At the Gala, In the Garden... ;D

Well, that's that. After feverish grinding to complete the radio content, it's airing this week on WEAA 88.9 FM. The segment I personally worked on, History, played Monday, and it will be continuing throughout the week. Exciting stuff!

Better yet, this of course means that I and my classmates can be reabsorbed into the Garden Gala planning proper. Besides contributing some oatmeal cookies for one last bake sale, I've got a lot to do.

Now that my Fridays are no longer devoted to those planning sessions, and I'm not teaching or attending class Thursday, I can use those days by slashing through my fabric stash for stuff to cut up into table runners.

Okay, so I'm not nearly as terminal a case as Gail Ellsperman, owner of that photo, but I still feel like saying to myself, "Bad seamstress. Use your stockpiles for good, don't sit on them like Smaug with his hoard." I need to find out the dimensions of the tables we'll be using.

Any other little decorating tasks that can be started outside of the event day are things I'd like to get a jump on. Rolling up napkins and tying them with twine? Packing raffle stuff prettily into baskets? I'll be on it.

Come Saturday, I'll help the caterers with prepping food--it sounds like we've got a lot to do there, especially considering that they have other events to handle besides ours, which they're doing basically out of the goodness of their hearts. I'm going to be on food duty the day of the Gala, too, so it makes sense to get in on it beforehand.

And then...Sunday. Game faces on for the Garden Gala! It's been a crazy time, and I'm eager to see our work pay off. These ponies know what I'm talking about:

(Sorry, but that's been stuck in my head forever!)

After all that, it'll almost be a relief just to write a paper reflecting on the semester. Compared to what we've been doing, that's easy, but also a bit of a let-down.

Home Stretch

I can't believe how fast the semester (and, within that, the radio project) have gone by. With our teachers playing hooky last week (kidding--they went to a conference in Montreal to talk about this very work!), most of us decided to use our Thursday "off" to meet up anyway and work more on editing.

No! Bad sand! Get back up there! Darn you space/time continuum!

Seriously, though, it's really shaping up nicely. I think we'll have a segment to be proud of once it's all done... so, by Friday! We've managed to rearrange our audio in a coherent manner to explore the themes of (for my group) history in the communities of BayBrook and Sparrows Point, and it's exciting to think that our hard work will begin airing on the Marc Steiner Show next week!

I've felt very disconnected, though, and isolated from the rest of my class as they plan the May 18 Garden Gala Fundraiser for the Filbert Street Garden. I'm glad the class met normally last Tuesday, so we "radio show people" could touch base with that part of the class' efforts. We're doing that again this week, too, and I'm glad--despite all of the time needed for the radio work, it's important to stick with everybody on our main mission, especially as we come to the final push.

(Apropos of nothing, my relatives are looking forward to coming to the Gala.)

Also there's still 41 days left for the IndieGogo campaign!