Parties, interviews and karting

What's been happening? A few things, I guess. My Squeezebox is still going fabulous. I attended an 18th birthday part y on Saturday night for Vanessa, one of the girls in 42nd Street. The theme was "come as your favourite musicals character, or else". Well, I ummed and arrred for ages about this one. I mean, how many male musical characters don't simply wear a suit? Or casual clothes? What male character has a distinctive look?

Franknfurter, that's who.

Pics to come :p

Was a good party. Have discovered that high heels make your calves look very sexy. Even if they hurt like hell. Almost broke my ankle trying them on in the sex shop where I bought them. Didn't fancy my chances of hiring size 12 high heels.. *laugh* Oh well, guess I'll flog them off to the next tall drag queen I see :)

I certainly got a lot of attention at the party. For those of you who don't know me, I'm 6'3". I'm not sure how big the heels were, I'd say about 5 inch? Bloody big. People didn't recognise me because of the extra height. Or the outfit, or the makeup. I have this to say though, *thank god* I didn't recognise myself after putting on the makeup and wig.

I met Vanessa's best friend Annie at her place (she lives next door) to prepare.. Annie went to the party as Colombia (also from Rocky Horror) so it was a good match. She helped me with the makeup and the styling. I think we did pretty well.. *laugh* My first time in drag.. Lets also say it's the last! *grin*

The party was good, was excellent to catch up with cast members again. Even if I will see most of them this Friday when we go together to see Jesus Christ Superstar. Lets see, who was there. Sydney came as his alter-ego "Paige". That made two of us in heels. The birthday girl was Sally Bowles, from Cabaret, and a very good one, too. That was going to be my second choice of costume.. *grin* Rowan was Cosmo from Singing in the Rain.. Shelly the witch from Into the Woods, Sebastian was the Phantom.. Although I only saw him his outfit once because it was too hot apparently. He should try wearing a wig and surgeon's gown! And as Seb does at cast parties, he got quite drunk. What a sweet guy, really, drunk or sober. Very sweet. Gorgeous too, but that only adds to his sweetness... *grin* Who else.. oh, we had Josie and the Pussycats, Mamma Mia, Hair, people from all sorts of shows.

What else happened.. Oh, I had a job interview at NRG Flinders, a utilities company here in South Australia. They sell their electricity on the national market, or something. They're one of the resulting companies when our government energy provider split up. It'd be a good job, I think, being the only web developer. There are VB programmers and a couple of Oracle DBAs, but my role would be the development of the intranets. Sounds good, and the guys I met at the interview seemed really nice. I never know how to conduct myself in interviews anymore, I think gone are the days of yes sir no sir, just like they teach you at school. The interviews I go to seem more like chats with friends and colleagues. I think that's important, though, it enables them to work out if they'd actually like working with you, rather than just if you can do the job or not. And if they've half a clue about the technologies involved, they can tell you know what you're doing just by the way you talk about stuff you've done. Much more important than having a ton of acronyms on a resume. I think they want someone fulltime, I'm only available part-time, so I guess I'll see how it goes.

Oh! Oh! I'm going karting again tonight! Time to come last again! *laughing* Last year, I went with Craig and a bunch of workmates to karting, where we had 4 races of 15 laps or something. I came last, go me! *laugh* I wouldn't have come last expect for one shitty situation. I tell this to everyone as justification, you decide :p Here's what happened. Basically, if you came last in a race, you ended up at the start of the grid for the next race. So basically, the second race I was up near the front (I didn't come last in the first race), so I finished the second race reasonably ok. It's a tight track, so it's hard to overtake. Anyway, it's the last race, and Alex & I are stuck at the front of the grid, based on coming last and second to last in the previous race. So we're holding the front of the pack for like 90% of the race. I was going to come first. It was all set. Then some guy comes up behind me and going around a corner, shoves me into the wall. And all of a sudden we've got a pileup! Alex keeps going, and the rest of us are stuck, and I'm embedded between the wall and the rest of the drivers. So the stewards come out, wave the yellow flag, and then straighten out all the cars. Who do they straighten out first? The bastard that shoved me into the wall. And because I was the most stuck, I was straightened out last. So what position did I come? Last. From first to last, and all because that bastard shoved me into the wall. It would have only been fair to have put us all back at the positions we were before the crash, but there you have it. Last.

I'm going to play much more aggressive tonight. If that guy is there.. then.. grrrrr