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Disturbing thought for the day: my first group of high school kids at Harper? Are older than the youngest of the first-years in my program ( Read more... )

Also, this is the video we watched in French class on Friday.

I got so much done today! I bought groceries. I made chicken soup for the week and baked banana bread. I cleaned up the debris from my bookshelf explosion and put together a little three-shelf thing for reference books. (Gluing together furniture with a cat around? TRICKY.) I did dishes and took out trash and cleaned out the fridge. I wrote eight ( Read more... )

Thirty-day classical music challenge, day twenty-nine: the piece of music you named your pet after.

Milton Babbitt, The Old Order Changeth

Milton is sitting on my shoulder like a parrot.

Seriously.

Thirty-day classical music challenge, day twenty-eight: a piece that absolutely could not work on any other instrument.

I'm not sure what it's called; it's the first two minutes of this, from John Adams's El Nino. (I think it's on the same track as "Shake the Heavens" on the CD.) The bit starting around 1:15 is just so perfect; any other ( Read more... )

Thirty-day classical music challenge, day twenty-seven: a piece you expected to hate but loved.

This doesn't exactly answer the question, but I enjoyed Corigliano's Mr. Tambourine Man much more than I'd expected. My worry was that I wouldn't be able to listen to it without hearing the original in my head, but now when I think of "Forever Young," ( Read more... )

Milton has started meowing!

That's because he was biting my feet when I was trying to sleep last night, so I shut him out of my room, and then he stood at the door all "nooooo :( i iz a bad kitteh! i iz sorry! :("

Ok. Back to Schopenhauer.

Thirty-day classical music challenge, day twenty-six: a piece you won't admit to owning.

I used to use Brahms symphony no. 4, mvt. III as an alarm clock during Institute and that is the only reason I own it. While finding this link, I made it to 0:02 before I absolutely had to turn it off. Nnnnnope. Gah.