Whooo. I am never doing that again!! On Wednesday I was supposed to give a drama workshop for the homeschoolers. Well I got a late start because my alarm was set wrong, actually my clock was set wrong so my alarm would have gone off in the evening instead of the morning. I got up and out the door about 5 mintues late. And so of course there was a slow as molasses tractor on the road. He was going about 10mph on a 55mph road. Nothing wrong with that I guess, you've gotta get there somehow....but this guy had a line of cars behind him two miles long. He finally pulled over and let us pass, but by this time I was really late. So in case anyone doesn't understand, I was sleepy, late and in a bad mood because of it. This is not a good state to perform any kind of public presentation, let alone a lecture/demonstration on theatre. So since I was late already I decided that I should at least make an attempt to get myself up for this. I stopped by the 7-11 for an energy drink. I could use a cold beverage and the kick in the pants from the cafeine. Well lo and behold there was a new energy drink on the shelves. It was called Boo Koos energy. It was in a larger taller can, it held about 24oz of drink. I looked at the back and it had the same amount of cafeine and taurine that a Red Bull or Amp had. And it was cheaper than those as well, so I grabbed it and ran out. I was about 20minutes late getting there and just chugged the energy drink. It tasted ok, stronger than I thought it would, I thought it would be a little watered down considering it was the same amount of kick as an 8oz RB in a 24oz can. Boy was I wrong. By the time I got there they had already started their Bible lesson. So instead of having two smaller groups I would have one big group to deal with. Which wasn't to bad but wasn't good either. I just lowered my expectations and decided to play some games instead of lecturing to much. I would have liked to do more with the older kids but it wouldn't work that way. So we played some warmup games and then we played Help Desk. The kids really got into it and were having a lot of fun. Some of the kids actually got it and were doing really well, the others were just goofing off. Which is fine because they were having fun. And the ever-present Moms at homeschool events were just rolling on the floor. The kids only got to go to the 'help desk' twice before it was time to go. And I was ready to go I was feeling really weird. When I got out to my car I took a look at the energy drink can that I had chugged. It turns out that the information on the back was 'per serving'. Uh oh I thought, I looked around on the can again and sure enough a 'serving' acording to them is about 8oz!!!! So I had just slammed about 600mg of caffeine, and about 3000mg of taurine ON AN EMPTY STOMACH!!! And I was starting to feel it. I went over to the Easy Chair coffee shop so I could get a bagel and some coffee and read my book. I ordered my bagel and while I was waiting for it Kate called. Well it was really nice to talk to her, but I was talking really really fast. And my hand was shaking too. She was laughing at me, with good reason. Finally my bagel came and I was happy, although I wanted to talk to her and eat at the same time. But I was a wreck by that time, I probably could have phase shifted through walls. I didn't drink any more caffeine all day and I was kinda messed up going to sleep that night.

Thursday I had my interview for the mulitmedia job downstairs. I thought it was going to be a casual and informal type of thing. They were calling everyone else but because I work there they just told me to come in. And it may have just been casual to them, but it turned out to be really harrowing for me. There were lots of times where I just had to say "no I don't know how to use that program", or "I don't have any experience at all in that area". I was bending over backwards to relate things that I had done to the qualities that they were looking for. I'm not sure how successful I was at that at all. Jeff came to me afterwards and said that I did good. And that at the very least they know more about me, and I had some experience interviewing. That was nice of him to say, but it sounded an awful lot to me like "don't call us, we'll call you". Oh well it was worth a shot. I was kinda wiped and depressed all day after the interview. I tried to buck up and be in a good mood when I went over to Jen and Julie's, but they noticed I was down. They refuse to believe that I won't get the job though. Which is really sweet, however innacurate they turn out to be. One funny thing that happend was when I got to the apartment Julie was taking a nap. We were going to watch Come Blow Your Horn finally. So I just talked with Jen for a while and we decided to turn out the light in Julie's room. Well that's all it took to wake her up. She stumbled around in her room for a while making thumping noises. We were afraid she was running into stuff. And then she stumbled out of her room and started putting away groceries like it was the most normal thing in the world. It was quite humorus to say the least. The night ended the way most nights do over there. Jen going to bed early and Julie and I talking for a couple hours.

On Friday I slept in, and it was really really nice. When I finally got up(I probably would have stayed in bed longer but I really had to pee) I horsed around for a while before going over to Barnes and Noble to read some magazines and have a latte. Then I when over to the movie theater to see what was playing so I could call Ludwig and see if he wanted to hit a movie. He was busy so I decided to just go to Blacksburg and return my movies. On a whim I phoned Gwen to see if her phone had been turned back on. 'Becca picked up the phone and said hello, so aparently those two were friends again. They were at 'More than coffee" having pizza and yelled at me to meet them there. It has been a long time since I have seen either one of those two. Turns out lots has been happening in their lives. Becca now has her own apartment right above the Lyric. She can actually reach the sign and is planning on changing the letters when something funny can be done with them. She is also having sex now. She has hooked up with a married man named Dave. He's one of the 'dinner group' crowd and his wife is fully aware of what's going on. That being said I can't really bring myself to respect someone who will have sex with an underage girl when he is married. I didn't freak out on her or yell at her. But I did let her know that I was concerned and told her that she had 'better be safe about it' in the best big brotherly voice I could muster. Which is quite overbearing when I really get going with it. It's hard for me not to worry about her, she is playing with fire and could get really really burned. Gwen is doing great and is very happy. She quit her job at the DB because it was too monotonous, which I can understand. She is ADD, ADHD and bi-polar so I think she needs a little variety in her life and work. She is all set to go to New River in the fall and study ASL. Which will be great for her, and the school. She wants to create theater and visual performances geared toward the deaf and hard of hearing. It's great to see her with a goal and excited about school. She has a boyfriend now, his name is Chris but she calls him Crispit. I have met him once and he seemed like a redneck trailor trash type. But I could be wrong, I didn't see him for very long at all. They have thought about having sex but haven't yet. Gwen it turns out has starteed doing the "Pants stay on! Pants stay on!" dance when the subject arises. So Lil Kate can be happy that she is influencing young people in a positive way. We went to see King Aurther(sp?) which was an OK movie. Nothing really spectacular but not bad at all. Except when they yelled. They did this warcry type thing that I guess they thought would be sorta primal and scary in that male bonding type of way. But it just came across as lame. Oh well, when it comes out it will be fun to do commentary on with a group.

Well that's all for now, I have to get some rest. Next week I have to be at work at 8 so I can cross-train Larry and Heckert. I'm not looking forward to that at all, I'm sure as hell not taking any shit from them, and the really don't want to mess with me that early in the morning. I hope nothing bad happens. On a good note, I will be able to get off early enough to help with VBS, which is always fun. No skits this year though, I didn't find this out until this past week and just tonight volunteered. I'll write again Monday.