Ups and Downs

So this second full week is a little uneven. I've seen two very disappointing shows, which shouldn't have bothered me as much as it did. I'm used to seeing not good shows, I see them all the time at home. And logically, I know that not all the plays I see here will be good, but it still annoyed me.

On the other hand, my internship is going great. Yesterday I saved a database. Or, helped save a database. The office had recently moved and there was suddenly a desperate search for the christmas card database. The only copy was eventually found on a- are you ready?- floppy disk. Now, the only computer in the office with a working floppy drive was an ancient old laptop which could not burn cds or connect to the a zip drive. So I said, why not email it to the other computer? A great idea, but complicated by the fact that this ancient computer had no ethernet connection. So we unplugged the fax machine and- are you sitting down?- dialed up. I know. Crazy. However, the email got sent and I immediately put this database on a cd. Then we all breathed a little easier. The last two hours of yesterday were spent browsing at the theatre bookstore near-by and gossiping about people in the business.

I also learned that British actors are as desperate for good feed-back as American ones when my boss and I ran into an actor from a show we'd both seen and I assured him that his American accent had been very good. And it was actually. That had been one of the good shows. I've seen seven shows so far, which isn't bad when you consider that I've only been here for two weeks and four of those seven were good, so I'm not doing too badly.