… is my flute. Brought it to band rehearsal tonight. Ended up promising I wouldn’t play it on every song forever, but it was fun trying it out in so many different tunes. Looks like it will be normally used in at least two songs, and rather useful for a few others once we get into the studio. While in India I really MUST practice. I also need to print a flute fingering chart because my 3rd octave is really shaky, and it’s also the only octave audible above roaring guitar and bass riffs. Hmmm. Flute flute flute. I don’t …
Month: December 2003
Excitement about Fingering!!!
First of all… Get your mind out of the gutter! I mean fingering charts. See, I just bought a flute for my trip to India; flutes are great because they’re compact, light, easy to carry around, and for me it’s a chance to practice an instrument I haven’t tried to play in a long time. I was never very good to begin with, but having started on a pawn shop flute with keys that didn’t seal even after repairs, one shouldn’t be surprised.
Jitters, Twitters, and Smiles
Walking around campus one sees the same kind of reaction I described during midterms, with students looking somewhat shellshocked… This afternoon I taught a review session to a group of students tha are normally lively, quick to repeat and catch on, and, well, normally they’re pretty good. Today it was like teaching a class of mannequins… waterlogged mannequins dredged up by drunken salvage boat pilots. I kept asking them why they were performing so badly all of a sudden, and at first I just got silly excuses like, “We studied this dialogue one month ago!” for something they’d studied a …
Tiny Changes
Racing against time, I managed to do that major restructuring of my archiving system today. I figured out a little last night but the bulk of the work was achieved this morning, to the sounds of Bj&ourml;rk, Tori Amos (only briefly), David Bowie, Medeski, Martin & Wood, and some Tuvan throat-singing rock music I downloaded. (More on that soon.) I am very pleased with myself, as the Departments are quite a lot more navigable now. There are several subdepartments for each department page, something that took a little thinking to get to work, but what was harder was getting the …
Why Do Her Panties Smell Like Green Tea?
No, no, guys. Don’t get all excited. I didn’t get lucky or anything. It’s just that in Thailand, a company just launched a new product line: tea scented pantyliners. Hmm. Found the info about this over at a new blog: The House On A Hill: A Sassy Lawyer in Philippine Suburbia. Go have a look! Recipes and other stuff, it’s a cool site.