Composed Elements

I’m laughing a lot at work. And I’m laughing hard. Here are two highlights from work this week:

1. Today I wanted to double-check with my supervisor if this website that was selling “kama sutra chairs” was considered an adult site. This was the conversation:

ME: Hey, are kama sutra chairs OK?

SUPERVISOR: Well, maybe…you should ask Ergo first.

(Ergo is the department that handles our back problems and gives us new chairs.)

ME: What???

SUPERVISOR: I mean, if you want to bring in your own chair from home, you might want to check with them first. There was a girl who wanted to bring in her own chair from home once, but they didn’t let her. What if she fell off of her own chair because it broke?

ME: What?? (laughing hysterically) I’m NOT planning on bringing my own kama sutra chair to work! I’d have to type on my computer while lying down.

*I still don’t know if he thinks I really want to bring a kama sutra chair to work because he just went back to work. He must think I’m a major pervert.

2. On Thursday, they started serving the employees Mojitos and beer and everyone got a little loopy. We have this thing on Thursdays where they play song requests for 20 minutes on the loudspeaker. “Chocolate Rain” was one of the requests. It’s the funniest song I’ve ever heard. Imagine trying to work while hearing lyrics like, “Chocolate rain…Some stay dry and others feel the pain..CHOCOLATE RAIN!” The song seemed to go on forever. Here’s the video:

My friend, Phuong and I made our own version. It’s called “Green Tea Hail”.

“Some like it bitter, some like it sweet…GREEN TEA HAIL!”

I’m still feeling the side-effects from the last installment of the Harry Potter series:

-sleep deprived
-edgy from the lack of sleep
-experiencing the “Hogwarts headache” because of reading so quickly
-joy
-sadness
-craziness

That’s just a short list. So, I’ve disappeared (disaperated)for the past few days because I have been out of the real world and into the magical world? Does that sound nerdy? I hope so.

On Friday after work, I zoomed over to my friend’s house so we could get ready for the midnight Harry Potter book release at the three-story Barnes and Nobles over in the Grove shopping mall. When we got there at 8 p.m., there were hundreds of fans already buzzing around, many of which were dressed up in quite elaborate costumes. There was a person for every character including the tweed-wearing Professor Umbridge, a 7-foot Snape (I don’t know why that man was so naturally tall and why he was wearing pleather), a Hippogriff (can you believe such cool parents would make a gigantic bird outfit for their two children, where one kid got shafted and had to be the butt of the costume?), Fawkes – the phoenix, a Luna Lovegood with radish earrings…just everything you could think of. Many girls decided to don on their slutty witch outfits, probably from their yearly slutty outfits from Halloween. Come on, there are children around! There was a Hogwarts band singing songs about the books with lots of young teenage groupies jumping along with the music. It was sweet to think that this band might be the first actual “show” these kids are going to and why not one about Harry Potter? A costume contest and a jelly-bean counting contest were in the works. Alongside of that, a guy dressed as Potter read out loud on a mic the sixth book while hundreds of people sat cross-legged in a large circle around him listening intently before midnight hit.

We anxiously listened to the store clerks call out the letters of the groups that could get their books first. We were group G! Can you believe that? Imagine the intensity of the wait as each group cheered as they ran in to get their books. I was growing bitter and jealous. There were 75 people in each group and there were still groups behind our letter. And then, and then, I got a copy in my hands! Woohooo and my friends and I celebrated by going back to the apartment and popping open a bottle of Hocus Pocus wine. I went home at 2 a.m. and finished the book at noon on Sunday. I had stayed away from all mass media in fear that a spoiler would be leaked and had locked myself in my room because somehow my dad found out the ending. He almost blurted the ending out to me. How did he even know about it?? All in all, I laughed and I cried. An amazing book.

Here’s a photo journey of my night at the midnight book release. Everyone assumed I was Cho Chang because I was Asian. That’s all right with me.

*Dumbledore’s Army

*Ginny and Cho fighting over Harry (look at Hagrid!)

*I finally got my man, Harry

*And then he broke up with me!

*My friends and I were having a magical night