(Incidentally, I write in a "Dick and Jane" style because it amuses me, not because I'm a moron. Though one could definitely make a case for "moron"... Also, please note that this particular rant is really, really, HAPPY. It's not very funny, so if you're looking to be entertained try Iowa City or Chicago or something. Don't say I didn't warn you.)

We drove for like 4 hours to Milwaukee, and then we couldn't find the damn theatre and my mom yelled at me and threatened to go back home. I was sad. But then we found it! Yay! And we were like 6th and 7th in the rush line! Yay! And a lot of the people were people I knew from rushing Madison, including Katie and Kelly! Yay! And then at like 1 am, guess who shows up at the line!!! Guess!! It was CURTIS!! YAY! And I'm like, "Hey! I'm your stalker from Iowa!" and then he was like "Yeah! I remember you! Renata, right?" and I was amused. And then I showed him a couple printouts from my Curtis site, and then he was like "Yeah! I've been there! And I signed the guestbook!" I was like, "Wait, this IS the guestbook," and he looked at it and he was like, "I signed it before that girl!" and then I was sad. Stupid guestbook, eating Curtis' entry like that. I'm still trying to figure out how he managed to find the site like... a week after I'd started it, before it was listed with any search engines or anything... but whatever. Oh well.

So then at like 3 am me and 4 other girls decide to look for a bathroom. THere's a Kinko's right down the street, but DAMN THEM for not having public bathrooms. So we wander around and there are lots of scary drunks, and finally we find an open restaurant. And guess who is in the restaurant? (No, it is not Curtis, although that would be a good guess.) It is Christian and Dom!! We are very happy. But we are polite and leave them alone and go to the bathroom. And then, guess who gets in line for the bathroom with us? Give up? Okay, it was Dom. And she's so sweet :) But then we leave and go back to the street. Scary people keep asking us what we're sleeping out for. So as we sit under the big sign that says "Rent" we start telling them things like, "NSYNC IS COMING! WOOO!" And Geoff kept saying "Jesus! He's coming back tonight!" (Geoff is stalking Haven. She winked at him during SOL in Madison. But she was off last night and he was very sad.)

SO um. It was really cold and we didn't get much sleep but that's okay. Blah blah blah we get our tickets and go into the matinee show. We wait and wait and finally at 3:30 (it was SUPPOSED to start at 2) they tell us the BASEMENT HAS FLOODED AND THEY HAVE CANCELED THE MAT! And oh no, we are sad! But! We get first dibs on rush seats for the evening so we are happy again. And me and Geoff and Jesse get to be on the news to talk about the mat being canceled! And we are VERY happy. And then the show starts and we are VERY VERY VERY happy! And CURTIS is there! But sadly I am unable to take Christian at ALL seriously because someone made the comment that he sounded like the Lucky Charms leprechaun. And he DOES. SO I was having serious problems not laughing my ass off. Although he was very good. In a leprechaun like way.

And then, I was stuck behind the SLOWEST people in the world getting out of the theatre. I almost got hit by a bus trying to get to stage door. Blah. Talked to Curtis for awhile, wandered around, talked to a few other people, went home... slept, a lot.