Another Day, Another Dollar

This week... :) Working possibly the craziest gig we have had since I have been here: hand-modeling. I constantly think of Seinfeld episode with George and the hand modelling and "Friends" with Joey. We had to ask people if they or their client had good hands and most people acted like they had no clue what I or anyone else was talking about. My boss was making jokes about it, calling it the "hand job." I could not stop laughing. After spending the day booking, we had auditions the following day. I was holding the post by myself, which I thought was pretty cool after only being here for two-ish weeks. We had about 150 people come in from 11am-5:45pm. Near the end of the whole casting, we had a very attractive Welsh guy come in. We had a horrible pouring rainy day and he comes in to log in and says, "God, it's a horrible rainy day." in which I reply,"Isn't it always a horrible rainy day in London?" I felt a little more comfortable talking to the people in the audition room and asked them British customs and why they do things like a scotch egg (look it up, it's disgusting) and who certain artists are. The Welsh guy tells me that he bets that I will never guess where he's from and I tell him to try me. He tells me he's from Wales and I reply, "You see, unlike most Americans, I'm smart. Here's England (put my right hand up) and here's wales (put my left hand up). He says, "Good job." I reply, "Yeah..... Isn't Wales an inbred country?" Everyone in the waiting room begins to laugh. This weekend, I had tea with an old friend from my very FIRST college (Shorter). Erin McCulloch and I met at the Muffin Man (who lives on Wright Lane in High Street Kensington) and I had my first proper tea and went shopping to get a few things that I needed like a new pair of shoes since my sandals broke. I also had my friends here decide to see "Les Miserables" in the standing room for £10 instead of waiting for me to get to Leicester Square to get some discount seats, so I went to see "We Will Rock You" at the Dominion Theatre, which makes my third West End show. I sat in the second to last row, but the theatres are small. I ended up buying a Pimm's for the first time and enjoyed it and I went down to the front of mezzanine during intermission because so many seats were empty! Honestly, I do not understand why they just don't put people closer instead of gouging people for the price of admission. Honestly, it wasn't until the third song that I realised I was at the Queen musical and not "Rock of Ages." Laugh all you want, but I felt like an idiot. The musical was alright. The vocalists were all strong, but the story line and book were full of cheesy lines and the plot had a great idea but it did not flourish to me. Kudos for it being in Europe for so long, but seriously, there's a reason why it's not on Broadway. They rushed to write an ending and that was just... bad. Honestly... They grimmed it... to the people who understand that joke. As for the rest of the week, we went to a concert yesterday where as my roommate said, "I've made shit sounds better than this." It was avant garde, instrumental improvisation. During the third piece, I was laughing so hard that I was crying and snorting. My two friends sitting next to me were hitting me to stop. I also went to Primark for the first time. It is full of curry city and the clothes are SO CHEAP! I'm talking like you can walk out with three outfits with accessories and shoes and spend about £30. It was amazing! Hope all of you are amazing!