| Jul. 14th, 2008 @ 09:21 am Cirque Stupendo weekend |
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Lots of stuff to update about!
So we have a new roommate now; her name is Ellie, she's originally from Bulgaria, she's studying library science, and she works for mp shows. It's working out really well so far!
Thursday I took the train home to Iowa. Like usual, I met someone that I would probably never talk to under normal circumstances, but he had never ridden Amtrak before so I helped him figure out how to get his tickets. Then it turned out that we were going to the same place, so I sat by him on the train and had some interesting conversations (I wasn't sure about him when he said "I really love Men's Health magazine," but he wasn't so bad).
After Mom picked me up at the station, we ate lunch at the Ivy Bake Shoppe and stopped by my aunt and uncle's antique mall where I worked for 4 summers during college. They just sold their building and are preparing all of their merchandise for a giant auction in two weeks, so everything was on sale. For $5 I got:
8 sewing patterns from the 60s-70s
A giant yearbook from Indiana University, 1965
A blue and green tie for Luther
A button that says "Tea keeps you cool"
I also found a matching skirt/top (white with red polka dots) that fits me perfectly, and my aunt said it belonged to my grandma, so she gave it to me!
My dad is building a giant shop for all of his farm equipment/tools, so I got the tour of that. He also fixed our pinball machine from the 70s that had been broken for over 4 years and I got to play that a lot.
Friday we went up to Iowa City for the circus that my brother organized. On the way there I got interviewed over the phone by the CSO's HR department for the Civic Orchestra library position I applied for! Hopefully they will call me back and ask for an in-person interview. Then I got to see Cindee for a few hours and made her buy stuff at Artifacts. Finally we met up with Luther, who is really sick. He has mono and also possibly hepatits A... his skin and the whites of his eyes were yellow. Very creepy. Therefore, he couldn't do most of the stuff he wanted to do in the circus, and the fire marshall found out about the fire tricks they were planning and told them they couldn't do that, either. So here's what we DID see in the circus: an ABBA cover band (BABBA), violin/accordion circus music, Will Whitmore playing gypsy banjo, Luther doing 3-ball juggling tricks, a hula hooper, yo-yo tricks, "jacket man," an acrobat, hat manipulation, rifle twirling, more jugglers, a strange sort of vaudeville act that I don't really know how to describe, an awful comedian, a contortionist, the human blockhead, sword swallowing, plus face painting, balloon animals, and an art raffle. Also, I played Venus Noodles because Luther asked me to. I think that covers most of it. It was a lot of fun, and there were a bunch of little kids there who were hilarious to watch.
I'm impressed that Luther organized all of it, and he said they raised almost $400 for Johnson county flood relief, which is awesome. I still feel bad that they couldn't do the fire stuff, because that was sort of the main attraction. And Luther was supposed to do crazy unicycle tricks and balancing acts, but he was too sick. We're all just hoping that he gets better so that he can still go to the International Juggling Convention in Germany followed by a semester of study in India. But he's supposed to leave in a couple of weeks, so I don't know if it's going to work out. |
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