Thank you to everyone who sent words of comfort after last night's little breakdown. Very much appreciated.

It hit harder than expected because Jon's treatments had seemed to be going well; the last time we chatted a few weeks ago, we were making plans to start sharing some scores of original choral compositions. Then, bang!Now it's time to get ( Read more... )

Of all the things I could write about right now, none of them is very important ( Read more... )

Yes. Fog. Lovely thick, swirling, sound-silencing fog. Let others have their floods of Biblical proportions... I'll go with a nice fog bank in which to hide any day ( Read more... )

After spending considerable time, thought, and effort on posting a nice lengthy update, either LiveJournal or my browser crashed. At this point, all the bells and whistles in the world won't make up for a simple help menu that will tell me - simply and unequivocally - how to find an autosaved but unposted entry ( Read more... )

I tried writing this last night, but something kept crashing my browser. Very annoying ( Read more... )

Very delightful indeed ( Read more... )

Last EVER store committee meeting last night. New Chair, new goals (not so different from the old goals), hopefully a new story. I think some of the new Board members aren't going to put up with a lot of endless babbling from staff when they're giving reports... especially when the report includes every excruciating detail (time, date, people ( Read more... )

After a couple of months of procrastination, I finally sent off my proposal for a recorder pedagogy class today ( Read more... )

They say no news is good news. (We have yet to uncover just exactly who "they" are, or what their agenda is... probably something unspeakably evil, like insisting that jello be served at every meal ( Read more... )

Looked out my bathroom window this morning. Back yard covered (literally) in tree branches, some of them quite substantial... as in 10 feet long, and a minimum of 2 inches in diameter where they were ripped violently from the tree ( Read more... )