Last night I, along with my brother, his wife, and my husband, attended the Jeff Tweedy (lead man of Wilco) concert at a nice auditorium on the UT campus. We had a good dinner and a few beers at the Dog & Duck Pub before hand. The concert was great and Jeff was just as funny and surly as he always comes off as being on the albums. The most humorous part of the evening, however, was not Jeff or the other band, but the people sitting directly next to us. It has been a long time since I have seen a concert goer scream and holler for a song with such fervor. At one point I got so tickled that I was crying and no longer making a laughing noise although I was still laughing. My personal favorite line was … “Play California Stars … Damnit .. It was our wedding song …” … repeated about 10 times during the evening, between every song until he played it. As my husband put it … “Of course they are married … it takes a team to be that annoying.” ;)
This will be my last of the ‘This letter stand for this’ series of posts … and a (no pun intended) good one to end on as well. I received an email this morning letting me know that I was accepted to present a poster session at the upcoming IA Summit in Las Vegas in March. Although I don’t much care for Nevada, I am delighted that my thesis re-write finally made it in to a conference and will see the light of day … the leather bound book on my office shelf was becoming a bit too dark and confining for it :). I am doing my best to coax my friend BA to meet me at the conference to enjoy the glitz and glamour of Vegas and help me traverse the waters of an information architecture conference. I will be posting more here as things start to unfold.
For now, I am faced with preparing for my class in the Spring … it will be my first time teaching my own class and the topic area is “Advertising on the Internet”. Albeit I know quite a bit about interactive advertising, it has still been difficult to step back and start from zero with all of the concepts and ideas. I have been trying to get into my 18 year old frame of mind and remember what is was like to know nothing about advertising and the Internet … so far, all I can remember is that I didn’t have a cell phone and social networking still meant going somewhere to meet someone in person. Alas, I see the generation gap unfolding before my eyes.