Feb 16, 2024

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.John 3:16 ESV

Monday

Today nothing big happened. Here is just some random thoughts. Once again, the importance of schedule. I don’t know why Mark and Noel are so obsessed with letting me submit something during school time. Also, it seems that a lot of schools do not restrict the use of computers and phones, though I think it is a good idea to hit have students take out their phones during the daytime, to be honest. Also, every teacher today is discussing about whether we will have a snow day tmr. Mrs. Pucci said she thought she would only like snow day when she was a student, but when she became a teacher, she still liked snow day.

Tuesday — Snow Day without Snow

According to Apple Weather and radio forecast, it would be a snow day with snow around 10 inches high. I don’t know if high is the right word but it is basically saying there will be a lot of snow and there is possibility of roads not cleaning in time and school parking lot not ready for parking. Therefore, we had a snow day. But when I got up today, there was no snow at all! And I waited and waited and there was only very thin snow on the ground, definitely not enough for a snow day. My mom went out to look for houses as normal, and in the evening we had dinner with my mom’s friends. They further emphasized the importance of rejecting.

Wednesday

Today is Valentine’s Day, and I received three bars of chocolate — from Señora Jackson! Also, today we had probably the first official run through with almost everything there, not perfect for sure, but at least they are here: some costume, props and sets, lights, and a lot of casts. We dropped yesterday’s rehearsal because of Snow Day, tho there is actually no snow. According to Mrs. Belk, “it is scary.” So we have the rehearsal until 19:00, to make some amends. And I have a Spanish quiz, an English poem quiz, and a humanities quiz tmr, so I am pretty busy today. Also, for a lot of my peers, today is the first time to see my parents.

I think a lot of ppl are interested in what lights do during the rehearsal. I jam actually busier during the rehearsal than the actual show, and during these run throughs, I read the script and change the lights, watch what’s happening on the stage and figure out if there is anything that can be improved, such as the case that some one is out of light, and adjust the lights, and write down the changes in memo, to 1) back up and 2) a lot of times I can’t change lights immediately, so I write them down.

• Q165 Hamlet went to the stair area out of light (III.7)
• From Q165 to Q166: when the body is dragged out, fade the light and then go to Q167, which is the same as Q165
• Light 21 shade the right part to the stair
• Q190 Cue?
• Q196 when elementals are waves: 11to40 15to15 78to74 87to91 2to50 10to40 (Problem: the spot on the stairs)
• Q197 from the ship to King’s Chamber: Scene Change Cue? Players moving the prop, elementals leaving… fade down to blue LED only
• Q200 15to60 26to60, 29to40 when they all go down turn to201
• Q201 the same of previous Q200, 17to50, 18to70, CSL exit not bright
• Q205 no  the light spot on SL acceptable? Soldiers
• Spotlight prefer blue or white, blue is really blue
• When the king and queen walk down, bring Q206, 21to56, 9down slowly as soldiers walk out
• Move 23 to CSR and add it to Q201
• Q195 11 to 55 no lights on the very SL 15 to 15? 78to74 87to91 2to50 10to40
• Chan 30s plug not stable
• Q190 rewrite 2to20 17to50  18to50 21to53 no LED 32to60
• Q180 21to68
• Q175 27to40 21to68
• Q170 add 15 to 40, 30 to 50 (for Hamlet’s head)
• Q170 add 19 to 45

Thursday

Nothing big happened today. I have 3 quizzes, and I am going to have a DBQ tmr. I am also thinking about going back to Apple Notes, the only thing that I am still concerning about is the search function. I can not search the note I created 567 days ago, but I can get a better experience when typing. And I can add more images and do not need to wait to download the whole thing. I won’t worry about the loss of data either, but I am no going to do it today coz I am going to have a DBQ. Today is Mrs. Tallman’s birthday and I will have a Spanish test, English vocab quiz, English presentation on Feb 20th. This is the peace before the storm……

Friday

Today we had an afternoon event schedule because of the culture show. It is really good, and there are Chinese songs, Jewish elements, country songs, and Kaila’s dance. And I operate the lights — once again! Then I had dinner in Del Frisco’s, and it is actually unexpectedly good.

Oh, one more thing. After OpenAI’s text-generating chatbot ChatGPT, Midjourney’s image generator, OpenAI has published its latest video generating model – SORA. It can now generate a video within 1 minute, but it still requires improvements in understanding and small variations and adjustments.