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wTuesday, April 29, 2003 | |
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something has occured to me. disneyland recently closed space mountain for 2 years. when the matterhorn was closed for a few months earlier this year it sucked, but still, space mountain was open. so now when either big thunder mountain or the matterhorn goes down for maintenence over the next 2 year, disneyland will really suck. also, if you're going to buy ears at disneyland, i highly recommend the infant size. with sales tax they are $1.07 cheaper than the regular size. more importantly, they have a chin strap, so you can wear them on all the rides. 
real ears on the left, cool kiddie ears on the right. other pluses include, they don't go as far down and the adult sizes, so you can wear a ponytail. they have little holes on top to vent, i'm not sure the regular ones have that. one minus is they don't come in blue. also, the used to make a kids' size without the strap, but with a little visor to protect your nose (or the top of it) from the sun. they need to bring that feature back, but with the chin strap. posted by Jenny on 4/29/2003 10:09:00 AM |
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wMonday, April 28, 2003 | |
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posted by Jenny on 4/28/2003 09:18:00 PM |
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wThursday, April 24, 2003 | |
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i must remind myself to pick up the t-shirts i had made for saturday morning some time tomorrow between interning and going to work. but how? posted by Jenny on 4/24/2003 09:21:00 PM |
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so many posts today. i just got this in the mail. i laughed, so i had to share it: 
also, i've been saving these for awhile because i never take my notebook out of my car. this is what i do in class instead of taking notes: 
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i wanted to find some old random pictures and scan them. so this is the synthesis of that idea... a picture of me, a picture i took with an slr, a picture i took with a point and shoot, and something digital: 
my mother's caption from the back of the picture should explain everything. 
my friend getting a henna tattoo on hollywood blvd. (yes, it was always b+w) 
these tulips were mostly dead by the time i took this. i was really happy with them, i should plant some again. 
i was torn here between self-portrait or digital. digital won out, after going through about 100 pictures i have saved. posted by Jenny on 4/24/2003 02:45:00 PM |
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huh? Made by the fine folks at
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wWednesday, April 23, 2003 | |
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this is a sneaky thing to do. i've decided that instead of leaving at 3:45 i'll leave at 3:15 and go home and have lunch before i go to work. but instead of starting something new at 3:00 i'm typing here. in fact, i plan on leaving at something like 3:05, or right after i post this and clear the browser history. posted by Jenny on 4/23/2003 03:02:00 PM |
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people say i've been busy lately. monday i interned and then went to my therapist. tuesday i went to school and then work. wednesday i interned and then worked (but got out of a passover seder). thursday i went to school, got out of work, but had dinner out with my family. friday i didn't have to intern, but i covered for someone at work. saturday i worked (overtime), but got out of a seder at my house. sunday i went to an easter bbq. yesterday i interned, went to therapy and then my bosses b-day party. today i woke up, went back to sleep, went to class, came home, went back to sleep, went online, and got bombarded with 1 im. tomorrow i'm interning and working. thursday i don't have to go to class. i could not be happier about this. also, because i don't save im's anymore, i thought i'd share this one: (after 8 minutes of hollow chit chat) Me [11:30 PM]: well, i think i'm good for a week or so, we don't have to talk anymore if you don't want to ;) g'night g'night sleep well have a good one g'night g'night sleep well (think we're covered) :) Him [11:30 PM]: nighty night...don't take it all too personally...i'm not online much these days. Me [11:31 PM]: me either. and that was it, although he didn't go away, like i would have hoped. ;) this one is funnier: Me [10:15 PM]: this girl came up to me in class the other day, and she was like "are you still playing the sims?" and i said "what?" and she asked again, and i looked confused. so she goes "aren't you _______'s old roommate?" Her [10:15 PM]: serious? Her [10:15 PM]: lol! Her [10:15 PM]: omig-d! Her [10:15 PM]: ya, _______ had a friend that came over a few times and it was right after we got the Sims Her [10:15 PM]: we talked about it Her [10:16 PM]: that's soooo funny! Her [10:16 PM]: and really disturbing Me [10:17 PM]: and apparently she's a dyke. Me [10:17 PM]: because everyone in my class is a dyke. Her [10:17 PM]: yes jenny she is a lesbian Me [10:17 PM]: really? Me [10:17 PM]: ha! Her [10:17 PM]: geez why so crude Her [10:17 PM]: lol that was my sister, btw. (and people think we look alike, and this girl who came up to me thought i was her...) tomorrow i'll put up the whole thing about how someone told me everyone in women's studies are dykes, and how i've decided it's more interesting to study that theory than anything that comes out of the professor's mouth. posted by Jenny on 4/23/2003 12:15:00 AM |
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wSunday, April 20, 2003 | |
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tv is crap. sex isn't funny. tv is all about sex. sex on tv is stupid. yep, still true. so the last 9 hours were a total waste. posted by Jenny on 4/20/2003 12:26:00 AM |
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wSaturday, April 19, 2003 | |
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my mom woke me up at 5:14 to tell me that my sister didn't come home last night. so now i'm awake, but i'm tired enough to be sleeping. like it's a crime to want more than 5 hours of sleep in one night or something... anyway, since i'm up, i'll continue this: 4/15/2003 3:55:31 PM: When do you get to start making major creative decisions? Surely in the next week or so. 4/15/2003 3:55:44 PM: What was that about the sweet potato queen? Sounds like a competition at a county fair. my response is forthcoming ;) posted by Jenny on 4/19/2003 07:39:00 AM |
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wTuesday, April 15, 2003 | |
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who's got the sweetest disposition one guess, guess who who'd never ever start an argument who'd never show a bit of temperament who's never wrong but always right who'd never dream of starting a fight who gets stuck with all the bad luck no one, but donald duck it used to be impossible to find this song anywhere on the internet. this is 100% accurate based on my memory so there ya go, from me to you... posted by Jenny on 4/15/2003 09:21:00 AM |
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wMonday, April 14, 2003 | |
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4/4/2003 3:58:03 PM: guess what, i just got an internship. i went to the studio website and applied for every spring quarter internship that i thought i was remotely qualified for. guess which one i got? accounting and finance! do you think it was wrong of my to take it without telling them that i don't know anything about either one? anyway, they said it's for 6 months! they asked for my availability, so i emailed them, and i haven't heard back yet about when i can start. it's sort of an odd feeling, having them decided to take me, rather than let the position go unfilled. ;) 4/10/2003 11:22:43 AM: How are things looking for the internship? 4/10/2003 5:41:29 PM: well, i emailed her back right away when she offered it to me, and didn't hear back, so tuesday i forwarded my original message back to her. then yesterday she emailed me back and said i would be working mwf 9am to 5pm, and i'd be starting friday (tomorrow). so this morning when i got the message i said that was fine and answered a few other questions, and didn't get anything back. so i just emailed her and asked where the office was. so it's just weird and a little frustrating. also, have you ever heard of a sweet potato queen? 4/11/2003 1:14:49 PM SO I'M IN THE OFFICE NOW. I HAVE A CUBICLE WHERE I'VE BEEN SITTING SINCE 11:15 (OR THERE ABOUTS) ENTERING W-9'S INTO A DATABASE AND THEN ATTACHING A SCAN OF THE SIGNATURE. I'M SUPPOSED TO DO THIS ALL IN CAPS, HENCE THE SHOUTING. AT 5:00 I'M LEAVING TO GO WORK ON A PILOT ACROSS THE LOT. IS THIS WHAT REAL LIFE IS LIKE? 4/11/2003 4:46:23 PM: Yep, real life is sort of like that. 4/14/2003 3:37:53 PM: Well, today is deathly boring. I have 3 big boxes of files. each files has anywhere from 1-60 envelopes with petty cash receipts. So i have to pick 30 random files from each box and check all of the receipts in the database to make sure they scanned right. The thing is, the network is so slow, it takes 15 seconds for the everything to show up. So i end up waiting for the search window, then for my search, then to open the file, and then a really long wait for 3-4 images to load. Snooze. So far it's taken me since 10:30 to get half way done! posted by Jenny on 4/14/2003 07:54:00 PM |
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wSunday, April 13, 2003 | |
