Ahhh... *sigh*
Oct. 6th, 2003 07:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jaalaThe internet connection is back again. The darn thing has been out of comission in residence rooms since Wednesday; it's incredible how difficult it was to function without access in my room. Professors expected me to visit certain sites, check email several times a day, and on and on.
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I completely mystified a store clerk by walking into a jeans place last week and asking, "Do you have any women's jeans that are not low-cut?"
I finally made it to an audition for the university's a cappella group. Apparently, I was one of at least a hundred so there's not much chance of getting in. (And even if I did, I've now found out that opera and a cappella rehearsals conflict.)
Halifax was hit pretty hard by Hurrican Juan. (Alliteration springs up in the most inappropriate places, doesn't it?) That's remarkably close to my old school, and I know a lot of people who have family there.
I'm singing tenor in the opera chorus. Unless I'm imagining things, my speaking voice is distinctly deeper when I walk out of rehearsal.
I am unbelievably behind in my school work, with a major test on Tuesday and a major assignment due Thursday. My to-do list grows ever larger, my sleep patterns grow more erratic, I keep having to skip practicing, and I have basically no free time at all. It is a royal pain in the ass to have to leave at least an hour of waiting and travel time by bus to get from the main campus (site of the music building, the music library with the hours of reserve recordings and scores I have to cover each week, the concert hall, other music students, the student government, Disability Services, physio) to West Campus (site of my residence, the stadium, the Faculty of Education, and nothing else) and back again. Though I really can't afford it with all the credit lost in transfer, I think I'm going to have to drop a course. I've never had to handle a course load this heavy; I'm not sure I can.
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I am currently enthralled by Harry Somers's Great Canadian Opera, Louis Riel. (some information about Riel himself here) When it was premiered, some predicted it would do for Canadian opera what Peter Grimes did for British. And there's no recording in print, dammit! Gah!
(However, there is a recording of Serinette, which though I've never heard it, I find interesting because it concerns a certain religious pacifist sect that split off from the Quakers. My home town's famous historical figure--hanged for treason--belonged to that very sect.)
Select highlights:
I completely mystified a store clerk by walking into a jeans place last week and asking, "Do you have any women's jeans that are not low-cut?"
I finally made it to an audition for the university's a cappella group. Apparently, I was one of at least a hundred so there's not much chance of getting in. (And even if I did, I've now found out that opera and a cappella rehearsals conflict.)
Halifax was hit pretty hard by Hurrican Juan. (Alliteration springs up in the most inappropriate places, doesn't it?) That's remarkably close to my old school, and I know a lot of people who have family there.
I'm singing tenor in the opera chorus. Unless I'm imagining things, my speaking voice is distinctly deeper when I walk out of rehearsal.
I am unbelievably behind in my school work, with a major test on Tuesday and a major assignment due Thursday. My to-do list grows ever larger, my sleep patterns grow more erratic, I keep having to skip practicing, and I have basically no free time at all. It is a royal pain in the ass to have to leave at least an hour of waiting and travel time by bus to get from the main campus (site of the music building, the music library with the hours of reserve recordings and scores I have to cover each week, the concert hall, other music students, the student government, Disability Services, physio) to West Campus (site of my residence, the stadium, the Faculty of Education, and nothing else) and back again. Though I really can't afford it with all the credit lost in transfer, I think I'm going to have to drop a course. I've never had to handle a course load this heavy; I'm not sure I can.
* * *
I am currently enthralled by Harry Somers's Great Canadian Opera, Louis Riel. (some information about Riel himself here) When it was premiered, some predicted it would do for Canadian opera what Peter Grimes did for British. And there's no recording in print, dammit! Gah!
(However, there is a recording of Serinette, which though I've never heard it, I find interesting because it concerns a certain religious pacifist sect that split off from the Quakers. My home town's famous historical figure--hanged for treason--belonged to that very sect.)
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Date: 2003-10-07 10:54 pm (UTC)