Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Silla

Yes, I vaguely remember Priscilla (Silla) doing a dance performance during chapel one morning. We all have heard for months that she is a professionally trained dancer who was quite successful in Florida so we are not surprised to see Silla in tights doing her thing on the platform. I would not be able to do that, obviously. We also heard later that we were very critical and disdainful of Silla's dance performance, not that I recall saying anything about it. It is just assumed that I probably said something about it even though the powers-that-be who run chapel let her get away with that so who am I to say otherwise. We should not forget that, well, it is against the rules of the college to go out dancing, and anyway, we don't know how to dance. We would all look like fools for sure if we tried to assume such a position. But Priscilla is professionally trained, having gone out for dance training which is not the same thing apparently as hanging out in bars so she can get away with that. If you are professionally trained apparently you can get away with pretty much anything. Silla also might have lived on the same dorm floor as my sister the year that my sister was there and Silla married Loren who is a cousin to my childhood friend Susie (MK-El Salvador). Susie's family was not impressed with Silla from what I understand although I don't know very much except a couple of things that Susie said, such as that Silla is quite foul-mouthed in Susie's opinion and also overly fascinated with writing scripts for movies and TV programs. Loren, who as it turns out is nothing but a boring policeman, divorced Silla later and remarried. So we are not really in touch or friends with either Loren or Silla, not that we ever wanted to stay in touch with them after college. It is just that they are connected through the Stewarts and also through college so we hear about these people in the alumni news or wherever. We are not sure why Silla would want to use her old surname, "Cheney," instead of her children's name but we are not going to go bother to comment. We know who these people are even if they have no use for us.