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| New blog time! I've tended to like Blogger blogs the best, so I'm switching over there. It is much, much more nifty than xanga, I can tell now (though I'm still not entirely satisfied with how much space that sidebar takes up...).
Anyway, I might post in this blog every once in a blue moon if I don't want something to be as well known, but it won't happen often. Just keep it in your RSS aggregator or whatever if you're interested.
The new site:
http://chenettet.blogspot.com
Although I should mention also that I'm very attached to this blog. I still enjoy reading way back in the archives...
Ah well. Change is good. | | |
| Back at school.
The following are things I've recently gotten that I'm excited about in a culinary way:
1. An iron skillet!
2. A crockpot
3. A yogurt maker
4. An apron
5. A food processor
6. Tons of yeast (okay, technically pounds)
7. Advice from The Bread Bible
Plus I'm going to the local farmers' market tomorrow. My food had better rock this summer. | | |
| I would have liked to upload more photos, but Automator is acting up, and Safari apparently doesn't like Xanga's photo manager. Well, if you want to see more, you'll have to let me know. These are of 1 - the opera we saw for $4 each in Budapest, Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg - not something you see everyday, considering it's 5 and a half hours long, but take a look at that ensemble onstage. Pretty impressive - and 2 - Dubrovnik, a beautiful Croatian town, that was actually (when it was an independent republic) the first foreign nation to recognize the US.
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| Man, it's depressing to not get any email all day. Ah well. I'll post pictures of vacation later. In the meantime, you can see some at Nate's blog (if you know the address...). | | |
| Tomorrow the family heads out to Budapest. That's awesome. We get there Monday, and hang out with Nate (who's been studying there) that week in the area. Then on Friday we rent a car and head to Ljubljana and Bled, then Zagreb, then we fly to Dubrovnik, then head out to some lake that's supposed to be amazing. Then Nate and Dad fly home for work, and Mom, Claire, and I stick around to go to Vienna and Prague. How awesome is that? I can't wait. Although I will admit I'm a bit scared of flying after this past semester - considering that we have 3 flights there and 3 flights back plus one from Zagreb to Dubrovnik, this may be a problem or maybe I'll get used to it again. We shall see.
I saw Mom's New Prairie Camerata concert today. It had some terrific music and was played wonderfully, in a beautiful space (the Louis Sullivan Bank in Grinnell), though it wasn't so well attended. I look forward to their future concerts.
A week after we get back from Eastern Europe, I head back to school to take classes and teach the final semester of written theory - a repertoire-based class on 20th-century music analysis. It should be really interesting, and I look forward to actually learning a lot myself! There's a bit of a problem, though - I'm required to be in an ensemble, and I have class during my old choir's meeting time. I'm hoping to find another choir that meets later, but we'll see. Maybe I'll end up in the opera chorus. I think this isn't usually a problem because they don't usually give these teaching positions to masters students. (Doctoral students don't have the ensemble requirement.) It's a nice problem to have, I suppose, but I really hope I don't have to drop this class. I've been looking forward to it - I'm really into Renaissance music.
All right, off for a few weeks. | | |
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