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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Glad to have you back, my friend! Pull up a chair and grab a beverage. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Kristi RC</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div></div><div><br></div>
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On Wednesday, August 2, 2023, 09:35:23 PM CDT, Dave Vick via Stagecraft <stagecraft@theatrical.net> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">Um, hi. Remember me? It's been a minute... Okay, actually it's been<br></div><div dir="ltr">around 22 months, but you know what I mean.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I was having lunch the other week with an old friend who's the Asst.<br></div><div dir="ltr">House Manager of my old theatre, the Wharton Center at MSU (and a<br></div><div dir="ltr">delightful young lady*, but that's another story), and it got me to<br></div><div dir="ltr">thinking about how much I'd been unconsciously missing the backstage<br></div><div dir="ltr">community. Then I got in a Zoom call with Kristi (among others) and<br></div><div dir="ltr">the unconscious missing became extremely conscious missing. I'm NOT<br></div><div dir="ltr">returning to work onstage; it turns out I actually like bus driving -<br></div><div dir="ltr">hey, I never said I was sane - and the few times I did go back onstage<br></div><div dir="ltr">in the past year or so were.... Umm... Weird. But it's a process.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">So here I am, hat in hand. It feels like I've healed up enough from<br></div><div dir="ltr">the utter shyte that drove me out of the Craft two years ago-ish that<br></div><div dir="ltr">I can at least come back to the Tavern, if y'all will have me back.<br></div><div dir="ltr">I'll just curl up in the corner over here; don't mind me. Not sure<br></div><div dir="ltr">who's barkeeping these days, but if you need some glasses washed, or<br></div><div dir="ltr">anything else y'all need, lemme know.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">* Younger than me, anyway...<br></div><div dir="ltr">-- <br></div><div dir="ltr">-DV<br></div><div dir="ltr">(Yeah; *That* Guy)<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">____________________________________________________________<br></div><div dir="ltr">For list information see <<a href="http://stagecraft.theprices.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://stagecraft.theprices.net/</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">Stagecraft mailing list<br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:Stagecraft@theatrical.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stagecraft@theatrical.net</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://theatrical.net/mailman/listinfo/stagecraft_theatrical.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://theatrical.net/mailman/listinfo/stagecraft_theatrical.net</a><br></div></div>
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