Moot Thoughts & Musings

Yesterday, after a not-so-great lecture, I went to a great history party at some prof's house. One of my seminar pals had the coolest puppets ever and we sat on the patio and made the puppets say random historical facts and sing opera. I was disappointed in the lecture. It's faults lay partly in the fact that it was still a work in progress, but still...it was a history lecture and hte topic was political propaganda in opera. I wanted to talk to the lady about how she blended music into her historical research. But at the party, her husband or some guy from her group...I never sorted out who was who...was so rude to me. After I said I was a musicologist he just went on this tirade of what people he knows think about musicology (not flattering thoughts either). The people he described were performers and wouldn't be caught dead be known as a musicologist. Thus, he derives that a musicologist is a horrible thing to me. The uncomprising way this guy portrayed this information was so rude and insulting...and grossly misinformed. I very nearly almost lost my temper, but decided to avoid this group of people for the rest of the evening in order to maintain the cheerful mood I was in. The history prof had a very cool Pleyel piano. It had a double keyboard...the bottom one being like a normal keyboard, and then a smaller one just above that played an octave higher, thus enabling a small-handed person play intervals, such as a tenth, with ease.

I made it home in one piece last night.
I'm so glad to be home. It has been very hard not to come home this week, though wonderful to have my mornings for work. I'm so exhausted. I slept in this morning and took a nap this afternoon and I think I'll go to bed now.

I was sitting staring at my book this afternoon. Trying to read but my brain is so tired. My neighbor asked if I wanted to go see a movie with her. So I figured that I might as well not live in denial about the fact that I wasn't comprehending a word I was reading and went. We saw "Laurel Canyon" with France McDormand, Christian Bale, and Kate Beckinsale. It was really good. I liked it a lot...and superbly well-cast.

I made taco salad for dinner. It's the second time I've cooked since Easter dinner. What have I come to?

Only one week of classes left. Then finals. Then...aaah. Just finishing up my incompletes at my pace in my home. Can't wait.