Game Seven Class

Well, my question on the first day of class came back to haunt me. I asked what we would do if an elimination game of the Final was on a Monday night, and while Phil said that he would have to skip, Kevin never really answered at the time.

So we got our answer on Monday (June 7), which just happened to be GAME 7 of the Stanley Cup Final: class goes on as usual. I guess I wasn't really expecting anything else because, I mean, we had our first quiz already set for yesterday, and all the guests were confirmed and stuff, so what else could we do?

Kevin was great about it anyway, skipping the lecture part and going straight to the guests so we could leave early and catch the last period. I actually made it home just a few minutes after the start of the third.

Anyway, despite the fact that I was anxious as anything about the Final--I was watching my cell like a hawk, since Nathan was text messaging me updates--I really enjoyed the class. We had an extremely enthusiastic bunch of guests, and they really did provide an inside look at the workings of the NHL. What Jimmy Holmstrom, who's in charge of in-house entertainment at the ACC, had to saw was especially interesting. All the nitty gritty details about timing music for commercial breaks and such, and all the politics of music selection were things I had never really considered before.

So yes, it was a good class, and I'm glad I stuck around for it instead of skipping out early to watch more of the game. Funny thing, that. I mean, on Saturday I was willing to skip out on a wedding dinner--the dance part, anyway--to watch as much of game 6 as I possibly could, but I wasn't willing to skip out on class for GAME 7? The weird little quirks of mine, I guess.