I just got back home from Juggling for the weekend.
Started a juggling festival with a friend 16 years ago, now it is run by a university juggling club.
My job, show up and throw things at my friends, wander around and meet new folks, get on the unicycle and roll over the hands of the little kids who juggle incredibly.
I also wander around Saturday afternoon scouting talent and coercing folks to be in the public show on Saturday night. By 5pm I've got my show, 10 acts, 2 drop out, 2 get added I make adjustments and by 6:30 I had a show order and turned it in to backstage and the sound and light guys, by 6:45 we open the doors and 7-9:15 I sit on a couch stage right and emcee a show that ended with a standing ovation! (not for me, but for the wonderful talent that willingly performed for free for the 700 people that showed up)
1st up a guy who did cigar boxes while standing on a rola bola and then did a vent act with his son. then a fellow who did balls, clubs and crystal ball contact juggling, a gymkana chair balancing act, then a couple did club passing, ending with a comic contortionist crawling threw a toilet seat, intermission, open second half with the university juggling club, then a schizophrenic juggler doing improv, a diaboloist, unicycle jousting, and finished up with three brothers, 14, 12 and 7 doing very impressive stuff to music ending with the seven year old doing 5 rings with neck catches and grabs......a great night, then back to the gym to burn a couple gallons of kerosene with fire clubs, devil sticks, staff and poi...
I's tired, thought I'd check in before I checked out.