smp 05, warped tour, that sinking feeling you get in your stomach when you see bennington, and more!
Another all-encompassing enry. Here goes!
SMP ended on a better note than it bad been at for most of the season. Sales were high, work wasn't that bad for the last week. It never ceased to amaze me how much just a couple people could ruin my summer. I wish I had been able to shrug it all off, but working at the playhouse really was my entire life, and if it wasn't going well, nothing was. I feel a lot better now that it's over, but its hard to know that I won't see everyone every day, especially Jenn and Dave. I know I can see Jenn when I get back, but Dave's all far away in NYC and stuff. I am ready to go, though. All set. No looking back.
On our final night at the Playhouse, we went on a lobster cruise around Lake Champlain. It was a really awesome time. We got to eat lobster and corn and other awesome food, and ride on a boat! and there was a band and dancing on the deck of the boat. We were the only people there under 70, but that was ok because we got to watch the old people swing dancing, and they were REALLY good. Then Ted was Gary Champlain, owner of Lake Champlain, and that was a fun game of pretend. Then we all said goodbye and there were lots and lots of tears. I was alright though. I'm usually fine with goodbyes if I'm the one leaving. It's a different story when I'm the one being left.
On Monday, after I packed up and said goodbye to Jenn H Xtina and Robyn (Robyn being the hardest of all), I went on to bigger and better things, AKA the Warped Tour!! With the Wife! Where I almost was killed in the crowd during Fallout Boy, but thankfully lived to tell the tale. It was scary, though. We started out standing in the back but were pushed and beaten forward by the crowd. I remember thinking that this must be very much like what a war zone is like. Being small, I got pummeled by people moshing and crowd surfers kicking me in the face and bruised and beaten. It was totally worth it though once it was over and all my body parts were still attatched and I could say "I almost got killed seeing Fallout Boy!!" Later, after the wife and I collapsed for an hour or so, in leiu of seeing the Transplants (:( BUT I probably would have gotten more killed in that crowd, and I could still hear them, and thats the important thing) and ate mexican food, we saw (drum roll) THE OFFSPRING!!! Which were so so so so good, but I didn't feel like the crowd was into them. Probably because everyone there was in middle school or high school and was like "who are they? didnt my mom used to listen to them?" but they were so wonderful anyway, and I almost cried with joy. I was rocking out, and no one else was, but I didn't care because I was seeing the Offspring!! YESSSS!! Then we went to the Wife's house and spooned, then I went home.
Now, I am home. There is this terrible feeling that I get in my stomach whenever I get to bennington. It's unpleasant. It gets better when I'm home, and asleep, and unconscious, but I still kinda get sick when I have to go out in public. Haha. Today, I went to the Bank of America in Berlin, NY to open an acct that I can use in London, and I filled out a credit card app, and the woman pretty much guaranteed that I would get a credit card. which makes me VERY happy because I've been declined for every card in the world. And I got an apple/raspberry square at the bakery laura works at and it was scrumptious. And then my sister revealed that she has season one of Laguna Beach, and I get obsessed, so now I know where I'll be spending all of my time...
And now, I am going to Rutland to see Gatien and the movies and hang out. Pics to come!!!
SMP ended on a better note than it bad been at for most of the season. Sales were high, work wasn't that bad for the last week. It never ceased to amaze me how much just a couple people could ruin my summer. I wish I had been able to shrug it all off, but working at the playhouse really was my entire life, and if it wasn't going well, nothing was. I feel a lot better now that it's over, but its hard to know that I won't see everyone every day, especially Jenn and Dave. I know I can see Jenn when I get back, but Dave's all far away in NYC and stuff. I am ready to go, though. All set. No looking back.
On our final night at the Playhouse, we went on a lobster cruise around Lake Champlain. It was a really awesome time. We got to eat lobster and corn and other awesome food, and ride on a boat! and there was a band and dancing on the deck of the boat. We were the only people there under 70, but that was ok because we got to watch the old people swing dancing, and they were REALLY good. Then Ted was Gary Champlain, owner of Lake Champlain, and that was a fun game of pretend. Then we all said goodbye and there were lots and lots of tears. I was alright though. I'm usually fine with goodbyes if I'm the one leaving. It's a different story when I'm the one being left.
On Monday, after I packed up and said goodbye to Jenn H Xtina and Robyn (Robyn being the hardest of all), I went on to bigger and better things, AKA the Warped Tour!! With the Wife! Where I almost was killed in the crowd during Fallout Boy, but thankfully lived to tell the tale. It was scary, though. We started out standing in the back but were pushed and beaten forward by the crowd. I remember thinking that this must be very much like what a war zone is like. Being small, I got pummeled by people moshing and crowd surfers kicking me in the face and bruised and beaten. It was totally worth it though once it was over and all my body parts were still attatched and I could say "I almost got killed seeing Fallout Boy!!" Later, after the wife and I collapsed for an hour or so, in leiu of seeing the Transplants (:( BUT I probably would have gotten more killed in that crowd, and I could still hear them, and thats the important thing) and ate mexican food, we saw (drum roll) THE OFFSPRING!!! Which were so so so so good, but I didn't feel like the crowd was into them. Probably because everyone there was in middle school or high school and was like "who are they? didnt my mom used to listen to them?" but they were so wonderful anyway, and I almost cried with joy. I was rocking out, and no one else was, but I didn't care because I was seeing the Offspring!! YESSSS!! Then we went to the Wife's house and spooned, then I went home.
Now, I am home. There is this terrible feeling that I get in my stomach whenever I get to bennington. It's unpleasant. It gets better when I'm home, and asleep, and unconscious, but I still kinda get sick when I have to go out in public. Haha. Today, I went to the Bank of America in Berlin, NY to open an acct that I can use in London, and I filled out a credit card app, and the woman pretty much guaranteed that I would get a credit card. which makes me VERY happy because I've been declined for every card in the world. And I got an apple/raspberry square at the bakery laura works at and it was scrumptious. And then my sister revealed that she has season one of Laguna Beach, and I get obsessed, so now I know where I'll be spending all of my time...
And now, I am going to Rutland to see Gatien and the movies and hang out. Pics to come!!!