September 21, 2012
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Busy weekend coming up!
Feast or famine, I swear.
I just got back from three days of training (me being trained, this time) in Alexandria, VA, where I got to meet up with my niece, whom I haven’t seen in a couple years, and an old friend from an online group that I’ve been a part of for over 14 years now. Got home Wednesday night, slept most of yesterday (I just can’t sleep when I travel) and then have a bunch of stuff to do starting today.
For two summers in a row, I’ve had a ‘mini-gathering’ of people from my high school class that are still in the area (although some have traveled up to 300 miles to come). Evidently, word got out that I was good at assembling these things, and next thing I know, I’m in charge of a reunion that includes all the classes in my high school from 1970 through 1979. We’re calling it “The Reunion of The Decade”. I knew there was no way I could plan this all on my own, so I recruited a few volunteers to help me. Tonight we are meeting at the Eagles club in my hometown to make preliminary plans. One of the members of the group was on the reunion committee for my class, and I’m hoping she will show up (she answered with ‘maybe’).
Tomorrow night is the 50th birthday celebration of a musician friend of ours. His wife is giving him a ‘surprise’ party, but I’m pretty sure he knows all about it because he sent me a private message that said “If Mary throws me a party, I hope you guys come!”
Sunday, our chorus is going to be singing in a small town’s Fall Market – it’s like a farmers market, art and craft show and carnival all in one. We’ll be just walking around and singing (a Capella) on street corners from 10am until 1pm.
I had hoped to have an “end of summer” barbecue or something but it looks like it’s not going to happen. So I guess instead I’ll start planning for a Halloween costume party. Didn’t have one last year and people have been asking me if I’m going to throw one this year.
My senior capstone project for my business degree was to build a (fictitious) party planning company (including business plans, projections, all the other stuff that goes along with it) called PartEASE (link is to the brochure we created). I didn’t think of the idea, someone else in my cohort group did, but it seems to be something I have fallen into. Maybe that is what I should do when I go into semi-retirement LOL
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Dear Sheryl,
First of all, I want to thank you for visiting my blog and leaving a comment on my essay “World Events When I Was 14″ To answer your question: Yes, it was Lt. Calley who led the massacre at My Lai. HERE is a good British article on the massacre.After years of my birthdate landing low on the lottery, the year I graduated from HS, I was number 3 and took my physical. I probably would have been able to get a student deferment, since I had just been accepted to USC on a state scholarship. I was granted not a 1A or 4F but a delay because I was seeing an orthodontist for dental work at the time. Early the next year, we pulled out, the draft was rescinded, and I never served in the military.Sounds like you’re a regular Dolly Madison. I was part of the planning committee for our 30th HS anniversary which was going to be held in September of 2001. (I graduated Class of 71) After 9/11 nobody was thinking about reunions. The next year, the Class of 70 invited 71 to their reunion, and I went. Only two other people from 71 came, and I only knew one of them. I didn’t know most of the Class of 70 who showed up. The internet wasn’t really ubiquitous back then but the planners only used the internet to hook up with alumni. A lot of our generation STILL doesn’t use computers or the internet, so I always thought they needed better planners. Kudos to you. I know from experience that planning get togethers is a lot of work.Michael F. Nyiri, poet, philosopher, fool