posting late once again

ugh, perhaps i should just resign myself to a weekend poster, as once again i find myself posting 1-2 days late. but it does mean that this post will be a tad more exciting as i worked my first auction yesterday! the whole thing was very interesting, from the auctioneers who are not only in charge of the bidding for each piece, but also moving the whole thing along at a pretty good pace. the bidding itself was far less hands flying in the air, then sassy flips of the wrists with paddles just over shoulder height. but that didn't mean that the aggression over things wasn't there, it was just slightly more subtle. the crowd ranged from quirky collectors (many of whom had come in before to examine the pieces, all the while making snarky comments about the other people in the room under their breath/to me, including "i can't believe he just said this piece was __, (sigh) of course it's not, he's never right about these things" and, after returning a hello to a man who just walked in "i vowed after last year never to speak to him, i've just made a horrible horrible error" really? really.) to dealers who were then hoping to go turn around the pieces to their buyers, to museum officials/big time museum donors, to anthropologists (who to me seemed the nicest of the group). but a lot of just plain CRAZIES, or perhaps just plain QUIRKIES... some people also call in their bids to preserve their anonymity which adds a whole element of mystique to the whole thing. it was really cool getting to learn a bit more about these objects, mostly because this was a genre i didn't know almost anything about going into it, and seeing not only the objects but trying to understand the little details that make them valuable (i watched a man pay over $1,000 dollars for what seemed to me to be a nice, (granted, old), stick). its amazing how the tiniest thing makes the difference between valuable and not, and how, for the most part, with the exception of just some wealthy women who wanted home decorations, these people truly love these objects . many people have spent years collecting these objects, and while some of the money being thrown around seemed crazy to me, most of the pieces are one of a kind, and most of the people are so excited to get them.

anyways, that's my update! and as for A's post about getting/seeming/feeling old, i had a moment last week where i was supposed to go out with an old colby friend and when she said "why don't we meet up at 9/9:30 ish?" thought to myself, "ugh, really? thats sort of pj/tea/movie time". but! on the bright side, if we have learned anything from the golden girls it's that, just because we maybe 85+ at heart, does not mean we cannot still have fun, example:

Golden Girls Dance A Thon
by AllisonSNLKid

can i be rose?