Day 26: Nords Skills at Work

My first duty of the day was to iron the costumes that had just gone through the laundry. I began with Gordon's shirt. Side note: the shirt said no iron, but it was not the case. Although when at Nordstrom, we  have the big time steamer and it does make the job go quicker, but you do have to iron on occasion. I took my work with Facconable and Robert Graham button downs and put it to good use. Gordon's button down was not so simple to iron. Every time I went to hang it up there was a new wrinkle on the front. Three times off the hanger and more ironing later, it finally looked good. I then had to iron Beth's over shirt, which also presented a problem for me. It happened to be a polyester blend that loved to hold on to the wrinkles. I finally was able to iron out most if not all of the wrinkles.

I then returned to the office, and headed to the post office to pick up the mail. When I returned I logged and  took care of the ticket requests we got in the mail for our Casino Royale fundraising event. The tickets sells are doing pretty well so far. We hope to be getting more in everyday until the event! After a quick lunch it was back to the ironing board for me. More button downs. They are our "uniforms" for our Stages of Wonder workshop we do for grades 1-5 at different schools. (more on that later)

While ironing I was working on my song and monologue for today's audition. The more I practiced my monologue the more I did not like it, and was second guessing my choice. So I continued ironing and continued not loving my monologue. After I finished ironing, it was about time for Stages training. We went through some background of the program and were given some literature to read about the program. We then went through the exercises as if we were in a class. The different grades have different exercises, but many of them overlap. I'm really excited to work with the students, I miss little children in my life (I mean you Ailiffs, Duffys, Messineos, and Wards) We start next Monday and I don't teach until Wednesday. Each class as two teachers so until I'm ready, I will mostly be the secondary teacher before I lead.  

After work I headed over to the Merriwether building to work on my song and monologue some more. After I got my monologue more on it's feet I was much happier with my decision. I have one more quick lesson today for my song, but it seems to be coming along well. Auditions are tonight! They are just general auditions though. If any of the companies (nexStage, Company of Fools, or St. Thomas) want you, this audition is for them to keep you in mind for their upcoming shows. I hope I do well, and don't get too nervous. Until tomorrow...