OK, I know, it has been too long.  Sorry.  I leave tomorrow for the East Bay for two nights and have been preparing and worrying.  David has been attempting to be more independent as a way of making me feel better about the prospect of this job.  That is, of course, if it is offered to me.  I am hopeful, but not confident.  A good place to be, I think.  I perform better under a little pressure.  I have two days to woo them.  The first day is meeting with various staff members, Board Member and a representative from the city and the day ends with a reception.  Then, on the second morning, I have to make a presentation to members of the Board.  The one thing that I do find reassuring is that the questions that asked me to cover are almost all things that I talked about at my first interview.  I have been busy structuring the presentation, but I know that it will morph once I meet more of the folks there.

So, what else has been going on?  We lost two more softball games last Sunday, and yesterday, we didn’t have any games on account of the Greater Palms Springs Pride Parade.  David and I walked in the parade with the softball league, and you might have seen Donovan’s picture of us on Facebook and there are some more.  On last Monday and again today, we have been rehearsing with SongShine for the performance of Carousel in March.  SongShine is this program that works with folks who have Parkinson’s or stroke to help with speech through singing.  David enjoys it, but we sang June is Bustin’ Out All Over, and I have to say, that is one heck of a song!!  I am not sure if you have seen it, but on Youtube there is a video of Leslie Uggams singing if for some Independence Day concert, or something like that, and she just begins making up words.  Well, the words are so crazy, I have a newfound understanding of why she went up on the lyrics.

On Tuesday, we had Allen and Marc over for dinner.  Allen is in David’s speech and reading group at the stroke center, and Marc is his partner.  Both of them are very nice, and we had a lovely evening.  I think dinner was good, but I cooked, so of course I thought it was good. Then, on Thursday we went to see a performance in Palm Desert of Ballet Boyz, a dance troupe from London.  They were boyz, but there wasn’t really much ballet.  Mostly modern dance, which we like, but David was not impressed.  I thought they were fine, but also, wasn’t bowled over.  On Saturday, we went to see the Choreography Festival at the same theatre (The MacCallum) which was much better.  All the performances were pretty good. We only disagreed on one of them, and they were the winner of the competition.  I thought that they were try too hard to push the envelope.  There was an awkward pause before their performance, and one of the female dancers had what looked like black duct tape over her breasts instead of a costume.  I found it kind of distracting because I kept thinking, won’t it fall off when she starts to sweat?  I told David that I thought that she had forgotten her costume (all the other performers had shirts on) and they insisted she wear something, and only had black gaffers tape handy.  Thus the slight delay.  I am sure it was intentional.

Anyway, I leave tomorrow evening and come back to Palm Springs on Thursday evening.  Wish me luck.