Successes and less than such, along with trivial pursuits

[darcydodo]

So I finally managed to remember to register for classes on Telebears and discovered that I was faced with the dilemma of taking German at a morally pleasing time (namely 9am) or at a physically pleasing time (11am). You can guess which I chose, but I feel vaguely bad about it. But I hate 9am classes, so there wasn't really a major soul-search there.

Beethoven sucked tonight. We sang it with the orchestra for the first time, and we discovered that a) we've never done it nearly to tempo, b) we can't do it nearly to tempo, c) that we (at least the altos) basically suck, but for some reason Marika didn't notice this. I know exactly why she didn't notice: the orchestra was so fucking loud that we couldn't hear ourselves or each other, and probably Marika couldn't actually hear us either. Well, that's one possibility; the other is that Beethoven really does sound the same no matter what notes get sung. On the other hand, I probably shouldn't say that, because tonight really did go some way towards melting my glacial feelings towards the 9th symphony. The orchestra part (at least in the second movement) is gorgeous, so I think it's really just the melody that I don't care for. And there are some nice bits even in the vocal part, they just get lost to the audience. So I guess it's a piece that I can appreciate as a singer, if not as a listener. Still holding out for the opinion that a lot of Beethoven is crap, though. I think I should buy a copy of his oratorio; I really do like that.

Managed to get leech so that he now looks disturbed at the mention of fish (if I dream about fish tonight, I'm sure it will be the fault of your sex-life, leech... err, wait, no, I mean...) -- and no, mciac and girlwithjournal, I didn't tell him Frederick's "joke" in order to do this! Also discovered that he and I have the same vampire teeth, which is very amusing. Anan (OK, I really don't know how to spell his name) tried to use jugglers as an analogy for what I took to be a data port of sorts (I understand nothing about engineering), which was very cool, if confusing, and I understand the jugglers but still don't understand exactly how it can be extrapolated to apply to the switch he was describing. I think there's a reason I'm in humanities.

OK, sleepy now, and must still translate a bit of French article. Will this stop me from browsing through lj? Fat chance.

Comments

[spazatron.livejournal.com]

ooh, do you have the btvs soundtrack?! actually i just wanted to comment, because i love this new icon. i am such an icon whore. wish i had a paid account...*sniffle*

louis

[darcydodo]

It is a fun icon. :) No, I haven't got the BtVS soundtrack, sadly; I downloaded the song from Kazaa, 'cause I love it so much. Incidentally, I also snagged "Glycerine," so now you don't have to worry about sending it to me. I'll work on the icon when I get a chance; I have ideas but I'm not certain yet how to put them into action. I need to learn more about my animated gif program, or maybe get yet another one. :)

[spazatron.livejournal.com]

no pressure on the icon. you really don't have to do it...but you do have to find me someone who will. :)

that was a joke.

louis

[girlwithjournal.livejournal.com]

That is lovely, Louis.

[leech.livejournal.com]

I believe it's Anand.

Sure, mention my sex life and fish in your livejournal. Tell all your friends. Why should I care? *grumble*

By the way, other friends of Darcy, I'm not a piscophile. Just so you know.

[darcydodo]

I believe it's Anand.

Ah, thank you.

Sure, mention my sex life and fish in your livejournal. Tell all your friends. Why should I care? *grumble*

Muahahaha. Context is fairly absent, so don't worry, they'll just continue to think I'm very strange. A reasonable assessment, in any case.

Oh, I so don't want to have lunch with Shay tomorrow... *echoing grumble*

[(Anonymous)]

I so don't want to have lunch with Shay tomorrow
Whyever not? I thought you liked Shay, and lunch is almost always a good thing.

- R

[darcydodo]

And then there's some things that really don't need to be gone over in lj. It's complicated.

[(Anonymous)]

Poor Leech, you have my sympathy. There's a reason why I tried to remain semi-anonymous on this journal, and it has a lot to do with Darcydodo's evil mind!

- R

[wychwood]

You're singing Beethoven's 9th? I love the choral sections... Have you ever done Mahler 2? That's amazing to sing in.

Anyway, the reason for this comment is to inquire as to your graduation. Am I right in thinking that you will be coming back over here for it this summer? I kept meaning to email you and check, but I only remembered while away from the computer...

[darcydodo]

Nope, never done Mahler 2. Really never done many big choral pieces at all, though we did Brahms earlier this semester, and it was fantastic. Err, yeah, graduating July 19th, and I'll be in Oxford a couple days before that and then for about a week after.

[(Anonymous)]

classes on Telebears
What are Telebears?!

- R

[darcydodo]

Telebears is for registering for classes. It's a program sort of thing, though it's more complicated than that and doesn't actually bear explaining in detail 'cause it's just boring this-is-how-I-sign-up-for-classes shit.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, ok, I had assumed that Telebears was the subject of the class :-7

- R