May!

19 was a pretty good birthday, and the uber-musical weekend went reasonably well. The parents seemed to enjoy their visit!

The Madras Album was released in a great, plaid concert! The wine and cheese reception that followed was really nice, unfortunately I had a typically over-scheduled day so I needed to rush off to rehearse “Eli, Eli” with Cloe and Shelsey. That night, the jazz concert was pretty good. I’ve personally played the songs better, but I’ve also played them worse. I had a great solo, which is a rare but super feeling. The next day for Yom HaShoah my arrangement of Eli, Eli went off really well. I got complimented on it afterwards, not only on the performance but specifically on the arrangement. It’s nice to have people who know what an arrangement is, and who know what to listen to. Linda Schiffer, the coordinator of my commons, commended me yesterday and told me she’d been sitting with Peter Hamlin, somebody in the music department, who wanted Cloe and me to contact him re: singing with him. Recognition always feels good!!!

I just finished presenting in Arabic about “Amal Alsaif,” my summer job. It’s nice to finish things like that.
I have a pretty linear workload – linear, as opposed to a scrambled mass of gooey stress. I should be able to finish one after another so it should be a pretty steady stream of work. Time’s grooving like a soul.