Factory fundraiser

[dorchadas]

Last night I settled down at my computer to play Stellaris and as it was booting up, worldbshiny texted me to ask me if I wanted to join her at a fundraiser for the Factory Theatre up near Howard. In perhaps an unsurprising turn of events nowadays and the reason I tagged this post "introversion" as an opposite-day thing, I was eager to get out of the house and I accepted, so I closed down Stellaris after playing for maybe ten minutes and left. Twenty-five minutes door to door, and I opened the door on the bar to a wall of sound--karaoke was occurring and I could see why worldbshiny had said she probably wouldn't stay for very long.

Due to said karaoke, we sat at a table at the other end of the bar. worldbshiny ordered a calzone and then asked me to help eat it when it came, since she had been expecting something the size of an empanada and she got something the size of a pizza. We ate, she occasionally introduced me to people as "one of my favorite people to go out to eat or on adventures with" (), and we talked about karaoke, our weeks, our terrible roommates:

Me: "I was going to say I'd never had a terrible roommate, but, uh." 😶
worldbshiny: 😬
Me: 😅
worldbshiny: 😵
Me: 😓

...and theatre, including her brief career in film where she has two credits--one as "ferret wrangler" and one as "bikini-wearing corn thrower." The former was a technical role, where she had to chase down the ferret the villain villainously stroked and calm it between scenes so it'd be ready to be held again.

I don't know whether the corn she was throwing in the latter was on the cob, or kernels.

We stayed for an hour--sadly, I missed the chance to sing along with "I'll Make a Man Out of You" at karaoke because I was too busy talking to worldbshiny--and then at her suggestion, we left. She invited me along to come buy tea wit her at Whole Foods, and since it was the same Whole Foods I shop at, I invited her back to my place for tea, but she was frazzled due to an hour in an extremely loud place and just wanted to go home to bed, so we both went home.

I invited her to a Tu B'Shevat Seder next week, but since she won't find out her rehearsal schedule for next week until tonight, she can't commit to going until then. Hopefully she can make it.