TGIF!
Good Friday to everyone. Beautiful day down here in Georgia, so I walked a bit instead of taking the bus all the way back to the music school today. Also got a free lunch -- listen to a band that was performing outside the Tate Center for a few minutes, fill out form with thoughts, get pizza ;) When I was at the music school I saw a flyer for a composition recital coming up.... since I'm a composer I would go to it, but... if it's anything like the previous composition recitals I've been to at UGA I would regret it. To put it simply -- the band I listened to at Tate today was many times more musical than anything I've heard at a composition recital, undergraduate or masters (or even what I've heard from faculty). That's why I'm not a composition major :P
Speaking of music... those in the Atlanta area, be happy, the Final Fantasy Dear Friends concert tour is coming there in June. If I can round up some friends (and get some money somehow) I'll go, hopefully :)
As I said earlier in the week, I'll be in Atlanta all day tomorrow at the Georgia Renaissance Festival, so things will be delayed. As if they're not delayed enough now as things are... I still haven't found my groove yet this season ;)
...random interesting tidbit about UGA. The Red & Black, the independent university newspaper put out an issue celebrating its 25 years of being independent, and in it they had a timeline of stories they covered. So...
Sept. 29, 1956 - Uga I (our bulldog mascot) debuts in a football game vs. Florida State
Jan. 9, 1961 - Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes, the first black students to attend the University, register for classes. Their enrollment ended 160 years of racial segregation at the University.
Then next after that...
March 7, 1974 - The University sets the national streaking record when 1,543 students ran a three-quarter mile course across campus with little more than a smile.
Something to be proud of, yes? My dad was a student at UGA when that happed. He didn't participate, he was just a spectator. Must've been quite a sight to see ;)
I think this is an opportune time to say...
"What's the good word?
To Hell with Georgia!"
^_^
Aaaa, ita!! Don't need none of you Tech folks around here :P... But since you're an anime fan I can forgive that, I suppose ;)
Bring me back a wench or two. :p
Hehe, I graduated from the University and of Tennessee and try not to mention it really to be polite to Matthew. :)
That timeline image is way too small for me to read, bummer, I was seriously interested, I'm a history buff. :) I know quite a few interesting things about UT's history that I managed to learn while there, and some I learned from my Mom who attended a year. Two of the more interesting ones, one in general, the other more of a personal thing:
1. The Art & Architecture departments were located in an old utility building that was in what is now the north curve of Neyland stadium. When they built them a new building they designed it themselves. The new building has lots of exposed pipes, some quite large, with an open interior so you see pipes going up roughly 5 stories (IIRC, it's somewhere between 4 and 6 from ground level). It LOOKS like a utility building in many ways. Knowing this bit of history explains the design, it suddenly makes some sense. I guess they found the utility building's interior inspiring. :P (Incidentally they also used many cantalevered offices out into the open space, many of which are now starting to sag. I forget if it was a design defect or if they ended up having more stuff in them weight-wise than was planned, but it was becoming a major concern when I graduated back in 1999).
2. Both I and my Mom were in the band, both Marching and Concert. Mom was there the year before they switched to artificial turf. I started at UT in 1995, the first year they switched _BACK_ to grass. So she was in the last band to march on grass at Neyland stadium up until they switched back and I was in the first band to march on grass in Neyland stadium since the 60's. Quite a coincidence there. :)