I just want to know today

Whenever I can, I have been working catering events in my downtime. Other than everyone saying the events are occurring less than last year, the events don't seem to display the signs of economic turmoil. As women run around department stores, grabbing sparkling wine out of my outstretched hand and lumbering out of the event bogged down by shopping bags, some people are obviously still spending.

And THEN there was the event I did Saturday.
"WHOA!"
"What?"
"Did you see that girl fly off one of the electronic bulls?" pointing at the huge screen of the stadium.
The electric bullS...between the ice skating rink making fake snow and the ferris wheel, behind the four band stages and next to one of the four dining tents.

Happy Holidays to those employees I guess.

One of my coworker's fiance is a glassblowing artist. So yesterday a bunch of us headed to the middle of nowhere in San Francisco to hang out with furnaces and torches and molten hot glass. All of us are pretty used to being in environments where burns are easily acquired (evidenced by the beautiful badges of honor lining my forearms), but sitting at a bench with a spinning glob of burnyourskinoff got all of our adrenaline pumping. I think I said, "That was so much fun!!" about 20 times on our drive back to Berkeley.