My high school is doing the musical Cats this fall. When mom found out, she really really wanted to see it. She's never seen it and tried to get my dad or me to attend with her. Sorry, I've never had an interest. (When you've taken a class on musicals and your big project is to fix a problem musical, and it's an Andrew Lloyd Webber show-- ( Read more... )

Back at Homecoming, when I saw my classmate Dave at the game, he mentioned that there would be an invitational concert involving NCC alums. Many of our fellow musicians went on to teach band at the grade and middle school level, or perhaps are teaching elsewhere; there are just a handful of high school band directors out of the bunch, at least in ( Read more... )

I am so far behind that it's been five weeks and I'm only just writing about it. I know I touched on Erik's memorial service on the day it happened, but I didn't go into it quite like I'd wanted to. Considering that happened during the week that July went to pot for me, well, it's no surprise. But I want to remember the trip in and of itself, ( Read more... )

My friend Sven used to hold Halloween parties, back when we were in our 20s, and two of them stand out to me. The first, I don't recall the exact year, probably 2001 or 2002; one of the partygoers was on prescription meds and was drinking and ended up projectile vomiting, causing us to call the paramedics, then sit around watching The Usual ( Read more... )

Ways to make yourself feel old: Realize it's 20 years to the day since you graduated high school.

Saturday was a busy day. In between baking biscotti and Handel-ing the Messiah, I set out on a dorky quest. See, my town was very excited for the football team's victory, to the point where a number of marquees and displays were up congratulating them. Just on my way home, I'd pass one of the fire stations and a liquor store with celebratory ( Read more... )

Not everyone could. But it was a fun exercise ( Read more... )

Like the last time I had a concert, I had something else going on afterward. At least this concert was shorter than last time, as the band itself (rather, selected volunteers from it) also had something else afterward! The concert started at 3 and we were under orders to be done no later than 4:10. We ended just before 4, phew. I think it went ( Read more... )

My high school's football team won the 6A state championship!

Woo-hoo!

Go Bulldogs!

( It wasn't just raining ice pellets yesterday! )