Orchestra Dinner

Back in the day of good old Georgia Tech, every Tuesday and Thursday for 5 years, I went to Orchestra rehearsal. Rehearsal was fun, especially because of the people and conductor in the orchestra. Once a week, on Thursdays, after rehearsal, there would be "orchestra dinner". The way this worked was as follows:
Wednesday or thursday, Bill (the orchestra dinner ringleader of its heyday) would send out a hilarious email not really having much to do with dinner, but always making everyone laugh.

Thursday after rehearsal, someone would scream really loud: "if you're going to dinner, meet at the back of the rehearsal hall". about 5 people would show up, and others would be either coerced into going, or decide to go once they saw who the coolest people in the orchestra were (really).

We'd stand at the back of the hall or outside the doors for a good 30 minutes arguing over where a good place to go would be. Do they have enough tables? how long would it be to wait? have we been there before? do they have vegetarian options?

We'd finally pick a place, get there by about 8:45, and then spend the next two hours laughing hysterically at how funny we all are.

There were always a few new "regular" faces each year, so of course, as people left, only their legend remained with the new people coming to dinner.

Well, since then, most people I knew have graduated and/or moved away. Smitha, who has spent the last year and a half in Japan on the JET program, is only in town once a year, and wants to make sure she gets to see everyone, planned a reunion orchestra dinner for last night.

It was great. People were in town from everywhere. We missed Sherman, Bill, Eric, Will, and Coleman by just a few days, but Smitha, Louise, Miles, Ethan, Emily, Moshe, Jennifer, Kati, Kevin, Me (and an honorary member - Matt) all came out last night. It was like old times.

It was great to see everyone and catch up, and of course - argue (this time via hundreds of emails) about where we were going to eat. Just like old times...