I ate TWO gigantic sandwiches.

I disc jockeyed a wedding for Catherine Jonaitis and Brian Lutz on the 23rd of September at the North Shore Country Club. Her- cute, timid, art history major... I liked her. Him- friendly, funny, helicopter pilot... I liked him, too. They were a fun couple and had a lot of fun people at the wedding, the only blah part of it was that I felt the space was rather boring. But who cares? The components for making a great party are: people, music, booze, food and lighting. If all of those are great then the rest of it is small potatoes. Tobey (my fabulous assistant) and I rocked the night away. We had a crowd so itching to dance that they couldn't wait for the dancefloor to open. It was packed all night long. The only blemish in the night was this: one of my favorite tracks to play (Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough by Michael Jackson) just stopped after 15 seconds of playing. It did this twice. After restarting it (the second time) it played through, thankfully. My body was washed over in absolute panic for the rest of the song. I thought to myself, Oh God, what if it's the CD? What if it's my CD player? What am I going to do? If it was the CD, no problem, I just put on another song and move on with the night. But if it was my player, I was essentially screwed. My ipod is dead and I didn't have a discman with me. I would have to give Tobey my keys and 20 bucks, tell her to find a Walgreens (out in the burbs), buy a discman and get her ass back here a.s.a.p. all the while trying to make due changing out CD's with a single player. Luckily, everything went well the rest of the night but that moment left me feeling like I had walked out in front of a bus and it stopped just as the bumper touched my clothes.

I live by the motto "Learn something new every day" and I wish I could say I followed it, unfortunately this is a situation I've been in before (except my CD player did actually die and I sent my assistant at the time over to the Walgreens right across the street to by a discman) and earlier in the day on the 23rd I actually thought to myself 'I should go buy a CD player just in case one of mine dies on me while I'm out in the burbs.' Why didn't I take my own advice? Even though everything turned out ok, I could have bypassed my panic by stopping in for five minutes and buying a backup. So, I guess I did learn something-Always follow your instincts and never leave home without a discman, you never know when you might be out in the burbs not knowing where your closest Walgreens is located.

-Lucy Wieczorek aka DJ WAK