A sleepy Sunday

The Sunday before Thanksgiving, and hanging around the house during the afternoon.

Lots going on lately in Nome:

Last weekend, on Saturday night, we had the Open Mic Night at the Mini-Convention center, sponsored by the Nome Arts Council. The other two volunteers (Ross and Jesse) and I decided to do an act, which we started cobbling together as the weekend began and actually had worked out mostly well by the time Saturday rolled around.

We performed as the "Talent Brothers," in which our names each spelled out N.O. Talent:

Nash Ogden Talent (Ross)
Norman Oskar Talent (Jesse)
Nathan Orville Talent (myself)

Ross and Jesse played guitars and I just sang. We did:

"Mrs. Brown" (You've Got a Lovely Daughter)
"Old Joe's Place" (from A Mighty Wind)
and
"Black Water" (by the Doobie Brothers)

It was a lot of fun, and hopefully we'll be able to reprise our stage roles for another performance at some time.

Meanwhile, I'm strongly considering applying to teach a class at Northwest campus, and am starting to amass syllabus ideas. I'm thinking maybe of teaching an overview/survey of Western art music, a kind of "highlights reel" of the past thousand years. It couldn't be anything too in-depth, since at most we'd only have 15 hours of class time with which to work.

Finally, I've also been commissioned to write the 15-minute, annual Christmas play for KNOM. I'm excited about it but now really need to tease out the few ideas I have thus far...

Going over to a friend's house for Indian food tonight! It should be fun; haven't had good Indian probably since Harvard.