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Posted Oct 22, 2002 by the Shee | | Post: 1
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Yippee! I've been working for months on this, and finally the day was there... But I did it -- didn't do as well as I thought I could do, but I still made it. Yippee! The waiting for results drove me crazy, but --- now they're in and so am I!
(I play clarinet for those who might not know...)
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Posted Oct 30, 2002 by Ellen
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Congrats!!
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Posted Oct 31, 2002 by the Shee
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Thank you!
umm.. it's a bit late, but well done! *wave*
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Posted Dec 10, 2002 by the Shee
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Thanks, hon'.  Haven't seen you lately.... 
Sadly, life's been extremely chaotic and stressful here. But I have been around! 
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Posted Dec 10, 2002 by the Shee
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As opposed to me... I haven't been around much. Mostly not seeing you has been my fault, I think... Oh well.
.. I can only hope that it's because life's been so engaging you haven't felt the need to be here, and that everything's going buzzingly for you.
How have things been?
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Posted Dec 11, 2002 by the Shee
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<laughs>
Actually, yes - if I'm grasping your meaning of "buzzingly"  It's crazy surprising, actually, because h2g2 has been a bit of escapism over the past year for me. But of course there were billions of problems here as well, so ... Just interesting.
Ne, things've been good... I happen to be busy, which means little h2g2 time, but also little time for sitting down and thinking, which has always been my downfall (I think too much, get wrapped up in little details and usually end up blowing them out of proportion once I look at how the other people involved feel).... So that's been quite good actually. All in all it's been decent, except for one person who's been driving me mad on another discussion board.... He is anti- every that I care about. And makes no beans about it. (what a wonderful phrase! hee hee) But anyway.
Mostly I've been writing and reading and getting upset at our almightly President Bush's policies -- how about you?
hmm.. .. .. you should grab all of the positive aspects of real life (by which I mean h2g2) and that external thing.. and focus on them. 
.. I'm finding myself with far too MUCH time to sit and think. Due to my having moved (four times, no less, since September), I barely know anyone in the vicinity, and what with not having very much to do (or even a computer, at the moment, although even when I have it, there's no internet connection to be found), I spend a lot of time sitting around. (Normally, admittedly, I do this. But at the moment it's forcible sitting around, which I don't like).
On the bright side, I have lots of time to read. (and read I have, including Bush's.. ah.. policies. *mutters "must not diatribe" to self over and over again*)
I'd pester as to what, precisely, you spend your time doing, but I get the feeling that I'd either have an elusive answer or a refusal to be told, so pry I won't.
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Posted Dec 13, 2002 by the Shee
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Hrm.... I'd just rather not post it on h2g2.  I'm involved in more websites now, which is eating away my day.... And since I'm online talking to people at places like Worldcrossing.com too, daily, (getting yelled at for calling Germany 'progressive' for gay marriage and for my version of politics, among other things) h2g2 hasn't been a top priority. And there are things here that I would just rather avoid... But not you! And you and others are what have made me come back.
I actually forgot for a while that I had an account here....
Yes, too much time to think is bad... I've learned that. So now if I have too much time (which actually hasn't been lately), I tend to read (yeah books! I went through all my books a day or so ago and pulled together all the books that I bought and want to read, but haven't yet -- they fill an entire arms-breadth shelf ), go online, even watch TV ( -- I don't usually watch TV).
Hrm, what else.... I've had a lot of concerts lately... Well 3. And now I'm playing Night on Bald Mountain -- fun! (Not my solo, though.)
I'm trying to think what else I'm doing.... Just life, mostly. Running around like a chicken with my head cut off .
Actually, thinking about Mussorgsky, a mont chauve does make more sense when described as a bald mountain. s.. but isn't it a BARE mountain? 
aww, ok. Well, if you want to mail me, I'm james at listie dot screaming dot net. .. or, I'm on AIM sometimes (darkelogium) and ICQ a little less (more once I have my laptop back), as the venerable mr. 10807960. , so if you use either of those, I can inquisition you to your heart's content. .. and you'll regret saying that you wouldn't rather avoid me.
<biggeyes>.. forgot? tsk!..
*nod*.. one of the things I don't like about where I am is that I have a room. And a kitchen that's shared. I don't have anywhere I can go and read. At least were I to have a flat, I could mooch from room to room and have a change of environment.. as it is, I can read on my bed, or at my desk. *sigh*.. you have no idea how appealing the prospect of having my own bookshelf (and/or accompanying living room or other area) sounds.
