June 7, 2009
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quickies
Dublin Dance shows always feel more like family reunions than actual work. This is because you see the same people doing the same things. Minus the conspicuous hole where Ruth would typically go ("girls. be quiet. be quiet now. you must not talk. GIRLS!"), everything is the same even in a different venue. Jennie and Kat and I still put together questionable flower bouquets while the same dumb girls sulked over, said "we can help." and ended up squirting each other with water from the bottoms of the flowers. Kate played it cool and put out fires even though we had no idea where one of the kids was.
(parent: I want to take my daughter home. This show is too long.
kate: Oh, sure - what's her name and what was she in the show?
parent: her name is Nikki and she was a cow.
[kate runs upstairs, I look in the program and there are no cows in the show]
me: there are no cows.
kate: I can't tell a mom she doesn't know what her kid was)4-year-olds will still be adorable and way too worried about their hair. Parents still do shitty jobs of putting makeup on their kids. It's okay, we'll fix it.
The only real difference is that people are taller. I babysat Kelly and Kathryn for years and now the former is a senior and going to Michigan State in the fall. WHAT?! Dryden, the spawn of hip-hop aficionado Miss Amanda and the occasionally intimidating but always amusing Jeff, is walking now because he's almost two. And that's insane.
more after the next two shows.
at the grocery store:
[cashier is checking ID] Yeah, you look younger than 24
me: well I'm 23
cashier: but that's how old you are
aleksander: SHE'S ALSO IN MENSAfunny
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