✥on thursday jerry gave me his shift at work, so that he could study and so that i could do a little bit of work in my week of unemployment..
the club was hosting a chinese themed event, and the place looked amazing! pillars wrapped in red chinese silk, vases of peonies and strings of chinese lanterns creating a soft pink glow.. they'd really transformed it. while us bartenders were stuck in peasant rice-farmer hats, slaving away on the lychee cocktails behind the bar, the event hostesses were standing around getting paid to look beautiful in coloured satin cheong-sam dresses, hair in chop-sticked buns, giving away fortune cookies... throughout the night they mingled with the corporate guests and drank as many of those cocktails that they so desired.... i snuck a fortune cookie from one of the girls, praying it would promise me great wealth and prosperity or perhaps a great new career opportunity...
'you will soon go on a foreign trip'.. hmmm, still cool but not what i was really after...
i turned to the pretty blonde chinese girl, 'which agency are you with?' ...sometimes we have to make our own destiny, dont we!...
i looked up the calmerkarma agency website the next day and felt like i'd hit the jackpot. bedazzling theatrical entertainment for themed events including circus & cabaret, bollywood, burlesque, fortune tellers, stilt walkers, jugglers....everything fun and weird and wonderful....
i called the number directly.
me: 'i'd like to work for you doing the events, you know like the chinese girls i met last night...'
lady: 'ok, what are your skills?'
me: ...'oh, um, well... i can juggle'.
lady: 'what can you juggle?'....
me: '....balls..?'.
lady: 'we have people who can juggle eight crystal balls, swords and fire, while on stilts'.
me: 'ok...... well i can read tarot cards'...... that seemed to spark her interest.
lady: 'send me a picture of yourself.'
last night at work we hosted a huge halloween party and the costumes were amazing! everyone had gone to so much effort! a makeup artist was hired to do up us staff as zombies and all the bartenders wore blood spattered aprons. there was such a buzz in the air that it would've been a really fun night if i hadn't lost my voice, if all the card machines hadn't stopped working and if my guests hadn't pounded me over the edge without tipping me..
ah.. you win some, you lose some...
:o)
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