New House!

Here are some pics from the new place!

I will be moving in June 1.

Living Area...


Better lit & from another angle...


Kitchen

A messy bedroom.

Bathroom, complete with TWO sinks :D

Utility closet... note the laundry facilities! YAHOO!

Kitchen area again.

A discouraging day, but...

Yesterday started out fairly well; I made it to school for 8am as planned despite having been at a group meeting until 11ish the night before (unplanned). I filled in for our secretary, as per normal when I work in the office, and had muchos fun answering telephones & sorting mail. I think I finally have the knowhow to fix about 95% of all the problems the photocopier gets itself into. It is so exciting to find that pesky piece of jammed paper in 15sec when a few months ago it would have taken me 15min (no joke). Needless to say, I am becoming the resident expert in Xerox repairs.

Despite having my creative contribution towards a group presentation fall apart this weekend, my group managed to put on quite a good presentation to my Organizational Behaviour Class -- my last one for quite some time! :)

At night-time I participated in my first ever electronic music concert. How does electric bassoon work you ask? The way it worked this time is that I was recorded (in one of those padded rooms they stick select people into sometime :P ) and then when I played live, the music on the tape was played back. It was a really neat experience but there was some anxiety on the stage thanks to some counting/rhythm issues. I learned that I either need to find a better way of encouraging people to practice or just need to be ok with people that like to take different tempi than the rest of the group. Needless to say, the actual concert was somewhat frustrating; I know it could have sounded so much better. Anyhoo, here's a fun video that showcases the electric bassoon that I'm more familiar with:



Neat eh?

Anyhoo to add to the yuckiness, I have to finish my 20-page paper today, sign a lease (i.e. spend big $$), and figure out if I want to sign up for a summer course (turns out they won't be needing me at WindFest afterall, so I've got a lot more time in the summer to figure out what to do with). I was chatting with the dean at a concert I went to before the electronic music concert and he was really trying to persuade me to finish a Management & Organizational Studies degree, instead of graduating with the Music Administrative Studies degree I'm planning on graduating with now. Pros to doing that are that I don't have to take any more accounting (I wasn't terrible at it , but it was a lot of work), I should be more employable in the non-music field of administration. Cons are that I'd have to take TWO calculus courses (and let's just say the first one I took two years ago was near-disastrous), and because I currently have 8.0 courses left required for a BMOS degree, and normally you take 5.0 during the school year, I'm looking at taking 3.0 courses over the course of the summer/internship year... Just when I thought I was about to be able to take a break from school, it looks like I might have to stick at it. UGH.

In encouraging news, check out Andrew's blog.

Also, who is visiting from Guelph and Burlington on a regular basis? I don't mind visitors, I'm just curious.

Also I have so little groceries right now and no laundry. It looks like I better start this 15-degree day by enjoying some of the outdoors, because it doesn't look like I'll be getting out anytime soon. Ciao!

WOAH!

Woooooooooooah! I am a 1/3 done my paper and it still isn't due for four more days! Woooooooooooah! I feel like I in highschool all over again (back when I did my work ahead of time on a more regular basis).

Also, it is really nice here! 11 degrees! Today is the first day I haven't worn my winter jacket :D

P.S. I added a new photo on the right-hand side.

Oh Princeton

Apparently no one at the Princeton University Press caught this error:

"Whose Gustav Mahler?" Nice...

Notes to self...

• BUY A GRAPEFRUIT SPOON. I have recently started eating grapefruits, yet do not have a grapefruit spoon. Probably needless to say, but my fruit looks totally emasculated by the time I'm done with it aaaand has so much in it left to give!
• Never park in the Elgin parking lot during flood season. Thankfully I don't have a car and this won't be a problem anytime soon but man did some people ever have an unpleasant thing to wake up to yesterday! The river banks overflowed leaving many cars flooded. I talked to one guy who went swimming in the parking lot around 1:30am because the water was thigh deep-- sounds like fun eh!?
• 20 pages doth a long paper make... Expect to hear a lot of griping about this until I hand it in on Wednesday. I'm pretty sure this is the longest essay I've ever had to write solo btw. AND it's not even for a designated essay courses. Hoorah.
• Tomorrow was probably a very bad day to volunteer to work... not only am I missing a masterclass with James Sommerville (horn... I know I don't play the horn, but still, I hear so much about him from McKay (they record together)) and the Rajaton concert. Now some of you might say, "Well just go to Rajaton's Saturday concert," but unfortunately I have a concert with the Stratford C.O. then.

I've also been having one of those days where a certain person keeps coming back to my mind. This is a weird circumstance, and one that I don't encounter very often. One example: I was sitting on the bus to come home and someone came onto the bus with this person's name on their sweatshirt, and it's not even a common name! Weird.

Well I think that's enough poor English writing for me tonight... haha... :)

And the procrastination continues

I finally have a few hours free during the week, and what am I doing? Why surfing the internet and trying to ignore my hungry tummy! Oh the fun :D

Procrastination at its finest!

So I am presenting tomorrow on the future of the Canadian Orchestra, and I have so little to say... The end of scholarly life is so close, I have little initiative to plow through to the finish; sliding in seems like a much more enjoyable option. Anyhoo, if anyone is reading this and has a fine and dandy journal article on the topic, feel free to forward it to me by 8:30am...

Tomorrow doesn't hold anything too out of the ordinary (classes, Symphony Hamilton), but Thursday should be fun. I am helping a colleague of mine in an electronic music concert. I'm not sure how it will all work together in the end, but it involves me playing the bassoon... should be fun.

Well that is all. Feel free to come to a sweet Stratford concert this Saturday (details available on the right).