a brief update
To all who occasionally miss reading about me:
1) I took the Philharmonia Baroque audition, didn't make the second round -- I got very nervous and flubbed a bunch -- but am generally happy with how I played. It was nice to wander around Berkeley, see Davitt Moroney, Jeff Davis, Lilith who runs the elevator in the Campanile... Ran into old schoolmates, too, who are doing grad degrees at Berkeley now, too. So much fun. In the end, it turns out, none of the 27 candidates were offered the job.
2) I caught bronchitis from a cello colleague during a gig in the past few weeks, and it mutated into (fun times!) a touch of pneumonia. So I've been coughing out my lungs, getting all the gunk and fluids out, and taking a strong once-a-day antibiotic. I'm on an asthma inhaler to open up the bronchial tubes and let me cough. What an amazing feeling, being able to take a deep breath! I wonder if I might have had the pneumonia part (which is small enough to be considered mono, or walking pneumonia) all quarter, and the bronchitis just made it worse...? No way to ever know, I suppose.)
3) I travel to Ottawa on Wednesday, give my paper at the Society for American Music on Sunday, and then get a single week of spring break before it all starts again -- oh, and then I go to the Pop Culture Association in St. Louis and talk about Gustav Klimt and Elfen Lied. I hope my warm clothes are warm enough for Ottawa.
4) In happy news, David's got two new business possibilities, one with his brother doing location recording (his brother is fully able-bodied, underemployed, and happy to help drive David around to his recording gigs), and with his brother's friend who already has a studio location that he wants to expand. All this is up in San Francisco, which is actually good for me, since I've realized how distracting he is to have around the tiny apartment. I worked so well the week of my special field exams, when he wasn't here. We've talked about this, and he does seem to understand that it's not because I don't want to be around him, but because the apartment is just so tiny that it's hard to avoid each other's vibes. So he might be up in SF more, which would be good for both of us.
5) I've lost four pounds since the end of January, when I started tracking my calories and trying to add more movement to my life. I'm really happy about this! I don't feel deprived or like I'm on a diet, even though it's technically restricted calories. I feel like I'm waking up from an enchantment, and it's really good. (So please, don't jump on me for wanting to weigh less. And that is my goal -- to weigh less, to have a smaller body. Please, respect that. There have been people on here before who haven't, and that was quite upsetting.)
1) I took the Philharmonia Baroque audition, didn't make the second round -- I got very nervous and flubbed a bunch -- but am generally happy with how I played. It was nice to wander around Berkeley, see Davitt Moroney, Jeff Davis, Lilith who runs the elevator in the Campanile... Ran into old schoolmates, too, who are doing grad degrees at Berkeley now, too. So much fun. In the end, it turns out, none of the 27 candidates were offered the job.
2) I caught bronchitis from a cello colleague during a gig in the past few weeks, and it mutated into (fun times!) a touch of pneumonia. So I've been coughing out my lungs, getting all the gunk and fluids out, and taking a strong once-a-day antibiotic. I'm on an asthma inhaler to open up the bronchial tubes and let me cough. What an amazing feeling, being able to take a deep breath! I wonder if I might have had the pneumonia part (which is small enough to be considered mono, or walking pneumonia) all quarter, and the bronchitis just made it worse...? No way to ever know, I suppose.)
3) I travel to Ottawa on Wednesday, give my paper at the Society for American Music on Sunday, and then get a single week of spring break before it all starts again -- oh, and then I go to the Pop Culture Association in St. Louis and talk about Gustav Klimt and Elfen Lied. I hope my warm clothes are warm enough for Ottawa.
4) In happy news, David's got two new business possibilities, one with his brother doing location recording (his brother is fully able-bodied, underemployed, and happy to help drive David around to his recording gigs), and with his brother's friend who already has a studio location that he wants to expand. All this is up in San Francisco, which is actually good for me, since I've realized how distracting he is to have around the tiny apartment. I worked so well the week of my special field exams, when he wasn't here. We've talked about this, and he does seem to understand that it's not because I don't want to be around him, but because the apartment is just so tiny that it's hard to avoid each other's vibes. So he might be up in SF more, which would be good for both of us.
5) I've lost four pounds since the end of January, when I started tracking my calories and trying to add more movement to my life. I'm really happy about this! I don't feel deprived or like I'm on a diet, even though it's technically restricted calories. I feel like I'm waking up from an enchantment, and it's really good. (So please, don't jump on me for wanting to weigh less. And that is my goal -- to weigh less, to have a smaller body. Please, respect that. There have been people on here before who haven't, and that was quite upsetting.)