Nov 08 2007
Ghetto Taiko

I knew there’d be an entry like this sooner or later. I spent the entire evening completing the newsletter project for my client after coming home from a full day of work at my “real job.” It’s 11:00 p.m., 30 minutes past my ideal bedtime and my eyeballs are on fire, so you can imagine that I’m eager to take care of my NaBloPoMo obligation quickly and hit the sack.
I’m posting this because my friend Clifford was nice enough to e-mail it to me tonight and it made me giggle to think about it.
The photo you see above is an embarrassing testimony to the strange and unusual things that fall under “all other duties as assigned” in my ever-expanding job description. I rallied the leadership team to learn a short portion of an Okinawan eisa taiko routine as the opening of our year-end conference. Although I was a bit skeptical about whether people would jump on the bandwagon at first, it certainly came together at the end to produce the result we wanted, which was rounds of laughter and a happy audience. Oh, the things I do all in the name of “work.”
Good times.


ghetto or not isn’t it a lot of fun