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Fire (probably unrelated to the earthquake)

Breaking news from my neighborhood!  It’s a very special blog post in the afternoon. I was lying on the couch watching the office and got a call from Chris that he had just gotten home, but that the neighbor’s balcony was on fire and he had just called 911.  Naturally I grabbed my phone and [...]

7 links

I try to pretend I don’t care about the rest of the blog world (or blogosphere as many call it) but I am frankly pretty psyched that Clare nominated me to do the 7 links post that has been going around for a few weeks now.  Thanks Clare! The Rules 1. Blogger is nominated to [...]

If only

Who isn’t a bit envious of this ridiculous creature? Of course I love my Tuesday students….but still.

Life of an orchestral musician in a nutshell

This weekend is the final concert series for the SLSO.  After this, they play with Opera Theatre St Louis and have a few other lighter classics concerts until the end of June.  Then the season is over. I was talking about this with Mike the other day and he asked, when does the season start [...]

Live Internet Concert tonight!

Remember the concert starts very very soon: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/stlocarina Enjoy

The return of the Kindle

I came home from my long day (and my Modern Mexican dinner at Milagro with a friend) to an  Amazon box containing two of the greatest things ever. One, the latest Harry Potter movie on DVD.  SWEET!  I hadn’t necessarily liked the first 6 HP movies, but Deathly Hallows Part 1 was great!  I did [...]