Day two of tech

Day two of build in Shapiro Theater has come and gone. After a quick lunch with Jared at two o'clock yesterday I went over to the theater to see if there was anything to be done, and screwed a few things together and helped a little to figure out how to make the stairs. Honestly it feels like we're about a day behind, and I just can't stay till four in the morning now, but we've got basically all the pieces constructed. When I left they needed painting, and the staircase had to be finished and put together. I'm planning on going in early because I can't stay late at around three o'clock this afternoon to see if I can't contribute more then.

I look rough. I've not been sleeping well, as is typical of tech week, and the work has really taken a toll on my skin. My hands feel like sandpaper, and with all the concentration on build and using the tools right I've taken to biting my lip, leaving it dry and torn up. The weather right now isn't helping with this. I think when I get home I'm going to take an extremely hot shower and put myself back together a little, not to mention find a nice soothing gallon of lip balm. Maybe that'll help me get back to feeling, and looking, normal.

Just need to bitch

One of my responsibilities at work is to generate transcripts of videos and then add those transcriptions as subtitles into the video. The program I'm using to add the subtitles is called Inqscribe, and it is driving me crazy. In theory it's an excellent concept; it lets you slow down playback and gives you a way to bind pieces of text to specific timecodes. But the pause function, essential to this kind of work, often either takes several seconds to kick in or just freezes the whole goddamn thing, especially if I minimize the program and work in a different application for more than a minute at a time. My work machine is several years old, so perhaps the program itself is not to blame, but I can't fathom what's so complicated about it that it requires sophisticated hardware in order to perform BASIC FUNCTIONS LIKE PAUSE. I've got twenty-five videos to subtitle before the end of the month, and I've finished I think nine of them, but I dislike fighting with this program so much it makes me want to avoid them altogether. Not an option, of course, but I'm frustrated about it.