Having a cold sucks rocks. Anyone care to take it away?
Most recent medication: a generous shot of scotch. :-)
Monday, September 17, 2007
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
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The dryer in the laundry room of the apartment building sucks rocks. The first time I used it, I thought it didn't do a very good job, but attributed that to the fact that there were some heavy things in the load (towels, blue jeans). Today's load was much lighter (t-shirts and dress shirts, mainly), but after two cycles, everything was still damp. So there are shirts hanging from every available place in my apartment. Over doors, from doorknobs, on hangers on teh shower curtain rod...it looks as though the dryer exploded in the apartment.
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Had a high school student come in for her first violin lesson after school today - she signed up for orchestra, but has never played before. She already plays piano, which makes my job much easier (don't have to teach note-reading, counting, etc.), and is also in choir...and has a good ear. At one point, she said, "That doesn't sound quite right. What am I doing wrong?" Her whole hand had slid about ¼ inch closer to the bridge, so all of her notes requiring fingers were a bit sharp. Zipped through the first ~30 pages of the lesson book...and she didn't seem to have any trouble understanding how to do any of it.
She's gonna be a good violinist. Great kid to work with, too - asks good questions, tries before saying "I can't"...
The dryer in the laundry room of the apartment building sucks rocks. The first time I used it, I thought it didn't do a very good job, but attributed that to the fact that there were some heavy things in the load (towels, blue jeans). Today's load was much lighter (t-shirts and dress shirts, mainly), but after two cycles, everything was still damp. So there are shirts hanging from every available place in my apartment. Over doors, from doorknobs, on hangers on teh shower curtain rod...it looks as though the dryer exploded in the apartment.
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Had a high school student come in for her first violin lesson after school today - she signed up for orchestra, but has never played before. She already plays piano, which makes my job much easier (don't have to teach note-reading, counting, etc.), and is also in choir...and has a good ear. At one point, she said, "That doesn't sound quite right. What am I doing wrong?" Her whole hand had slid about ¼ inch closer to the bridge, so all of her notes requiring fingers were a bit sharp. Zipped through the first ~30 pages of the lesson book...and she didn't seem to have any trouble understanding how to do any of it.
She's gonna be a good violinist. Great kid to work with, too - asks good questions, tries before saying "I can't"...Saturday, September 01, 2007
I have regular internet access at home again! 
Now...to catch up on tons of email. And reading a bunch of blogs. And TT.
There are a gazillion flies in the apartment today. And they're stupid ones, too. I've caught at least a dozen - as they land on one arm, I swipe at them with the opposite hand...and then deposit the ones I catch in the plants. Well...there aren't plants yet. They're still seeds. Am trying an (admittedly rather strange) experiment...my brother mentioned that it would be cool to have corn on the cob for Thanksgiving. So - I have 30 kernels of corn planted in greenhouse plant containers sitting on the windowsill. It'll be interesting to see what happens if they all sprout - could be almost like a field in the living room.
Same cell phone number - because I had to get a landline in order to get DSL. They haven't gotten around to running cable to this corner of town yet.
Time to go whittle down the email backlog...
Now...to catch up on tons of email. And reading a bunch of blogs. And TT.
There are a gazillion flies in the apartment today. And they're stupid ones, too. I've caught at least a dozen - as they land on one arm, I swipe at them with the opposite hand...and then deposit the ones I catch in the plants. Well...there aren't plants yet. They're still seeds. Am trying an (admittedly rather strange) experiment...my brother mentioned that it would be cool to have corn on the cob for Thanksgiving. So - I have 30 kernels of corn planted in greenhouse plant containers sitting on the windowsill. It'll be interesting to see what happens if they all sprout - could be almost like a field in the living room.
Same cell phone number - because I had to get a landline in order to get DSL. They haven't gotten around to running cable to this corner of town yet.
Time to go whittle down the email backlog...
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