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last night i saw cats, possibly the gayest musical ever. i say this because i am being completely subjective, btw. there is no plot, just a bunch of guys running around in yak hair and mismatched leg warmers. well, sometimes they run, at other times they crawl and pretend to be cats. i don't recommend an aisle seat unless you can contain your laughter when a man in white spandex runs up to you, extends his "paw" in your direction and bears his teeth in a cat-like manner. as my sister pointed out, one of them is even "the liberace of cats." i wish i remembered some of this stuff, because i did see this once upon a time, 16 years ago. the production was pretty bad in general. we had to make our own fun reading the playbill and laughing at all of the performers whose bios said their previous experience was dinner theater and being a swing in some regional show in a place we've never heard of. also, the fact that t.s. eliot won a tony award 18 years after he died. she says that he never intended to write the book of a musical. i say that he did. his poems are so dark because he secretly yearned to be in musical theater, and the dream eluded him. he idolized gilbert and sullivan... well... i don't remember the rest of the bit. but we were cracking up. i can't really say the same for the other people around us, but too bad, one of you had b.o. posted by Jenny on 4/13/2003 10:28:00 AM |
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i just activated my copy of microsoft office xp FOR STUDENTS and teachers. this might could be the last fringe benefit i'll get. i suppose if i paid $25 for a new id i could get a discount at the movies for years to come. do i really want to have my picture taken though? posted by Jenny on 4/13/2003 09:14:00 AM |
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wSaturday, April 12, 2003 | |
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i interned today in the finance department of a tv production company. i think when i applied i thought it said "production AND finance", not "production finance". anyway, my boss loaned me a copy of an excel book, which is a good thing, since had i read the requirements i would have noticed that knowing excel is required. first i got an email offering me the internship. i just so happened to check my email, so i wrote back within a half hour. then i didn't hear anything for 6 days! so i forwarded back my response, and heard back the next day. unfortunately i didn't check my email until 36 hours later (thursday night). it said to come in on friday at 9am, but didn't say which building, which office, where to enter, anything. and no phone number. so i emailed back this morning asking some questions. i ended up walking there, checking through security and then having to wander around finding the building. so i got there around 11:20. i inputed a lot of stuff in to the computer. they taught me how to input w-9's, file a certain kind of report and type up rebills. that was basically typing in a bunch of codes for each dollar amount. but i found a mistake that another intern made, and fixed it. i got to leave a half hour early cause everyone went to some party. she asked me if my numbers matched the amounts in the accounts, and i checked, and they did! then i changed and went over to the entrance and worked for 7 more hours on a pilot. i got paid for that. yeah! posted by Jenny on 4/12/2003 12:03:00 AM |
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wFriday, April 04, 2003 | |
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hi, my name is jenny, and i am a disneyland annual passholder. hi jenny! i clicked on a link that said that passholders make great cast members (i.e., you pay them, they hire you, they give you free admission - something you've already paid for). then from there i clicked on a link that said it had info on a 3rd park in anaheim. seeing as how i've been to anaheim and i know how long it took them to get the land for a 2nd theme park, i was intrigued: thirdthemepark.com notice that almost 82,000 people have clicked on this link. i'd say they got screwed, but most of them probably didn't wait in line for 40 minutes before clicking, so i guess it's pretty inocuous, like sleeping beauty's castle, or the bathrooms over behind big thunder mountain. posted by Jenny on 4/04/2003 02:39:00 PM |
