October 29, 2009
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1 LOVING a GREAT week.
2 Every year October always grabs me by the wrist, directs me where to go. I get tossed up, down, around and every which way.
3 Yesterday a teacher came up to me and asked me if I wanted “in” on U2 tix. I had thought that I missed the deadline, but this guy ALWAYS manages to get tickets to EVERYTHING. It’s beginning to look good that I may get some tix.
4 Over the years I never HAD to fight for tickets because I sold merch at those events, and usually walked away with a pretty tidy wad of cash, as well as enjoying the concerts as they would happen. Most merch sales took place when the bands weren’t on stage, right? So we’d switch off going out and watching, all the time making boatloads of money.
5 I have since retired from all of that, mainly because they lowered the percentage cut we received. I got pretty spoiled over the years, so at one point, a reasonably large check didn’t equal the twelve to fifteen hours of work involved.
6 But while it lasted, it was awesome. I worked some of the greatest concerts ever, including Journey, Foreigner, Pink Floyd, U2, The Grateful Dead, The Who, Metallica, Greenday, Santana, and always the immortal Rolling Stones, who sold more stuff than most of all the others combined. There were many more, too numerous to list here, but it was a lot of years that I not only didn’t have to pay for a concert, but that I was a part of the concert.
7 I do recall one great sound check when Pink Floyd came out to warm up. They did this awesome version of the very amazing My Sharona! Can you begin to imagine?
8 Years ago my friends and I snuck to the Stones’ backstage area, which was a bunch of mini outdoor bistros with huge spreads of food and drinks for all the workers.
9 Great memories, great times. Now I’m on the other side of the fence, but honestly! Like I always sort of liked U2 until their Joshua Tree tour years ago. Working that concert totally pulled me into the entire U2 world. All they had was a backdrop of a Joshua Tree, and the rest was pure music.
10 After that show, the Drama Workshop never went anywhere without U2 helping us build sets.
11 That band has gotten better and better, and right now may be at their very best.
12 Hopefully I can get some tickets. I could probably figure out a way to sneak in, but I’m not the immortal Nhat, who could get into any concert on Earth. I’m still going to try to get to the Oakland show.
13 Moving on: I’m still pretty honored to have been chosen to be a judge at this year’s Homecoming. I’ve been a large part of the school’s spirit activities since I got there, so it’s a fun thing being a part of all of that stuff.
14 Yesterday I finished up the Heidi Chronicles, and even read a piece from my November 1, 2006 DN in which I detailed the Heidi trips taking place from my last year at YB to my first year up at the Chill.
15 The students had never heard me refer to their school as the Chill-on-the Hill, my term-of-endearment nickname for Evergreen Valley. I told the students that I love “chillin’” at EV, and indeed I do!
16 Looking forward to watching all the Spirit Week stuff. They have all four classes decorate different areas of the school on Friday, and then have a midday rally. I get to be a part of that, as well as of an ice-cream social Friday after school. All great fun going into the Homecoming Game.
17 And then Saturday is good ol’ Halloween! I won’t be making it to the Homecoming Dance, mainly because I love Halloween and all that goes with it.
18 So it’s been a fun-filled week, and sometimes I think I have the greatest job on the planet!
19 Moving on, Part the Second: The Heidi Chronz took on an interesting twist the other day. After my second period class, I looked up into the houselights and saw a rather strange glow, even pointing it out to a student, Chris Davis. I shone my flashlight on the glow, and then turned it off. The glow remained. I then walked out to the lobby, went back into the theatre, and the glow had disappeared.
21 Facebook has worked normally since I got on it, then it went haywire for two days prior to my stories, removing what I considered to be pertinent posts by both myself and by friends.
22 Yesterday we had a faculty meeting and were handed 3 X 5 cards with numbers on them. It didn’t surprise me one bit that I picked a nine. It was our table number so that they could divide groups. Only the numbers stopped at eight, so I sat at table eight, even though I was a nine. I later saw that table nine had been placed next to table one, which caused a conversation to ensue all about nines and ones, almost five minutes worth. Because ones and nines play a role in the Heidi stories, I smiled that the conversation continued in the background.
23 It’s a cool coincidence, but not as cool as last night’s Seinfeld re-run. It had a running gag about the word “yadda”, and THAT continued throughout the entire episode. In the Heidi stories, the word “yadda” spell-checked out to Audi (the name of the psychic who said we had “activity” and who worked for Sylvia Browne, and of course, “Heidi”. Years ago my daughter’s friend and she asked a Ouija board if there was a ghost in the YB Theatre. Lindsay stalled with eyes closed, then opened her eyes wide and shouted, “Yadda yadda yadda yadda!” She had no idea bout the spell check. This is always a great moment in the Heidi Chronz, so it is interesting that we had nines and ones in the afternoon, repeating, and “yaddas” at 11 p.m. during a Seinfeld re-run. Just another set of what seems an endless deluge of coincidences. Carl Jung called it “synchronicity”. Indeed.
20 Moving on, Part the Third: Looks like I’ll be going to the gym beginning Monday. I re-joined the one by my school. I had left it because I didn’t like the management a coupla years ago, but I’m going to give it a second shot. The last time I worked at this gym, I lost almost 25 pounds and got toned and stronger, ate better, and felt healthier.
21 I may even begin today; I dunno. I’m hoping to get in great shape by Christmas. It’ll be my gift to my own health. I figure if I announce it here, I may actually stick to it again.
22 Welp, that’s the news. Not much, really, but no news is always good news. Liked the nines/ones and yaddas. Keep ‘em coming.
23 Peace.
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