Today is one of my favorite holidays - the first day of baseball! Woo-hoo! The Twins take the field momentarily... not that I'll be watching. Nope. Not at work. Never. To celebrate, here's a great clip from a minor league game last year with one of the most impressive manager tantrums I've ever seen.
I'm back from my librarian conference. I had a great time. I didn't really expect that. I figured it would be busy and boring with occasional interesting moments. But it was pretty much enjoyable through and through. Sessions were varied and interesting. John Waters gave a hilarious and filthy keynote "address" over lunch on Friday. Paul was a great roommate. I won a $100 Barnes and Noble gift certificate as a contestant on The Scopus Show. And I met two lovely young ladies at the very first activity I was at (a lunch sponsored by a vendor on Thursday afternoon), immediately struck up a friendship, and proceeded to hang out with them and Paul for the entire conference. Hooray for new friends! A big shout out to Amy and Tricia for being awesome conference mates.
In other news:
- Samantha is on her way back from Bloomington, Indiana, where she was cheerleading and helping out with the national collegiate fencing tournament. You can go ask her about that.
- We saw Guster at a free (!) show in LA a week and a half ago. This is one of the reasons LA is awesome -- your favorite bands come to town a lot.
- Our concert was a success, I guess. They applauded. Is that a success? We had fun going to a wine bar afterwards and chatting with other young, hip Chorale members.
- My callback for the Master Chorale went really well. But I won't hear about it until May 1st, because they won't know how many spots are available until then.
- I am singing an aria from Bach's St. Matthew Passion at church on Good Friday. Which aria? I can't show you, because I can't find a webpage that links directly to it. It's the last bass aria, I guess. Whee.
I really will post my AFI review next. Really.