In case you just can't wait until tomorrow here are the topics of my day:
1. Papier Mache
After the last two big projects I have done with David and Ellie and how much they've enjoyed doing them (kids being so excited about our flowers sprouting, Lisa's voicemail to me almost in tears because she was so happy about the mothers day story and telling me how I really really should become a teacher) I was having a hard time finding a new task for us to work on for the next week. I finally decided on Papier mache. Originally we were going to make masks and use balloons for our forms but then I realized that the concept of having to make edges of the mask would be too difficult for David. Let's just make full heads I said! So, yesterday the kids and I started our newest project making papier mache heads. It is a messy messy project so if you feel like attempting it proceed with the greatest caution!
2. ok go
Manifest was yesterday. I had to work so I was kind of bummed because I couldn't see any of the performances during the day but it was alright in the end when I got to see ok go. All I knew was they had something to do with treadmills and my friend Lisa told me they put on a really fun show so I met with Kristin and we saw ok go! She introduced me to her parents and a few of her friends from her improv class at school.
3. New friends, Clarke's, and IO
So after meeting a few of Kristin's friends who were all pretty killer we started to walk away from the park and decided we wanted to hang out and go somewhere since our u-passes would expire today. Kaz, an exchange student from London, wanted to go to rock and roll McDonalds and coldstone creamery which apparently is located right down the street from mcDs. We all got on the train and realized that since the redline was elevated we wouldn't be able to get off at the correct stop. Kristin, being as amazing as she is, suggested that we go to Clarke's instead!! Good idea Kristin!!! Kaz had never been there and neither had Al/El (some other dude who was with us) so we thought it was extremely necessary that we change our course and hit up Clarke's. So Clarke's was fun and all but nothing super exciting happened... I ordered chicken strips, sweet potato fries with mayo, and a strawberry shake as usual and yeah that's all for Clarke's. Kristin then noticed that it was only 1115 and that the Improv Jam at IO started at 12 and suggested that we go there next. I was super pumped because we've been hoping to see "Improv Baby" again and we figured he'd be there. No such luck! He wasn't there and the show wasn't very good this time around. The end.
4. Train ride from IO
I'll make this as short as possible. The four of us got on the train to head home along with these two fellas, one of which was trashed and looking for a bottle opener for his 40 of Heineken. We sat down in the four seats facing each other and the dudes sat in the two seats on either side of the train closest to us. The drunk guy started chatting up Kaz about her accent, which was discussed in great length that is was actually a dialect, and she seemed cool with it and chatted with him and fed him some interesting thoughts. They got on the topic of religion and not believing in god which led to the dude saying that you just gotta believe in yourself and all this shit. The conversation then moved to MLK Jr. and the I have a Dream speech, which Kaz backed up the foreigners by saying that he basically stole the speech from some ABBA lyrics! The guys friend was obviously kind of embarrassed by his friend and just sat quietly in his seat giggling now and again. Eventually the conversation got pretty damn funny and the guy was all like, "haha man i love you" and kaz laughed a little. SOme random topic came up and somehow got to the man saying that when a dude tells a girl her loves her he's just trying to get with her. Kaz quickly brought up the fact that he just said this very thing to her and he was like oh no man I just meant i really love talking to you on this train. It was just a funny fucking train ride. Kaz and Kristin got off at Monroe and then the guy chatted me up for a second and got only my lovely responses like: right, uh huh, apparently, maybe... He said "I'm Christian" and tried to shake my hand. I said, " ooh I'm not much of a shaker dude" and he felt pretty shot down. He then asked my name and I said I wasn't sure what my name was for the night. His friend giggled a bit more and said his name was Enrique. Enrique and I both got off the train at roosevelt.
5. Could I maybe call you sometime?
I get off the train and make my way down the stairs and out the turn-style and off to the corner. I got to the corner and I hear yelling "hey!! Hey!! hey!!" I kept walking and the heys continued so I turned around. Fucking Enrique was yelling after me! I thought maybe he needed directions or a phone or something so i decided to be nice and waited for him to run up to me. "Uh, I was wondering if maybe I could call you sometime?".... ahahahahaha no fucking way did he just say that... it was too funny because he had this really shy and unsure voice and I felt a little bad for him... "yeah, probably not man"... "oh you got a boyfriend?" .... "yeah, yeah, uh huh, sorry"... I am not usually too quick on my toes with excuses and comebacks but he set me up with the BF question. I answered in a way that would make him not question my answer and obviously it worked. I walked away and started cracking up. Then I got home and went to bed.
Too much funny for one day... earlier in the evening i saw a couple of cross dressers on the train, really ugly men who made even uglier women... the night just kept getting better!
