the college down the road

Lately I'm excited about the weekend- long series of concerts that will be held at UNC - Greensboro to honor Laszlo Varga, former cellist for the NYPhilharmonic, and the local film fest to be held this week. I am excited to see Varga perform in some of the concerts. At the others, all- cello orchestras are playing pieces that he adapted. This is their schedule. This guy is cello- crazy! Apparently the director of music at UNCG is cello- crazy, too. He holds these "cellobrations" every couple of years and has contributed to UNCG's music library, which holds "the largest body of cello music in the world". I am glad that they are a bit cheezy about this ("Cello there!") because maybe Varga will be encouraged to mess around with the students and talk about working with Leonard Bernstein. I loved "West Side Story" as a kid, and still do.

I'll miss terribly the fun of getting to share these experiences with friends. I'd love to see these 10 minute short films with my friends and then have a beer at a fun pub afterwards and discuss it all. What little clip would make Melsie shut her eyes and laugh? What cinematic perspective would inspire Alejandra with new vision? Which ideas would have Paul scouring the internet, and coming up with 100 more, even more fascinating ideas? And I'm just pulling out the obvious things that tantalize me at this moment -- I miss EVERYONE. The delicious perspectives of my friends are so dear to me.

Yesterday it was so sunny that I decided to pick up lunch at the deli from the college, up the street, and snapped some pictures along my way.


This is Elon College, and I'm on W. College Ave heading toward West Lebanon Ave. Eerily familiar for the Dartmouth kids!


Elon just changed their mascot and team name from "the fighting Christians" to "the phoenixes." I love the pheonixes, and they'd be in close competition with tigers in my mind. But I used to get amused imagining the fighting christians taking on the blue devils of Duke in an apolocylptic smash-up. However, the blue devils are bigger and better at sports, so my imaginary outcome isn't much of a mystery.


I enjoyed my sunny little walk. Probably like any college, there are some kids here who think they are pretty cool. It's funny. A kid in an audi cluelessly stole my parking space, and I honked him. That was my first honk of NC!


In the picture below, right in front of the building, there is a yellow haze -- that's a volleyball net. There is a huge sandpit for it, also. I'm not sure if they have it up all year, or if people actually play in the winter.