Latin Alumni Re-Visit

Well, I'm in chicago right now. I stopped by latin today to see thomas's game and some old profs. Very productive:

1. --Did some British voices with fript
2. --Told professor Stevens (who led the mammoth cave spelunking project week trip) about how lured them into a non-dry county to buy alcohol the final night of the project week!
3. --Gave Ms. Doer a hug and caught up with her hustle-bustle study session trying to cope with all the Nazi mind trials going on. She's always juggling so many different academic projects, it's hysterical, but you gotta love it. As my grandmother would say, "She's a kick".
4. --Saw Ms. Hardtegan and reminisced about all of the play and theatrical happenings, and how she "knew me" when she recommended the Marquis de Sade monologue.
5. --Reminisced with Coach Bauer about his die-hard qualitative soccer instruction and leadership. He's still totally on top of his game as athletic director. I forgot how impossible to read that guy is, not because of being opaque, but because he is such a solid character.
6. --Saw Cronister. He seemed to be juggling a lot, and I think is still headmastering. Still doing the community service with Lombardo, which is definitely grand and solid. I shared my interest in working with youth (creativity and imagination) and elderly (wisdom and experience).
7. --Had a pre-game talk with Vandermulen. The guy is still totally holding his own and is by far the most intense highschool Varsity coach, easily, in all of the ISL!
8. --Met Mr. Faderlay, who, I informed, looked a lot like Greg Baker (without the Wheel Chair, of course!), and also reminded me of the "Blindness and Insight" english prof I had at Colorado College. Definitely a VERY intelligent dude.
9. --Also, saw a few janitors that I knew and spoke spanish with back in the day. An old chemistry professor prowling around. The Greg Baker pool. Dr. Nguyen's old desk and Dr. Periera's vacant desk. Left a note for that dude. And thomas's friends Shreve and Aaron.
10. --The JV is awesome this year and Coney and Mulrain and Noah on Varsity are amazingly brilliant defensemen, offensive players, and shooters. The whole school is such an amazing place, I realize. Almost nearly to an overwhelming degree, I forgot how much of a connective epicenter that place was.

Yeah, it was the epitome of a productive "return visit" to latin. I am always shocked at how quality of a school it is! Solid -- totally, outrageously quality and so high-tech with that mothership command center at the entrance, but then it has an exceptional arts, athletic, theatre, science, and humanities program, too. Any direction you turn there, you're meant with great minds and instruction.

I'm definitely on fire, though, this is definitely a seriously connected time.