Entries this day: AM GET_Olympics GET_charity_auction Rockin_boat Sparty

AM

8:22am EAT Monday 23 January 2006

Good morning!

GET Olympics

12:19pm EAT Monday 23 January 2006

GET Olympics were pretty darn fun today! Kellie and I were the yellow team, Yellow Monkeys!, so I tied a tail to my shorts, and at one point during the events, we were in second place. But we lost one of the charades, "Ironing Clothes," so that probably knocked us back some.

I was quick to jump into the pool afterwards; the waves were really rockin' and fun fun fun!

Needed to get ready for Charity Auction, so I jumped out of the pool pretty soon thereafter.

GET charity auction

5:19pm EAT Monday 23 January 2006

Planning the GET Charity Auction for tonight; Matt is stressed (as Audrey was before the 49th) so I hope it goes well (as the 49th did).

Dan and I will be doing the Suite with Bath skit with blue streamers for water and me in a towel getting into the bath after pouring water on myself and he'll dump water out when I get in. Sheer genius!

Phil had the great idea of shaving our chests for money, so Phil, Carl and I are in on that. If we raise 5000 yen, I will let someone shave my chest; if we raise 10,000 yen Carl and I will be shaved, and 15000 yen means all three of us will be shaved. Carl is a bit confused about how we got pulled into this thing and are getting shaved before Phil, but I'm sure we'll raise the money....

For the skit, Carl and I are wearing wigs on our chests. Phil will wear a whiteboard with hair drawn on it, and with an eraser it will be shaved while he's onstage.

Last, we are part of the Date with boys from a room, with three rooms "competing.".. The highest bid gets first choice, and the mid bid gets second choice, and the third bid can pull out if they want, I guess. I don't actually think we can say the second highest bid gets second choice, cause the two highest bidders could be both interested in the same room.

Anyway, I will be dressed as the Sheik, with Dan and Carl as my poker-faced body guards.

11:14pm EAT Monday 23 January 2006

The auction was great! We raised $4400 today! About $2000 with a raffle of about 10 prizes and then $2400 with all the rest of the goodies. For some reason, the GET and CC girls went for $170 while a choice of 3 or 4 guys went for $210. How crazy is that? I think people were just dissuaded by what the hizzle to do with a date with 16 girls.

The chest shaving thing was painfully nervewracking that Phil was going to get away unshaved, leaving me and Carl smooth like buttah. I begged people to pay and then fell flat on my face when it looked like we were sunk, but then I heard a chorus of cheers as someone bid the next increment to $150 for all three! I jumped up with joy and ran offstage, throwing my wig down and shouting with glee .... Yeahhhhhhhh!!!!

CC Rie made that winning bid; she specified that I am hers to shave.

The Sheik and two body guards were not selected as the guy date, so I'm glad we're off the hook for that one.

Rockin boat

7:19pm EAT Monday 23 January 2006

The ship is going through some lovely waves today! The wind is brusk, and the waves are tall, with lots of spray flying around. Good times!

We're closing in on the Cape of Good Hope as we go into Cape Town.

Sparty

11:23pm EAT Monday 23 January 2006

There's a Sparty going on now on top deck. I'm not going to hit the hot tub, but I'll go up there and chat with peeps.

1:17am EAT Tuesday 24 January 2006

12:18am SAST Tuesday 24 January 2006

Switched timezones, to South Africa Standard Time, perhaps.

Sparty was cancelled due to weather. We are rocking nicely.

Went upstairs to 波へ and sat with Carla, Yuki, and next to Rei. Too tired to get all the details, but we played hand frog games (make a frog face with hands) as per Rei's suggestion, and threw french fries and ate a lot of cheesecake. Well, they did. I ate only a half-bite of Rei's cheesecake.

Oh, and I explained why our note looked like a form letter.

Searched for a piano for Rei to play, but Broadway was in use, and the Windjammer piano was in use, and the Hemingway piano can't be used without JG permission.

Saw Stacy as we were headed off to our neighborhood and he told us that when it's reallly rocky, the front of the ship lands in the water and we can feel the shockwave rush through the entire ship. That sounds awesome.

I waved them goodnight and as I was basically ready to get into bed, I heard Carl come to the hood and he went into their room.

I couldn't stay away, and went over as well; found Carla's reply to our form letter.

Fuckin' hell, my brain has got to get more sleep; this is slipping down an emotionally dangerous slope for me.