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Treading water like you wouldn't believe
Having gone through the usual channels, I've just managed to get a referral to my local Centre for Adults with AD/HD, who will have time for me by, get this, mid-April. I've also managed to register for about 50% more courses than is generally held to be A Good Idea, this period, and agreed to take on an extra shift at work ( Read more... ) -
Well, that would explain.
My cousin was diagnosed with ADHD quite some time ago, but I only found out about a fortnight ago. ADHD tends to run in families, and smoking during pregnancy has been linked to increased morbidity in the infant. My mum didn't kick her pack-a-day habit until I was six, and my baby sister started having allergic reactions to the smoke ( Read more... ) -
Screw heterosexuality - or, file under "Ho yay"
Malena Ernman and Danielle de Niese stage-snogging to Monteverdi is the single hottest thing I've witnessed in a long, long time.
Back a bit - upon my very first encounter with L'Incoronazione di Poppea, I thought "Virtù and Fortuna having a cat fight over humanity? How very Machiavelli." Which basically sold the whole thing for me right there. ( Read more... ) -
Yes, yes, yes, it's the summer festival...
There's an expression in Dutch that might translate as "Trying for top rate at ten cents a ticket". True, I paid ten euros for my student ticket, and technically, my seat was third category, but basically, that's pretty much exactly how I felt at tonight's opening of this year's Holland Festival. Squeezed into the auditorium with festival director ( Read more... ) -
If you want a happy life...
... You could do worse than seeking out some of the stuff Geoff Berner, ashkenazic-Canadian punk accordeonist and the one and only Whiskey Rabbi, has been doing over the past few years. He might even be making an appearance near you over the next few weeks, and it's at live gigs that the man's inspired insolence comes across best. Although the ( Read more... ) -
*Bangs head against nearest wall, muttering "Stupid. Stupid."*
So I figured it would be fun to sign up for a students' trip to Barcelona in mid-April. Right in between third and fourth period, so no lectures that week, no problem, right? Wrong. Turns out I do have a lecture on Monday, April 16th, or I would have, if I weren't in Catalunya at that time. But that's ok, I'll ask someone to take notes ( Read more... ) -
This week, I have been mostly watching...
...Countertenors in belly dancer's gear. Seriously - what are the chances of randomly selecting two opera dvds at one's local library (these two) and ending up with Brian Asawa's Baba the Turk on the one hand, and Christophe Dumaux' supremely sinuous 'n' sparkly Tolomeo on the other? There's a live webcast of Giulio Cesare from the Theater an der ( Read more... ) -
Something that's just struck me...
Listening to Gorgeous George for the first time in ages, it's just struck me how much that quadruple four-tone sequence towards the end of the "Ecstasio" in Asyla sounds like a really disconcerting version of the quadruple four-tone sequence at the end of "The Campaign for Real Rock". I'm talking about the ironically sweet accompaniment to the " ( Read more... ) -
Edwyn's back.
I wouldn't have known if it hadn't been for this man and this wonderful little tribute.
Edwyn's back in business - there's new material and everything. I've been waiting to hear that for nearly two years now ( Read more... ) -
Eight more days...
...And I'll be off the SSRI's I've been on for over five years now. I went from 20 to 10 mg a day last month, and the main thing that did is leave me the most awake I've been in years (though not half as oversexed as I'd been dreading; must have been lingering puberty cranking up the testosterone back in 2000). My psychiatrist ("Call me Anne") says ( Read more... )