The YUUUUGE BENEFIT was last night! 
My PIC took my singer friend and me over to the soundcheck on campus. She lives 45 min away, so driving back to get all dolled up for the 40+ peeps who actually bought tickets wasn’t appealing.
My confused clarinet initially got lost on campus before joining the sound check, then also came back to mi casa to chill before the VIP event that started at 6pm, catered by our emcee for the night, who owns the local used bookstore. The food was all vegan & TBH pretty terrible, save for some very good local cheese, so I barely had dinner. Shame, bc she makes a mean sunflower seed dip/paste that is pretty addictive, but that unfortunately didn’t make an appearance. Instead, undercooked / terribly stringy cigar dolma with crumbly dry bulgur (?) filling,
the blandest wraps with lettuce and hummus,
and MOAR hummus,
dry AF falafel with a decent tahini sauce to choke it down,
and walnut paste-stuffed mushrooms — the most edible of the offerings besides the (non-vegan) cheese.
This also fed the musicians, since we’d only sold 8 VIP tix.
The show itself went as well as it could, with the student a cappella group being one of the highlights. The arrangements were impressive — especially the medley they finished with that included “Get Lucky” — and they were so joyful and seemed to be having the best time on stage 
Most of the musicians met up at the gay bar for a couple of drinks afterwards, where my PIC joined us. Downtown was hopping, and we saw many students wearing their prettiest skelts for Easter Eve 
My clarinet asked to crash with us (probz for the best), and my friend came over for some snackage before making her trip back home.
Overall a very fun evening, and I’m sofa king glad the event is done with. Onwards and upwards!
