runway escapades
It was one hell of a ride. I had to raise $90 for the entry fee, and successfully did so with a few hours to spare, and on thursday i also got about 20 votes in the people's choice part of the contest ($1 per vote). Between those parts, i raised over $100 for charity in barely three days, not too shabby. As for the actual contest, reality and nerves didnt set in fully until like two hours before it, but i pulled through it. With impeccable (sp?) timing, i also started getting a sore throat wednesday afternoon, and by thursday night i had almost no voice at all. The first part of the contest was a short speech, with i did off the top of my head. Aside from having a really raspy sick voice that sounded like complete and total shit over the microphone, i winged the speech pretty well, and got quite a bit of applause. The second part of the contest was the athletic/talent part, where i threw my humor curveball. I had the costume planned since tuesday, but i didnt think of the actual skit until yesterday afternoon when i found my bathrobe that i never use in my closet. Inspired my matt mccue's toga made entirely out of setonian newspapers last year, i took a pair of shorts and covered them with cds from the Shit bin at the station (thats where they throw all of the crappy reject cds). When i found the robe, i thought of a boxing skit, so thats what i did. Since most of these contests just gets down to stripping and shaking your ass anyway, i did a boxing/dancing skit with no shirt on and shorts covered with cds. (all of this to the tune of a hand-picked theme song, Brooklyn is burning, by Head Automatica). I was very surprised at how much crowd support i had.
I didnt win. I didnt expect to. I didnt even make the finals, but i dont give a shit. I did it for the experience and to have fun, which i did. It was great to have so many ppl cheering me on, despite me obviously not having a great body, and barely being able to speak during my spiel about the good things that wsou does. I did it to meet people, have fun, and get respect. I think i did all of those things.
After the contest the deephers invited all the contestants out to the St James Gate in maplewood. (that would be an irish pub, kinda like cryans except smaller). Only me and two or three other contestants showed up, and matt mccue, the honorary d phi e (he lives with two of them over cluck u, kinda like threes company i guess, except hes not gay), all the rest were girls in the sorority, Nice ratio to work with. I ended up bonding with one girl there by trading stories talking shit about this guy that works at sou that she hooked up with. It ended with a screen name and phone number (hopefully one that actually works, ill find out tomorrow). Even with only one phone number, getting aquainted with the majority of the girls in the DPhiE sorority is never a bad thing.
This whole experience turned out almost exactly like i thought it would, which is a good thing. I went into it not caring about winning, just strutted my stuff for a good cause, met alot of people, and became friends with alot of the deephers. I got fran to thank for all of this since she talked me into it in the first place. She was the happiest of all for me after the contest too. The whole experience was great, and made the scramble worth it. The last few weeks have really turned into the kind of random fun that ive been waiting for for a while, and im loving it.