okay, you crazies. someone had a birthday yesterday.

some of you remembered.

some of you did NOT.

regardless, I am now really old.

I spent it at the Volksoper again. one of the best productions I've seen in Vienna ever. I had almost given up on the voices at the volksoper.

Viktor's apartment building almost blew up ( Read more... )

I saw Ian Bostridge last night in all of his recital eccentricity. The Mozart Saal at the Konzerthaus is very live. I cannot decide how I feel about his Schubert. Sometimes he creates the most haunting phrases, you cannot breathe (An den Mond II). Other times, he is a bit too affectual. It worked for the Vaughn Williams set he did. Faure's La ( Read more... )

Don't be mad ( Read more... )

I leave for Vienna tomorrow.
I am not nervous.

I have four things to do before 10 am.
My luggage is under all of the acceptable limits.
I even packed my hand weights.
I don't know how much music to pack.

I need to floss.
Five things.

Viktor emailed me a link to an R.E.M. site.

The bottle we drank was from Vienna.
Maja was cool with that.

I decided to run beyond my goal for the day because I thought it was more fun to run than walk. This is the start of something... Next thing you know I'll be buying those flary running shorts with a negative inseam, chatting about my last 20 mile run.

the walk I took today was beautiful. The sky was overcast and though the clouds never left, I had to squint sometimes because the entire sky lit up when the sun shone through the sky's occasional cracks ( Read more... )

Hello, Vienna ( Read more... )

I sincerely hope I am PMSing, because I don't think I could handle another day like today. It hurts to breathe. I am angry at Viktor for his immaturity. And mine. At least I will have a change of scenery come tomorrow. And good friends who want to listen.

I think I have washed 7 loads of dishes in two days. Baking cookies didn't help. Word to the wise--med students can find really gross diseases and anatomical abnormalities in sugar cookie scraps. They were most impressed with the uterus cookie, complete with fallopian tubes, but only one ovary. I was just waiting for them to make cloverleaf ( Read more... )