Non-existant Dance Party

[TheArtistOrSomething]

I am pissed off, and so help me I have a freakin' right to be.

Aside from my suggestion of angel food cake, i asked for one thing at the meeting. I came to the meeting with one idea, one desire; no matter what else happened at the grad night, if this one thing happened I would be happy. I wanted to DJ a dance party, and it was agreed that that would go on the schedule.

Now, it would be one thing if the schedule changed. If Emily, as MC, decided that everyone was too tired to dance and came and told me not to bother setting up all the tables and chairs and putting together a playlist and running sound checks and not-hanging-out-in-front-of-the-fire and sitting up half the night waiting for SOME-freakin'-body to show up and dance, then yeah I'd be disappointed, but I wouldn't be hurt and offended and ticked the frick off.

So here I am, ready to host the last event of the night, and nobody shows up. After the bonfire, Ketsia walks through and tells me she and all the others are "on their way", and that's the last I see or hear of her for the rest of the night. Somebody tell me that's not screwed up. On top of that, janet and others and I have spent a lot of time and energy cleaning up FOR the party, then Sara walks in and just starts cleaning up AFTER the party, without the actual party part taking place at all, because she was tired and didn't want to attend a party, so then obviously of course nobody else is going to want to, so let's put it all away just to make sure that even if anybody DID want to they won't be able to. I just barely managed to stop her from putting the tables back onto the dance floor, but it wasn't until much later (and far too late) that I noticed she had put away all the glasses and drinks and snacks that were supposed to draw people to the party.

So where was Madame MC Emily? You know, the one whose JOB it was to announce to people what was going on and where they were supposed to go next? Chillin' in the computer room, checking her email, acting like the night was already over and not having any clue whether the party was happening or not but not bothering to tell ME anything about the fact that an activity that was just as scheduled as the meal and that it was my job to officiate was suddenly becoming optional.

Now, Abby and Angelique stuck around in the house, but they were too tired to dance. Fine, I understand that, but where the heck was everyone else? Well, after she was well and done with her little walk, Madeleine comes back to tell me that everyone went out into the town to take a nighttime walk instead of going to the party. No one would have even CONSIDERED doing that during the meal, or during the videos, even though those were just as preplanned and just as prepared for and just as expected to be participated in. And if, for example, I had decided that I would have rathered go play on the computer instead of have appetizers, someone would have come and gotten me and reminded me of what was on the schedule, because that's how these things work, i thought.

So anyway, Madeleine comes in and tells me everyone just decided to do something else, and that she had considered telling me about it but decided not to. Now I can't decide which is worse; being so heartless as to think of telling me not to go to all that trouble but not doing it, or being so thoughtless that the idea doesn't even occur to you in the first place. And THEN she has the gall to use this attitude like I'm getting upset over nothing, and that it's really no big deal!!

At least she came back, though. At least she thought of me. At least she tried to cheer me up, even though she did so by dragging me out of my DJ chair and trying to make me dance. I don't like dancing. Everybody assumes that I must like to dance because I took the swing classes and was good at it, but I only took the classes because everyone kept pushing me because they needed more guys, and just because I'm good at it doesn't mean I like it. What I like is watching other people dance, and listening to music, and arranging playlists. Thus why I wanted to DJ a dance party, which you guys lifted my hopes up 'till the last minute, then ripped the whole thing out from under me and ignored me as I crashed hopes-first into the ground. Thanks a lot guys.

[Rottweiler]

Got to love the social scene.

See, that kind of thing is why I never really went to parties, let alone participate in setting them up.
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[4EVERKOS-MOS]

Ouch, that's rough.
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