hot mess at contest

 i did a comedy contest this evening, and it will be memorable mainly due to the 'hot mess' that was also a contestant. she admitted to doing stand-up for the first time and left her glass of wine on a chair on the stage. eventually she went back onstage to claim it. she was very close to getting bounced, thankfully i wasn't the comic that followed her. she also swore, a lot. and it sounded like she was trying to blackmail people. my set was better than most of my previous sets at a contest, but i did not advance. only three could advance tonight, and i have yet to advance past the first round of a contest. i am thankful for the stage time. and it was nice to see some comics for the first time in a while. one of them was the ball of energy, after the show. another was somebody i saw on the way in. i once went to his family's booya just across the river in wisconsin. not too many of the jokes in my set were new, i know by now there are times when one has to go with tried-and-true. un-volunteer was one of those i did, and another was inspired by seeing a friend last week. after the show i found a wishing well and pitched 2 canadian pennies in it. 

at work it was a notable day, as i reached one year of service at the bank. there was two emails about it waiting for me this morning. i had to replace a toner cartridge on the main check printer, and was ready to email somebody about ordering the next one but didn't need to. when i checked the pickup and delivery table a box was there, and the next one- the right kind- was there. so i carried it down to the check shop, didn't need to get a cart out for it. during my walks for the day i found 43 cents. the 'big bang theory' rerun was about sheldon going to play hackey-sack in a storage room. it was just one watched tonight as i knew i needed to leave to get to the comedy club. after work i went to the liquor store near my workplace and got one can of modelo beer. so now there are four cans waiting, and one of them will be drank with dinner later this week.