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Thursday afternoon violetclm and I went over to Cabrillo for the premiere of a documentary (sorry, you have to be a Facebook user to access that event-listing link) just completed by nitoya2, plaidsupersquid, nbm91, and friends, on the extremely-high-and-getting-higher cost of textbooks, its effects on college students, and what can be done about it.
The beginning was delayed about a half hour by some technical difficulties (if I've got this right, they were still tweaking the music until the very last minute, and then had to wait for the DVD image to be prepared and a DVD to finish burning), but this actually worked out very well, because they took the opportunity to talk a little about the making of the documentary and take questions from the audience. Some of the Cabrillo instructors in the audience were quite vocal during this question-and-answer period, and it was great to hear/see how enthusiastic they were about the documentary, about taking steps to reduce textbook costs, and about nitoya2 and plaidsupersquid and their work on the textbook committee and student senate in addition to the documentary -- they got called "rock stars", and that nitoya2 will definitely be missed come fall when she joins violetclm in Portland-college-student-ness (though at Reed's "friendly rival" Lewis and Clark rather than Reed).
plaidsupersquid's doctor mother arrived in full and apparently-bloody hospital scrubs, but I was assured that the "blood" was actually melted chocolate. Speaking of such things, the other way they dealt with the delay was to repeatedly urge the audience to enjoy the refreshments -- I was happy to help out by eating many platefuls of chips and guacamole, pepper-jack sandwiches, and lemon-chocolate-almond tart slices.
The documentary was well done, and ran about a half hour, alternating facts and figures with interviews with students and instructors/administration. It should be viewable online fairly soon, but I think they want to do a little more last-minute music tweaking first.
Afterward violetclm and I headed back downtown so he could catch the Hwy 17 bus to San Jose, and eventually a flight to Connecticut for a cousin's Bar Mitzvah. Getting downtown about 40 minutes before the Hwy 17 Bus left, we walked around talking and seeing if he could luck into any last-minute typical random runnings into of friends before finding himself suddenly on the other side of the country. Not this time, nope, but after his bus was no longer in sight for me to wave to, during the 15 minutes before my own bus home I ran into Eli and family while picking up some bananas for broccolipwns at New Leaf, and then was reunited with plaidsupersquid on the bus.
The beginning was delayed about a half hour by some technical difficulties (if I've got this right, they were still tweaking the music until the very last minute, and then had to wait for the DVD image to be prepared and a DVD to finish burning), but this actually worked out very well, because they took the opportunity to talk a little about the making of the documentary and take questions from the audience. Some of the Cabrillo instructors in the audience were quite vocal during this question-and-answer period, and it was great to hear/see how enthusiastic they were about the documentary, about taking steps to reduce textbook costs, and about nitoya2 and plaidsupersquid and their work on the textbook committee and student senate in addition to the documentary -- they got called "rock stars", and that nitoya2 will definitely be missed come fall when she joins violetclm in Portland-college-student-ness (though at Reed's "friendly rival" Lewis and Clark rather than Reed).
plaidsupersquid's doctor mother arrived in full and apparently-bloody hospital scrubs, but I was assured that the "blood" was actually melted chocolate. Speaking of such things, the other way they dealt with the delay was to repeatedly urge the audience to enjoy the refreshments -- I was happy to help out by eating many platefuls of chips and guacamole, pepper-jack sandwiches, and lemon-chocolate-almond tart slices.
The documentary was well done, and ran about a half hour, alternating facts and figures with interviews with students and instructors/administration. It should be viewable online fairly soon, but I think they want to do a little more last-minute music tweaking first.
Afterward violetclm and I headed back downtown so he could catch the Hwy 17 bus to San Jose, and eventually a flight to Connecticut for a cousin's Bar Mitzvah. Getting downtown about 40 minutes before the Hwy 17 Bus left, we walked around talking and seeing if he could luck into any last-minute typical random runnings into of friends before finding himself suddenly on the other side of the country. Not this time, nope, but after his bus was no longer in sight for me to wave to, during the 15 minutes before my own bus home I ran into Eli and family while picking up some bananas for broccolipwns at New Leaf, and then was reunited with plaidsupersquid on the bus.