Which part of the Mussorgsky are you playing, btw? I know the clarinet part to that quite well (although I played principal last time I played it {and the time before, for that matter}, I think I've played the second part, as well. I was even given it as a sight-reading / repertoire test in a symphony orchestra's audition process once.).. and how good's the orchestra? It's a piece that can be played by bad amateur orchestras, but if you get a good amateur (or semi-professional/professional, obviously) orchestra, can sound really really nice. It's one of my favouritest orchestral pieces, thinking about it. I really must get a proper recording of it. (I have a recording by an unheardof radio orchestra, as far as I remember.. who are good, but just don't have the sparkle of some of my favourite orchestras). I think that perhaps my h2g2 name title should be changed to "orchestral snob"..
.. .. howcome you have to run around so much? .. running around is baaaaaaadd... (especially at the moment. I gave a pint of blood yesterday, and I found myself out of breath after walking up a hill for a mile too quickly.. .. I should be able to run up that hill without breaking much of a sweat, and I suddenly feel strangely belittled by the fact that I had to sit on someone's wall once I'd gone to the top.  )
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Posted Dec 14, 2002 by the Shee
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Ah, probably right -- if I say I was tired, do I get off the hook? My brain tends to categorize in odd ways.... Like a week ago, I could remember the French title of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps (can't spell it though; can't write any French and can only respond to "let's go" "my name is" and "if you please"... and probably just a couple more that I can't think of) but I couldn't remember the English version. Especially weird because I have no idea what the French means (well, I wasn't familiar with it before becoming familiar with the piece)....
Second part. It's a decent orchestra, not nearly fantastic. The difference between "bad" and "good" is dependant upon whether people spend lots of time practicing or not.... *grin* Usually by the performance we are sounding good, but up until then... Who knows.
Oh, yes, English... You actually have walls to sit on at the top of hills...
Na, I gave a pint of blood and found myself out of breath after I walked up a flight of stairs, so to you!
Busy busy.... Yeah.
No.. you'll just be poked more and drugged with  . Remember, children, Sleep is an inadequate substitute for coffee.
Ah.. Le Sacre du Printemps is the right spelling, though. .. It literally means "The Sacred (thing) of Spring".. although in this context, I think it's taken as red that "sacred thing" is an extremely literal translation, and means 'rite' or ceremony'.. so.. the french name is little more exciting than "the right of spring". I think..
.. how many woodwind players do you have in each section? You can often judge at least the calibre of management by how appropriately they audition and assign desks. (and whether or not they actually assign principles / desking, or leave it for the players to squabble / assign).
.. it was a residential road that was on a hill, so I sat on the wall at the front of someone's garden. .. but american houseplanning is odd, so still unlike anything you guys have over there, I guess. (Although my conception of american housing goes straight from highrise to film-esque rows of neatly identical houses to ranches with little inbetween..)
.. I power-walked straight up a (different) hill and into a lecture after mine - I was going to be late otherwise. Although I've been using my loss of a pint of blood as an excuse not to walk, lift things, etc, for the last day or two.  .. I'll go back and give another as soon as I'm allowed. You guys get paid for giving blood, don't you? Or.. since you have entirely private hospitals, are there multiple organisations (and therefore ways of going about donating blood) which collect?
.. what busy doing?
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Posted Dec 23, 2002 by the Shee
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I don't like coffee... It's too bitter. Maybe if I drank it more, it wouldn't be so... But frankly I'd rather stay with sweet chocolate.
That's quite amusing, actually. I think I only saw it written down once...
Two to three woodwinds... Clarinets and bassoons 2, flutes and oboes 3. Yeah, they assign.
Well, your pic of American housing is pretty straight on. *grin* You forgot current suburbs in favor of '50s-style mass produced suburbs, though, with lots of houses all in a row, but not all the same... Heh heh.
No, no money, just a sticker that says "Be nice to me, I gave blood" or something along those lines. They tried to collect money for giving blood years ago, but the kind of people who were attracted to that were the ones you don't want blood from. Mostly people who wanted an easy way to finance a drug habit... So often their blood couldn't be used anyway. And other people were trying to give blood much more often than is healthy, and that kind of thing. So now it is purely volunteer.... Yeah, and there are a bunch of organizations to choose from. I can think of two that I have contact with right off the top of my head. Usually it isn't hospitals though, but more specific organizations that just focus on taking blood.
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