15 Minutes of Fame 8/26/2001
I actually did something I wouldn't normally do...I promised myself that for once during this weekend, I would do something John or Rebecca or Dad might do. I volunteered to go up on stage tonight. This might not sound big to you guys, but it absolutely terrified me. There was this guy who was performing a "hypnosis" act. Basically, all of these events are planned out for the first weekend for freshmen. Anyway, He picked me and about 30 other people. Basically it was all bullshit...at least the people around me were faking it. He made us pretend we were in a spaceship and the G-force was pressing us back. This really big guy next to me knocked back his chair for special effect--unforutnately, he also knocked back mine. At first I was embarrassed, but then I just started laughing with the audience. He made us pretend we were doing a performance act with Will Smith (I was a back-up dancer/singer). We were on a tv show and had to show off our pets that could do a special act. I had a man-eating koala. Unfortunately, the guy who was supposed to help me out didn't really hear what my pet was, so the audience didn't really laugh. I felt kinda bad because one of Linda's quasi- boyfriends told me I had made a fool of myself up there.
I hurried back to my dorm and shut the door, figuring I had embarrassed myself. Linda came in with this guy, saying I had a fan. He asked me if I was pretending that I was hypnotized or if was real. A girl and another guy also came by asking if i was faking it. They told me they liked my koala act. It was really cool. I didn't make friends with these people, but it gave me a topic to talk about. For a few minutes I was no longer just Linda's roommate...at least not in the eyes of three people on my floor. I'm the funny girl with a man-eating koala.
Linda met a guy named Eric...he's gorgeous. She just said "hi" to him walking up the steps, and he told her to sit down and chill with him. Do you know how many people I've said hello to? It gets depressing. I was supposed to meet this girl, Evelyn tonight for dinner. I met her this afternoon during my student peer advising meeting. She was in my group. She helped me get my books, she chilled out with me in the cafeteria, etc. I stopped by her room later and asked her if she wanted to come to the freshmen picnic with me. She said she'd meet me in the lobby at 6. By a quarter after, I ended up leaving with Linda and her quasi-boyfriend. He was nice enough, but I felt like a third wheel. I asked Linda in the bathroom if I was interrupting her date...she said not at all and that I was more than wlecome to stay. We hung out by the Newhouse Building picking on cliquey people, especially the girls. When we coming back to the dorm after the show, I just felt like I was invading...I said a quick good-bye and they hardly looked up. I know eventually I will find my own place (hopefully). At this moment, however, I don't have one, and that's hard to deal with, especially since I'm up here by myself.
I gtg, I'm feeling pretty sleepy....
g'night internet world...
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