Don't leave home without your magnet; Kiss me Kate to open in Five Days!

As far as things that needed to be done and time available for me to do said things goes, this was probably the worst week of the year. Frequent readers of this blog have informed me that I begin every single blog this way, but it's so true. You have to put up with me, readers, because this is always the first thing that comes to mind when I start writing on Sunday night.

On Saturday, the pit orchestra had a Sitzprobe five hour rehearsal, in which we played the same stupid music millions of times, for five hours. And the music is in itself, impossibly hard (or maybe just for us violins). And we played this impossibly hard music for, you guessed it, five hours. Probably one of the most memorable (worst) experiences of my life, actually...

also, why the hell is Hawaii Theatre in the middle of Chinatown? cmon, seriously?

After the rehearsal ended around five, I decided to relieve some stress (read:procrastinate) by heading over to Ka'kaako park with a friend. The area itself is always hilly, almost always windy, and almost always a place with noone around. Of course, my friend had to lose her stupid keys at some point, with hills everywhere and nobody else around. So we spent a fair amount of time looking for a tiny gold thing in a probable three acre area, like a needle in a haystack [cliche, i know, sue me!]

so we searched for a while, of course with me chastising about not putting a string thing around the keyring like i do with mine.


I of course, came up with the brilliant idea of using the clip I used to hold my kiss me kate music together to find the keys. The catch is, that it doubles up as a magnet! Because keys are a metal, and magnets immediately feel an attractive force towards metals (which contain 'a sea of electrons' throughout), I was able to search much more efficiently by just running my magnet around the long grass (as opposed to moving it around with my hands). Soon the keys turned up!


I, of course, have no idea why I have a Hawaii State Teacher's Association magnet-clip, but it sure was awesome at the time.

had i left my house without this ridiculous clip, or had i forgotten about the awesome power of magnets, i may have been looking and annoyed for a very long time.

don't leave home without a magnet, kids!