So, I think I\u2019ve finally identified my mood this morning.\r\n
I don\u2019t feel celebratory, or elated, or even relieved. I have some hope that I will start feeling that way at noontime, but at the moment, anyway, that\u2019s not how I feel.\r\n
I feel, mostly, exhausted.\r\n
I feel like it\u2019s time to strike the set. And I\u2019m tired, and everybody is tired, and we\u2019ve got this big elaborate set that needs to come down to make room for the next one, and it\u2019s just so much work. And this is just me, but I am complete rubbish at set building and striking and don\u2019t much enjoy doing either\u2014in set striking, I generally do a lot of carrying bits of wood from one place to another and sweeping up staples, and occasionally I act as a brace when someone is unscrewing an actual brace. And mostly I wander around feeling only very slightly helpful, trying not to actually damage anything that is supposed to only be disassembled and not damaged. But, you know, it has to be done, and everybody has to help or it\u2019s much worse, and other people are really conspicuously not helping, which makes me feel worse, not better. And also the green room and the dressing rooms are complete wrecks, and well, I share the blame for that, don\u2019t I?\r\n
And\u2014in actual set-striking, mostly, I\u2019ve had the good fortune to have been in the show and enjoyed it, and made friends among the cast and crew, and strike is a chance to spend a little more time with them, which is a nice and sentimental thing. And sometimes when I am helping strike a set, I am in the next<\/i> show to use that space, in which case there\u2019s excitement and anticipation mingled with the weariness and semi-helplessness. The analogy is far from exact. But it\u2019s closer to the set-striking emotion than to any sort of party.\r\n
Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,<\/I>
-Vardibidian.\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Which Your Humble Blogger is weary, just weary.","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20372,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20371\/revisions\/20372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}