This week has been a little more settled than previous weeks. Despite the stress coming from the election news and the constant nagging worries, it was a relaxing enough weekend. I didn’t have as much work as usual: Saturday I had the morning off so I slept in a bit. I had a studio recital at a nearby church in the afternoon, with 23 students performing. It’s always a little bit stressful, though I’ve gotten more used to running them over the years. It went well enough, and the location was perfect.

The weather was rainy all day: it was a great day to just stay in and watch movies, cuddle up under a blanket, maybe eat popcorn. But we had tickets for the symphony that night, so we braved the rain (but not the metrolink–the blue line, the one that goes by our house, didn’t go downtown this weekend and transferring would have added about 20-30 minutes each way, so we drove) and went to see them play Mozart’s Requiem. It was a lovely concert, though I had to laugh when Stefane Deneve (the conductor) said that they were celebrating Mozart this week and next–that guy just never gets any love, does he?

Sunday was another student recital, this one at Wash U and all I had to do was show up. I also taught a makeup lesson and then had the rest of the day off! Louie and I had plans to go over to the old house and do some things, but I think the depression of the last week set in and we ended up deciding just to relax, cook dinner, and then watch “Will and Harper” for our movie club this week.

And this week is back to “normal”. Teaching, some rehearsals, and Louie’s dad is visiting this weekend. Nothing too terribly stressful except if you accidentally read a news article about the national politics and all the horrible things they are planning/already doing, plus all the gaslighting going on “they never said that/they won’t do that/January 6 wasn’t an insurrection/he didn’t rape those women/etc.”. But otherwise, life goes on, and as some pointed out, hey look at our investments, going way up. Because as we all know, lower income people who can’t afford groceries always have a lot of investments, right?

Sigh.