Expoundings

Okay, the first really cool thing I need to expound upon was the Natalie MacMaster concert I attended on Thursday evening. It was the most amazing thing I have ever experienced, and it pretty much convinced me that I need to become a Cape Breton style fiddler. (Note: Cape Breton is an island in Nova Scotia and is the heart of Irish/Scottish fiddling this side of the ocean)

We were front row, and the people next to me didn't mind my clapping and pretty much dancing in my chair. You can't hear that music and stay still. We even had the perfect angle to see the way she plays. I was flying all evening and even danced out to the car afterward.

Oh, and her pipe player was awesome too. I've never heard bagpipes played that way. And she broke four hairs on her bow during the show. Afterward I got one of the stage crew to give one of them to me. And then the pipe player came back out on stage and gave me a set list taped to the floor. We were the last ones to leave the hall.

Anyway, I did some fiddling of my own that evening, as we needed to rehearse/audition our variety show act, The Devil Went Down to Georgia. I think we should be able to pull it together, we just need to find a couple more times to practice. Adam is playing guitar and doing vocals, David is playing the piano part, and Joel is on drums. I am eternally grateful to all of them for helping me out.

Moving on to Friday...

Friday night was the 80's dance here in Sully. For more details, see Dianna's blog. After the dance I played a little DDR and then hung our with my friends far to late into the morning.

On Saturday my parents took me shopping and I bought a very expensive, but very cool, digital camera. It wasn't entirely impulsive, I'd been thinking about it for quite some time now. So I was playing with it while doing laundry at Grandma's house that evening. I got to take cute pictures of my little cousins, as they happened to be visiting Grandma this weekend. Oh, and Grandma is doing much better healthwise. She still can't do quite everything she used to, but she acts just as spunky as ever. ;)

That night a bunch of us went to the Firehouse and played games until they closed at midnight. Then we watched Aladin back at the dorm. It had been raining all day and at one point during the movie, Dianna got dripped on. There is apparently still one leak in our roof. So we put a tub under it and endured the dripping for the rest of the movie.

Sunday involved lunch with Dianna, Dianna's mom, Marc and Carrie. It also involved ear camdles, which I don't feel like describing right now. And then I worked in the writing center and helped my first student. And I did manage to get my own homework done through all this. At least, I got through the essentials, so I made it through the day.

I think that's enough for now. Tomorrow we leave early in the morning for the Nobel Conference. Details to follow when we return.

-Kim