glow in the dark

ok, normally i'm not into google dances, but this year was definitely an exception. firstly, the theme was glow in the dark - which is cool regardless - but it wasn't just the name of the theme - everything glowed in the dark! my staff teeshirt, for example glows in the dark, so that as i'm sitting here writing this blog entry in the dark because it's 1am, the STAFF on the back of my shirt glows. AND not only that, the totally tasteful colored square design on the front also has a glow in the dark design on it - and all the shirts were different!

i signed up to hand out teeshirts, and even though i had to spend most of my time saying no sorry we're out of small shirts sorry all we have is 2xl :( no i can't give you an alcohol wristband without id, i loved it and was totally good at it. even the skater dude who complained for a solid five minutes about how we always run out of smalls too early and how it's ridiculous that we order so many large sizes ran into me again towards the end of the night to say thank you for doing my job. aww it pays to stay cheerful with people!

and the game stuff they had scattered around was cool too - the digital caricaturists were really good and they had this laser graffiti thing and a giant rock band station with stage lights so the people playing looked like proper rockstars and glow in the dark schwag alllll over.

so let me back up. i worked the teeshirt booth then was Starving and waited in the long line for food and some random guy comes up to me saying ..is your name lisa..? ...and did you live in... And it was this guy from my floor freshman year in the dorms who apparently started working here as an engineer about a month ago. i almost didn't recognize him with his short hair, but how crazy is it that he recognized me And Remembered My Name after all these years. i didn't think any of the kids on my floor even knew i existed let alone that they'd remember my name and face like ten years later.

so i get food and chat with this one dude i work with for a couple hours. good fun chatting. and then some other kids we knew from the old days came over to chat with some other people they knew. all totally cool people so it was rad to run into them again. then the one guy i knew left for his shuttle. and then the other guy i barely knew left for the bathroom. and then my coworker left for food. so me and this danish guy from the dublin office went off in search of glow in the dark stuff.

and did we ever deck ourselves out. we had glow in the dark lei headbands, glow in the dark glasses, bracelets, necklaces, and he made glow in the dark bionic arms. and you know any guy who walks around showing off his bionic glow in the dark "better than having biceps" arms is cool. we ran into the girl who organized the whole party and she said we HAD to stop the official photographer if we saw him and make him take our picture since we were so cute. if only we could have actually made a living as the glow in the dark couple. sigh.

so then the rest of the night i hung out with random dudes i'd never met, but mostly this danish kid. if i'm lucky hopefully i can track down some of the pics he took of us glowing.

unfortunately, i didn't get to make it out to any of the emergency calls since the one they asked for extra people for came Right as i had to catch my shuttle, but all in all it was a fabulous night, the best google dance by far. if i don't make it to another, i will have gone out with a bang.