Grading on a Friday night

Tonight I went jogging with a friend, took a shower, cleaned up my apartment some and I'm about to do some grading, all here on a Friday night. And I'm having a really nice night.

I'm sitting here listening to Dar Williams and having so many good memories of Friday or Saturday nights just like this one, listening to Dar Williams or the Red, Hot, and Blue album or Louis Armstrong or Frank Sinatra and just having a really nice romantic night with dinner or a movie or just staying in, or going out to theater or a film or some heady activity like a African American/Jewish seder or listening to a speaker, like Jonathan Kozol or Robert Putnam, or wherever we might have ended up.

That's why I love Dar Williams. I love these great romantic and nice memories they inspire from a younger time in my life, living with Brandi in D.C. or Lawrence or Shawnee or spring nights like this one at my Varsity apartment on 21st street or the apartment with Carson and Bond and Scotty-Joe in downtown Wichita, just enjoying a cool Kansas night like this one.

If you haven't just stayed in and listened to Dar Williams on a Friday or Saturday night and not do anything but just do some cleaning and some grading or just be with the person you love, I highly recommend it (especially her Out There Live greatest hits album). It's the closest thing to being in love while single.

I've got to go get some grading done. But I just wanted to enjoy some very nice memories for just a moment.

Love,Ben