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So I was supposed to babysit for an hour and a half. Which would put me right at the time of the birthday party I was going to. Then, the mother of the kids calls and tells me to wait, as she's not ready to leave yet. When I finally get over there, it's like 5:45. The party started at 6. So oh dear. And the mom returns 2 and a half hours later. I was rather angered. So I get to the party 2 and a half hours late. But it was still awesome. There was a fire in the backyard and she had speakers that looked like rocks, so we were singing Wicked really loudly. But the Wicked CD started skipping at the end of "Defying Gravity" (which I arrived in the middle of), so we switched to Rent. And then we get to the whole "'Ho Ho Ho' 'Benny. Shit!' Dudes, I'm on my way. . .'" bit, and realized that as it was 9ish and her neighbors were old and mean, we should probably move inside.

So we went to the basement and turned on "Today 4 U" and danced on her coffee table for that one. And then "La Vie Boheme". We gave up trying to sing in tune by that one, we were just screaming the lyrics. Which was exciting, what with the dancing and yelling of rather inappropriate stuff. And we lost Meredith's voice. She already had a sore throat, and what with the shouting, it was gone.

Then Melissa (whose party it was), the other Melissa, and I started playing "You Don't Know Jack", which was hilarious. Because her 'Q' button is faulty and kept saying I buzzed in when I didn't. And I still creamed them. Because I kept picking categories about mythology, anatomy, psychology, and history. And a few of the categories were fun stuff like "We're not in Kansas anymore" and "Oz and Oxidation" (the latter having a question about which character in The Wizard of Oz was had an oxidation problem), and Mel (she who was throwing the party) and I screamed with the lovely Wickedness of it all.

And then I happened to turn around and see the library of medical goodness, and sat down and talked shop with Melissa's mother, who is a nursing student. And poured through the awesomeness that was her textbooks.

So that was exciting. I got home about 11:30, high on Jolly Ranchers.

And she loved the disk with all the Cheno/Dee/Wicked/Rent goodness. So thanks to all the girls at