Jenny Chow, the Play a Part Auction, and other things you don't really care about.

First off, I have a special message to all of you who use AOL instant messenger. This was actually spoken to Anneka (obviously), but really I think many of you could take it to heart:
Cliched AIM Name: Why don't you have a buddy info? What is the point of compulsively checking everyone's buddy info if they don't even bother to have one? YOU ARE DESTROYING MY SYSTEM, ANNEKA.

Jenny Chow is AMAZING. Flying robots. OCD adopted Chinese girl. Dr. Yakunin. The greatest soundtrack to any play ever. You should all comes see it. Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 7:30, Sunday at 2:00. If you wanna see it for free, I can get you work as an usher.

WORKING on Jenny Chow, however, is not amazing. Here is the list jobs I was called in at the last minute to perform:

• Light Techie
  

Here is the list of jobs I actually perform

• Light Techie
• Usher
• Janitor
• Everyone's bitch

The Bathhouse theater is truly a magical place. Where else can one person be so many?
It doesn't help that the booth is roughly 110ºC on a good day. It's like a little private preview of hell.

The world may suck even worse than we think in the nearish future.

The auction was shockingly fun. Shana sang, I directed people with a flashlight to avoid the winch, I heard the same jokes from the adult workers a thousand times, I got to talk with Austin/Charlotte/Kaya/Kayla/Zoe (and to a lesser extent Miranda, Miranda's mom, Fiona and Blake), and we made $1,100 for Arcadia. But the coolest part, for me, was getting my palm read. Here is what I was told to the best of my memory:

1. I am a very dynamic person. I rarely leave anything I interact with unchanged
2. Not only am I very open minded, but I have no problem changing myself to fit new ideas/concepts/morals whatever that are impressed upon me. The downside of this is that I have difficulty figuring out what I really believe and who I really am.
3. I am a leader and have a very strong desire to lead and make decisions.
4. I am very passionate about what I do and very emotional, and tend to make important decisions based off of my emotions and passions. This is bad if you have a temper (oh dear).
5. I want to take a more active leadership role in my world (be that planet, country, school, city, whatever), but am feeling stunted so instead I am taking a more active role in my social life.
6. I will have 4 major relationships in my life. Two of them will be fairly serious, and the one that lasts me the rest of my life won't come until about 40. However, this will be alright because
7. I'm going to get lots of action. Hell yes.

1 is fairly true, 2 through 5 are VERY true, and 7 had better be. I was kind of amazed (okay, REALLY amazed) at how accurate it was while still being pretty darn specific.

Now, before I go on, I just want to say this. As much as organized (and even less-than-organized) religions and I don't get along, I have always had a weird... "fondness" for superstition. I blame fantasy books. So, while I'm certainly not going to freak out over stepping under a ladder, convert to Wicca (not again, at least [don't ask]), or start reading people's auras, I have a healthy respect for things like palm reading, tarot cards, and psychics. Do I believe in them? A part of me does, I think. Or wishes I do. But, belief or no, I at least think this. Even if you think things like palm readers and psychics are all utter bullcrap designed for the sake of taking advantage of the gullible, you cannot argue that they make people stop, even if for just a minute, and think about themselves through all the facades and pretenses. They force people to examine who they really are and why they really do things. And that, I think is something humanity can never get enough of. So, skoff at me if you want for getting so excited over a palm reading, but if I hear any of you making fun of introspection-inducing superstitions I'll bash your skull in with a golf club.

This is the envelope from the "happy-opening" card given to me by Kimber, the amazingly awesome start of Jenny Chow:


This is my nametag from the auction:


Why do we care? Look closely.

Got it?

That's right. My name is spelled correctly on both of them. These are persons four and five to get it right on their first try. Within 4 days of each other.

Spooky.

This has gone on long enough. I will leave you with two futurama quotes.

Leela: "In my dream, Fry said he hid a gift from me in his locker. If it's true, then he must still exist in some form."
Farnsworth: "Of course he still exists. As a frozen corpse in outer space! Oh...I made myself sad."


Leela: "Is this some sort of brain scanner?"
Farnsworth: "Some sort, yes. In France it's called a guillotine."
Leela: "Professor! Can't you examine my brain without removing it?"
Farnsworth: "Yes, easily."