Turns out she also is like... the only one other person on the entire planet that loves the CATS musical as much as I do. NO ONE ever in my life has looked at me the way she did when I told her that I used to roleplay in an AOL chatroom back in the day called The Jellicle Junkyard. It was a rare and special, once in a lifetime, bonding moment. No longer will I face the cruel injustices of condescending, pity written stares from friend and foe alike over my love for Plato's super hot scene with Victoria during the mating dance.
Josh said he could rip a copy of my DVD for her. When I got home from work today I saw a dvd box on my desk with this one it.
It's probably the greatest thing in existence. I want this in massive poster form.
LOOK AT MUNKUSGRUMPYTRAP
He did this and it's the most amazing thing ever. Lauren I'm sorry I spoiled it for you but I couldn't hold it back. The world must know
This exists.
We headed out and it was about a 45 minute drive to get there. There being the ASL (American Sign Language) class she suggested I go with her to check out. Said so many amazing things about it. I have another friend, Kyrie, who also took an ASL class. She taught me a few things and I always thought it was very pretty to watch. It makes me think of the Drows' secret language that they use with each other when under pressing circumstances. They signal each other secretly with finger flicks and graceful hand flourishes to even just plan a kill. Drow are the shit like that. And that to me makes ASL even cooler.
HOW CUTE IS IT WHEN TWO BEST FRIENDS HAVE THEIR OWN CODED LANGUAGE THAT THEY WRITE TO EACH OTHER WITH?? I did that in Jr High. It was short lived, but felt special.
At first, not gonna lie, I was a nervous wreck. Having not been on a
campus or in a classroom in several years, my anxiety started to kick in
and I couldn't even look at Lauren to talk to her. So I resorted to
texting just to not draw attention to us. Ugh.
She kept reassuring me that it would be okay, and that the students are probably way more nervous because they'd have to get up and do things in front of the class.
She was right.
I fell in love with the class. It is lectured by a husband and wife. Husband is deaf, but is an excellent teacher. Wife is of hearing, and also the translator. He is hilarious, and the way he goes into explaining "why" and the origins is so great. From the moment she entered the classroom she had a smile on her face the entire time. It was a 3 hours class I think? The students there had to stand up in front of the class in pairs to interpret and sign sentences for a test. They would give a thumbs up or down at the other's signing, gauging how well they did. I learned a lot! They are such phenomenal teachers. Lauren was a student of theirs. Watching her go back and forth with Peter and Margaret was mesmerizing. I'm envious. What a beautiful way to communicate.
After class Lauren and I stayed a little after to sit down and 'chat.' OH MY GOD The topic of Vic Morrow's death came up. Now... I'm not fluent in ASL but... LOL. My jaw dropped and Lauren exclaimed in laughter "that's so morbid!!!"
Margaret had (I'm guessing) signaled a helicopter with her right hand coming in towards her head with her fingers spread out and kind of wiggling, right at her neck and did a slicing motion really fast up the side of her neck. Peter was like YUP. VIC MORROW.
It was getting kinda late-ish so we said our goodbyes. All smiles and happy feelings and stuff ^_^
They glow together with such a happy, positive energy. And this is coming from the most bitter person ever. They're great. And I'm looking forward to the next time Lauren goes to visit them again.
Thank you so much Margaret and Peter, and Lauren. And Kyrie for introducing me to ASL.
Because of Kyrie I had a little bit of understanding and could follow somethings :)
Afterwards, we were super hungry so we stopped by a nearby Denny's. Unfortunately... my work schedule cut our late dinner short, but we stuffed our faces well. They have blueberry cheesecake smoothies!!! Next time. :D
mmmpf.
Today when I got home I had gotten yet another gift package in the mail.
As much as I love the gesture of giving and doing nice things for those you care about, I'm easy to overwhelm with such things and had to put a cease to it. Getting gifts in the mail as much as I was getting was overwhelming me and making me uncomfortable. I once saw this video on youtube from my favorite youtuber Dodger, and she worded perfectly how I feel towards receiving too many gifts. But this was pretty awesome to open up and get.
It's one of those Japanese make-your-own-candy kits. SO AWESOME. There's a youtuber that has loads of videos unboxing and preparing them. I wanna try them all, lol. So this gift was especially awesome. ^_^ Thank you, anonymous gifty giver person!
I'll probably open it up tomorrow. But I also kinda wanna share the experience with someone else. Maybe next time I go to Little Tokyo I'll get a bunch of these and do an unboxing of them all with someone on video. :D
Also, one last thing. I'm cleaning out my closet and getting rid of some clothes!! So I put up some listings for people to check out.
It's just cute stuff. Like this top :P
OK IT'S BURRITO TIME
So who were you in the Yard? I spent a few years there as Silla the kitten. Was googling the name Junkyard AOL Chat for fun and found this blog!
ReplyDeleteHow awesome! I RP'd as Etcetera. Never came around to making my own character, but there was this other girl named Erin who would role Mungojerry and we'd 'hang out' a lot. XD
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