearly, no one considered the logistics of having students with disabilities, beyond meeting the basic ADA requirements with the ramp and elevator. That's terrible that your students who depended on a wheelchair, even temporarily, couldn't even go to music! I'm glad they've since moved the music room to a more accessible location.
Yes, the Vegas trip will be a nice way to sort of close out my summer before August hits and I have to get into back to school mode. We are not doing a meet and greet because of how expensive it is. The last time I went to Vegas in July, it was 120 degrees, so that's what I'm preparing myself for. It actually wasn't as bad as I thought it would be because of the lack of humidity. I never felt sweaty because it was so dry that the sweat evaporated instantly, and we were only outside for a few minutes at a time while walking between casinos. The only thing we're hoping to do that's outside is the Neon Museum, which we'll do at night if it's not too hot.
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