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Yesterday I shared with the other people on MandC_read* that one of my coworkers plays a dancing bear, Ellie Bear (whoever is in the Ellie costume in this picture is far too tall to actually be her, though):
She can't make a living being Ellie Bear, partly because LL Bean only calls her in for events. I think the money is in being an entrepreneur and trying to fit into the slot left by real dancing bears having been outlawed. It could be viewed as a sort entertainment hole which might be filled with performance art.
Then I posted on Facebook, "I've been giving it a lot of thought, and I've decided my next career should be as a dancing bear. I just need a bear suit and a musician." And then before work this morning I spent some precious minutes looking for pictures of Nastassjia Kinski playing Susie the Bear in the movie of "Hotel New Hampshire." Could only find this one:
I also ran it by a couple of my coworkers. Jigsaw is supportive but doesn't quite get it - he says, "Go for it! Live your dream! Get a bear suit and go dance in the woods to your hearts content!" I was like, "The bear doesn't dance in the woods, he shits in the woods. The woods is not where the money's at."
Cyberquail! Why don't you get a hurdy-gurdy and we can try it out next year at King Richard's Faire!? (Where can I get a really good bear suit?)
Anyway, this was not what I was going to post about this evening. This evening I was just going to gloat about the fact that, in a very unusual turn of events, I have Thanksgiving off! I always normally work it, because most people want it off to spend time with their families and I've never really had anything going on I had to be at. But last year I realized that, as a trainer, I no longer am in the same work force, so my absence doesn't really affect other people near as much. It's still true that if I stayed someone else might have been able to go, but Moose particularly looked me up, this afternoon, and pointed out that he would have a perfect excuse to not go to his family get-together if I did ask for the day off, because in our department it's just me and him. Sooo... I'm going to sleep in tomorrow morning and go to lunch with Eor and M-Eor's-coworker! *dances!* (*like a bear!*)
(And by the way, you can find plenty of youtube videos of Yogi Bear dancing. Not that I'm necessarily recommending them. I have not watched them and have nothing to say about the performances either way.)
ALSO! I HAVE A BOSS! Someone was finally selected as manager for Moose and me, and I'm holding onto this happy feeling that maybe things might get sorted out, one day. He's a guy who's been with us since day one,** and Mistress of the Night says he's a bit of an obsessive-compulsive paperwork nut, but that he'll do his best to organize, he will seek answers instead of shooting from the hip (like the Ogre used to) and he's loyal to his people and fights for them. Hope springs eternal. ;)
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*where people have been discussing the extremely thin plot device of having Jack stuck in a bear suit for about a 700-mile trek through the South of France into Spain, and he is accepted as a real bear by people he dances for... Really. Susie the Bear was not mistaken for a real bear even in the book.
**Those of us who've been here ten years say, "we went to school together." Oddly, Alice and Mistress of the Night actually did go to the same high school, though they never met at the time. They like to tease each other that they're going to rumble because they're from opposite sides of the tracks. :) You would never know they were both grandmothers from the way they act. :)
She can't make a living being Ellie Bear, partly because LL Bean only calls her in for events. I think the money is in being an entrepreneur and trying to fit into the slot left by real dancing bears having been outlawed. It could be viewed as a sort entertainment hole which might be filled with performance art.
Then I posted on Facebook, "I've been giving it a lot of thought, and I've decided my next career should be as a dancing bear. I just need a bear suit and a musician." And then before work this morning I spent some precious minutes looking for pictures of Nastassjia Kinski playing Susie the Bear in the movie of "Hotel New Hampshire." Could only find this one:
I also ran it by a couple of my coworkers. Jigsaw is supportive but doesn't quite get it - he says, "Go for it! Live your dream! Get a bear suit and go dance in the woods to your hearts content!" I was like, "The bear doesn't dance in the woods, he shits in the woods. The woods is not where the money's at."
Cyberquail! Why don't you get a hurdy-gurdy and we can try it out next year at King Richard's Faire!? (Where can I get a really good bear suit?)
Anyway, this was not what I was going to post about this evening. This evening I was just going to gloat about the fact that, in a very unusual turn of events, I have Thanksgiving off! I always normally work it, because most people want it off to spend time with their families and I've never really had anything going on I had to be at. But last year I realized that, as a trainer, I no longer am in the same work force, so my absence doesn't really affect other people near as much. It's still true that if I stayed someone else might have been able to go, but Moose particularly looked me up, this afternoon, and pointed out that he would have a perfect excuse to not go to his family get-together if I did ask for the day off, because in our department it's just me and him. Sooo... I'm going to sleep in tomorrow morning and go to lunch with Eor and M-Eor's-coworker! *dances!* (*like a bear!*)
(And by the way, you can find plenty of youtube videos of Yogi Bear dancing. Not that I'm necessarily recommending them. I have not watched them and have nothing to say about the performances either way.)
ALSO! I HAVE A BOSS! Someone was finally selected as manager for Moose and me, and I'm holding onto this happy feeling that maybe things might get sorted out, one day. He's a guy who's been with us since day one,** and Mistress of the Night says he's a bit of an obsessive-compulsive paperwork nut, but that he'll do his best to organize, he will seek answers instead of shooting from the hip (like the Ogre used to) and he's loyal to his people and fights for them. Hope springs eternal. ;)
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*where people have been discussing the extremely thin plot device of having Jack stuck in a bear suit for about a 700-mile trek through the South of France into Spain, and he is accepted as a real bear by people he dances for... Really. Susie the Bear was not mistaken for a real bear even in the book.
**Those of us who've been here ten years say, "we went to school together." Oddly, Alice and Mistress of the Night actually did go to the same high school, though they never met at the time. They like to tease each other that they're going to rumble because they're from opposite sides of the tracks. :) You would never know they were both grandmothers from the way they act. :)