Morning Sundries
Sep. 9th, 2009 08:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sigmastolenToday's 3:1 actually felt easier than Monday's 2:1 -- which is not to say that I'm looking forward to doing 4:1 on Friday and Saturday, but I might be less apprehensive about it than I was about this morning.
Contrabassoon yesterday was not terrible, despite me having forgotten my fingering chart in my other case. I might try again today. Also, I am practically swimming in reeds for the thing -- I bought three reeds about a month ago because they were on sale, without realising that I already had two unused reeds. It's okay, though, because now, of the five contrabassoon reeds in my possession, there are three that are playable. Three!! It is an embarrassment of riches.
It's pretty much the opposite with my bassoon reeds. Of the five that are in my reed box, one of them sounds acceptable, and that one was giving me trouble last night. Also, there are fifteen days until auditions, and I am not even close to tempo on Pulcinella and the Witches' Sabbath. Plus the pad on my G key is sticking, which is extremely problematic for Scheherezade in particular, but I e-mailed John about it last night and he'll tell me how to fix it (or to bring it to him so he can fix it). (Also I felt bad for not seeing/calling him since May, despite having moved to within two miles of his house. It's not my fault that I had the Cold From Hell when the guys were going to have drinks with him, but it is my fault that I didn't get in contact otherwise.) (Also maybe if I reach out to him now, he'll tell me where to apply for grad school. Well, I mean, I'm going to have this conversation with him anyway, and also with Other John, and probably also with every other professor I am on good terms with, and a lot of the grad students as well... But anyway.)
After ablutions & breaking fast this morning, I'm going to go to the post office and mail a bunch of shit, and also pick up the package that I apparently missed yesterday. It should be the Advantage for the kitties, which will be excellent. In related news, there will be EPIC VACUUMING today (to make up for the EPIC VACUUMING that I definitely didn't do this weekend)!
Mmk shower time.
Contrabassoon yesterday was not terrible, despite me having forgotten my fingering chart in my other case. I might try again today. Also, I am practically swimming in reeds for the thing -- I bought three reeds about a month ago because they were on sale, without realising that I already had two unused reeds. It's okay, though, because now, of the five contrabassoon reeds in my possession, there are three that are playable. Three!! It is an embarrassment of riches.
It's pretty much the opposite with my bassoon reeds. Of the five that are in my reed box, one of them sounds acceptable, and that one was giving me trouble last night. Also, there are fifteen days until auditions, and I am not even close to tempo on Pulcinella and the Witches' Sabbath. Plus the pad on my G key is sticking, which is extremely problematic for Scheherezade in particular, but I e-mailed John about it last night and he'll tell me how to fix it (or to bring it to him so he can fix it). (Also I felt bad for not seeing/calling him since May, despite having moved to within two miles of his house. It's not my fault that I had the Cold From Hell when the guys were going to have drinks with him, but it is my fault that I didn't get in contact otherwise.) (Also maybe if I reach out to him now, he'll tell me where to apply for grad school. Well, I mean, I'm going to have this conversation with him anyway, and also with Other John, and probably also with every other professor I am on good terms with, and a lot of the grad students as well... But anyway.)
After ablutions & breaking fast this morning, I'm going to go to the post office and mail a bunch of shit, and also pick up the package that I apparently missed yesterday. It should be the Advantage for the kitties, which will be excellent. In related news, there will be EPIC VACUUMING today (to make up for the EPIC VACUUMING that I definitely didn't do this weekend)!
Mmk shower time.
