weekend and such

[jazzfish]

I don't know
Where to go
So I guess I'll stay right here

Spent all last week rearranging the Waldenstore, for the third time since I've been working there. Nearly all the shelves got scooted around, and every section except Local Interest was relocated. I speculate that the actual goal is to keep the customers so confused that they have to wander through the entire store to find what they're looking for, thereby looking at a bunch of things they wouldn't normally be looking at. The layout mostly looks nicer but wasn't worth the hassle, and I've had several people complain already about moving things around. Between this and the discontinuation of the Preferred Reader discount program, I can only assume that Borders Group Inc would like very much for their smaller stores to go out of business as quickly as possible.

I close the door I find a chair I sit
The music's on and I try not to think
About how long it's been that I've been alone
But while the song is on I get along

Afterwards, a busy weekend. nixve came down from Arlington, which was cool. Student Showcase on Friday, wherein I and a few other Spielenvolk sit behind a table, play smallish games, and try to attract new members over the din of the various dance teams. From what I saw it went pretty well; we had several (in excess of ten) people express interest in the hour or so that I was there. Satyrday we had a Game Day, and several of those new people even showed up. Largest Game Day in awhile: we had an eighteen-person game of Thing going at one point. Much fun. Also got to play Carabande with the Action Set (includes a jump and a couple of narrow sections of track). We'd set up the track in a figure-eight, with the jump as the crossroads. Failing to clear the jump and landing on the track beneath meant you got to do that half of the course again. Good times.

"That two-beat pattern is in every rock-and-roll number."

Highlight of the weekend was definitely the Dar Williams concert on Sunday evening. Heard about it Friday morning, and thought "Hm, Lexington's not that far. Maybe . . . " Tickets turned out to be $24 and still available, so Sunday after work we drove out to Lime Kiln Theatre. Great show: an outdoor performance, with only about 300 people in the audience. Everyone sang along to "The Christians and the Pagans." I cried my eyes out at "February." Wonderful. I should see more shows in places like that.

I'm at the club I'm in the crowd alone
Waiting for the music to come up
'Cause once the song's begun the group is one
And once the song is done the group is gone

Comments

[jazzfish]

*nod*
If I hadn't been living primarily in a Netless bubble all weekend, and a non-updating-LJ bubble for a week or so, I would've mentioned something beforehand.
And yes, definitely with the awesomeness. (New album in a couple weeks, too!)

[salzara-tirwen.livejournal.com]

I haven't heard all her stuff... don't have oodles of cash lying around and when I do it generally disappears at bead stores. I've got Mortal City and The Honesty Room on cd and a few other tracks on a tape somewhere.

[jazzfish]

Heh. Those are actually the two that I've got. (I've actually got a burned copy of Honesty Room, because when some b*****d stole my eight-year-old discman out of my car that was the CD in it. Still got the jewelcase, though.)

She played a bunch of stuff from _Beauty of the Rain_ that sounded quite good. Think I'll have to pick that one up next.