| | 1. I CAN stay awake through a whole concert!
We went to see a St. Louis Symphony Orchestra concert. At one point in the middle of a piece, the concertmaster managed to knock all of her sheet music off her stand and into the first row audience. I was hoping a few of those first row people would fight over the music and the winner would claim it as their own and get it signed by the violinist after the concert or something. Instead, one of them politely gathered the sheet music and placed it back on the stage. Oh well.
2. My family likes to play Settlers!
It did take a small while for my dad to learn the game. Excerpt of the lengthy conversation in which Apollo explained the game to him:
Dad - "Ok, so, what's the goal of this game?"
Apollo - "Basically, you want to build as many settlements and cities and possible."
Dad - "Uh huh. And how do I build these settlements?"
Apollo - "You buy them with your resources."
Dad - "Ah. How do I get resources?"
Apollo - "Well...by building settlements and cities."
Dad - "Wait...but...how do I build settlements, now?"
Apollo - "...You just...buy them...with resources."
Dad - "Ok. Ok. Remind me again how I get these resources?"
It went on like that for a bit.
3. Cats is ...kind of a disappointing musical.
I kind of suspected that beforehand, but we all went to go see it anyhow, and on the whole going to see a show really was fun. Anyhow, I'm guessing the draw of the musical must be the dancing. I know very little about dancing, so I probably couldn't appreciate it the way others could. It was certainly impressive and very difficult-looking, though. But if all you want is to listen to a good story told through song, look elsewhere. Cats has little story to it.
There was at least that one great point where Grizabella belted out the last verse of "Memory."
Yeah, that's about 30 seconds out of the whole 2 hour show.
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And now it's back to work. Apparently I'm expected to publish two papers next semester. My advisor says he has an idea for one that should be pretty quick and straightforward. Hope so.
Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving!
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