Das is gute

I feel accomplished today. I taught, went to the post office to mail a score to Tim and cd to one of my interviewers who couldn't remember my music, went to the bank, cleaned up the kitchen which I hadn't done in days, went for a ten mile bike ride, and did laundry. Hopefully tomorrow I can focus on composing, since I have pretty much all day to do it.

This weekend I went to San Francisco to see a dress rehearsal of Das Rheingold with my mom. Of course, it was the same night as the Black and White Ball, which meant that half of Van Ness and Grove were closed off, making actually getting to the War Memorial opera house a bit difficult. Had to stop to explain to security guard that we were trying to go to the opera house, he didn't seem to understand that we really weren't interested in going to the black and white ball to see Seal...so while he was stopping some other unfortunate couple trying to get to the opera, we went on ahead.

The opera was good, and while I realize these stories all come from another era, I'm really sick of all the wussy female characters. Just saying. I loved the giants, I think they were really well done. Not sure I understand why everyone was in dress from the 20s or something, but whatever. The singing was great, the opera made sense, and it was only 2.5 hours (I thought it was going to be 4+ hours, being Wagner and all). Not to mention I had a great time out with my mom. All in all, good.

Oh, and Friday I had a good lesson when I totally thought it was going to suck. Which is good. Especially as I wasn't feeling well and was absolutely exhausted (went home and took a three hour naps. Naps are good). Hopefully I can keep up the string of good lessons.