Friday, April 30, 2010

Its 1:15 am. I'm waiting for my laundry to get done. Tomorrow morning at 9 am Arneis is driving to Michigan and Ohio to play some concerts and do a residency at Dan's, the violist, old high school. It promises to be an amazing time, but after a semester from hell and a quartet concert last night that was a very high stress situation, I'm so ready to sleep for the next week.

Oh well. Onward.

I've been updating mostly via facebook status. I realize that new blog posts have been few and far between lately, but I'm hoping to rectify that situation.

We'll be back in Boston next Thursday evening, but then I have my solo recital to stress over. I've come to slowly realize that things are going to be kinda stressful and annoying until I have moved into my new apartment sometime after September 1st (wherever that is - I don't know yet) and then it'll be school time again. It really doesn't stop for me. While that is exciting, and the possibilities and opportunities this summer for quartet and then a new place are thrilling, I can't wait till Christmas break.

Tuesday, April 06, 2010

A Sad Evening

Poor Butler. Poor poor poor Butler. They worked so hard, they played so hard.....darn it all, they were so good! Only two points. (sigh) Hopefully this tournament will only mean good things for them in the future - more power to get even better players, more fans, etc. Molly and I were good Indiana/Hoosier-born girls and watched the game with screaming and excitement. (Molly is a graduate of Butler, where Hannah will be graduating from next month.)

Things are as usual intense and hectic, but oh well. The schedule never lets up, although my personal practicing goals are going ok. Arneis is in rehearsal frenzy. This is our schedule for the summer:

Juilliard Quartet Seminar (NYC) in May for 7 days.
Banff (Canada) in June for 3 weeks.
St. Lawrence SQ Seminar (Stanford, CA) over June/July for 10 days.
Muir Seminar (Deer Valley, Utah) in July for 3 weeks.

Things have moved fast - but its exciting. Hopefully we won't hate each other by August 1st.

Its also official - Molly and I will no longer be roommates starting September 1st. She is moving to NH to live with Kris, her boyfriend, who teaches 7th grade up there. I'm bittersweet about it. I have loved living with her, but its time for us both to move on, and I'm mostly ready to live on my own. As I'm looking for a studio or one-bedroom, it may not be a realistic dream, but I'm going to try my hardest. I have lived for almost 4 years in this apartment. I love it, and mostly, I love my neighborhood. Its safe, there is a grocery store a block away, and my favorite Thai restaurant almost literally across the street But there is something exciting about cleaning out and packing up and starting over and change.

Time for bed.