It's really late out here in Sea-Town, but I just wanted to share with you all...

So we had this team building shindig today, which was kind of fun. You know the kind of team building exercises where you all have to work together to beat the other teams. As we were working on our team competition, I was called by the "big names" (I don't really know how else to describe them) to come and pow-wow with them. I got a little nervouse, thinking that it had something to do with the project I'm currently on, but when I got in their huddle, they were like, 'Can you do Paula Abdul?" and I was like, "Huh? You mean sing?" and they were like, 'No, do an American Idol impression.". I asked what it was for, and it turned out that the awards ceremony was going to be an AI spoof. Not one to say "No" to anyone, I agreed, but was really nervous about how much I knew of Paula and her actions on AI to do a good impression of her.

So my time came up and I sat there, and did the best Paula impression I could. I was SUPER nervous the whole time, trying to think of what off the wall comment I could say next. Some of the ones I came up with were "You really reached into my soul with that one!" "Well, this group has a lot of young men....meet me in my room later tonight" and "I didn't like your performance too much, but you're a star, a shining star!" and other Paula-isms that I remember from AI. It was silly, but I did my best!

Afterwards, I hung out at a bar with the people from the Europe, who were a lively, fun bunch. We then came back to the hotel for more drinks, and then headed out to a club where other coworkers were already getting their groove on. Turns out, though, that the Euros didn't bring their passports with them (and really, who could blame them?) so most of them didn't get in. Some of them went back to the hotel, but one of them was just hanging out outside the bar talking to people. However, most of our group was inside, so we were trying to get in. So I tag teamed with my coworker (who i guess is a regular at the place) trying to persuade the bouncer to let our friend in. He was pretty reluctant, but after a couple minutes, we could see that he was going to fold. So I took him aside, talked to him a bit, asked him how he liked working there, what the crowd was like, blah blah blah, and we were able to get our U.K. friend inside. The bouncer was a good guy, and in the end he was cool with it (though he was probably cool with it because the bar was closing in the hour) and he really appreciated that I said "Thank You" after he let my friend in, which I guess is a sentiment he doesn't' get much.

Anyway, I've got a new friend in Seattle. He let me sit next to him when the bar closed and yell at people to kick 'em out.

Oh, and if you haven't guess, I've got my drinky drink on.

Time to pass out.....

Hope you're all having a good week!

Posted by Yano at May 3, 2007 04:50 AM

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