Oh that's amazing--thanks! I thought, not that Tom Jones, but the minute I heard his voice, I knew it was him.
I first became aware of Rhiannen Giddens in a Craft In America episode where she was playing an unfretted banjo. She's totally remarkable. What a great performance from both of them.
I don't think so, but it's been several years since I last watched it. I mainly recall her talking about that particular instrument, and the style of music it was associated with.
I think she was an artist-in-residence for awhile at Santa Clara University, of which I am a fake alumna, so I get a lot of mailers from them.
The divinity school I went to affiliated with Santa Clara. They were both Jesuit schools; they always had a relationship. So now I get an email address, and a lot of news.
I've read so much of it, I almost forget I didn't go there.
I spent a year as a substitute custodian at a vocational school around the corner almost 20 years ago. I worked two or three months total, but in that period, I contributed to the state's school employee retirement fund. About 15 years ago I cashed out my $200? contribution to the pension fund, but they still keep trying to enroll me in the dental program.
Is that the one you used to walk through the woods to get to?
Insane how the more and more "tools" we have for keeping records of absolutely everything, the harder and harder it is for anyone to make their way through them accurately. Fifty years ago, someone would probably just have crossed you off the list and retired your paper file, and that would be that.
My alumna status is actually legit, I was just--grandfathered in, I guess. It's a merger I wish hadn't occurred, but compared to some other ones that have happened recently, not as destructive... though it looks like it may soon become so.
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I first became aware of Rhiannen Giddens in a Craft In America episode where she was playing an unfretted banjo. She's totally remarkable. What a great performance from both of them.
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I think she was an artist-in-residence for awhile at Santa Clara University, of which I am a fake alumna, so I get a lot of mailers from them.
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I've read so much of it, I almost forget I didn't go there.
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Insane how the more and more "tools" we have for keeping records of absolutely everything, the harder and harder it is for anyone to make their way through them accurately. Fifty years ago, someone would probably just have crossed you off the list and retired your paper file, and that would be that.
My alumna status is actually legit, I was just--grandfathered in, I guess. It's a merger I wish hadn't occurred, but compared to some other ones that have happened recently, not as destructive... though it looks like it may soon become so.
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And yet, easier for people to steal the information.
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