Ratbagged

[robinmckinley]

 
 I Create a Verb.  And an Adjective.  I’m sure many other people have created it before, but today I create it:  ratbagged, to be bewildered, disappointed and laid low by events beyond one’s control.  A bit like sandbagged only twitchier, with nasty gnawing rodent teeth.

In the first place, the weather.  It’s been one of those uber-ugly

Comments

[glinda_w]

I don’t even play five sharps, sharps make me cry

Yes. (I play them, but...) (cf. various Debussy pieces, with far too many sharps. And key changes. And accidentals.)

Why are sharps, keys of, harder to play than flats, ditto? Or is that just me?

[robinmckinley]

Why are sharps, keys of, harder to play than flats, ditto? Or is that just me?

************ AH HA. ANOTHER ONE. My piano teacher says that a lot of people find one or the other (sharps or flats) harder but he doesn't think it's mostly one OR the other. But I too much prefer flats. I can get up to four flats without even whimpering whereas three sharps start to make me sweat. And FIVE? Go away, I won't even try.

[glinda_w]

It doesn't seem to get better either (whichever seem more difficult starting out will continue to seem more difficult decades later). You'll learn to cope with them, but there'll always be that initial "Oh my ghod it's got *sharps* I want to run away!" reaction...

[robinmckinley]

OH GODS. YOU HAD TO *TELL* ME THIS. Gah. . . .

[anonymous]

HUGS!
... ratbagged. sigh. It's a good word though. I'm rather ratbagged at the moment too.
More hugs.

--Julia

[robinmckinley]

I'm rather ratbagged at the moment too.

*********** Hugs yourself then. And chocolate chip cookies. :)

[anonymous]

Ooh! and I ACTUALLY have some! I think I will go microwave one right now.

so I turned in the proposal for my research paper today, that one that I asked your permission for using "School Assignment Letter" rant... and it made me think. I am kinda putting you on a level with Twain, aren't I, in choosing the two of you to compare and draw conclusions from?
Well, that works fine. Makes sense to me! Hee.

:)

--Julia

[robinmckinley]

Ha. And have you told HIM? :)

[blackbear88]

I’ve been hammering and tonging away at this like a Wagnerian opera

Meant to ask you the last time Wagner came up--and could be I've asked you before--but you're familiar with Anna Russell, yes? She makes Wagner just about bearable... :)

and I don’t know if this is true of portable instruments where you get to take your very own one with you,

I think it is. I find it hard to not pick up other peoples' guitars or drums or whathaveyou when I'm in their house. More so when I used to play regularly, there's the itch to know if theirs sounds/feels different/better than the one you've got at home. I had a friend who is a far better guitarist than I ever was, who when she found out I owned guitars demanded that I get them out of their cases so she could test drive them.

Still eagerly awaiting the story of your piano acquisition...

[robinmckinley]

I *ADORE* Anna Russell. :) I liked her long before Wagner started to grow on me. Yes, just like moss. :)

when she found out I owned guitars demanded that I get them out of their cases so she could test drive them.

********** I like this woman. I like, erm, mania. :)

Still eagerly awaiting the story of your piano acquisition...

********* Oh good. It's on the list. Partly I haven't got around to telling it because it's a favourite of *mine* and once I've told it, I've told it, you know? But I will. One day.

[blackbear88]

I *ADORE* Anna Russell.

This surprises me not one bit. :) "Be CAREful, Wotan. Be CAREful."

I like this woman. I like, erm, mania.

I liked her too--but the mania spilled over into other areas as well, and our crazies weren't a good match for one another. Ah well, c'est la vie. And she was cute, too! :)

once I've told it, I've told it, you know?

Precisely how I feel about the penguin story, after I've told people that it's like "Hmm, yeah, I got nothin'." (Well, nothin' but the water line story... and the electric eel story... and...)

[robinmckinley]

I liked her too--but the mania spilled over into other areas as well, and our crazies weren't a good match for one another. Ah well, c'est la vie. And she was cute, too! :)

************ There unfortunately is something to being attracted to the WRONG similarities. I've been there too. And Peter and I are not a match made in heaven in some ways. We're both WAY too nervy. We've mostly learned to negotiate our respective control freakeries . . . mostly . . . :)

once I've told it, I've told it, you know?

Precisely how I feel about the penguin story, after I've told people that it's like "Hmm, yeah, I got nothin'." (Well, nothin' but the water line story... and the electric eel story... and...)

************** I remember the penguin story! And the octopus story! But the other ones--???

[melissajm]

"With cats . . . they want the door that opens onto the blue sky and balmy temperatures and gentle insinuating breeze. And they’re going to hold you responsible for the fact that you keep opening the wrong door."

LOL- That explains so much!

[southdowner]

Maybe the creative and the muscular aspects of music correlate with different areas of the brain; it sounds like your creative cortex is enjoying these musical challenges.

Any chance that we get to hear the song? Ogden Nash or not?!

[robinmckinley]

Any chance that we get to hear the song?

*********** When I've stopped fiddling with it. And if Oisin passes it.