Wetsy got her first official post-college employment on Friday, when she and Betsy were hired to keep Marcy Currier, world's most awesome tarot reader, awake and entertained as she drove back and forth all night between gigs in Connecticut and NY. Wetsy sat in the backseat and sang her repertoire on a miniature guitar, in the dark, as they flew over bumpy, winding dirt roads. Then she rapped some Biggie Smalls. They turned on ecstatic chant to Ganesha right around the time the gas light appeared, and sure enough, the elephant god manifested an open mobile station at the next exit. 
Betsy and Wetsy traipsed around the convenience store in the pink wig, took some video for the web series, and soon they were off again, discussing the wily ways of the Universe and listening to Salt n Pepa. There were some minor road-work related obstacles (where were you on THOSE, Ganesh?!), but they arrived in New London by 2:30, whereupon Marcy went straight to bed for an hour of sleep before rising again for her gig at a post-prom party, aka answering existential conundrums whilst keeping post-prom libidos at bay. Betsy and Wetsy tucked into some chicken parmesan before following suit, and by 7:30 the teenager's questions were answered ("Actually, I don't know OR care what you're thinking, and yes, you ARE going to die"), Dunkin Donut's coffee was in hand, and the car was on the road again bound for Omega. All in all it was great fun, and the best 20$ Betsy and Wetsy have ever made. Their work performance was almost flawless, except for the one minor incident in which an over-excited Wetsy hit Betsy on the arm that was being used for driving. Marcy suggested that on their next gig, Wetsy might want to re-think this particular impulse.
That's the news from Omega-land; Wetsy crashed for a few hours before hitting the road again, to drive the rest of the Taconic parkway north and then continuing on to New Hampshire. She has three days in which to get her tent and Wetsy essentials together before returning to the magical forest for the end of June. Who knows what this round has in store?
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