There are chezzes and there are chezzes. The usual chez has me sitting at my desk in the family room and Sailors sitting scattered about and Tik (pronounced teek) nastily biting anyone who forgets for even a second that there are monsters walking the earth. We gossip mindlessly for a while until finally getting down to business and talking about the resolution or whatever, interrupting ourselves with more gossip and we go along, plus solving the occasional medical emergency brought on by the cat. As a matter of fact, I’ve scheduled just such a chez for next week to discuss Sept-Oct with the assembled multitudes.
Last night, however, we had a chez of a different stripe. JV and O’C and Kaz came over to hammer out the curriculum for the MHL Workshop on 9/12. If you ask me, we did a pretty good job of it. Sure, we did have to have dinner first and gossip mindlessly for a while, but to tell you the truth, not much has transpired lately that you don’t already know about. Everyone’s aware, for instance, that Bill flew the Coop, or Coop flew the Arthur L, or whatever, for instance. A few programs that have been just under the radar may be resurfacing, which is a good thing, but there were no surprises there either. There was nothing as earth-shattering as O’C forswearing Disney princesses or anything else equally cataclysmic. And when Tik started attacking people and striking poses variously interpretable as either oddly cute or incipiently maleficent, I locked him out of the room for the rest of the night. So, mostly, we got down to business, and it’s looking awfully good. We should be able to publicize it by the end of the week, after we all polish it up. One big new thing is the addition of a, for lack of a better term, Senior Track. We’re going to invite teams to send their top varsity to help us scope out ideas for developing ModNov, and also brainstorm among themselves ways to train their novices. Since we’ve also got novices and JV and parents and coaches covered, in LD, PF and Policy, I think we’ve covered just about everything. As I say, I’ll send everything out by the end of the week. If you’re on the fence about being there, it’s time to cut bait, or whatever.
It was also nice to see a substantial portion of the Northeast’s Traveling Tabroom again after a long hiatus. We work together so much during the year, and I sort of miss everybody during the summer, since unlike them I get no forensics fix via any camps, aside from looking at the WTF site and trying not to gag. So just on a social level, it was fun. Damned hot, though. If I hadn’t known it was summer, last night would have set me straight.
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