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The Monday Morning Memo


The jungle is beautiful at dawn.

The BeagleSword was “Fragments.”
The rabbit hole was “transport.”

Next week the wizard will give you
an update on campus construction.
Exciting news.
Things are good.
I'll meet you in the rabbit hole.

Aroo.

Naming the Theater

Lenhard Murray received 3 times
as many votes as
Chris and Dave

“number 1 [Chris and Dave] is whimsical,
  number 2 [Lenhard Murray] rings”  -Karen Young

“A wonderful place to slay dragons – or invent them.” 
  – Orvis Melvin (of Scarborough Renaissance Festival)

“People will be asking for years to come
  ‘who is Lenhard Murray?’  -Dave Adams

But…

Those who voted for “Chris and Dave” left 3 times as many comments.  They seemed to feel quite strongly about it:

“The Chris and Dave Windmill Theater sounds so much more inviting and friendly… two characteristics, which based on your Monday Morning Memos, your school exemplifies.”  -Jamey Deen

“It’s more personal/real and creates more of a desire to hear the story of 'who is Chris and Dave?'”  -Wendy Clark

“I like 1. better because it makes me wonder who Chris and Dave are.  The second name sounds like a theater that I might hear about in some other place, in some other town.  Chris and Dave, though…. they sound like giants.  Like Bill and Ted.”
– Kevin Koym

“Lenhard Murray sounds like the leader of a Polka band who plays the accordion … BADLY. The Chris and Dave Windmill Theater is clearly the ONLY choice.”
-Tom Grimes

(You've got to admit the Bill and Ted argument is pretty convincing. – Indiana)

So…

Lenhard Murray will be the official name, much like “Loop 1” is the official name for “MoPac,” the north/south corridor through central Austin.  All the signs say Loop 1. All the people say MoPac. Pennie and I had lived here for 2 years before someone finally told us the name stems from the Missouri Pacific railroad tracks that occupy the center median. 

I expect this
to become campus trivia in years to come:

“Who was Lenhard Murray?”
“Why do they call the Lenhard Murray Theater the Chris and Dave?”

And then they'll check to see if there's a ChrisAndDave.com
“Not that there's anything wrong with that…” – Jerry Seinfeld

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Random Quote:

“Here is the best true story on giving I know, and it was told by Jack Kornfield of the Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre. An eight-year-old boy had a younger sister who was dying of leukemia, and he was told that without a blood transfusion she would die. His parents explained to him that his blood was probably compatible with hers, and if so, he could be the blood donor. They asked him if they could test his blood. He said sure. So they did and it was a good match. Then they asked if he would give his sister a pint of blood, that it could be her only chance of living. He said he would have to think about it overnight. The next day he went to his parents and said he was willing to donate the blood. So they took him to the hospital where he was put on a gurney beside his six-year-old sister. Both of them were hooked up to IVs. A nurse withdrew a pint of blood from the boy, which was then put in the girl’s IV. The boy lay on his gurney in silence while the blood dripped into his sister, until the doctor came over to see how he was doing. Then the boy opened his eyes and asked, ‘How soon until I start to die?’
“

- Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

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