The Pixies Show
So I got there at 9am, earlier than I've been on campus for months, to help with load in. Not knowing what plugs into what and where things go makes helping difficult, but I did my best and plugged in some monitors.. then we put up barricades.. then I had to go tour a winery at 10:30.
The entertainment council had scheduled us so there were at least four of us in freeborn hall at all times, so my next shift was from 12:00 to 1:30, during which time none of us did anything because there wasn't anything to do.
We weren't particularly excited about the opening band (I never learned who they even were) so a few of us took advantage of our special ability to go in and out of the venue to go get icecream from the COHO.
Then I'm sitting in the lobby with two volunteers whose names I don't know, and the guy sees someone come out of the staff rooms with a cup of water. Deciding he wants a cup of water he goes over there to inquire about water and gets sent somewhere else. Then I says to the other "you can get whatever you want from the staff room if you just look like you know what you're doing. For example, I'm going to get some coffee from them," and I proceeded to go in and steal some of their coffee. Meeting up with Arya and Vanessa after that, they asked where I got the coffee and I explained it to them. A minute later they come back with sodas and I'm like "you got sodas from the staff room??" and Arya was like "haha we one upped you." I was about to mount a further raid to one up them, but Pixies came on.
Pixies are excellent.
Helped evacuate the opening band's stuff from the stage before the Pixies came on, distributed Shins flyers to people trying to escape after the show, helped with load out after the show. Arya and Yadira (porcelain999) helped a bit with load out too, but they soon disappeared.
Head sound guy asked if I was working the coachella show. Then he joked "can we request you?" Head of the freeborn staff: "if you ever want to work for freeborn..." me: "you have open positions?" staff member: "we could make one for you." I think the promoter said something nice too.
I don't know about working for freeborn; the one thing that wild rivers taught me more than anything else is that while hard work may impress people not expecting it, as an employee you'll be constantly overshadowed by people that work less hard and shmooze the higher ups constantly. One of their employees had a small mohawk though, so I think I could keep mine.
Then I walked home. It took 45 minutes but I thoroughly enjoyed the night and the solitude.
And saw two cops that actually looked young to me and I was like "wow I'm getting old."
PS: Tickets to this pixies show sold on ebay for like $500!