Trivia Newton-John

 

Today I worked on campus and walked with Seabird during our morning break and again at lunch. It was sunny out, but very cold. Whatever happened to a winter day just below freezing? What's with this "feels like single digits" stuff? Also, I was extra busy today because I agreed to help another colleague with her workload, but all the expense reports I needed to do for her were for one particular faculty member who apparently has no idea how to submit an expense report. Where do they get the idea that they can just request repayment for things without any evidence? So almost all of them are on hold while I wait for actual documentation of expenses and events.

This evening there was the monthly ukulele strum at Lone Girl, and today we sang songs about destinations. There was one called "Coconut Grove" that I had not heard before, but it triggered a long-ago memory of my band playing a St. Patrick's Day gig at a community center, and someone was asking us to play that song. None of us knew the song, and this gentleman was getting very frustrated, but the closest thing we could think of was that song about putting the lime in the coconut. Weird that even the older members of the band had no idea about this song, since it was before my time but seems like it should have been something from their era. Generally in my band we don't do "singalong" songs, so already this gentleman was kind of out of line - you wouldn't ask a symphony orchestra to play a song you could sing along to, would you? Then again, maybe he would. 

Travalon came right toward the end of our strum, then he and I went downstairs to have dinner. There is always a trivia game on Wednesday nights, and tonight one of the teams was called "Trivia Newton-John." I thought that was the best name for a trivia team that I'd ever heard. And if you don't get it, I don't know how to help you, but go watch the video for "Physical" by Olivia Newton-John right now, because it is peak 80's. I don't know if you will understand me completely after watching that video, but it was from my formative years, and I was in fact an aerobics addict in my teens. Kind of wish I still had that addiction...

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