This has been a great week so far and I'm pretty sure it will extend into the weekend. My sister graduated on Monday. *sigh* She was in the top 10 of her class (out of...130?), too, which is pretty cool. However, she said something like, "I didn't think I would get it. I only have a 3.9. I've gotten like 4 B's"...In her entire high school career. Too bad she hates school and seems to lack ambition. I'm sort of Miss Over-Achiever and she's Miss Apathetic. Later that night, she went to the lock-in and I went to an impromptu blues bar. Good times were had by all...
Tuesday was taiko, as usual. I ended up teaching the group a new song by default after the leader of the group had to leave. It worked out pretty well and looked so much better by the end of practice. We need to do that more often, with all the songs. It often feels like I'm the only one commenting on sloppy choreography, but I guess I'm also the most attuned to it. They don't call me the "arm nazi" for nothing.
Wednesday was dinner and "girls night out" with my sister at the glass factory. We got massages and made glass paperweights. I'm not sure that my papers need weighting, but hopefully it will at least be a nice little decoration. I'll find out when I pick it up in the next few days.
Last night taiko performed at UMSL's "Spring To Dance" festival. A guy from my flamenco class and a hip hop instructor that I keep seeing around town happened to be there, as was the crazy interpretive dancer lady that shows up at these kinds of events. The group got two tickets to the real show, and since I'm the dancer, they went to me! Well, me and uh...a mystery person, I guess, in the group leader's mind. When a (practically) former group member/my guest showed up for the dance show, the leader assumed it was a complete coincidence (because, you know, this other person loves dance so much). He said, "Oh, you should have told us! UMSL gave us two tickets and we gave them to Julie." Uh, yeah...I knew the leader was clueless, but I thought maybe he would put 2 and 2 together. I don't think that he ever did. I was amused.
Tonight is a free beer party at the dueling piano bar! Yes, FREE beer from 5:30-8 and no cover. Pretty ridiculous if you ask me. I responded to an email from the place for a chance to win this party, and I guess I won. I reserved a table for 12 and it should be almost full. I'm pretty excited because it's always a good time.
Speaking of winning, they should be pulling my name out of a raffle at work any minute now. It was "employee appreciation week." We had flying pancakes on Monday (we had to catch them on the plate) and a surprise on Tuesday (a really nice picnic blanket with a handle, perfect for summer concerts). Plus, my boss brought me back fancy chocolate from her recent trip to Switzerland. Thursday was half a day and then a picnic at Creve Coeur Park, and today they're drawing names for 22 different prizes. I'm shooting for the 2 round trip airline tickets.
Tomorrow's a birthday party, Sunday is Third Eye Blind, and Monday is an extra day off work. Awesome.
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