We do nothing to celebrate or even mark the occasion anymore. Just like an extra Sunday in the month.
I don't enjoy being off work (people think I'm strange!) and am looking forward to returning on Monday. Will be nice to have a midweek day off though.
Oh I much prefer being off than being at work. I really detest that more and more these days! Been there 15+ years which probably doesn’t help.
It is a Q&A panel for future music students. I’m two years graduated from high school, but I’m still in contact with some people from earlier in my life. Two of my former teachers have my number, and one reached out yesterday about this opportunity. (Hell, I was recently in contact with my speech therapist from elementary school, too—one of my more recent friends had run into her totally randomly.) Anyway, my old high school wants me to come back and do stuff. Which, trust me, I would love to do, but the date just won’t work for me.
My suggestion would be to let them know that you would be prepared to - in fact, that you would love to - do something similar if a date that suited you could be arranged.
Definitely would be worth a shot!
Dam it! You just reminded me about the bins. Wish I’d remembered earlier.
Personally, I honestly think that a format that allows for some sort of "live" exchange and interaction - be it an actual physical presence, (which is preferable), or, something such as Zoom - something which would allow for audience responses in "real time" is far preferable to recording a video.
If I had to hazard a guess, I suspect that this may have hit you on the flight to Europe; these days, travelling long distance by air (especially in economy, known as coach - I think - in the US), is a lot more crowded, a lot less pleasant - and frankly - a lot less healthy - than used to be the case even as recently as twenty years ago, as airlines squeeze in ever more numbers of passengers (thus, sitting ever more closely packed together), and pare back services, in the pursuit of profit.
Sounds a lovely way to pass some time; actually, when in good company, a pub is one of the most pleasant places it is possible to be, especially over the Yuletide break.
I got more stuff I didn't ever want or need because for them it was all about having a buch of gifts to open.
Not just much wider, (which they were), and far more comfortable (as they were far more generously padded), but there used to be much more space between your seat and the seat in front of you, (even in economy/coach), which also meant that the back of the seat in front of you could recline to a far greater angle than is possible nowadays, (as could you, in turn), but also contained far more storage space in which to stow (and store) stuff.
Same here I still have numbers to a few substitute and former teachers that I know very well from my high school. Even a couple of friends and one who is a longtime Apple fan that reunited with me in my college physics class earlier in the semester. I still even have the emails from these folks. I may have to go to an event where alums can reunite like the annual science fair that I used to display my hard work and all these big posters and papers that I had done.
Hope you get some rest and get better ❤️🩹 soon. I also would recommend to take a Covid test before you get back to the states- you might have to quarantine yourself once you get back home.
Have you managed to attend any concerts, or musical performances since your arrival?
We never did the Santa thing when Miss AFB was young. Never seemed to bother her knowing where her presents came from.Right there with you. I am not religious so that part of it doesn't affect me one way or the other.
But my inlaws basically ruined it for me. My MIL demanded we all be at her house and sit in a room together and stare at each other. No one in the family really likes anyone else with a few exceptions, but are there so they don't face her wrath. And the presents
One year when everyone invaded my house, I took my BIL and his two sons out on the SXS. We were gone about 6 hours, left after presents and breakfast and back before the big meal. She was pissed that I would do that and take her grandsons away from her when it was time they could have spent together (they lived 15 minutes from each other).
I only did it when the offspring was young enough to be in awe of it. After she stopped believing in Santa, I stopped going overboard.
Thanks! We brought some COVID tests with us. If this doesn’t resolve itself within the next couple days, I’ll take one. Been trying to rest tonight but have not slept well at all. (I’ve been sleeping fine otherwise.)
Yes! I saw a Christmas concert, which was very good, although the orchestra seemed to have some intonation issues in a few places. I am not religious, but I also went to a church service where they performed Schubert’s Mass in C Major, which was lovely! THAT was by far the best performance. I also saw the opera Hansel and Gretel, which was also amazing (though I didn’t connect with it in the same way as the Schubert). I will say, that was the best pit orchestra I have ever heard though. So often opera or theater orchestras seem to play everything super matter-of-factly, with very little musical expression. This was different though, and I felt that the two components - the orchestra and the opera itself - were performed equally well.
Just keeping you on check, friend. I never got super sick from a vacation but last Christmas some of my family got Covid, and this was also after the updated boosters. Luckily I was not affected by the virus 🦠.