It's inauguration day. This may well be the end of civilization as we know it, as the incoming...person...has declared a want to start taking over other countries, changing names of places, all sorts of things that sound really great and not purely chaotic or anything ( Read more... )

I am *really* good at hurting myself in unusual ways. It might just be my superpower. I've hurt myself several ways just in clapping. CLAPPING. (Thank camp and teaching.) This past week, I've apparently hurt myself by...coloring ( Read more... )

Director A had mentioned at our first rehearsal that she and Dr. K were going to talk over the weekend about rehearsal and such, and she sent out an email last Sunday that included a line from him--something like, tell them to wear sunglasses to protect them from my shiny head! Put that in the email ( Read more... )

We got a Regular Band email recently that had the subject heading "sad news." I hate getting those emails; it means someone is very sick or dead. Sure enough, a former member of the band had passed away--French horn L, AKA our former band librarian. He could be a crotchety guy, but he took a shine to me somehow, and I felt like I should go to his ( Read more... )

We called grandma on Sunday for the first time in a few weeks. She did answer, but said she was tired and going to take a nap--she'd gone downstairs at 8:30 and played trivia, then stayed down so long she went straight to lunch, and now she needed to rest. Understandable! We were happy to finish the phone call quickly. This is exactly how we wanted ( Read more... )

Back to Regular Band! The small ensemble had a rehearsal last week, but that wasn't discussed at all; this was the first real, full-on rehearsal for everyone. As usual, it was great to be back with everyone and get to chat. The Eb clarinet player and I got into a deep discussion for a good 10-15 minutes before rehearsal, to where I was sitting in ( Read more... )

I'm so exhausted as of late. I have a hard time focusing past a certain point of the day because it takes so much energy to do so. I ran an errand tonight and pretty much just stared at the store shelves, but eventually I came home with something I'd hoped to pick up ( Read more... )

The office manager is off for the next week and a half ( Read more... )

One band was back in business last week, at least in full. Regular Band had rehearsal, but only for people participating in a soloist ensemble. I declined to be a part of that since I had potential date conflicts, so I got a reprieve from last Monday's rehearsal. Fancy Band was full-on, though ( Read more... )

After cleaning the condo and absconding with grandma's car, plus discovering even more stuff left behind during the walk-through on Wednesday, I'd said something about going up to visit her and bringing her more items today. Mom did mention this to her during the week at some point, and last night grandma called, one, to make sure we were still ( Read more... )