i am back

ok, so i didn't really go anywhere. i am still in china. we just have the worst internet ever and getting online is way more frustrating then trying to communicate with someone who doesn't speak english. i have yelled at my computer. i of course then apilogized to my computer, it's not her fault. yes my computer is a she. her name is suzie. i am sober right now too.

so i went to see the terra cotta warriors here in xian. they are 2200 years old. lots of dust. someday if i figure out how to post pictures on this thing you'll be able to see them too. the first site was as big as 3 football fields full of restored warriors. each one is different. it was very interesting to say the least, but once you've seen 20, you can say you've seen them all. and of course at a huge historical site there were peddlers trying to sell us everything. ugh. can i just look at a great piece of chinese history, and you not try to sell me some weird fruit. i mean really. i also have pictures of the dog pelts they were trying to sell. yes my dog lovin' friends i said dog pelts. it was so disturbing. i know one was a german shepard. disturbing.
the audience loves us here in xian. pronounced she-on. standing ovations even. we load out tonight. yea us. smell that? it's sarcasm.

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UNION

oh and i would just like to say for the record, I AM in full support of the I.A.T.S.E.'s strike in the city. GO UNION!!!

and those are today's political opinions...
thank you

work

so if you hadn't noticed, i try to talk minamally about my job. i do that because after awhile it's boring to hear about what i do for a living, but now is the time. we have a group of 12 people from beijing who have been traveling and working with us in china. they are our "locals". they all know the show, and speak chinese, and very little, to no english. so here we are in beijing, and we just got done with our load-in. load-in typicallly takes 2 days. one of my jobs is to get the pit ready for our band guy to come in and set up. the conductors podium needs to be a certain height for our tiny conductor to be able to see the stage. he's short. anyway, i was standing on his platform trying to figure out what we needed to do to make it taller. my beijing guy was watching me. without any words, we had an entire conversation of what needed to happen. he knew that the platform had to be higher. so i found a piano stool and put it on the existing platform and stood on it, which he watched me do. then without any measuring, off he went and within an hour had built me a platform for the conductor that was the perfect size. it was kind-of amazing. he and i don't even use an interpreter anymore. it's a bother to both of us. and of course he is one of the 2 guys we are loosing at the end of beijing. figures.
so that's my work talk, boring i know, but a little insight to what i do.

i am off to either the forbidden city, or tian'anmen square this afternoon. woo-hoo, history.

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3 a.m. ish

my union is on strike. holy crap. it's monumental. and where am i? china. figures. my union is making history today, and i am in china. in china. good luck my iatse brothers and sisters. i support you.

oh my

2 blogs in one day
i just realized at 3 in the morning i can, in fact, read the comments my peeps have left for me.
i laughed out loud a whole lot.
thank you for reading my dumb shit.
love to all.

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wow

i sure did just spend 2 hours roller skating, around a bar in cheenay. can you top that? i get paid for this shit.