I was at a "vacation bible school" graduation I got roped into going to by a neighbor. Her kids play with mine and she asked me as a favor to take her kids to her chuch as she had a business meeting.

The theme of the bible school was "Crazy Science", planting the seeds of creationism in those too young to refute it.

There was a 3 hour (!) presentation by people who had obviously never spoke in public, doing skits containing mad scientists claiming that the kids' parents are chimpanzees, prompting an odd combination of laughter and indignation (the kids ranged from kindergarten aged to 5th grade). There were crappy home-made "snacks" and that acidic orange "drink" provided by the evil "Chic-Fil-A". The only decent thing was a dangerously huge inflatible slide, about 3 stories high.

I was super pissed that I got roped into doing this. The woman in front of me had backfat falling out of her backless aqua dress, sweat streaming down her spine as there was no air conditioning. She sat and perspired the entire presentation, which was punctuated by crappy "Christian" "rock".

Hilarious lyric -> "Praise to the Lord by all the people of the earth and under the earth" UNDER THE EARTH?!? This was repeated about 50 fucking times. Also, there was a song that contained a line about people "bowing their knees".

The only thing that saved the evening was cranking The Ex single series that was posted in the Sendspace thread on the way home. I should have fucking played Whitehouse.

Oh Sundays. Such a sweet sweet hangover i am having.

Have spent the last few days in Melbourne. Anyone in Melbourne at the mo? I'm here for another night then going back to NZ tomorrow. If anyone got any ideas for what to do, let me know!
gracias

bumble wrote:My Big Bad Spotlight Oral Presentation is on Thursday. No, no - I'm not done yet, no. I still have to redo all my age group*whatever the hell analyses. Then make new graphs. Then figure it out.

Okay, so the audience seemed to really dig my talk. I'm a conversational sort of speaker. I can't stand the stilted, dull, reading-the-slides style. I made some jokes. I had more questions/conversation at the end than any of the other kids. People seemed genuinely interested.

However, my old professor told me that I rambled too much for a national meeting and he wasn't sure how appropriate my jokes about "10% of my male sample did ecstasy in the last year? Who knew you could even get ecstasy anymore?" were.

So, I know that I have chosen to be a conversational lecturer, but I guess that decision comes with questions of propriety. I feel torn - I'm sort of embarrassed that I'm a jerk, but then I also tell myself that I have chosen to be this sort of person. A jerk, that is.

Sigh...

I can get you some ecstacy

Not helpful! The serotonin dump leaves me anxious for days afterwards.

I would prefer a hug.

bumble wrote:

bumble wrote:My Big Bad Spotlight Oral Presentation is on Thursday. No, no - I'm not done yet, no. I still have to redo all my age group*whatever the hell analyses. Then make new graphs. Then figure it out.

Okay, so the audience seemed to really dig my talk. I'm a conversational sort of speaker. I can't stand the stilted, dull, reading-the-slides style. I made some jokes. I had more questions/conversation at the end than any of the other kids. People seemed genuinely interested.

However, my old professor told me that I rambled too much for a national meeting and he wasn't sure how appropriate my jokes about "10% of my male sample did ecstasy in the last year? Who knew you could even get ecstasy anymore?" were.

So, I know that I have chosen to be a conversational lecturer, but I guess that decision comes with questions of propriety. I feel torn - I'm sort of embarrassed that I'm a jerk, but then I also tell myself that I have chosen to be this sort of person. A jerk, that is.

Sigh...

you will no doubt make a fantastic and wonderful university professor, should you choose to do that. your style would be perfect for that environment.

i don't think you were being a jerk. the prof couldn't find any fault with the substance of your talk, only with the style. he might as well have criticized your choice in footwear.

relax. you did this thing right, and you blew them away.

here, have a hug...... [ ].

Oh man, this is a good one.

Dude just called me, sounded like an old stoner. Wants to track a shipment that left DEN earlier today headed to YHZ.

I look it up and it says under description 'Musical instruments for Collective Soul music group'

He indeed tells me some long story about how he's their road manager and he's been running around all day trying to get this stuff from here to there because of some rock crisis, man.

Sounded like a nice enough guy and he seemed very excited about being Collective Soul's road manager. he says 'It's a wild life, man'


EDIT:

Uh oh, it looks like the dipshit who got here before me didn;t do this correctly and their shit missed their flight.

You need to roll up your sleeves and make this shit happen. Collective Soul is depending on you.

I always liked that video of theirs where the guy is depressed and wants to jump off of a building, 2/3's of it anyway.

The Code is Almighty wrote:You need to roll up your sleeves and make this shit happen. Collective Soul is depending on you.

I always liked that video of theirs where the guy is depressed and wants to jump off of a building, 2/3's of it anyway.

I am working very hard on this, actually.

From what I can tell 16 pieces out of the 25 they wanted to send made the flight but numbnuts who works here forgot to put it in the computer so I have to call each station and talk to a number of people on the actual ramp to make sure it'll get there. This is the guy who I yelled at his wife, by the way who fucked this up.

All their equipment is only worth 2100 bucks according to them, 1300 of which is one guitar. Various effects/pedal boards is worth 300 bucks. 500 for the drums and drum accessories.

Well, we'll see if I can pull it off it'll give me something to do today.