ZOMG SNEAK PEEKS!

Soooo, we've been writing things. Lots of pieces, lots of topics, lots of ideas and energy bouncing around our rehearsal room. We want to share some of it with you!  

*Switching to italics.*

Right now, our show is divided into lots of parts, and one of those parts is entitled "workers/worker experience as perceived by students." Here's a piece, prompted by an informal-turned-significant interaction with a worker on campus, that would go into that section (towards the beginning of our show).

HALLOWEEN

Last night I was talking to Jay in Plex about what she was going to do with her Halloween. She said she has two boys--10 and 12-- that she was going to take out. We were having this conversation at 11PM at night, and I couldn’t help but wonder the last time she tucked in her children, the last time she kissed them goodnight. She also said that she was going to have to find things to do with them in the area on Friday, because that’s the only day she has off. I wonder how old these little boys will be before they realize that they aren’t going out on the right day, the same day as all their friends. I wonder if they even hear when she returns home. Or even if her husband wakes when she climbs into bed after her 2-hour commute.


She also told me she brings all of her leftover Halloween candy her husband has to give out back to the students. I think about her, carrying it on the train for those two hours to give to students who could probably buy four times as many Kit-Kats with a couple dollars of their parents' munch money. I wonder if anyone even notices.  

 - Cathy, APP member   

Also, during our research, we happened to type Norbucks into urbandictionary.com (another thing we love) and we got this definition...


"The Starbucks located inside Norris University Center at Northwestern University. Fundamentally different from the Starbucks in Evanston, IL."   

And this was created.

FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT

Fundamentally. Different.

Fundamentals.

Funding. Mental.

Different. Different. Deferred.

Funding deferred

Funding under funded

Workers with overfunded coffee

Funding a tall double shot double whip carmel drizzle hazelnut chai

With a double-shift-back-stiff-energy-fizzling-out

Just-another-day-at-the-counter

Green apron with a black cap

Shot of barista sass

Complimentary.

Because he likes your smile

On the day he didn’t get his paycheck.

Smile back

Thank you

Next --   

- Claire, APP member 

 We hope that satiated you for now... Keep checking back!   

Love,   

Alyssa, APP dir.