bjarvis: (Default)
bjarvis ([personal profile] bjarvis) wrote2008-06-30 11:56 pm
Entry tags:

Cleveland, Day 2

Today was the first day of the Gay Callers Association caller school. I'm not registered for this year but made myself available in the beginners' class to help wherever I could be useful.

The class today was lead by Betsy Gotta, assisted by Barry Clasper. It's been a long time since I've been with a group of absolute beginners: these brave souls are ramping up from absolute zero (in some cases), having to learn very quickly about timing of delivery, basic vocal technique, ins & outs of the hardware, music licensing and fundamentals of choreography. It's no easy task but this is an exceptionally sharp group and they did vastly better than I did at that level.

[livejournal.com profile] cuyahogarvr, [livejournal.com profile] kent4str and I had dinner with Charlene, a close of friend of [livejournal.com profile] cuyahogarvr at a chinese restaurant not far from his former office. Huge portions and good food: I was stuffed.

Despite the overabundance of dinner, the guys still insisted on going out for ice cream later tonight after we returned to Casa [livejournal.com profile] ohwolfman. No wonder this town is the fat capital of the US! Being saintly and a paragon of virtue, I deferred on the ice cream: the sugar at this time of night would simply keep me climbing the walls until tomorrow evening.

Bed time now... dawn comes early around here.

[identity profile] beldamon.livejournal.com 2008-07-01 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
This will be odd. This will be the first time for me attending Convention without being involved in Caller School. :) It'll be good to be back at convention this year, nonetheless.

My friend Bill Hunter and I will be leaving Wedndesday and likely checking in in the evening.