All around pleasant day
Aug. 24th, 2005 10:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billeylerRan over to the Student Union Building (a whole 2 minute walk) to see ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
abqdan's setup for the new student orientation. Always very clever!
Noodled around all day at work with various non-critical doin's. This year is SO much less stress than last year this time, when the entire university admin was trying to learn it's way through this new Finance system.
Worked about 30 minutes on the Bass line of the "Star Spangled Banner" when I got home. I had never done this version before, so I still had the one I learned in '99 in my head. Found online that the poem of "Star Spangled Banner" has FOUR verses, not one! What's that all about!
Danny dropped me off at the Isotopes ballpark (a whole 3 minutes from our house) on his way to pick up our tuxes for the cruise. The slight stress was all for naught...we went in, fidgited around for about 45 minutes, then exactly at 7pm, we 12 sang our little hearts out. Even though we were announced as "New Mexico Gay Men's Chorus," there wasn't a peep from anyone other than the loud applause whenever the SSB is done at a ball park.
Being in theatre, I'm used to a WHOLE different crowd. The curtain rises at 8; 99% of the people are in their seats at 8...they are TRAINED. It's not that way at a ball park at all...at least not here. There were maybe 200 or so in seats scattered thru the stadium when we sang at 7. Most of the chorus stayed (we had free tix...even the 'hired help' has to have a ticket), but I opted to go home to have dinner with Danny. Leaving, there were still many dozens of people trickling in from the parking lots...with probably lots more to come. Who needs to see the first two innings anyway! And since it's the Albuquerque Isotopes v the Memphis Redwings (I had to ask), doesn't sound like a barnburner like "Mamma Mia" or "Cats"...
I have to say that this new ball stadium is really a grand work. It's a year old*, interesting to look at, colorful, clean, has a view of the mountains that Danny would kill to have, the fields were ultra-green and pristine, the weather was good in spite of an earlier threatening cloud, the ball players were yummy to look at with a minimum of chawing and spitting that I could see. I can see how a family might like a get-away evening to something like this. BUT I did note that in spite of a fairly high cost for a walk-up ticket, there were still expense programs to buy, expensive snacks and drinks to buy, and no telling what else to lighten that wallet...
Did the group email on AOL to let the Thursday c/w students know what was coming up...all is good. I had actually sat down two hours ago to do that email, but of course got distracted by the first email I got when I logged on!
So now to see if I can still fit in the tux pants I was fitted for on Sunday!
* the old ball park that housed the Albuquerque Dukes for a couple of decades was deemed by potential new ball clubs to be vastly inferior, and they wouldn't even bid to be an farm team if they had to come to that nasty old stadium (built in 1967!). It originally started as a joke made by the mayor based on a Simpsons episode that any new ball team would be called the Isotopes. And lo and behold they are! I think nobody really cared enough to think of another name.
Anyway, the old stadium had a hocus-pocus bond issue passed, was torn down in a matter of days, and a new 10,000 seat one popped up in its place. The out-of-town (Canada!) ball clubs thought that this new one was worthy $34 million dollars later, and here we are today with this grand ball club no one is particular connected with yet...I wonder how the old ABQ Dukes are doing in Portland, Oregon, where they emigrated...
abqdan's setup for the new student orientation. Always very clever!Noodled around all day at work with various non-critical doin's. This year is SO much less stress than last year this time, when the entire university admin was trying to learn it's way through this new Finance system.
Worked about 30 minutes on the Bass line of the "Star Spangled Banner" when I got home. I had never done this version before, so I still had the one I learned in '99 in my head. Found online that the poem of "Star Spangled Banner" has FOUR verses, not one! What's that all about!
Danny dropped me off at the Isotopes ballpark (a whole 3 minutes from our house) on his way to pick up our tuxes for the cruise. The slight stress was all for naught...we went in, fidgited around for about 45 minutes, then exactly at 7pm, we 12 sang our little hearts out. Even though we were announced as "New Mexico Gay Men's Chorus," there wasn't a peep from anyone other than the loud applause whenever the SSB is done at a ball park.
Being in theatre, I'm used to a WHOLE different crowd. The curtain rises at 8; 99% of the people are in their seats at 8...they are TRAINED. It's not that way at a ball park at all...at least not here. There were maybe 200 or so in seats scattered thru the stadium when we sang at 7. Most of the chorus stayed (we had free tix...even the 'hired help' has to have a ticket), but I opted to go home to have dinner with Danny. Leaving, there were still many dozens of people trickling in from the parking lots...with probably lots more to come. Who needs to see the first two innings anyway! And since it's the Albuquerque Isotopes v the Memphis Redwings (I had to ask), doesn't sound like a barnburner like "Mamma Mia" or "Cats"...
I have to say that this new ball stadium is really a grand work. It's a year old*, interesting to look at, colorful, clean, has a view of the mountains that Danny would kill to have, the fields were ultra-green and pristine, the weather was good in spite of an earlier threatening cloud, the ball players were yummy to look at with a minimum of chawing and spitting that I could see. I can see how a family might like a get-away evening to something like this. BUT I did note that in spite of a fairly high cost for a walk-up ticket, there were still expense programs to buy, expensive snacks and drinks to buy, and no telling what else to lighten that wallet...
Did the group email on AOL to let the Thursday c/w students know what was coming up...all is good. I had actually sat down two hours ago to do that email, but of course got distracted by the first email I got when I logged on!
So now to see if I can still fit in the tux pants I was fitted for on Sunday!
* the old ball park that housed the Albuquerque Dukes for a couple of decades was deemed by potential new ball clubs to be vastly inferior, and they wouldn't even bid to be an farm team if they had to come to that nasty old stadium (built in 1967!). It originally started as a joke made by the mayor based on a Simpsons episode that any new ball team would be called the Isotopes. And lo and behold they are! I think nobody really cared enough to think of another name.
Anyway, the old stadium had a hocus-pocus bond issue passed, was torn down in a matter of days, and a new 10,000 seat one popped up in its place. The out-of-town (Canada!) ball clubs thought that this new one was worthy $34 million dollars later, and here we are today with this grand ball club no one is particular connected with yet...I wonder how the old ABQ Dukes are doing in Portland, Oregon, where they emigrated...
