Genevieve Tait and the woopy droopy New York walk-a-thon

Howdy non Campers!

apologies for the lack of blogness, but i have been overwhelmed with work recently. so much so, that yesterday I hit the wall. I also slammed into it and squished my insides across the rough cement.

So currently, I do not feels so good.

Yesterday I spent the day gallivanting* around in New York with my good chum Gen. It was a relief to debrief with her over all of the intensities that go hand in hand with sleeping/eating/working in a closed community such as a summer camp. I now feel like I can handle a further 4 weeks.

We visited the Brooklyn Bridge, The museum of sex along with WHOLE FOODS (which was this gourmet food place along with a juice bar). Apparently, the term 'juice' in America means water + corn syrup + flavor. Disgusting right? BUT Whole Foods had a fresh mixed fruit juice stand. OMG. We also visited FAO Schwartz, which I found just as entertaining as my last 2 visits. Where as I suspected Gen did not. (I know, right?)

We took with us a orange flower we named LEILA 2 in honor of Leila's birthday back home. Here we are on the subway:


So, if you can imagine my face and place three lines under each eye and 2 bottles of extra biohazzard strength pharmacy drugs in each hand, you may have a ballpark idea to how I was feeling yesterday.

Today, I continue to feel the wall. But it is passing. With sleep i shall be fine. MWAHAHAR! oh yes, sleep shall be mine.

Camp life is settling down. Im having such an amazing time, the days are passing me by like seconds. Last week, PUB was minus EMMA, AMANDA, and BOB (head of shop). The clown flu here has taken some major victims...

Here are a few further programs under my belt:




Well, I must back to work go. Until next time.

Fruit of the Moment: Blueberry Bliss (minus the) corn syrup
*as much as my illness would allow me to gallivant

P.S. Mythology is a completely Nundley theme for the Yearbook

Good Morning Blog-ees!

Its a beautiful day in the Neverhood today. The sun is actually out. Thunderstorms, i have gathered are quite common here. and since his place has its own communications hub, metals workshop and power generator all in the space of around 100m squared; we get lightning hitting the camp frequently and all electrical equipment needs to be turned off at the first sign of any storm.

So, yay sunshine.

I haves a new buddy in Pub Amanda. and its not just because she comes from New Jersey, owns a car and can drive me to Starbucks... hehehe...

So Pub is going really well! The Miss V, Amanda and I are going full pelt with Graphic Design MAYHEM! The Camp is passing us by so dam quickly...

The other day Amanda, Cassie and I went off to random bowling night, at which the following happened:
a) Amanda's Car broke down
b) Cassie's Car took us to Bowling (on second attempt)
c) Bowling alley was booked out all night
d) I bought granola and custard ingredients (the granola I gave away)

The following day, I MADE custard. and hand delivered Custard cups to PAM, TIM and MARIAM.... yay custard!!! Everyone really liked my gifts.

yesterday I had my first coffee of the camp. it was delicious.

AND did someone say Fireworks? YES! Buck's Rock did. Last night it was International Themed and there was the most amazing display of fireworks EVER. They opened above us. and covered us all like an umbrella. It was ha-mazing! The only thing eclipsing the fireworks were the Aussies dressed up in their green, golds and flags.

Here are 2 programs I have worked on so far.




Fruit of the Moment: Chocolate Covered Cookie Dough

Its a Big Bright Beautiful World

Hey blog fans.

firs of all, apologies for the lack of updates. I think i'll be updating weekly now as it seems like there's just no freakin' time here to do anything by yourself.

Basically Ive been living at PUB(lications) shop and spreading the joy of graphic design.

4 days ago, Councilors in Training arrived (CITs) following their entrance to Buck's Rock came the children. The many noisy, over excited, hyperactive 24/7 children.

I had forgotten how completely full on Full-On-Teens can be.

We have our first PUB 24 hour event tomorrow (Sunday) where all attendees are going to make a complete comic book. My partners in crime Amanda and Vanessa are both supa designers from the future. so space cadets ahoy; we get designs done... yo.

All the people here at Buck's Rock are amazing!

Barnaby has made allot of new friends when he entered the pie eating contest. Less and Less people are being freaked out by him.

Im appreciating the time spent away from campers. Its good to chilax with creative peeps.

Tonight, i'm performing FREEZE RA Y from Dr Horrible infront of the whole camp. Im hoping it will go down well. *fingers crossed yo?*

Ad while i'm missing my peeps from Australia, im just having the most spectacular time here. I'll catch you all round soonish.

Fruit of the Moment: BBQ lunch on the lawn in the sun

Put on Your Sunday Clothes

Apparently, camp life is kinda full on.

I'm sorry to suggest it, but less frequent posts are an assured thing here at Buck's rock.

Since being welcomed by the rain (and even more rain) life has settled down. Im offically known as either Kenney to the Americans or Mr G to the international Staff.

Meals are sounded by the massive gong and Ive managed to enlist the assistance of a $9 alarm clock from our trip to WALLMART!!! (yes, it was an exciting night out for us Buck's Rock kind.) I managed to score some sneakers and a Lanyard for our Layout crew! I now feel at home because I have a name tag to wear.

