Their little trunks!! I heard they're like puppies, but maybe that's me just dreaming about snuggling with baby elephants!! Did you like doing that kind of work? The traveling and humanitarian aid stuff?
He was Herr Schultz in Cabaret, which turned into the tale of how he missed being on the front lines in Normandy 'cause he'd caught the clap for the second time so later he signed up to fight in Korea just to even out his karma.
If it was all vaccines and baby elephants, maybe I would've kept at it, but then I got shot and almost died and I felt like maybe it was selfish and unfair to Zelda to keep going, so I took a break. Not that the ER in Chicago (and then Seattle) was any less chaotic.
Awwww, that is adorable??? I love that you helped him realize his dreams.
Lordy just hearing that stresses me out, even though "almost died" is not a TERRIBLY uncommon story these days!! I don't know how you kept your blood pressure from killing you working any of those jobs. I've hit my limit in a kitchen!!
He was also VERY quick to assure me he was okay with The Gays, and then told me a related military story I can't repeat in polite company. Maybe one day I can be as happy and obliviously offensive as him!!
Honestly, I think it's working in a kitchen that prepared me for all this. I've been running off fight-or-flight adrenaline since I was a kid! Getting yelled at during an understaffed lunch rush or almost getting murdered while trying to keep other people alive? Same stress level, really!
[...] Well, I guess at least his heart was in the right place? Hopefully? Getting into theatre would have been pretty weird if he wasn't "okay with The Gays".
You know, I can see that? I worked in different restaurants off and on for a couple decades, but my formative training was in being a charming young man who looks darling in a suit and that's ABOUT the stress level I can handle.
It sure would be!! But people can have the strangest blind spots!! It seemed like he just really wanted to make friends and find a community again, and someone told him church and theatre folks were his two options. Glad he chose theatre!!
That makes sense. You're still a charming young man who looks darling in a suit, and you deserve to have as little stress as possible.
Oh jeez, yeah. I hope whatever time he got to spend in the theatre was good for him. Who knows? Maybe he's still out there, being the next Shakespeare or something.
Charming MIDDLE-AGED man!! (I'll accept the lack of stress and suit comments as is though, I DO look cute in my little tailored suits.)
Ooh, an ancient bisexual riddled with STIs and telling inappropriate stories like a wandering bard might actually just be regular Shakespeare?? Maybe one day future generations will be reenacting that military story!!
If you INSIST. I know better than to argue with a man with big beautiful brown eyes.
Oh VERY good question!! Hmmm.
This feels LIGHTLY like cheating because it would be 90% dream stuff where you can do whatever you want, but when I was 15 I got Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever from a tick in Texas and spent three days in a coma. I don't ACTUALLY remember much from the coma, but it seems like a good backdrop for some kind of message of theme, you know???
Rolling in merits and fancy fabrics because we were the first to walk up to a man with a gun and say, "Hey, why don't we all just take a beat and have some fruit?"
We can't run a town, but listen to this theme song that persists almost ENTIRELY of handheld percussion and cool dance moves!! (We're in our forties, our dance moves are expressly NOT cool, just enthusiastic.)
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I love this. Tell me more. What was his role?
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He was Herr Schultz in Cabaret, which turned into the tale of how he missed being on the front lines in Normandy 'cause he'd caught the clap for the second time so later he signed up to fight in Korea just to even out his karma.
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Oh, that's perfect. Was he any good?
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He was [...] weirdly adorable?? And SO goshdarn quiet on stage, we had to heckle* him to get him to yell back at us and start to project!!
* politely!!!!!
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Awwww, that is adorable??? I love that you helped him realize his dreams.
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He was also VERY quick to assure me he was okay with The Gays, and then told me a related military story I can't repeat in polite company. Maybe one day I can be as happy and obliviously offensive as him!!
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[...] Well, I guess at least his heart was in the right place? Hopefully? Getting into theatre would have been pretty weird if he wasn't "okay with The Gays".
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It sure would be!! But people can have the strangest blind spots!! It seemed like he just really wanted to make friends and find a community again, and someone told him church and theatre folks were his two options. Glad he chose theatre!!
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Oh jeez, yeah. I hope whatever time he got to spend in the theatre was good for him. Who knows? Maybe he's still out there, being the next Shakespeare or something.
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Ooh, an ancient bisexual riddled with STIs and telling inappropriate stories like a wandering bard might actually just be regular Shakespeare?? Maybe one day future generations will be reenacting that military story!!
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Maybe! Hey, if you were to write a play about something that happened in your life, what would it be?
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Oh VERY good question!! Hmmm.
This feels LIGHTLY like cheating because it would be 90% dream stuff where you can do whatever you want, but when I was 15 I got Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever from a tick in Texas and spent three days in a coma. I don't ACTUALLY remember much from the coma, but it seems like a good backdrop for some kind of message of theme, you know???
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I'll be Joel Gion from The Brian Jonestown Massacre.
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