denman forum, arena grand, stadium grass
That was a long long week. The denman forum was interesting to say the least. I got there around 8:30 and after setting up had to wait 3 hours before lunch…then it was another hour before the judging started. I got my judges in the first half hour of the two hour judging period, so I waited an hour and a half more before the reception in which Karen Holbrook informed us that we were “all winners.” Except most of us weren’t…including me. But, somewhere in the eight hours a photographer snapped the picture below…and the next day it was on the front cover of the lantern.
On thursday I took the toughest midterm in four years of school. The results (class mean, etc.) should be quite interesting. Since I was so frazzled by the midterm, we pushed up our viewing of the new matrix movie to Thursday night instead of Friday. To try something different we went to the Arena Grand theater downtown. Big mistake. Tickets were $6 each …plus a 75 cent “convenience charge” (each)…plus a 50 cent “service charge”….plus $1 to park in the parking garage. We ate dinner at the “cafe.” For $22 you get 2 bottles of water, a small veggie tray, a small wrap, and nacho chips. Everything was pretty lame quality (celeste’s celery sticks still had garden dirt stuck to them…). We finished dinner and got in line to get into the theater (not the building, but the actual screen room). We figured the food would be bad, but the brand new 65 foot screens would be awesome. And it would have been…if each theater had more than 50 seats. The screening rooms were the size of two in-ground swimming pools, and of course there were only 20 decent seats (the middle) in the whole room…which were taken by the first 20 people in there (i.e. NOT US). So, we watched the movie up close and all the way to the right. So, unless you are a gambler…I wouldn’t recommend Arena Grand…just go to the Lennox.
While I was waiting for the judges at the forum, I met Terence. He was invited to check out the forum after a meeting with athletic directors about the stadium turf. Turns out, the grass in the Shoe is fake Dupont grass, seeded with real grass in between.
Speaking of the Shoe, Celeste and I bought tickets to the season opener on August 30th, can’t wait.
