and i suck ( Read more... )

i've just made a resolution.

however, i'm not going to tell anyone what it is. hah. see if you can figure it out on your own.

i don't understand how i can feel so accomplished by winning an auction on ebay. not like it takes a lot of effort.

this may have something to do with my intake of free wine at the opera reception earlier this evening. hmm.

i am so tired ( Read more... )

someone trying to teach you a dance step when they don't exactly know what they're doing with it makes things very very confusing. know where your feet are supposed to go people!

where's javi when you need him, anyway.

i wish i could be an expert salsa dancer without having to take years to learn how to do it.

uno dos tres, cinco seis siete...

so today is daylight savings time. i have a quartet rehearsal scheduled at 12 ( Read more... )

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG.

i just bought tickets to see the fantastic kirov orchestra with none other than the sweaty, smelly, hung over, dirty-baseball-cap-wearing, toothpick-wielding, freaking amazing unbelievable god-like conductor valery gergiev here in toronto on april 21 AND 22. different programme each night ( Read more... )

so i went out to see the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (from here on in referred to as the TSO). this in itself is unusual as i tend to dislike their zombie-style performances, but the ticket was free, so i thought, why not. programme included rimsky-korsakov's russian easter overture, prokofiev's violin concerto no. 1, and shostakovich's symphony no ( Read more... )

there's one very unfortunate part about going for doctor's appointments at the university of toronto health services: the fact that said health services office is in the same building as... (dun dun dun) the BOOKSTORE ( Read more... )

gah, i had a dream last night that i didn't get back into the shmf orchestra academy for the summer of 2005. strange in itself as once they take someone twice you hardly even need to do the audition again, you're pretty much in if you want to go... but the person doing the auditions was my favourite konrad (of can't-seem-to-be-able-to-figure-out- ( Read more... )