Okay y'all. I went to the St. Patrick's Day party on Eduisland 9 for about 30 minutes tonight. I left when I tried to stop dancing (you were supposed to click on a spinning shamrock to have your avatar animated by another avatar who had created 6 different dance moves - I thought this was pretty cool - but when I was ready to stop, I kept trying to click that damn shamrock but instead somehow ran/danced past the food table and into a giant hedge). Also, Jason hit me in the face with a hot dog.
The other people at the party (there were three other people besides Jason and me) were super friendly. We did not talk about education, but instead made party small talk, which consisted mostly of someone "singing along" with Steve Winwood and insisting that we "crank it up" and various other comments about how awesome the music was. Strangely, the first song I heard was "Out of Touch" by Hall and Oates (am I showing my age yet?) and I do concur that that could be a song that some might find awesome. But it felt very outdated to be gyrating around to, I kid you not, "The Living Years." The song about the conflicted relationship the guy had with his dad and then the dad died. Erin Go Bragh!
We were dancing on a floor that had been designed with green celtic symbols and had a giant rotating "Happy Saint Patrick's Day" logo in the middle of it. Someone had gone to a lot of work to design this party! Off in the distance there were bonfires (and actually, when I first arrived, Jason was somehow sitting on a bonfire dancing. I don't know how he did that). Somehow I acquired a giant green bottle, which I suggested to everyone could be Jameson's. And after the Steve Winwood song ended - it was "Higher Love" for those keeping a checklist of the adult contemporary tunes - I tried to go look around a little more, but ended up in the hedge.
So, all in all, I actually did enjoy myself. Mainly because it was so crazy and it gave me the opportunity to write phrases like "hit in the face with a hot dog." Cheers!
You don't have a virtual hang-over from drinking too much green beer, do you?
ReplyDeleteSorry about hitting you with the hot dog. My avatar appeared to have uncontrollable twitches and moves. Oh, you should have tried sitting on the fire. I've always wanted to do that (no, I don't know how I managed to do it).
Something you mentioned in your blog and I left out was the fact that the "age" of the music I think reflects the age of the typical audience. I don't think the younger crowd has much interest in the world of second life. Maybe because it doesn't involve texting from their cell phone?
I would agree with that. It definitely felt like after-hours at the PTA circa 1989.
ReplyDeleteI said this on Jason's blog but it applies here too - the only events I've been to are social and have nothing to do education. They do have guest lectures listed once a week but I'm not available to see any of them.
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