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I have witnesses. The coach of my Level V improv class was all gob-smacked because I like rehearsal much more than performance. When he questioned why I was taking the Harold Level I workshop if I didn't like performance, I pointed out that it didn't have a graduation show. I wouldn't actually have to do a Harold in front of an audience.
By now, you should be able to see the punchline coming. My Harold Level I instructor thinks it's BS (his word, but not abbreviated) that there's no graduation show. He's also the guy who schedules Harold Night. So, he's scheduled us for December 12th.
I actually think we'll do fine. I'm in with a fine bunch of improvisers. It was just a little unexpected.
Having said that, I've noticed that whenever I unintentionally tempt fate like this, fate tends to follow through. When I was working at Sun Microsystems, my project was bi-coastal. i.e., it was split between two sites separated by three time zones. (This was a big deal at the time. Now, the sun literally never set on the project I'd been working on.) Early on in that project, I noticed the design of a unit was wacky and verifying that it worked correctly was going to be tricky, if not impossible. I pointed this out to appropriate supervisors. I didn't make a major issue out of it because the team on the other coast owned the unit. They were all highly competent engineers. They were now aware of the problems and, wait for it, I wouldn't actually ever have to verify the design because the other team owned it.
Fast forward a few years. The unit was now the long pole on the schedule. The powers that be decided the way pull up it schedule was to move responsibility over to this coast. They also decided that I needed more responsibility. Guess who ended up owning the verification effort? Exactly. (As it turns out, architecture team #2 didn't do the trick either. We needed architecture team #3, but we kept my verification team. At the end, we were actually the first unit completed. The chip it was a part of met a fate not nearly as gentle...)
I have to wonder if tempting fate works if I do it deliberately, if I can make it work to my advantage. e.g., sort of a "Please, Br'er Fox, whatever you do, don't throw me into the briar patch" thing. Would fate be so easily fooled?
[BTW, I may still take Harold Level II...]
By now, you should be able to see the punchline coming. My Harold Level I instructor thinks it's BS (his word, but not abbreviated) that there's no graduation show. He's also the guy who schedules Harold Night. So, he's scheduled us for December 12th.
I actually think we'll do fine. I'm in with a fine bunch of improvisers. It was just a little unexpected.
Having said that, I've noticed that whenever I unintentionally tempt fate like this, fate tends to follow through. When I was working at Sun Microsystems, my project was bi-coastal. i.e., it was split between two sites separated by three time zones. (This was a big deal at the time. Now, the sun literally never set on the project I'd been working on.) Early on in that project, I noticed the design of a unit was wacky and verifying that it worked correctly was going to be tricky, if not impossible. I pointed this out to appropriate supervisors. I didn't make a major issue out of it because the team on the other coast owned the unit. They were all highly competent engineers. They were now aware of the problems and, wait for it, I wouldn't actually ever have to verify the design because the other team owned it.
Fast forward a few years. The unit was now the long pole on the schedule. The powers that be decided the way pull up it schedule was to move responsibility over to this coast. They also decided that I needed more responsibility. Guess who ended up owning the verification effort? Exactly. (As it turns out, architecture team #2 didn't do the trick either. We needed architecture team #3, but we kept my verification team. At the end, we were actually the first unit completed. The chip it was a part of met a fate not nearly as gentle...)
I have to wonder if tempting fate works if I do it deliberately, if I can make it work to my advantage. e.g., sort of a "Please, Br'er Fox, whatever you do, don't throw me into the briar patch" thing. Would fate be so easily fooled?
[BTW, I may still take Harold Level II...]
