So Hoff, who directed the Women's Chorale at Coe, died in his home earlier this week. For those of you less schooled in the subtleties of writing and speaking, that's usually code for "suicide" and that was confirmed for me today about twenty minutes ago. There are Coe alums all over the internet buzzing about it, and I already tweeted and wrote on ( Read more... )

Augh tomorrow.

Nobody is answering my phone calls about calling for the "for rent" ads on the website. I've left messages and I'm pretty much pissed off that they won't even call me back. My parents both tell me that we'll work it out, but I just like having my ducks in a row. To quote grrm, we can't have crooked ducks.

Speaking of grrm, more casting ( Read more... )

Today I went to CR to pick up my sister. Oh my gosh you guys, my baby sister is ~done with her first year of undergrad. I'm so proud of her, she's done so well at college. She and her roommate are rooming again next year, she got lucky. Abby's a nice girl ( Read more... )

Good things about today ( Read more... )

Man. I am exhausterated (TAKE THAT, BUSH) but for my dime, Gaelic Storm is THE best show around. That said, I don't go see that many bands, and the venue I have now seen them twice in is very intimate -- I have no idea how many, but my guess has to be that it can't be seating THAT many people, I mean, small town Iowa opera house, hello.

phiremangston and her ( Read more... )

I'm sitting here at Panera in Davenport (I work at 1 so I had to ride down with my brother in the morning, long story short) and I just turned to look out the window and it was SNOWING. Just a little. But it was definitely snowing. And then I glared outside and it stopped. :D We'll see how long that lasts. Also, I was standing in line to get a ( Read more... )

( Grad school freakout. )

kay_cricketed said it best:

The metaphor in this is that COE SHOULD COST TEN DOLLARS, LIKE MOST RESPECTABLE HOOKERS.

Arrrrrrrrgh;salkdjf

I went back to Coe tonight to see the play and it was marvelous. We have talented actors at Coe and this was an especially momentous occasion, as it was the first time we did plays by black playwrights. Florence and The Dutchman were both staged as a joint venture called A Dream Deferred, A Race Derailed. A couple of years ago ( Read more... )