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I finally finished skirt-fixing for Ms Stiles - hooray! I managed to work it into my "Listen to the Met broadcast" afternoon plan, now that I don't have to work on Saturday. Ballin'. I also made soup, straightened out more things, and shopped at Aldi. I rule! Let's see. . what have we been up to?
First week of school! I like my classes a lot, I like the day-layout, everything's good so far. I didn't like having to cram in listening/reading libretto/reading 60 pages of article/analyzing key areas of THE ENTIRETY OF ABDUCTION FROM THE SERAGLIO into a 1-day project among rehearsals and other, but whatever. It got done, and I am pretty sure I got my participation points from Dr. Melamed for the day. I rule.
Work schedule change! I didn't understand it would be -all the time- instead of -just last week-, but switching from Saturday to Sunday is actually pretty sweet. I get both weekend days to sleep in a bit, and I still get some work. AND I can go to the farmer's market now. Huzzah!
I've re-started working out. I want to be a buff army captain for Hypermnestra. . .lol.
Oh! And Gary found a cool thing for Metropolitan Opera things - for a subscription, one can see ~150 shows streamed to the computer (from the 30s through HD) - f'in sweet! So, I decided to canvass some friends regarding coming to the house to see it on our TV-turned-monitor "big" screen (complete with Gary's studio monitor speakers. ."they're for my schoolwork!" he says...) Response has been overwhelming! I'm thinking Sunday evenings or something. . .once we buy the subscription-thingie. If you want to come, let me know. Our house is small, but I can figure something out : )
Otherwise, singing's going well - except for a short-lived cold I currently am killing off.
And, I'm glad for my current land-people. They rule. Saga o' yesterday:
-Wake up, go to shower, the water doesn't turn on. Shit! Pipes frozen!
-Go to school with toiletries/clothes in tow, shower in basement of MAC (there are showers there!)
-Have no meeting with teacher who forgot we were going to meet, so I had rushed for naught : (
-Do my other school stuff, rush home to see if there's any improvement in water (nope), landlord has opened crawlspace and put in the space heater
-Go back to class, play with computery things and children's games, fret
-Come home, move around space heater, find out what the underside of my house looks like (two feet of airspace, then dirt...no wonder the floor's been so cold!)
-Call landlord and plumber, set up 10pm appt (it's 5pm now)
-Hear what sounds like the shower turned back on, find out it's actually a BURST PIPE! Water breaks copper...awesome.
-Call the landlord more frantically, she sends over her "guy" and her husband
-They turn off the water at the street level (illegal tools FTW), the pond under the house drains, they fix the pipe with a new bit o' copper pipe and some compression fittings
-They turn on the water, and everything begins to work, except the bathroom faucet. Some banging on the pipes, and the ice-loosened-goo comes forth and all is well again.
-LIZ AND GARY LOVE THE PEOPLE FROM WHOM WE RENT. Especially the husband in the weed-pattern-knit-hat.
Now all is better.
First week of school! I like my classes a lot, I like the day-layout, everything's good so far. I didn't like having to cram in listening/reading libretto/reading 60 pages of article/analyzing key areas of THE ENTIRETY OF ABDUCTION FROM THE SERAGLIO into a 1-day project among rehearsals and other, but whatever. It got done, and I am pretty sure I got my participation points from Dr. Melamed for the day. I rule.
Work schedule change! I didn't understand it would be -all the time- instead of -just last week-, but switching from Saturday to Sunday is actually pretty sweet. I get both weekend days to sleep in a bit, and I still get some work. AND I can go to the farmer's market now. Huzzah!
I've re-started working out. I want to be a buff army captain for Hypermnestra. . .lol.
Oh! And Gary found a cool thing for Metropolitan Opera things - for a subscription, one can see ~150 shows streamed to the computer (from the 30s through HD) - f'in sweet! So, I decided to canvass some friends regarding coming to the house to see it on our TV-turned-monitor "big" screen (complete with Gary's studio monitor speakers. ."they're for my schoolwork!" he says...) Response has been overwhelming! I'm thinking Sunday evenings or something. . .once we buy the subscription-thingie. If you want to come, let me know. Our house is small, but I can figure something out : )
Otherwise, singing's going well - except for a short-lived cold I currently am killing off.
And, I'm glad for my current land-people. They rule. Saga o' yesterday:
-Wake up, go to shower, the water doesn't turn on. Shit! Pipes frozen!
-Go to school with toiletries/clothes in tow, shower in basement of MAC (there are showers there!)
-Have no meeting with teacher who forgot we were going to meet, so I had rushed for naught : (
-Do my other school stuff, rush home to see if there's any improvement in water (nope), landlord has opened crawlspace and put in the space heater
-Go back to class, play with computery things and children's games, fret
-Come home, move around space heater, find out what the underside of my house looks like (two feet of airspace, then dirt...no wonder the floor's been so cold!)
-Call landlord and plumber, set up 10pm appt (it's 5pm now)
-Hear what sounds like the shower turned back on, find out it's actually a BURST PIPE! Water breaks copper...awesome.
-Call the landlord more frantically, she sends over her "guy" and her husband
-They turn off the water at the street level (illegal tools FTW), the pond under the house drains, they fix the pipe with a new bit o' copper pipe and some compression fittings
-They turn on the water, and everything begins to work, except the bathroom faucet. Some banging on the pipes, and the ice-loosened-goo comes forth and all is well again.
-LIZ AND GARY LOVE THE PEOPLE FROM WHOM WE RENT. Especially the husband in the weed-pattern-knit-hat.
Now all is better.