Doom

The world is going to end!! Which we all knew anyway but I still felt the need to articulate, especially after my sociology class. I'm avoiding work again, this time an annotated bibliography which is just as bad as it sounds.

Happily enough, I have been inspired to chase the elusive butterfly of chamber music yet again by the fabulous performance of the Calder String Quartet (http://www.calderquartet.com/), a wonderfully talented group of young men my age playing professional music. As a Youth Symphony member I got to go to a special presentation and see chamber music as it was originally intended to be performed: close up and personal. It's always a blast to watch performers and I am highly susceptible (as are most people I've talked to about this) to falling in love with them for the duration of their performance (this also applies to some actors, especially theatre actors). So, I and two of my fellow string players here at the U are going to try and get together and work on some music. We've been trying to get a string quartet together but unfortunately cellos are in rather short supply in this area. Ah well, I'd better go and address the drudgery waiting to be done! (Weather report: clear for a day, front blows in, it pours, it clears, rinse and repeat.)