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i figure at this point i might as well finish the story... on wednesday i was offered a chance to fill in on another show. i show up, and low and behold, who's waiting there to be checked in but the same 6 people from florida who alledgedly wrote that email that morning. they thanked me again, and sang the unbirthday song to me. then they asked for an email address to which they could send a story about crazy fan. i act all surprised and say "you mean you didn't send an email this morning?" hel-lo, they're on vacation... what email? then i called my boss and asked her which email address to give them. on thursday morning i hear that on wednesday afternoon, WHILE I WAS WITH THEM IN ANOTHER SHOW, crazy fan's "niece" called the production office to complain. now we've been told that we have to get them in, and we have to be sure we're nicer than last week. i hate how she gets what she wants by flying off the handle, and now she's managed to lie to get her way. it's going to make her so much harder to deal with. posted by Jenny on 4/04/2003 12:16:00 PM |
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i just wrote someone an email about last night, and when i did a word count on the story i told, it was 2625 words! that's more than the 7 1/2 page paper i turned in for my big senior seminar! i've edited it a little to protect the not so innocent... last night the production list was at 115 when we got there, and it kept getting bigger before we even checked anyone in. the stage holds 184-186 depending on if we have to remove chairs for wheelchairs, if a chair breaks and we can't use it, etc... so then we had a group of 15 coming from phoenix who we couldn't turn away, which means, if they show up, we have to take them in. then we had a group of 20 kids coming from a high school who were getting paid like it was a fundraiser, so we're supposed to take them in if they arrive at their arrival time, because we pay them if they show up on time, whether they get in or not. last was the regulars, who booked a group for 10. then we find out that we have a bus 19 rabbis and their wives that were supposed to see drew carey, but it moved to wednesday, so they gave them priority admission to our show. there were also 4 turn aways from other shows that made reservations for our show. add that up, we have 1 extra seat. also, there were universal vip tickets out there, which means, pages go to universal studios and try to push our shows. if the people show up, they get priority admission too, but we get low turn out on those, so i don't remember what the number was. then the audience coordinator called and took 5 more seats! so i'm about to check in the tickets, a bunch of VERY angry people who aren't getting in. coworker 1 comes around the corner and crazy fan (they really call her "crazy _____", btw) yells out "i saw the group paperwork on coworker 1's clipboard, check us in!" they said they have 13 people, which is allowed, because we let our groups bring up to 5 over and still get in, or get paid, if they're getting paid. we tell everyone they're on standby, but the regulars seem to ignore me like it doesn't apply to them or something. first the group from phoenix shows up with 8 and says they're waiting on 2 more cars, one with 4 people, one with 2. so they're 1 short, but we still have too many people. the bus usually loads at the front of the line, this week the bus driver decides she wants to hang out at the end of the street, and we'll walk the people down to her. this really bugged crazy fan. looking back it was probably better this way, people always try to force their way on the bus, as if that makes a seat open up for them at stage if they manage to get on the bus. anyway, we're standing around waiting for this 6 people to show, and i think my boss probably said that as soon as they're there she'd put them on the bus. so of course if my boss said that crazy fan heard it, because you can't take a deep breath without her listening in. all of a sudden the group leader walks up to my boss, i was standing right there at the time, and says "the red headed lady wanted me to remind you that their group was here first, they get priority." she look scared. she tried to whisper so crazy fan wouldn't hear. my boss' phone rang then, because we had already told the office we were going to turn the regulars away, and they were calling back to say it was ok. she told them that and they got upset that she was saying that to our other audience members. so we put the phoenix group on the bus, and then the other group was supposed to arrive on a school bus at 4:30. so at 4:32 coworker 1 decides to put the regulars on the bus. unfortunately when i went down there to help i saw that the school bus was behind our shuttle bus because they street wasn't wide enough for them to pass it. so they were there on time! with 23 people! so at 4:37 we had to take the regulars off the bus! i offered to do it, but then coworker 1 didn't want to deal with high school brats, so i did that and she got them off the bus, poor girl. when they were getting of the bus the fat one with a mullet pretended to trip, grabbed my butt and then patted my thigh to apologize. one of the high