For all of you out there just wondering, Schmeckfest went fine. I think the musical got a little bit better every night. Jesse, my music partner, continued to amaze me with his constant level of anxiety. I played in a lot more songs than he did so he probably just got bored. Jesse would often think I had missed an entrance and then freak out. Occasionally I did (considering my moderate clarinet playing skill level), but most of the time I was counting okay and ended up getting annoyed and distracted by him jumping up and down in his seat and slapping his knees. Another Jesse quirk happened before songs. About five minutes before a song he would suddenly jump up into tenor sax playing position and get ready to play. I would say something like, "Jesse, I don't think you play in this song." He would then relax ... until the next song he did not play in.
Last Saturday Rob and I were recruited by Reed to help with the Schmeckfest sausage making. Rob ground the meat, mixed up the sausage and put it through the press. I packaged, weighed and priced the sausage. I got tired of standing on my feet all afternoon, but it was a lot of fun, shooting the shit with Larry Hofer, Bruce Hofer, Les Rensink and some other guy I did not know. Everybody was giving everyone else such a hard time. It was fun and humbling all at the same time.
After a rousing weekend in Freeman I headed to Brookings on Sunday night to see Jeremy. On my way there I had a car accident. I saw the car in front of me hit the brakes so I did the same. Then I realized that they were slowing down really quickly so I looked at the road to figure out what was going on and I saw about 15 deer cross the interstate. In the final split second when I knew I was not going to stop in time I looked for other options. I was in the left lane, there was a car in the right lane and some of the deer were still in the ditch to my left so I decided to just stay in my lane and try to stop before hitting the car in front of me. My plan did not work and I did hit the car in front of me.
Since I am the one who rammed into the car in front of me it is my fault. I was going pretty slow by that time so no one was injured and it's not like the Malibu is totaled or anything, but now I have all this insurance shit to deal with. Grrrrr.... I was pretty frustrated Sunday and Monday, but I'm better now and if I need to take out a loan or get a second job or something to pay for all this I guess that is what I will have to do. I have seriously had been in too many accidents involving deer. I think this is going to be a lifelong curse for me. If you are ever in a car I am driving or riding in, BEWARE!
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sorry about your car accident! i'm glad no one was hurt though.
you came up the other night when i was at mark jantzen's house (he and his wife have taken to inviting the young adults from our church over to their house). brian and i were there and sam schrag and rachel voth. we were asking mark about lame excuses students had given him for reasons they didn't turn in their homework. this sounds bad, like you were one of them, but you weren't. he said one of the worst excuses was "there was no paper in the printer in the computer lab." no duh, there's never paper in there. you supply it yourself. anyway, he said he doesn't care what kind of paper it comes in on--pull some out of the recycling or something. then he said, "there was someone who always turned in papers on convo posters." he spent a while trying to figure out who it was, asked sam if it was him (i think sam tried to take some credit here; i guess he'd turned in some papers like that), and then i suggested it was probably you since you posted for convo. yep, that's who he was thinking of. good story, huh?
-ern
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