Shumatsu Wa Nani O Shimashita Ka?

hullo. i'm avoiding work, and i thought a good way to do so would be to put a little thing up here about the fine goings on of last friday night. so. yes. friday night, the first annual aiu air guitar competition was held in a small hot room crammed with about 15 contestants and spectators. the lights were turned off and the people holding the competition used some little clip lamp for atmosphere while they videotaped the happenings and hosted it like one of the crazy japanese karaoke shows that always seem to be on. the competitors were introduced and then waited for the song to be queued up on somebody's laptop, posing and strapping on the nonexistant guitar and checking monitor levels and such, and then some japanese metal shitstorm would come out of the speakers and they would flail around for a while until the music was cut off, and then they would introduce the next person. the winner got a giant chocolate chip cookie with frosting on it that said aiu air guitar champion 2007, which he shared with everyone and then did an encore. it might have been the sunglasses that did it for him, or maybe because he did the most drastic back bends. anyway, it was spectacular.

after the air guitar, i went to a birthday party for a taiwanese fella. of course all m'ladies were there, and just about every other taiwanese and chinese student in the school, along with a smattering of white folks. i had some melon soda, some sweet taiwanese jerky stuff, played wii tennis, and got my ass handed to me in some cut throat taiwanese rules uno. a fine night to clear the head like a snort of vick's vapo rub, just what i needed.