school kids asked if she just smacked my thigh, i sort of eeped out a little "yes". so at this point crazy fan is going apeshit. meanwhile, we've told them that it doesn't mean they're not getting in, it just means that they're not going up on the first shuttle. at this point we started to see a separation in their group. there were 6 people from florida who crazy fan had refered to as out of relatives from out of town, then later guests from out of town... they started to ask a lot of questions, and coworker 1 and coworker 2 really felt horrible because it was obvious that they were ticketholders that had joined the group thinking that crazy fan could get them in. now i will explain: ever since the first episode of the show we've had complaints from audience members who have gotten there earlier than crazy fan. they say she calls them names, in a few cases threatened them and in one case hit someone. apparently she likes to be first in line. whenever we load the buses if anyone gets on before crazy fan they tend to go to the back of the bus. crazy fan will push and shove to be first on the bus. a few weeks ago we had 2 large groups, so crazy fan and co. had to sit in the middle of the bus, they were so pissed off at us for "doing that to them". another thing is, all groups agree to a set of rules. probably one of the biggest one is, you can't poach people from the line. you book your group based on the size you're expecting, then we give out tickets based on the remaining seats. for one thing, paid groups can't pull ticket holders out of the line and get paid for them. at a lot of studios we get a list of names a few days before anyways, so it's impossible. another reason is that group members and ticket holders are accounted for, and if people are double counted it's harder to fill an audience. it's not about their right to show up every week and see the show, it's about us bringing in the audience the producers want. that means age bracket, ehtnic makeup (sometimes), people who will laugh at the jokes. we've always suspected that crazy fan poaches tickets, but we can't prove it. most weeks when they have tickets every regular will check in with a ticket for 6 people, but they're usually alone or have one other person with them. they post on the internet that all you have to do is show up and come to the front of the line and they'll get you in. so back to my story now ;) this separation starts to appear, and coworker 1 and coworker 2 ask me if i think i can find out of these 6 people have tickets. they didn't think it was fair that they got their first, and because they joined crazy fan's group they weren't going to get in, where, if they hadn't, they've be first in the ticket line. so i walk up behind one and say, "if you have tickets, meet me at the back of the line, i'll see what i can do." so we get back there and this story comes out that they're actually 2 separate parties who met up there that moring and then crazy fan showed up and lied to them and said it would be better to join her group. they were mad, they yelled out "that lady scammed us with the story about her disabled child!" so i told them if they took their car and left the garage and came back in 10 minutes i'd revalidate their parking and see if i could get them up closer to the front of the line. so they tell me they don't have a car. at this point they're pretty well hidden at the back of the line, but crazy fan is calling anyone in the office who will listen to her, and the others are swarming around freaking out. then the fat onw with a mullet starts to yell "we're only 7 people now, can we go in now!" so i say "no." then i sneak back to the end of the line and get the 6 people's cell phone number. they hid out in the upper level of the pakring garage waiting for my call. next 2 older people split of from crazy fan and co and show me a universal vip ticket. which means they were at universal either yesterday or today and got this ticket. so i play dumb and say "i don't understand, why were you in a group if you had a priority ticket?" and they were saying that they were always in the group, and blah blah, they just took the ticket because it said the name of our show (it doesn't work like that, btw.) so i start saying "i'm confused, it is IMPOSSIBLE to get a universal vip ticket if you're already listed as a member of a group." so finally the older lady admits that they were there early today and joined the group in line because crazy fan told them she could get them in. i apologized that she did them such a disservice and said that i'd check and see if it was still possible to get universal vips in. she tells me not to tell anyone, she doesn't want to get crazy fan in trouble. i thought to myself "she's digging her own grave." then this other sort of fringe regular comes down and says to