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Feb. 1st, 2004 12:01 amKu'u home. It's always nice to come back, because by the time vacation is over, I'm usually homesick. (Shouldn't they call it "awaysick?" Isn't coming home the cure for it? I think that when you really need a vacation, then you should say you're "homesick." But anyway.)
Today was a long day. Started with early Hula class with Kawehi, reviewing Hopoe from last week, and then a bunch of things that his halau knows inside and out, but which I have never seen before. So I was just trying to go along with it as the very sweet lady in front of me called out the steps to me. Then the guy next to me started to mess me up with this one part where, apparently, we switch sides. He would start to come my way and I'd start to kaholo the same way and he'd go, "No, you have to be the wave." Six times he told me this without explaining what the hell I was actually supposed to do. After we'd gone through the sone three times, then he explained it to me and then said, "But, that's okay, don't worry that you didn't get it right." Which made me wonder how I was supposed to get right something that I don't even know the wrong way to do. The next bunch of dances were partnered (that's different!) and he surprised me very much by putting his very cold hands on me during the wedding song. Umm, hello!
The rest of the class was great, and I got to chat Kawehi and Auntie again for a while, and then learned that, not only does Auntie have her own CD out ( O_O ) but that one of my favorite songs on the loop is actually her singing. Again with the O_O ! She's such an angel.
Then we stopped off at Epcot for a while and I got to see the dolphins at the Living Seas, which led me to this very involved and morbid imagining about what would happen if--heaven forbid--my plane crashed in the ocean. In the first version, I saved myself (I usually do,) and convinced myself that dolphins had been involved, even though they hadn't. In the second version, I discovered that I could turn into a dolphin, but that once I had, I had to stay that way. However (it was my morbid imagining,) there was a camera crew and I could say goodbye to my family and let them see that I had survived and was happy. In the next version, everyone died and I had decided that I would come back in my next life in feudal Japan as a beautiful girl, and that beauty would be the one thing I didn't have to worry about, because a hot or interesting guy would love me. (Blame Blade Of The Immortal for that one. I want the "good guys" to win, okay, but that pre-dawn scene between Anotsu and Hisoka [*snicker*] was something else, wasn't it?) (*Still snickering over Anotsu and Hisoka. Anotsu. Hisoka. *giggle*)
Vacation was mostly wonderful. Bur for one thing, it might have been perfect. Well, okay, maybe it wouldn't have, what with all the obnoxiously rude people, but then, what would a vacation be without obnoxiously rude people?
And speaking of which, this little chick on the airplane tonight. Holy Christ. She was 8 or 9, thereabouts, and way too old to be doing this kind of thing. First of all, she was screaming--screaming that she wasn't ready to get on the plane. Not out of fear of flying, but because she just didn't feel like it yet. Her mother was hushing her, but very gently, and the little girl started screaming at her mother: "Don't you tell me to stop screaming! Stop being mean to me! You're a liar and you're mean! I hate you!" and all of this. When I say this girl was screaming, I mean that the whole terminal kind of stopped and went "WTF?!" This went on for about twenty minutes. "I hate you!" "I have a headache!" "My throat hurts!" "Daddy, tell Mommy to stop being mean!" And they were coddling her over it. Meanwhile they also had a little boy who was about four, and he was as quiet as could be. Then the little girl starts with, "Stop staring at me!" I figured she was screaming at her mother, then she came out with, "Daddy, I want those people tp stop staring at me! YOU! Stop staring at me!" I couldn't believe a little child would scream at strangers like that. By now, this other little girl who was about her age had looked over. She was so shocked that she didn't seem to know how to react, and she was looking at her parents like, "WTF kind of a child is this?" She looked absolutely mystified. Then she just started giggling in that "I can't quite believe what I'm witnessing, so I'm going to giggle" sort of way.
Well about a half an hour later (all the while with the screaming,) we boarded the plane. The screamer and her family were pre-boarded, and sitting close to the front, the good seats that everyone wants. The entire row in front of them was empty, and I heard the mother saying, "Wow, no one wants to sit in front of us. I wonder why." This gets the girl started again with the "shut up" and "stop being mean" and then, as we passed their seat, she starts wailing, "I want my voice back! Daddy, I want my voice back!"
Parenting skills. I ask you.
The rest of the flight was uneventful. My aunt and uncle picked Stace and I up at the airport and dropped me off at home after I had gotten us all lost in my own town by directing my uncle to take the wrong exit. Jesus. Then we had some late dinner, and my aunt and uncle went outside and started to dig my car out of the snow for me. O_O So I shoved my salad in the fridge and joined them. There was a lot of snow, but it was the light, fluffy kind, and all told, it only took twenty minutes. So that's one less thing I have to worry about tomorrow when I go and pick my crew (Trisky, Sano, Pendragon) up from work.
Pendragon's blood work all came back lovely, thank ya very much.
