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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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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