In another shocking school-night outing, Mer and I got together with our colleague Liz Wides and went out to supper on Thursday. We went to the Olive Garden, where we ate too much and had a great time visiting and talking and laughing. Liz is a funny person with an understated sense of humor, and is a great dining companion. We also saw a CVCA student, and so we verified student suspicions that teachers have no lives apart from school. That is important to reinforce.

After supper, we headed back over to Kent, to the Kent Stage again, this time to see John Gorka and Tracy Grammer. We were there to see John Gorka, of whom Mer and I are big fans, and Liz had been to a concert or two with us to see him in the past as well. None of us knew anything about Tracy Grammer.

We had excellent seats up front, and the concert went over two hours (including intermission). We had a good time. Gorka put on his usual excellent concert, with his quirky, absent-minded-professor persona and his amazing baritone voice. Gorka’s songs are often deep, and always playful with language use and plays on words. Tracy Grammer was solid – she had a pretty voice and could play the guitar quite well, but she did not quite click for me for some reason. I’m not sure what it was, since she was a fine musician, but I found that my mind wandered some during her songs. It was still an entertaining evening, and we got back home after 11:00, and on a school night. Wild us!