Grand Hotel Photo Girl

Tonight is the Night

Angela Duncan — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 05:08:14 +0000

Last night! We took, over the entire season, 710 rolls of film. That’s 36×710= 25,560 photos!

I love a job where I get to talk to people. It’s great having a regular group of people around you, working close with you everyday, as well as an innumerable amount of interesting strangers to keep you entertained in the meantime. I laughed so much with this job. Here’s hoping that I find another one to continue the stretch.

Tonight, everyone dressed in early 1900s costume. The guests walked, one at a time, down the center of the parlor in a “promenade” after dinner. We took pictures of them as they came out, and I stayed after to mingle with people in their vacational excitement. As long as I can feed off the inexhaustable amount of happiness that radiates from good people enjoying themselves, things will be lovely.

Somewhere In Time

Angela Duncan — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 20:33:54 +0000

… is a movie they filmed at The Grand Hotel. I haven’t seen it, because it looks boring. But this weekend, everything is hilarious. Hundreds of fully-grown, mortgage-paying adults are dressed up like they’re 100 years old and walking around with powdered noses. The men, especially. Someone tapped me from behind with a cane, and it was creepy.

Scream in the Parlor

Angela Duncan — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 18:05:32 +0000

I totally screamed in the parlor, but I couldn’t believe that this woman was flashing me. There was a a group of eight women posed, and I was getting ready to take their picture. They looked around to make sure no one was coming, then one of them said, “Take the picture!” as she flashed me. So… I took the picture, screamed, and turned red.

Fudge Gnome!

Angela Duncan — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 17:48:32 +0000

Mom & Laura Visit

Angela Duncan — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 17:45:50 +0000

Awesome time! Not so pleasant weather, but it could have been much worse. It was great.

Spam E-Mail

Angela Duncan — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:13:39 +0000

Hi my name is Cialis Softabs.

Really? That’s funny. I don’t know a Cialis Softabs.

Next Move

Angela Duncan — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 03:40:06 +0000

I love to plan things. Long-term things, mostly. I leave the short-term things up in the air. But the long-term things that I keep in the back of my mind are like little anchors and markers of progress. This time, my long-term plans are longer than usual. But they’re still there.

So, I’ll be done with my work here on Halloween. Then… short-term adventuring.

Honor, the hometown, to pass out Halloween candy on a big porch with family.

Grand Rapids, to have good times with my lovely grandparents.

Lansing, a comfortable home-like place to sleep on couches and sew things back together, like bottoms of jeans and new curtains for friends. Listen to friends play music again, which I’ve been missing for quite a while now. Not much of that going on here! I’ve kept up the clarinetting much more here, though. The hootnanny flute-o-phone thing.

Minneapolis, with Melissa, to check the place out. Maybe I’ll live there come January. I’m not afraid of snow. Maybe I’ll find a mountain nearby to board down on weekends.

Cary, North Carolina, where the streets are clean and the opportunities are endless. That’s the way Barbara, my 78 year-old sweetheart of a suitemate, makes it sound.

Sometime, I’ll fly to Colorado with my grandma to see my Aunt Sue and her family. And for Thanksgiving, friends are gathering in Lansing from California. Can’t wait for these things.

These are short-term, happy things to look forward to. They are also real life, and real opportunities. Along the way, maybe I will find a place too lovely to leave. That will be fine, too, like a long-term plan. Find a place that is just awesome, and have a career and all of that. These places I’m visiting are also places of potential work. I’m not just loafing and floating around.

Most importantly, I want to keep learning French, how to do calligraphy, & play in an orchestra.

Phew. That’s… about it!

The Great Weekend

Angela Duncan — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:15:44 +0000

Friday night, Ian & Laura checked into the Grand. We had great times that night, listening to some big band jazz & being classy.

The next day, John & Kellie arrived like great warriors of the lake. They slept at my place, after hours of euchre and stargazing.

The two couples are friends of each other, and it was a nice coincidence that they came on the same weekend. Yep!

Here is a tasty snack of our adventures:

Crazy

Angela Duncan — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:30:03 +0000

Taken this morning! Bunches of employees had me taking their pictures outside this morning, so they took one of me afterwards. I look really tired, because I am, and I’m going home!

Uncle John and Cousin Foo Visit

Angela Duncan — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:13:29 +0000

I had visitors last Thursday & Friday. They stayed downtown, with a great room on the water, thanks to my buddy Matt working there. We talked about tourists and ate fish sandwiches, then I showed them the hotel and we walked around for a while. So awesome!