Lady Gaga and Electricity

Today's post will have two stories that are completely unrelated to each other.

1) Yesterday, a couple of friends and I were invited to a little get together/bbq to celebrate another friend's bday. Personally, I will take every opportunity I can to get out of eating at the dining facility (cafeteria style food is never good. they cook quantity, not quality). Anyways, we show up and just hang out while we wait for the food to finish cooking. No big deal. One of the higher-ups throwing the party starts talking and directs us to his laptop, where he says we have to watch a music video that he swears is the best thing out there. Much to my amazement, the music video he wants us to watch is the latest Lady Gaga video "Telephone." First , what old-guy listens to lady gaga/likes her music/knows who she is? Well, we start watching the video. its entertaining, but even more entertaining was the old guy. He knew ever word to the lyrics! every word to the music video! and he even knew the dances! WOW. who would have thought that a man who sort of resembles santa clause could bust a move like lady gaga. my friends and i are too stunned to know what to do. i could feel myself and my friends tensing up in awkwardness because we had no clue how to take this. And if you guys have seen the video, you know it isn't your typical music video...and it lasts for 10-ish minutes! AWKWARD!!!

2) be careful when you travel to a different country and try plugging something into the wall. other countries do not have the same voltage output as our sockets, so things go boom. A friend of mine may or may not have completely melted her curling iron the first day in country. Every time i plug my computer into the wall (which has a built in surge protector and regulator) a huge spark flies out of the socket. I know one of these days that shock is going to get me...