Time To Say Good-bye (to classes that is)

Bowling, Bocelli and Bombs, Oh My!

Woo hoo! I am free from classes! I had my last final exam yesterday so I am 66% done with Grad School (and so far averaging ‘with merit’ grades). I did well on my final essay, which looked at re-branding a theatre. The exam went ok - I will find out my grade in about a month. I even worked in the final quote from “Casablanca” into one of my answers (it was about Customer Relationship Management)! So now it’s just a 15,000-word thesis to go….Had a good interview today with the general manager of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Theatre Group. I even saw Sir ALW’s piano! Dan was really helpful and fun to chat with (and a bit of a dead-ringer for our friend Chris Lidy). It was all I could do not to shout out “Hire me, please hire me!”

This past weekend my classmates and I were shouting and celebrating with some of the aforementioned B’s. Friday was spent at Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes, where yours truly had the highest scores of the evening (might have been as I was the only American bowling and it’s in my blood..lol). Saturday a few of us scored tickets to see Andrea Bocelli at the new O2 Arena (the structure formerly known as the Millennium Dome in Greenwich). It was a fantastic concert of “Andrea and Friends” and those friends included Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and James Galway, who brought down the house with his solo of Danny Boy. When Andrea closed the show with all his friends singing “Time to Say Goodbye” there was not a dry eye in the arena (which is a fantastic, gi-normous new facility).

Of course all of this has been overshadowed by the bomb incidents here in London and in Glasgow, but Life Goes On and I’m adopting the British Stiff Upper Lip and going about business as usual.

Hope you all are doing well and wishing you all a Happy, Safe and Wonderful Fourth of July! Have a hot dog for me! And could someone please send some sunshine 'across the pond?' It's now day 314 of cold, rainy weather! So much for English summers and global warming!