Category: Events and Happenings

MUSC‘s Hurricane Awareness Day is going on in the Horseshoe today until 2PM. I think it’s targeted mostly towards employees and students, but I’m sure they won’t notice a few neighbours walking through. Lots of cool stuff to see, and you can even go meet Rob Fowler from Channel 2. I saw Sticky Fingers setting up to serve lunch, so grab some BBQ and learn how to get ready for storm season.

Anybody from my high school class here? ME LaZerte Class of 1987?

Our fellow classmate Jackie Middleton has offered to help put together a 20 year reunion! From her posting to Classmates.com, she says

I am willing to plan a 20year reunion. Looking for people interested in being part of a committee. Reunion would probably take place in the Spring of 2007. Please contact me at melazertereunion1987 at hot mail dot com to volunteer or offer suggestions. If you know of fellow graduates who are not part of Classmates please pass this message on or send me their contact details.
Thanks!
Jackie Middleton

Yesterday we were at the MUSC Charity Ball, one of those fund raising events put on by a student organization where everyone gets to dress up and look all spiffy. Lots of students and faculty show up to have a good time and showing off their dressy duds.

Since the wife is part of the group that puts the event on, attendance for me is kind of mandatory. It’s a nice event though, and a chance for people to see how really dressed up everyone else can get. It also means I usually end up being one of the helpers at the end too. Generally, whatever organization the wife ends up joining, they usually end up getting a two-fer deal out of us. It’s fun though, and I get to walk around taking lots of pictures. There were a few interesting things that we put bids on, but other people ended up outbidding us on them.

There’s also a silent auction (the fundraising portion) that goes along with the charity ball that the students work hard at putting together. Lots of donations from local businesses are solicited and put up for auction. The money raised helps fund various student-run programs like the CARES clinic.

The end of the evening ends up being a little hectic with people lining up to pay for and collect the items they won, and people running back and forth brining things up to the front table (that’s usually where I pitch in and help out a bit). It’s all fairly well organized though and goes pretty smoothly for the most part. Anything that’s left over at the end of the night are collected and carted back to campus so that people can come by to get their items later.

Looked like everybody had a good time at this year’s event again.

Happy Chinese Red Fire Dog Year!

We headed out to the Charleston Kennel Club dog show yesterday, and I think we might head out there again today. Of course, we spent most of our time watching the labs. There were lots of really nice looking labs out there that all seemed to make Nala seem really scrawny by comparison. I wonder if we’re feeding her enough…

Nala’s breeders were there showing some of their dogs, including Nala’s sire, Angus. That’s him in the picture with his human. Nala comes from pretty thick stock.

I’ve managed to start off the year with an odd every other day posting pattern, so I thought I might as well continue it with a narcissistic happy birthday posting to me 🙂