Recent Events

I'm feeling very virtuous today because yesterday I went and helped out at a Habitat house build. It was in an enclave with about 20 Habitat houses down the street from me about 1/2 mile. So, even though we had to be there at the crack of damn dawn (8:30 am) and it was toe & finger numbing cold, I set my alarm and got there on time. It warmed up nicely, especially after the copious rain we'd had over the last two weeks. I nailed stuff and then wound up running the table saw (fun; hadn't ever done one before). Finished up about 1pm when the knees said they'd been good for long enough. Trudged my way home, ate, took aspirin and a shower, and fell into bed for a two-hour nap. Still feeling some residual creakiness but not too bad.

Have applied for the bookstore job at the Grand Canyon because I have some wonderful friends who've volunteered gas money to get me there. I'm so lucky. And thanks much to them (they know who they are).

Very excited because this coming Thursday, I'm driving off to WCU in Cullowhee to see Savion Glover. I mean SAVION GLOVER!! In Cullowhee, yet. He's the greatest and most avant garde tap dancer working today, a direct heir of Gregory Hines. He was in the movie "Tap" with Hines but the movie also had Sammy Davis jr, Sandman Slim, Jimmy Slyde, one of the Nicholas Brothers, and other fabulous and famous hoofers. One of my all-time favorite films. If any of you saw "Happy Feet," Savion did the dancing for the lead penguin and choreographed all the dancing, though his credit was small and hidden, which I consider an outrage. Anyhow, he and his troupe are going to be in Cullowhee, for an absurdly low price, and I'm going to be there with my copy of "Tap" in hope I can get a signature but definitely to have a wonderful time.

TTFN