Dear Friend,

And yes, I know that you are a friend, otherwise you wouldn't take the time to read this blog (a fact that I thank you for).

Anyways.

Dear Friend,

In keeping with Friendship Policy as outlined at the beginning of time, I would like to make an announcement about a formal bill I would like to personally uphold within my jurisdiction. Quite simply, this bill is meant to ensure honesty at all times. Now for some explanation.
One thing that aggravates me is when people feel like they will offend me if they keep the truth from me, because it may (or may not) be quite brutal. The truth is, I get a feeling from people that tells my head that something is wrong, and then I have to decide whether it's my head, or really something. And so, what I ask of you is to help me out by eliminating the need for guessing. If there is something that you are holding back, please tell me. It'll save me the worry.

Honestly, I promise that it will do me less harm for you to just let me know than for me to have to fret about it for weeks.

An example would be if I were editing a graphic for you, and though you found it nice as a graphic, thought that it didn't exactly suit you. If you didn't tell me, I would simply think you liked it, and then in time if I saw that you didn't use it much, or didn't bring it up from time to time, I'd think I had done something wrong. And so if you want something changed, take the initiative and tell me! I can't read your mind quite yet, ok?


Now then, something for people who maybe don't like me (or certain aspects of me). In particular I'm going to talk about my techie-ness in the theatre. If you are a person who looks at me in disgust, thinking about how full of myself I am, and how I'm such a teachers pet, always doing everything, etc, please read on. I totally understand where you're coming from with that. But really, I know that I'm good at tech, I love doing it, and so even if you hate me for being good, I'm sorry to say, too bad for you.

I do want to make one other thing clear though relating to tech. I designed ONE SINGLE light show. And presented it during the grade 9 tours. It took (if I recall correctly) about 3 weeks, with no prior training to that extent. I'm not going to boast, but I feel I have the right to say it was extremely successful. But you see, now I have all the musical theatre people calling me 'techie god' and 'king'. I made one light show, and fine, I did all the tech for the drama 30 shows, but PLEASE don't forget about the other techies out there. Jackie was an amazing SM during CFU, Christina is a wicked light operator (excuse the pun), and I'm just a grade 11 tech guy with no life. And so, if you are someone involved in fine arts, please don't limit yourself to one guru. There are many more out there.

And with that dear friends, I will sign this entry closed.
Again, thank you for all the readership, it's really been great to have an audience, and if you read something you like, leave a comment! I love that sort of thing! Oh, and you can share the blog with other people too you know :P

Peace (what a wonderful thing, isn't it?)

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(My new alias)