I don't know if I already mentioned this, but I was cast in THREE on-campus short films for the Film and Media students' Advanced Collaborative Film class!! So, yesterday evening, I spent the majority of my evening filming a long short story/monologue about a girl who is carrying the "stone backpack" (signifying the weight of distress) of her father's passing away. It was so much fun - the shoot, not the sad lines particularly. We shot many different angles and well, now I have one of three scenes I will be in THIS WEEK for my new reel!! Woot! Hollywood, here I come. In a little bit.
Prior to this, myself and my new friend from Drama Bible Study, Anita Platypus (so named because I had no idea what her last name was... and that's what's on Facebook) were planning to visit the new Subway that was opening its doors for the first time this morning at 7:30am. There was a campus-wide email sent out a few days ago and I had decided, why not? What have I got to lose? A few hours of sleep? Well, I was going to lose those anyway with the crazy week I've been having, so why not gain some free food in the process??
The deal was: The first fifty students at the door at 7:30am would receive a year of free Subway sandwiches (fine print: 52 sandwich coupons).
I had been planning on arriving at the Subway around 10:30pm last night, after I got out of shooting the short film in Claire Trevor School of the Arts. But we didn't finish filming until midnight! I kept asking Anita, "Do you think 10pm is too early?" She wouldn't be able to arrive until after 1am because she closes at Starbucks off-campus. She had been told by a friend who had class yesterday AFTERNOON that there were already more than fifty people waiting! Nevertheless, after the shoot was over, I decided to check it out. You never know, right?
There were well over fifty people. In fact, the Subway was inside a tiny commons-type area and they let everyone inside! where it was warm! And there was a list...
I became #74 on the list.
And I was able to sign up Anita as #76, just behind the guy who walked up with me at the same time. I told Anita to come anyway. It'll be fun, right? She did!! She almost didn't come at all!!
We sat and talked, and laughed about how silly all of this was, and why in the world we were staying if we all were top 70-ish, my new friends and I; NyuckTun (not at ALL how to spell his Vietnamese name, but the pronunciation-ish), Christian, Anita and I. And another guy who had been there since 9:30AM that morning. By NO means was 10:30PM "early." Ha!
But we had fun.
Then, five til 6am rolled around and there was a woman who woke everyone up and asked us all to clear our areas so they could start cleaning... and counting. She announced the top 50 on the list, they got in a line, and I was not among them. I was not surprised, but I wanted a Subway!! So, I helped clean up and got in a separate line for when they officially opened the doors at 7:30am.
When I asked if I could help out in any way, funny-to-me-only-story, the Suit in the picture said I could start wiping down tables and gave me a rag. A few minutes in, a new Suit came by and told me not to clean; that they would handle it. ... I was so tired that it actually hurt my feelings! I almost started crying, that's how tired I was. Refusing help, HA! How dare you!
I said it a little loud, and the woman offered me her push broom and said she would gladly let me help.
So I did, of course. I like to help.
I know, I'm weird.
After I finished helping and got back in the now very small, non-winners line, the woman passed out all the coupons to the winners and asked them for a show of hands who thought the 8 people who were still here that had stayed all night should also get a year of free Subways...
And I was among them!!
So, I didn't "win" but I still got the prize!!
Thanks Scott and Kelly!!
YAY!!
Anita decided to go home after the top 50 were called. When the woman let us have the prize as well, I mentioned Anita and she said if she emailed her, she would get the prize too! So, hopefully she will do just that!
Also, in middle school, my friends and I started this strange photo idea where we would take pictures of ourselves in front of various trash receptacles in various towns and theme parks and campsites, etc.
I've decided to resuscitate that crazy photo op.
