fest and Cornell
The Quad Cities juggling festival was on Saturday, and my friend Harper and I drove out there to meet up with other friends of ours and hang out.. We entered many of the competitions..all of which were endurance; everyone started juggling at the same time, and whoever lasted the longest won. I lost the three balls in one hand competition, and Harper and I lost the seven club passing one. Brian and I won in eight club passing. We also won the nine club passing competition..at first no one could tell if we or one other team had won, so we held a rematch between the two teams.. Brian and I clearly won that, and Harper made a little movie of it on his digital camera. We will try to put that up here, but we may have accidentally deleted it..
The festival show was terrible.. The emcee didn’t know what he was doing, and for some incomprehensible reason, the wanted him to do a bunch of filler.. (We could see no way in which any of the acts needed any real setup time..) Last year at this same indoor show, one member of a two person act set his face and the stage on fire.. This year they had those same guys come out and juggle water balloons as “punishment.” The act was boring…lacked any drama or direction or humor.. Harper and I complained to each other about that show for the entire hour long drive to Mount Vernon.
We visited Cornell, our alma mater… It was strange..everyone seemed the same, but the college had changed in subtle ways.. I juggled with college juggling buddies and hung out with old friends.. A good time.
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