My Muppet has been officially named Barnaby, and he has joined the staff here at Buck's Rock.

Im learning a lot about plates and how to really utilise CMYK colour, and its awesome. Im almost finnished with the camper's orientation handbook (It being Design and Layout's first big project before the kiddies arrive on Tuesday).

We had a whole staff challenge called Cutthroat Island yesterday and guess who manged to be the first camper out? Yes. Moi. It was okay tho, I got to watch eveyone else make a compelte fool of themselves.

We had the Coffee House performance night yesterday and I decided to give the "lunch is about the worst time of day for me" monolouge from Charlie Brown a spin. People thought it was awesome. I was so embarrised at the number of people who kept on coming up to tell me how great they thought I went... Even today, people were still giving thumbs up in passing. So I really cant express to you how awesome living with a whole lot of enthusiastically creative people actually is.

Been meeting alot of cool people and am working on remembering everyone's names.

The shop I work at is Publications or PUB for short. My layout buddy is Vanessa, my boss is emma and the print Guru is Bob. Today we filmed a parody of WILL IT BLEND? from Youtube for the camper's orientation VIDEO. It turned out a scream!

Tonight is the official 'Staff Party' and we get picked up in around an hour. Am interested in how long hicksville USA can cope with 150 odd drama peeps...

Camp is pretty much repedative here. So until I have something really interesting to note, i'll keep you all in the dark!

Fruit of the Moment: Purple Carrot Concentrate

Are you a Vegetarian?

Greetings from Buck's Rock!

I am totally here in the dining room and settled. The wi fi is switched on, and free for all until campers come, and then it will be password protected...

Hokay, so. Nothing much to report today except for the REAL holiday sleep-in!!! Also, it took 30 GOD DAM minutes on the corner of 7th Ave to get a taxi... IN THE RAIN with all my bags.

After all that, I managed to catch the connecting bus to go to CAMP! (traffic in New York was horrific due to the downpour)

I was put up in the FOUR SEASONS cabin (all cabins are named after fancy hotels) and apparently I got the best deal. We have a room with all the hot water/heating for the 2 story building. I call it the 'Warm Room' it is currently drying anything wet. It will be useful for drying clothes.

Ive met SO SO SO many people here. If dad can remember that unenthusiastic person I was talking about, they are still as unenthusiastic as ever (and confused at why so many camp councilors are so perky?!)

Above is a friend I made, Marion (also from Sydney) we had dinner at the same table and we shared internet geek stories. It was fun.

Anyway, a long day of nothing calls for a very boring post.

P.S. Vegetarianism is suiting me fine and dandy :)

Fruit of the Moment: SOYnut butter (yeah, you read right, OMG!!!)

Toxic Awakening

The Toxic Avenger Musical was the best piece of musical theatre I have seen in a very long time. A Rock comedy that tore the house down!

With the original director of Urinetown at the helm, and music from the peeps of LOVE YOU, PERFECT, CHANGE. What can go wrong?

It had me rocking in my seat from the first power chord to the last guitar solo band encore. The audience loved it, the cast loved it and after the show I got to meet the original Pennywise (who played the mayor in this show) who, had spotted me in my seat during the show. It appears I may have been making quite a racket in the third row.

The show is about a nerdy toxic waste super hero, in love with a blind librarian who needs to prevent a crooked mayor from continuing to turn New Jersey into a (larger) toxic waste dump.


The cast of 5 all had rockin' solos worthy of allot of woopin' and cheerin'. The two ensemble characters titled simply "black dude" and "white dude" starred as Mitch Mahoney in Spelling Bee and Sammy in Wedding Singer respectively.

I gotta note here that its off broadway. The sound was pumpin, the set was super slick. The lighting was freaking AMAZING. This show fucking rocked!

Fruit of the Moment: Bleach. Common Household Bleach

The Little Dissapointment

The Little Mermaid had very little to do with fantastic, despite the overuse of everything plastic. Do yourself a favor and ignore it.

The set, was of course the only awesome thing about this show. Not only was it visually exquisite, but each element was used in several ways... i.e. The sun above the water span around to become an underwater sculpture in king triton's palace, and then it span so the circle faced the floor and plastic diamonds popped out of it to create a chandelier. I could describe the other similar elements, but you get the picture.

The show itself was less than dazzling. What truly was laughable was Prince Eric (besides his errr.. unflattering white tights). Following a chase scene with the frech chef, Eric spent a romantic ballroom scene with the silent Ariel completely out of breath. I mean the works; heavy breathing and stunted dialogue. You'd think the actor would be able to anticipate it? Whatever.

OH! and meanwhile; the topless mermen/fish creatures? Can you say painted-Ab-on-Flab? pfft! very unpleasant (All of them). Stunning female ensemble tho.

Another unfortunate unavoidable deterrent was the theatre's balcony seating. It jots so far out, that i could only see half the stage as I was seated at the back of the floor seats (which was full price seating might i add)... This was okay, except when Eric's ship flew in. The ensemble scattered over the sails and masts were completely invisible to me.

And there were a sea of children. literally. About 40% adults id wager. But for a glorified pantomime, i should have expected it.

Fruit of the Moment: Mango slithers on a stick