(pronounced "Ay, Ss, Oh, El", not the other way...)
Were I writing a South Park-esque collection of comments for this blog, the above title might be considered ripe material for some crude comment or other ... [ASOL(e)... teehee] - hence the pronunciation guide *grin*
ASOL is not, alas, an acronym for a very rude word, but rather the cover-all name for the American Symphony Orchestra League - the umberella instution for (nearly) all of this fine nation's orchestras. And ASOL is basically a big umberella under which all of us orchestra Arts Admin' types get to schmooze.
The 'Big Schmooze' comes once a year at The Conference, a magical convening of the powers that be, where spells are cast and potions mixed (*ahem*, a little too excited about Harry Potter... just one week away!) opinions are traded and drinks are consumed at an alarming rate...
And guess who got to go to Conference this year??? Yours truly was sent off to Washington D.C. to hone his nacent (?!) schmoozing and flirting skills - which I hope I managed with aplomb... Though I was a little impeded by my lack of sight - I had a magically disappearing pair of glasses which are still happily enjoying themselves in the D.C. Hilton. Meanwhile, I get to suffer on with contact lenses, which, by the end of the day, were performing remarkably convincing impressions of limpets, in their efforts to cling on to my eyes... owwwww!
Aaaaaaaanyway. Having finally got home and 'taken my eyeballs out' (my favourite Sarah-saying), I took the opportunity to look up the meaning of what I'd actually been doing:
schmooze or schmoose (shm
z) Slang
v. schmoozed, or schmoosed also shmoozed schmooz·ing, or schmoos·ing shmooz·ing schmooz·es or schmoos·es shmooz·es
To converse casually, especially in order to gain an advantage or make a social connection.
Social Connections? Me? :)
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