Well, and that's that, and now I'm going to bed. But first... Anotsu and Hisoka sittin' in a tree... Aww, never mind.
Today was a long day. Started with early Hula class with Kawehi, reviewing Hopoe from last week, and then a bunch of things that his halau knows inside and out, but which I have never seen before. So I was just trying to go along with it as the very sweet lady in front of me called out the steps to me. Then the guy next to me started to mess me up with this one part where, apparently, we switch sides. He would start to come my way and I'd start to kaholo the same way and he'd go, "No, you have to be the wave." Six times he told me this without explaining what the hell I was actually supposed to do. After we'd gone through the sone three times, then he explained it to me and then said, "But, that's okay, don't worry that you didn't get it right." Which made me wonder how I was supposed to get right something that I don't even know the wrong way to do. The next bunch of dances were partnered (that's different!) and he surprised me very much by putting his very cold hands on me during the wedding song. Umm, hello!
The rest of the class was great, and I got to chat Kawehi and Auntie again for a while, and then learned that, not only does Auntie have her own CD out ( O_O ) but that one of my favorite songs on the loop is actually her singing. Again with the O_O ! She's such an angel.
Then we stopped off at Epcot for a while and I got to see the dolphins at the Living Seas, which led me to this very involved and morbid imagining about what would happen if--heaven forbid--my plane crashed in the ocean. In the first version, I saved myself (I usually do,) and convinced myself that dolphins had been involved, even though they hadn't. In the second version, I discovered that I could turn into a dolphin, but that once I had, I had to stay that way. However (it was my morbid imagining,) there was a camera crew and I could say goodbye to my family and let them see that I had survived and was happy. In the next version, everyone died and I had decided that I would come back in my next life in feudal Japan as a beautiful girl, and that beauty would be the one thing I didn't have to worry about, because a hot or interesting guy would love me. (Blame Blade Of The Immortal for that one. I want the "good guys" to win, okay, but that pre-dawn scene between Anotsu and Hisoka [*snicker*] was something else, wasn't it?) (*Still snickering over Anotsu and Hisoka. Anotsu. Hisoka. *giggle*)
Vacation was mostly wonderful. Bur for one thing, it might have been perfect. Well, okay, maybe it wouldn't have, what with all the obnoxiously rude people, but then, what would a vacation be without obnoxiously rude people?
And speaking of which, this little chick on the airplane tonight. Holy Christ. She was 8 or 9, thereabouts, and way too old to be doing this kind of thing. First of all, she was screaming--screaming that she wasn't ready to get on the plane. Not out of fear of flying, but because she just didn't feel like it yet. Her mother was hushing her, but very gently, and the little girl started screaming at her mother: "Don't you tell me to stop screaming! Stop being mean to me! You're a liar and you're mean! I hate you!" and all of this. When I say this girl was screaming, I mean that the whole terminal kind of stopped and went "WTF?!" This went on for about twenty minutes. "I hate you!" "I have a headache!" "My throat hurts!" "Daddy, tell Mommy to stop being mean!" And they were coddling her over it. Meanwhile they also had a little boy who was about four, and he was as quiet as could be. Then the little girl starts with, "Stop staring at me!" I figured she was screaming at her mother, then she came out with, "Daddy, I want those people tp stop staring at me! YOU! Stop staring at me!" I couldn't believe a little child would scream at strangers like that. By now, this other little girl who was about her age had looked over. She was so shocked that she didn't seem to know how to react, and she was looking at her parents like, "WTF kind of a child is this?" She looked absolutely mystified. Then she just started giggling in that "I can't quite believe what I'm witnessing, so I'm going to giggle" sort of way.
Well about a half an hour later (all the while with the screaming,) we boarded the plane. The screamer and her family were pre-boarded, and sitting close to the front, the good seats that everyone wants. The entire row in front of them was empty, and I heard the mother saying, "Wow, no one wants to sit in front of us. I wonder why." This gets the girl started again with the "shut up" and "stop being mean" and then, as we passed their seat, she starts wailing, "I want my voice back! Daddy, I want my voice back!"
Parenting skills. I ask you.
The rest of the flight was uneventful. My aunt and uncle picked Stace and I up at the airport and dropped me off at home after I had gotten us all lost in my own town by directing my uncle to take the wrong exit. Jesus. Then we had some late dinner, and my aunt and uncle went outside and started to dig my car out of the snow for me. O_O So I shoved my salad in the fridge and joined them. There was a lot of snow, but it was the light, fluffy kind, and all told, it only took twenty minutes. So that's one less thing I have to worry about tomorrow when I go and pick my crew (Trisky, Sano, Pendragon) up from work.
Pendragon's blood work all came back lovely, thank ya very much.
Well, and that's that, and now I'm going to bed. But first... Anotsu and Hisoka sittin' in a tree... Aww, never mind.
