The children from the local music school who won prizes at the recent provincial contest were honored at a recital tonight. Beta, who won a second prize, played “Glenlivet” (which is an amazing tune) at tonight’s thing. There were speeches before the kids played, and afterwards, then pictures were taken for the newspaper and there was a buffet.

Alpha and I were there, together with Beta’s harp teacher and Gamma. The harp teacher thinks Gamma is a riot, for some reason. Tonight it was way past Gamma’s bedtime and she was squirming throughout the whole thing. She stayed relatively quiet through most of the kids’ performances, but was still the squirmy little girl from hell. I used all my powers to keep her form disrupting the performances, distracting her as well as I could, holding her mouth closed when necessary.

Then the final two speeches, though, there was nothing more I could do. A city councilman spoke and spoke. Gamma snarled. This was pretty funny so I let it go. Grr.

Then, a woman from the parents’ association spoke. Gamma snored loudly. Zzz. This got a lot of laughs. The woman bravely spoke on, heckled by a 4 year-old. Zzz. Afterwards, we ate tidbits at the buffet. They also served wine and champagne. Gamma got orange juice and cake. “And which instrument are you going to play?” she was asked. She liked the guitars and the pretty girls best.

I would have guessed trumpet or accordion. We’ll see.