#1 · Mar 28, 2009 04:50 UTC
The last couple of days I've been down in Charleston, WV doing gigs. We're doing a pops gig in the orchestra (a gig where we're playing music while different Charlie Chaplin movies play). Normally, we wear a white dinner jacket, white shirt, bow tie, and tux pants. I get to the hall and I see everybody in ALL FUCKING BLACK!!! Ok, why do I not know about this change of attire??? I ask a couple people I know and they said an email went out about a week ago. Ok, why did I not get the FUCKING MEMO!!!! So, I ask the personnel manager (the most incompetent fucking personnel manager I've worked with, and I've seen some bad personnel managers) why I didn't get the message and what the FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH MY CLOTHES AN HOUR AWAY!!! So I run back to the hotel, get my dark blue sport jacket for the gig tomorrow morning and put it on so the white wasn't so obvious (plus there was a lot of periods that it was fairly dark; crisis averted).
Gig is over. I've finally calmed down to my regular, cheery self. I log into Facebook and see a friend request from a girl who said she was in McDonald's All-American band with me in 1986 (I was in that group and marched in the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade and all that). I didn't recognize the name. But it's been over 20 years and there were some I didn't know. Well, after I approved her she started a chat session. So I'm chatting with someone I don't know. But we were in the band together, I figured I'd eventually figure out who she was. She had a really cool pic of the band in here photo area, so I had her email me a digital copy. So, while we were chatting, I decided to figure out who she was by the picture. Ok, according to her profile, she's from the Kansas-Missouri area. So I saw a girl next to me in the pic that looked pretty similar to her profile picture. It also said Kansas on her hat. So I asked her if that was her. She says no, I stood next to somebody else. Huh???? That makes absolutely no sense. That person is not near any females. Next thing she types is she was a trombonist from Missouri. Ok, there was one female trombonist, but she was from Pennsylvania and her name was Tracy. The only trombonist I knew from that area was a guy named Brian.....OMFG!!!!!!! I feel like I've just been on the FUCKING CRYING GAME and am totally trying to not freak out (and am barely succeeding)!!!!! I've already had a shitty day and then find out a friend of mine from 20 years ago is now a TRANNY?!?!?! It's just too much for me to absorb after the day I've had. Ack!!! ::)
I'm going to get some sleep. I'm now officially speechless.
Gig is over. I've finally calmed down to my regular, cheery self. I log into Facebook and see a friend request from a girl who said she was in McDonald's All-American band with me in 1986 (I was in that group and marched in the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade and all that). I didn't recognize the name. But it's been over 20 years and there were some I didn't know. Well, after I approved her she started a chat session. So I'm chatting with someone I don't know. But we were in the band together, I figured I'd eventually figure out who she was. She had a really cool pic of the band in here photo area, so I had her email me a digital copy. So, while we were chatting, I decided to figure out who she was by the picture. Ok, according to her profile, she's from the Kansas-Missouri area. So I saw a girl next to me in the pic that looked pretty similar to her profile picture. It also said Kansas on her hat. So I asked her if that was her. She says no, I stood next to somebody else. Huh???? That makes absolutely no sense. That person is not near any females. Next thing she types is she was a trombonist from Missouri. Ok, there was one female trombonist, but she was from Pennsylvania and her name was Tracy. The only trombonist I knew from that area was a guy named Brian.....OMFG!!!!!!! I feel like I've just been on the FUCKING CRYING GAME and am totally trying to not freak out (and am barely succeeding)!!!!! I've already had a shitty day and then find out a friend of mine from 20 years ago is now a TRANNY?!?!?! It's just too much for me to absorb after the day I've had. Ack!!! ::)
I'm going to get some sleep. I'm now officially speechless.