Smiley Smile
While not really a glass half-empty kind of guy, I do make an awful judge of character because I assume that anytime I meet someone new they either want to kiss me or kill me. I’m still not sure which. I think it has something to do with the smile though.
In order to remedy this I took an online quiz over at the BBC Science & Nature website to see if I could spot a real smile from a fake one and I came out surprisingly well with a final score of 14 out of a possible 20.
Am I smiling? Most likely not because if there’s a reason not to smile it’s because I did my taxes this evening with a raging hangover and possibly 3 to 4 hours of sleep. I must love the abuse. There’s no other explanation. Needless to say, I’ve talked to no one tonight and will finally emerge from my shell tomorrow to socialize again.
March 1st, 2005 at 0:07 AM
I will never MC again. In order to “losen myself up” I had a few thousand glasses of wine, poured by my co-host and stage bartender Chris Vail. Shortly before my memory got really patchy, Chris and I switched to beer. Bad Idea. I had already been badly hungover from the Banff Biennial the night before (Thanks to Mark Clintberg’s studio dance party), So adding Drunk to drunk never pays off. Somehow I badly finished my task as MC and stumbled home, and I mean STUMBLED. Once home to the severe dismay of my wife Miss Anya, I spent the next few hours vomiting oysters. My deepest apologies to anyone who either witnessed or spoke to me during the Oscars. I will never MC again.
-Joel
March 1st, 2005 at 22:29 PM
Wow! It sounds like you guys had quite an adventure over the weekend. I did as well! :)
I got 19/20 of the smiles, holey cow! I must be a social butterfly or something.
There were definitely some weird looking characters…
Nikki
March 7th, 2005 at 2:02 AM
16 out of 20 = not bad. Started off a little shakey but got the hang of it in the end. That last guy burned me good though.