AUBREEVISION - Observations from the far side of the dial

Last night I had the delightful experience of attending friends Heather and Dave's non-traditional wedding shower. Rather than going the finger sandwiches/party games/pastel streamers route, they opted for dinner and dancing.

After a pleasant meal and gift opening, we headed to the dance floor on the restaurant's upper level for retro 80s night. Three words: librarians (namely, Heather and two colleagues) gone wild. Heather, who claims to loathe square dancing, actually reacted to a Celtic number by enlisting my mad hoedown skillz for a casual allemande left. I also recall a bizarre mime routine choreographed to "99 Red Balloons." Don't deny it, Heather. I have witnesses.

Then the vodka kicked in and aubree got her groove on, Hammer style.

But more on the divine Miss H. Heather works in a university library, and according to a noisy little student-bird called sarsar, has quite the fan club in the institution's history department. Library science, square dance aside, is her passion; I'll never forget her straight-faced declaration that "Primary source material is cool." But her fondness for academic research and graceful do-si-do are just two of the reasons we love her.

I'm honoured to be acting as emcee at Dave and Heather's wedding next month. Oh, the material...