Live and Archived

    The last several weeks have been a little overwhelming.  Between my four classes and Glee Club, there seems to always be a test or paper or project or concert every week, sometimes two in one week.  The projects and tests are not particularly interesting to talk about, but the concerts may be a little more interesting to you.  For one, we performed Brahms’s Ein Deutches Requiem once again, this time in downtown Chicago at the Symphony Center, and the previous performance in Edman Chapel (on Wheaton’s campus last November) is now online: http://www.wheaton.edu/wetn/conservarchive.htm (November 20).  Also, our spring concert will be this Friday at 8:00 (6:00 AZ time).  The performance should be broadcast live, so if you want to watch it or part of it you can go to http://www.wheaton.edu/wetn and click the watch live link.  It should be a fun concert.  We have a really wide variety of songs in Glee Club.  We performed two in chapel today.

    I wanted to put some sort of picture in here, but this is the only one that I have taken recently.  This is Ryan Bilton carrying Josh Hershberger and Sam Cortez, and Bryce Walpus is touching Sam’s head.  A few comments.  Sam is going to be one of my roommates next year, Lord wiling.  In our last raid, Ryan played a significant role, and one of the other guys on our floor sang the song “Gaston” from Beauty and the Beast, replacing the word Gaston with Bilton. I also have been reading a few Father Brown stories for a reading group at the Wade Center, in one of them, detective Valentin mentions a caper of the extremely brilliant and athletic master criminal Flambeau in which he carried two policemen down the street, one under each arm.

    It snowed today….  Everyone here feels as if spring has betrayed us.  We had two weeks of very nice weather, then this afternoon, it got a bit chilly, just enough for me to contemplate wearing a sweater.  Then when I looked out the window a few hours later the snow had returned.  I don’t think any more than an inch fell, but it’s the principle of the matter.  The last remnants of winters hold on our campus had begun to disappear, the former eight foot mounds of snow had been reduced to tiny piles a few inches in diameter and then completely obliterated, but now reinforcements have come, and we must brace ourselves for one more skirmish against this foe.  We must keep our fleece armor at the ready and our heaters vigilant.

From the front lines,

Daniel Flavin