Mon, Oct 26, 2009 – 12:43
My Haydn + Mozart paper was graded over the weekend – not bad by my standards and far better than I expected, considering how hard I found to write it. :) In class Dr. Ruhling went over “Idomeneo,” the opera I watched last week, and now I know a little better what to watch for [...]
Wed, Oct 21, 2009 – 11:09
Today: Registration for winter classes… Graduation creeps closer! I’m liking my schedule although Tuesdays with Adam look like they will be loooong. Still have to figure out where to fit about 10 hours of work in. And it sounds like I may be missing a class that I thought I didn’t have to register for, [...]
Mon, Jul 20, 2009 – 19:58
Unless something goes disasterously wrong, my overnight train will be pulling out of the station as WordPress automatically posts this entry. To all the wonderful people I’m leaving behind here: I will miss you so much. I enjoyed everything I did with each of you. I promise I will come back, it will only take [...]
I went with Natalie and Micha on Saturday to the Highland Games celebration in Halle. We carpooled with a bunch of SCA types who evidently do archery as their primary Middle Ages activity. I’m not usually a jewelry kind of girl, but I’ve been noticing that art people and people at these medieval things wear [...]
Mon, Jun 29, 2009 – 14:01
There were more than a thousand people in Suhl (near Erfurt) for the 50th anniversary celebration of the European Callers & Teachers Association over the weekend. The weekend was pretty much fifty hours of awesome (though I think it would have been nice if a few more of those hours had actually been spent sleeping [...]
Fri, Jun 12, 2009 – 10:48
So, Janine gave me a whole bunch of music by the German band Die Prinzen the other day. I remember watching “Millionär” in German class and “Deutschland” always reminds me of one of the videos from Big Show my senior year, so it’s really cool to hear the rest of their music. Evidently they perform [...]
Pictures from the square dance demo/spring festival thing at Rolling Art on Friday.
The past week has been fairly quiet, as I’ve been working on homework and a personal project pretty continuously. I have gone out to see a couple of shows and stuff with Janine, which were fun. Yesterday was Kindertag, so the theater downtown was running free shows and crafts and stuff for kids, and I [...]
Wed, May 13, 2009 – 18:18
I found out why Janine is so much easier to understand than 80% of the Germans I’ve talked to — there is a huge range of dialects, full of contractions and mispronounced letters, and every village has a different one evidently. Janine makes a big effort to speak in high German for me, and it [...]
So, yesterday I went to the middle ages market in Roßlau, about 3 km from here. Since ren faires in the US seem to run from 9-5, and the Sterling Ren Faire I went to last year was huge, I wanted to jump up and go early to spend the whole day there. Since Janine [...]
