Busyness and good stuff
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amethyst73*thud* I feel like I've accomplished a lot in the last few weeks.
In my Travel Agent role, I purchased airplane tickets for my parents to come and visit at Christmas about two weeks ago. Then I purchased tickets for the huz and me to go to Storyreading Reunion in September. Add that to the tickets and hotel stuff that I did back in May for the trip to New York next week, and you get a lot of travel stuff.
In my Librivox Metacoordinator role, I catalogued three projects in three days. Did lots of staring at and editing of archive.org pages and creating Librivox catalog pages. A fourth project technically under my jurisdiction became ready for cataloging yesterday (of course), but kayray very graciously took care of it for me. Thanks, Kara! (For the curious: The three projects were The Burgess Animal Book, Fabulas de Esopo vol. 4, and Time and the Gods. Good stuff all.)
Work's been going along fine; nothing particularly exciting. I've been helping to hand-pick bacterial colonies, which is time-consuming, tedious, but useful; having less dead time at work is part of the reason I haven't been posting all that regularly. (For anyone curious about what hand-picking means: Take round agar plate with little white colonies growing on it in one gloved hand. Take one (or more) sterile toothpicks in your other hand. Apply tip of each toothpick to a single colony. Deposit toothpicks into individual wells in a 96-well bacterial growth plate. Repeat until 96 colonies have been picked into the plate. Remove toothpicks, label plate, and repeat for all plates.)
Singing stuff has been going very well indeed. I had my first voice lesson in about a month earlier this week, and my teacher was very pleased with the progress that I've made. I'm doing real bel-canto singing now: all the sound production is taking place up in my head above my cheekbones, where it's supposed to. It feels great. Now the task is to solidify the breathing, support, technique, etc, and we can start having some real fun. :D The question for me, of course, is how much longer I'll continue taking lessons, given that I've kind of gotten to a Really Good Place. I want the additional control that further lessons will give me, but at some point the rate of return is probably going to decrease to a point where it's no longer worth paying a fair chunk of money on a weekly basis.
Finally, the huz and I went to see Paprika last night. It's a fantastic piece of anime, which may well get its own post one of these fine days. We loved it. If you are interested in anime, dreams, reality, and the intersection of them, you should go see it. I would not at all mind seeing it a second time. (Oh heynezumiko - it looks like it's playing for another several days at the local theater, so if you missed it this week, you can still go conveniently!)
We have nothing planned for the weekend, except starting advanced skating class on Saturday. Yay, a quiet weekend at home!
In my Travel Agent role, I purchased airplane tickets for my parents to come and visit at Christmas about two weeks ago. Then I purchased tickets for the huz and me to go to Storyreading Reunion in September. Add that to the tickets and hotel stuff that I did back in May for the trip to New York next week, and you get a lot of travel stuff.
In my Librivox Metacoordinator role, I catalogued three projects in three days. Did lots of staring at and editing of archive.org pages and creating Librivox catalog pages. A fourth project technically under my jurisdiction became ready for cataloging yesterday (of course), but kayray very graciously took care of it for me. Thanks, Kara! (For the curious: The three projects were The Burgess Animal Book, Fabulas de Esopo vol. 4, and Time and the Gods. Good stuff all.)
Work's been going along fine; nothing particularly exciting. I've been helping to hand-pick bacterial colonies, which is time-consuming, tedious, but useful; having less dead time at work is part of the reason I haven't been posting all that regularly. (For anyone curious about what hand-picking means: Take round agar plate with little white colonies growing on it in one gloved hand. Take one (or more) sterile toothpicks in your other hand. Apply tip of each toothpick to a single colony. Deposit toothpicks into individual wells in a 96-well bacterial growth plate. Repeat until 96 colonies have been picked into the plate. Remove toothpicks, label plate, and repeat for all plates.)
Singing stuff has been going very well indeed. I had my first voice lesson in about a month earlier this week, and my teacher was very pleased with the progress that I've made. I'm doing real bel-canto singing now: all the sound production is taking place up in my head above my cheekbones, where it's supposed to. It feels great. Now the task is to solidify the breathing, support, technique, etc, and we can start having some real fun. :D The question for me, of course, is how much longer I'll continue taking lessons, given that I've kind of gotten to a Really Good Place. I want the additional control that further lessons will give me, but at some point the rate of return is probably going to decrease to a point where it's no longer worth paying a fair chunk of money on a weekly basis.
Finally, the huz and I went to see Paprika last night. It's a fantastic piece of anime, which may well get its own post one of these fine days. We loved it. If you are interested in anime, dreams, reality, and the intersection of them, you should go see it. I would not at all mind seeing it a second time. (Oh hey
nezumiko - it looks like it's playing for another several days at the local theater, so if you missed it this week, you can still go conveniently!)We have nothing planned for the weekend, except starting advanced skating class on Saturday. Yay, a quiet weekend at home!
well done
Date: 2008-09-27 11:36 am (UTC)thank you
Date: 2008-09-28 10:17 pm (UTC)thanks much
Date: 2008-10-09 03:53 pm (UTC)