Hobbies and extracurricular activities
Obeying the Rude Cactus’ call to annual action, here we are once again, folks.
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Halloween night? Massive fun. My team of Thrill the World LA and OC kicked ass at Halloween on Pine. We literally rocked the stage. I mean, the fucking thing was swaying with our every moves! Not once, but TWICE! It was complete and total rockage.
Brandon was a complete trooper, escorting me up and down the street and once again played photographer and roadie to our rag tag team of zombies.
Obviously, I barely watched USC…and even more obviously, I had a bra on.
Sorry, team. My bad. Moo. Moo…
Sunday came easily. First Sunday with zero schedule. No Thriller. No meeting.
Holy shit.
I had no plan.
I took it in stride and parked on the couch for the first half of the day, picked myself up to go get a massage, took luxurious long shower, and went out to dine stress-free at James & Aurora’s.
A normal Sunday, I quit you for so long. It’s so good to have you back!
How was your weekend?
Oh hell yes.2,300 or so on paper but it felt/looked like 6,000 out there in the plaza! Brandon shot over 700 pictures and I had another 200. (What a trooper he is, braving the Blue Line and all!)
Worldwide, last counted, 23,000 people.
What a moment. What an adventure!
You can’t see me in this clip though they did close up on me for the “Coming up next” before this section.
Life is slowly getting back to normal. I have to lead my little Long Beach team to perform on Halloween at Halloween on Pine and that’s it for Thriller for a while. 🙂
This one I’m on the right toward the front.
Yep.
This is all I’ve been doing outside of work. And work is a whole other issue. October 24 is Thrill the World at LA Live
Watch out world. Here comes the horde!
Zombieland. Who knew that movie would give you some great life lessons. Well, you know, aside of the Zombieland Survival Rules.
Enjoy the little things, Talahassee said.
My life has been kind of a whirlwind these past few months. There are many little things I totally appreciate and enjoy.
Like a bouquet of flowers Brandon bought for me. Very unexpected.
Like getting a ride home from a bus buddy who drove in in the morning.
Like getting my Italian homework explained to me by the Italian Coworker.
Like watching Dresden react to “big people’s food” we offer him. On Tuesday, James, Aurora and Dresden were over for beef pot roast. Carrots were a hit. Tonight at a burrito place, the boy who, according to mom, doesn’t like eggs, asked for more chorizo and eggs from my plate, and later on for more of his first Dippin’ Dots experience.
And by asking, I meant he would reach out his hand toward whatever it is he likes and say, “Nom?” Yes, with a question mark. It was the most adorable thing.
Like receiving the pictures from our Thrill the World LA shoot this weekend that look FANTASTIC.
Or…one of the goofy ones like these.
Like everything GLEE. It doesn’t matter how my day was, music from the cast of GLEE cheers me up. I frickin’ love this show. The gem of this clip at about 2:22…
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What are your little things?
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On Friday night, I was out at L.A. Live with 6 other Thrill the World zombies, entertaining the crowd waiting for Michael Jackson’s This Is It tickets.
We performed once and we taught the dance for another 1.5 hour. And mind you, this is just folks hanging around LA Live here, nobody’s a professional.
If we were given another half hour, we could’ve taught them the whole thing. But with the time we had, we were just a few moves away from completion.
People were having fun. They were putting in efforts to do the dance. And they all had a great time.
Forward to Saturday morning at my Italian class in Irvine through Fondazione Italia. This is our second class and our class size is pretty big. We were told that the class may split up into 2 sessions because of the class size and also, as it turns out, the teaching style.
The lady who’s been teaching us is actually a substitute of another lady who’s returning next week. She’s not much for having us repeating the conversation like a parrot, but deconstructing what we were saying. It’s more grammar than conversational at this point.
However, some people didn’t like that so much. They want to be able to walk out from the first class already talking. Did you folks not notice that this class goes all the way to January? This ain’t speed Italian.
Sure, when my Italian coworker asked me on Monday, “Come stai?” – How are you? My answer was, “Uh….si?” I didn’t have an answer to that after my first week. However, I know how when to use Un/Una/Uno (the) on a word.
I’d rather have the basic understanding of how everything works and THEN learn the conversation to go with it, than just sitting there memorizing the phrases. I want to be able to hold a conversation on my own outside of Hi! How Are you? Where’s the bathroom?
Seriously, I have a whole bunch of Japanese phrase I can spout out to you right now but I won’t understand a dang thing you said back to me outside of the standard reply. What does that get me? Nowhere.
But then again, I digress.
Back to the bunch of whiny adults. There were also others who have already taken last year’s class and wanted more.
“Can we have an all Italian class?” someone asked. That would be across the way in Intermediate, we were told. “But that’s too fast for me.” But obviously, you weren’t going to get all the beginners in here to understand a lick of Italian.
So, here lies the problem. Our class has mostly newbies, maybe with Spanish background, and some that already had the skills.
Those were the one saying the our class is too slow but they couldn’t go on to intermediate because that one is too fast. Here they are, in our BEGINNERS class, trying to make us go faster.
I have never heard grown adults bitch so much. If beginners are too slow for you, then don’t bitch that class is too slow for you. Obviously, it’s not the class for YOU any more at this point. Suck it up and go catch up with the big kids in Intermediate. Can’t hack it there? Well, you either do better or come back and learn the basics all over with the newbies.
We sat in class for another good 15 minutes just to agree to split the true newbies to 9 a.m. and the Advanced Beginners to 10:45.
I know this is probably an unfair comparison as the two occasions are completely different. But going from one group of learners to the next, and I should probably add, one demographic to the other, I notice that the level of whines goes up with the median income.
Just sayin’.