Stillettos and Frozen T-Shirts

I'm writing from a room in Bangor, Maine.

Bangor...yeah...like what I would do to Haley Reinhardt who is still alive on American Idol.

Much to my friend Jennifer Munoz Dugan's dismay, Paul the Spaz was eliminated... FINALLY from AI last night. I managed to find that out late last night.
VoteForTheWorst.com fans are crushed now despite their best efforts to keep Paul around especially after watching what he wore in his last ghastly performance.

Mrs. Dugan is now prepared to stomp on American's with her stilletto heels because she feels that the country got it wrong. To her credit she thought that it was wrong that Pia was voted off last week...but come on...Paul?

Last night I did a fund raiser at a high school in Windham, Maine. I found out that there had been another hypnotist there the past few years but the kids got tired of his routine.
When I first started doing these shows I used to be concerned about replacing another hypnotist.

Not any more though. I know how many of these guys shows go. There are always funny people who volunteer for these shows so as long as a hypnotist is capable of hypnotizing people, they can pull off something. But what many of them do is just put them to sleep, give the same suggestions that all hypnotists seem to give, wake up the volunteers and they follow the suggestion.

I have skits though so even though many of the elements are similar (like suggesting changes in body temperature so a volunteer is cold and snuggles up with their neighbors) they are done with a different type of presentation, which I have created myself. So at least half of my show is original in that way.

I was told that my show was better than the last guy. So...I'll be back there next year and, based on what a bunch of other people were saying afterwards, I'll be asked to do some additional shows in the area.

Tonight is the Relay for Life show at the University of Maine. Its my 3rd time up there and its fun. Its a marathon, of course, where students walk around the track all night long to raise money for cancer. There are a variety of activities that take place along with it, such as my show.
Its held in the Field House on the Orono campus. Kids pitch tents, bring down couches and love seats and sleeping bags and fill up the infield section of the field house.

Last year a show that followed mine was one produced by students. It was a game where tie-dyed t-shirts were frozen solid. The goal for teams playing the game was to defrost the shirt as fast as possible to the point where someone could then put it on. The first team to finish that won a prize. Watching how they were trying to defrost the t-shirts was pretty funny. Since body heat was the only to get that job done the quickest, the shirts were being placed in all sorts of fun places.
I was watching the girls teams of course. Their places were much more fun than the guys places.

I am writing from a laptop with a very awkward keyboard so this has taken about  6 hours to write. I think I have said enough for now so now I am

Done.