Today's Random Thoughts

This week is intense!  We have a performance on Saturday, so every day has 2 hours of extra class, plus obviously a dress rehearsal on the weekend.  Phew!

I just got stuck in the Esso driveway... it was great.  Both entrances are on hills, and the roads here are cuh-RAZ-y.  I don't get it... it's almost like NO PLOWING has been done, and we've accumulated a ton of snow in the past 24 hours!  At Laurier I almost ran over several people since the roads are so messy and they barely have sidewalks at ALL around the streets/parking lots... so trying to get up the hill in the deep snow with pedestrians all over the place and another car coming and swerving uncontrollably... equals DISASTER!

I also seem to have frozen the tip of my fourth finger on Ruby (Ruby= right hand, Shtinkah= left hand) (and yes, Ruby is also my nickname, but has nothing to do with my hand name... I made those up in high school, and totally didn't remember until the nickname Ruby had already stuck).  It's all white and completely numb, and it's been a good 40 minutes.  Hopefully little Rubes will be okay?  Dr. Jessica???

There's been some theft in the practice building... the guy was described to our class today (so we'd recognize him) as "very old, like, in his late, LATE twenties."  I asked if he had a cane and bifocals.  No one got it, mostly because they don't know that I, too, am in my late, LATE twenties.  I usually think of 28 and 29 to be the "late twenties".  So I guess this guy HAD to be 29.  

A little guy also said to me today that he liked talking to me because I say weird things all the time.  Umm... THANKS.  He also said that he thought it was great that I'm not bummed to be hitting 30 soon, because he and his friends have decided that their lives will be pretty much over when they're my age.  HA!  Nice.  The whole conversation was like that... compliments and insults all tangled up together... I had no idea what was going on.  Part of the convo (that's for you, Jenn) was about why I'm not married yet (he wisely suggested I try picking guys up at bars more often).  We talked about my pickiness (which, of course, I like to SAY is the reason I'm not married, but we all know that's not true, as I haven't exactly been turning away suiters left right and center these days), and one of the things I mentioned was that this unknown man needs to be able to express himself well in writing (especially in terms of humour and "voice").  So the last thing this little guy says to me is that he'll work really hard on his writing from now on.  Sigh... well... maybe it WILL come down to robbing the cradle, but... somehow I doubt it.

I'm writing a song for a little guy name Daniel to sing (brilliant composer, actually) - and I have to play some sort of unpitched percussion.  I'm trying to make something creative, like a jar with coins and a really nice lid that I can drum on.  It's celtic.  This guy can sing almost a whole octave above what I can sing, so I'm going to have some fun with that.  No words... just dum de dums and deedle didles!  hahaha... maybe not deedle didles.  We'll see.

I'm reading Hinds Feet on High Places YET again... crying my way through every page... it's just so LOADED with significance, especially now.  

The university is having to make HUGE budget cuts which are going to drastically affect my years here in the music program.  I've heard some scary stuff.  There's a meeting about it all on Friday (which has nicely bumped my choir rehearsal into the evening... and I usually leave Waterloo at 2:30).  Yikes.  If anything happens to the composition program, I don't even know what I'd do.  Audition at U of T?  My teacher mentioned something vague about how it may be good for the music students to have to have equal focus in non-music courses.  WHAT?!?  Especially without fine art here, I'm just not interested!  I know why I'm here, and it's for focused work in composition!  Anyway, I don't have all the details yet, so there's no point in freaking out.  But they keep saying that the first year students are going to have a drastically different time in undergrad than ever before.

Okay, I'd better get to work!

Sorry this is so random.  Love you all!