I’m so obsessed with doing video montages now. Don’t worry, folks, I’ll get through this phase soon enough. But right now: Videos, videos and MORE VIDEOS! You don’t have to watch them. But they are going to be there until I get this out of my system.
Halloween was a blast. It’s one of my two favorite holidays of the year (along with Thanksgiving), and Trish and I used to go every year to this amazing, huge party in LA for it. This year, we were really excited to find that there was a party in Seattle that looked kind of similar to the one in LA. We were going to get tickets, but they said on their website that if you volunteered to help set up earlier in the day, you could get your tickets for free. So we showed up at the venue around 2, and they put us to work doing the webbing all around the venue. One of the party producers quickly earned the nickname “The Web Nazi,” because seriously all he did was walk around and tell us what was wrong with our webs. At first we were a little offended, and then we quickly realized this guy was just totally insane about webbing. And, no, he wasn’t gay. If he were gay, it would have been amusing and caricature-ish. But this was a totally straight guy. Just REALLY REALLY set on having the webbing be perfect. He’d come by and tell us to make the webbing thinner, then come by ten minutes later and tell us it needed to be thicker. Then he’d take it down and re-do it himself and send us to another wall. This went on for three hours. It was ridiculous. My stomach hurt from laughing so hard every time he turned his back. I kept walking over to Trish and being like “NO ONE WOULD EVER BELIEVE THAT A SPIDER MADE THIS! Re-do it! People will be asking for refunds tonight because your webbing sucks so hard! You’re ruining Halloween for everyone!”
But then at the last minute my friend Will decided he wanted to come with us — Will made the mistake of telling me on Friday that he hated Halloween because he had bad memories of it from a long time ago. He never dresses up, he never goes out, he avoids Halloween altogether. I can’t let someone live like that, not on my favorite holiday. I was like, “Um, no. Text me tomorrow so you can come with us.” So Will got a costume and came out with us, but when we got there the party was sold out and he didn’t have a ticket. I was so upset — another Halloween ruined for him! I wasn’t going to let that happen. I begged everyone at the venue to let him in, plus some of the party producers who had been supervising us that afternoon, and no dice. No one would help. Finally I saw the Web Nazi. I was like, “Hey, we spent all day setting up the webbing! Can you please help us get our friend in?” And you know what? The Web Nazi totally came through for us. He went up to the bouncer and was all like, “Hey, these people here volunteered today. I’ve already checked their IDs. They’re all good, they’re on the list.” And the bouncer was like, “Okay, cool, come on in.” So after all that hassle with the webbing, the Web Nazi redeemed himself in the end. There is good in everyone, I swear!!!
The party itself was a blast. I danced and sang like a crazy lady. My legs and throat hurt so bad today. I can barely walk and I’m pretty sure I’m coughing up blood. I went downstairs to Danielle’s apartment and we both passed out on her couch for like two hours. But TOTALLY WORTH IT. Amazing night. I have to get back to reality tomorrow, and I am NOT excited about it. This past week has been completely hectic and insane and fun, and I feel like I need another full week to recuperate.
