saturday night i went to the nc symphony's summerfest concert as an official representative of the station. this means not only did i have to help man the table of station propaganda, but i also had to make announcements from stage.
a lot of people use the logic of, "oh, you talk to hundreds of thousands of people every day when you're on-air... therefore making stage announcements shouldn't be a big deal." the difference is that when i'm on-air i don't see anyone. i might as well be talking to myself. but when i'm doing something like this i can see thousands of people in front of me. looking at me. probably analyzing what i'm wearing and how much i weigh. i had to take shayne with me for moral support.
thankfully, i've done this twice before so i wasn't as terrified as i had been in the past. the trick is not following the script that the symphony wants me to read. reading *anything* results in certain death on stage. so i take the script with me, but i ad lib. a lot.
i think it went ok.
the worst thing was the sweat. it was extraordinarily humid last night and combined with my nerves i was, um, glowing quite a lot. before i left the house i had gone to the trouble of making sure i looked good... lots of anti-frizz junk in my hair, make-up, jewelry. but after 10 minutes i think all of my efforts (except the jewelry) were decimated.
in fact, when i got home i noticed that my face had broken out into a million little whiteheads. it was utterly disgusting. in fact it continues to be disgusting. i've put hot compresses on my face, just to try to steam my pores open, but it still looks grody.
the more i think about it, though, the more i'm unsure that the sweating and the makeup were the culprits. the antibiotic that my mom sent me for my unspeakable illness last week could possibly be causing this, i suppose. but i just don't know. i still have several days left of the medication... i guess if more of my body breaks out in whiteheads (it's not a rash) i'll have my answer.
in the meantime i feel like a total teenager with this acne.
this morning, despite the horrid complexion, ray & i went to see farenheit 9/11. i don't think there's an objective way i can review the content of this movie, but i will say it's probably michael moore's best film yet... because he pretty much stays out of the way. he does the narration, of course, and throws in some unnecessarily campy stuff, but unlike his other movies he only does one big ambush scene. (his ambush of charlton heston in bowling for columbine totally turned me off. i completely agreed with the message of the movie, but i thought moore discredited his whole argument with low tactics like that.)
anyway, the crowd was huge. the crowd for the showing after ours was even more huge. there were activists handing out fliers afterward and it actually seemed like a vital, engaged community right there in front of the carolina theatre. let's hope that holds up.
Posted by xta at June 27, 2004 10:54 PM | TrackBack