me she has a ticket for 3 people. i tell her that i'll put her at the end of the line now, but i'll have to ask my boss when crazy fan gets off the phone if i did the right thing. so i tell her that i can only check in 3 people, she should tell me which 2 she wants to bring, to avoid problems. she says "well, crazy fan and..." she's thinking for awhile and i say "are you afraid not to take crazy fan?" and so goes "oh yeah!" i leave her and the vips at the end of the line, and go back up to hear crazy fan yelling on the phone and then she says "sylvia (someone in the office) says that we can join the ticket line." then she turns to her other 3 people and tells them "they better not put us at the back of the line." i was thinking that the very least they could do was WAIT at the end of the line, so we don't have to displace 50 other people and explain that we're letting people but in line at this point. they go to the back of the line to get their other people. i'm slowly walking down there to check them in, and i see the older couple turn to crazy fan and start to say something, so i start running and i interrupt and yell "universal vip list is still open, go check in at the front of the line!" so now every time i go down the line to check more people in or keep people updated crazy fan is telling me how much she hates our group organizers and how angry she is and blah blah. and i find myself lying saying i don't know any of them and coming up with all these stories about company policy. (sidenote: i had a birthday party last night with group organizers there). at this point we get the call to send 6 people. i ask my boss if i can send the 6 people hiding in the garage, and she says yes. so coworker 1 goes and gets on the bus and explains what's going on, so the driver can pull up and block the entrance to the parking garage. i call the guy and go in to the garage and we walked up the center aisle so crazy fan wouldn't see them. at this point they're thanking me and saying they'll write a letter to the office telling them what crazy fan did. if i write they'll sign anything. and of course, happy birthday. ;) when we go to the entrance, my boss, coworker 2 and i stood inbetween a tree and the bus door, and they had to crawl behind us and climb on the bus! coworker 2 said "this is like the von trapp family leaving austria." then, we get a call from stage saying there's only 42 seats left, but they're all still taped off for production. so now because the regulars are 50 something in line, i get to go turn them away. so of course i take my time out of sight preparing all of the turn away stuff, so hopefully i can go down there and hand this stuff out easier. unfortunately they refused to leave AGAIN. now they're latched on to this poor girl who just flew in, alone, from the uk the night before. she was a single person, so i kept her around because most of the time we end up with 1 more seat and a party of 4 at the front of the line. so now they say that it's not safe for her to take a cab home (even though she took a cab there), so they're going to give her a ride home. coworker 2 started freaking out going "jenny, do something, we'll never hear from this girl again!" so i basically tore her away from them and put her on the bus ahead of 40 other people just to get rid of them. they went to their cars, but 15 minutes later crazy fan came and handed me a box of girl scout cookies for my birthday. coworker 1 and i were afraid to eat them, so we passed them out to everyone we turned away. then later that night when we were leaving, at almost 10:00, we noticed that their cars were still parked next to ours. freaky. finally, this morning my boss comes in to work and she had an email, alledgedly from crazy fan's niece from florida, who wanted to complain about being turned away last night. she wanted us to know how poorly crazy fan was treated after this niece left. apparently she knew everything that was said on the phone TO crazy fan AFTER she had gone to the niece had gone to the parking garage to leave. also, apparently she was very upset that she got turned away, even though we managed to get 8 of their 13 people in. all 8 non-regulars. they sure had me fooled, seeing as how the 6 that were younger than crazy fan (i'm assuming that the 60-something woman isn't crazy fan's (who's in her late 30s) niece.), all 6 of them thanked me personally every time i walked by them all night. hugged me when i helped them get autographs after the show, and sang happy birthday to me at the end of the night. i'm assuming those people didn't write a nasty long winded email about how poorly they were treated and how horrible our company is. whew, so that was long winded too. it was fun though. ;) posted by Jenny on 4/02/2003 01:56:00 PM |
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