It seems to me that you need some tuning with regards to the laws of Xiphiotics. Your first law (A Xiphius shall not harm another person, or through inaction, cause another person to come to harm) seems to be in balance. However,unlike an Asimovian Robot, you need to give more weight to the third law (self-preservation) over the second law (following orders).
Of course, it's easy for me to be silly about this; it must be very difficult for you to deal with this. On a more serious note: It's really important to take care of yourself. You've put in a good 10.5 hours building the set; I think you've more than fulfilled your obligation. You probably could've left at 7 without anyone thinking that you were shirking. I've volunteered with this kind of thing before (most recently, helping to do setup for a friend's off-broadway play). It always takes a long time, and even unskilled (which I am) help is appreciated... but nobody expects a volunteer or chorus member to be there all the time. If you were the person in charge of lighting... well, then you'd be expected to stay until that was done... but you're not. Get sleep. Rest. As other people have commented, the "stay as long as you can" was to inspire the lazy bums among the group to actually come in, and plan to stay for more than half an hour.
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Date: 2004-11-08 05:26 am (UTC)Of course, it's easy for me to be silly about this; it must be very difficult for you to deal with this. On a more serious note: It's really important to take care of yourself. You've put in a good 10.5 hours building the set; I think you've more than fulfilled your obligation. You probably could've left at 7 without anyone thinking that you were shirking. I've volunteered with this kind of thing before (most recently, helping to do setup for a friend's off-broadway play). It always takes a long time, and even unskilled (which I am) help is appreciated... but nobody expects a volunteer or chorus member to be there all the time. If you were the person in charge of lighting... well, then you'd be expected to stay until that was done... but you're not. Get sleep. Rest. As other people have commented, the "stay as long as you can" was to inspire the lazy bums among the group to actually come in, and plan to stay for more than half an hour.