I’m in bed again. I love being in bed. Exactly like this, too: with my computer, the TV on (and the remote within reach, and it’s got cable,) having nothing to do tomorrow and full of ice cream. The only thing that could make it any better would be the babers to snuggle. Sigh.
Yesterday was our show. We performed at the big campus theater at University of Florida. I celebrated gator-pride by wearing blue and orange eye shadow for the show. It was kind of hideous, but whatever. Sometime during our stint in Korea, I grew bored of just doing the same make-up and someone came up with the idea that I should do my makeup to a different theme each show… The girls of diavolo (and the occasional guy) name the theme each night… it’s been everything from ‘anime girl’ and ‘geisha goes hollywood’ to ‘bird in a midlife crisis.’ As you might imagine, sometimes my makeup therefore can look pretty ridiculous. Good thing we play huge venues and the audience can’t see my ‘innappropriate ninja scenario’-inspired cosmetic journey.
The show went well. The only drawback was that the theater didn’t provide us with food they’re usually supposed to for dinner, so we all went without (no time by the time we found out to go get some before the show.) So, no food plus Florida muggyness made for us all feeling like we were going to pass out by Traj. My legs felt like they were going to give out by the end of the women’s quartet (the first thing I do in the piece, requiring the least amount of exertion.) This worried me seeing as how I still had the double eagle fly coming up and it was my first time doing it onstage since Korea (fourth time ever overall.)
After the show some of the dance students from the UF dance department came backstage and hung out with us after Q&A and we ended up meeting them for a much-needed post-show pizza run. We went to Leonardo’s, which is across the street from the hotel. I ate what is probably the singe biggest and thickest piece of pizza I have ever encountered – it was covered in pepperoni, sausage, cheese, and every veggie suitable to good pizza. Ugh, now I’m hungry.
Then, I got talked into continuing the evening at the club in downtown Gainesville called the Rue Bar (too crowded,) and then got roped into continuing onto a college party. I felt old.
Thankfully the dance kids drove us everywhere so no cab fare was involved and I was surronded by good friends (Garrett, Crystal, John and Becca saved my ass from some pretty ghetto jerks at the club,) otherwise I might have considered the evening a bust. We got home around 4am, and I went straight to bed.
The next morning, Becca and I woke up specifically to horde more breakfast food from the continental buffet, packed our ice bucket to serve as a mini-yogurt fridge and then passed out again til maybe 2:30pm, when we got up and enjoyed our spoils. Our lazy sunday (no cupcakes involved) was visited by John and passed along nicely until we went to dinner at about 6.
We met everyone in the lobby and all walked over to a locally-famous restaurant called The Swamp, whose walls were covered in flat screen TVs showcasing football playoffs, and whose massive swampy-trees were adorned in twinkle lights. I really don’t care much about football, but Ed, our technical director, said he thought that this year’s superbowl would include the Seahawks, so maybe I am going to have to start caring a little more. Look at me as I jump on a bandwagon. No shame here.
An amazing buffalo-chicken wrap later, we all walked back to the hotel to change and re-group for bowling. We lost Ed and Benji, but otherwise the whole dinner group (the whole company minus Leo) shuttled to a local alley where we played 2 solid hours of some pretty killer bowling. Boys beat the girls in two face-offs, but the girls proved to have a much more astute learning curve.
We were joined at the alley by Matt and Nic (no k,) two of the UF dance students, and they drove us back to the hotel when the bowling alley closed, via a nearby Ben and Jerry’s. A note for the future: David promised that if I bought it, he would take the Vermonster Challenge sometime while we’re on tour. That involves 20 scoops of ice cream, 4 bananas, 4 ladles of hot fudge, 1 brownie, 2 cups of whipped cream, 4 scoops of peanuts, etc and one hour’s time. I am sooooo excited. It will be glorious and I will take many pictures.