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I had my last fiddle lesson of the season on Tuesday. Andy is graduating, and moving somewhere-or-other, and I don't actually have time to practice and take lessons anyway. I'm so glad to have started learning the instrument this year. After a decade of being pretty well tone deaf, and having music be the one thing that my friends do with which I can't even come close to keeping up, I'm finally getting to the point that it feels like any other skill that I can acquire with practice. My thanks to Shahar for putting me in touch with Andy; she is awesome.
Wednesday I finally got off my ass and sent emails and made phone calls about housing. Thanks to everyone at pika who (unwittingly, for the most part) kept me on track all night and through the morning, while I drove myself to do it. Result: one artist space to visit Thursday afternoon, one industrial space Friday morning, and a Medford appartment that I am trying to schedule for Friday afternoon. Time to send email for next week's visits.
It is rather unfortunate that Akiba does not actually teach any history. While reading about peak oil today, I stumbled on an explanation of how the Depression and Vietnam contributed to the dollar's becoming a floating currency, how it became oil-backed after the APEC spike, and how the resulting petrodollar led to the end of the Cold War and the modern era of development loans to the global south. Granted, given the source I cannot take this as accepted historical wisdom, but it holds together pretty well.
Wednesday I finally got off my ass and sent emails and made phone calls about housing. Thanks to everyone at pika who (unwittingly, for the most part) kept me on track all night and through the morning, while I drove myself to do it. Result: one artist space to visit Thursday afternoon, one industrial space Friday morning, and a Medford appartment that I am trying to schedule for Friday afternoon. Time to send email for next week's visits.
It is rather unfortunate that Akiba does not actually teach any history. While reading about peak oil today, I stumbled on an explanation of how the Depression and Vietnam contributed to the dollar's becoming a floating currency, how it became oil-backed after the APEC spike, and how the resulting petrodollar led to the end of the Cold War and the modern era of development loans to the global south. Granted, given the source I cannot take this as accepted historical wisdom, but it holds together pretty well.