I spent most of my free time this week working on the three papers I had due Friday: a paper for literature class, the draft of my Stravinsky essay and the draft of my program notes for the next orchestra set (Prokofiev, Romeo and Juliet suites). This was not very exciting. In fact the most exciting thing that happened this school week was that during somebody's presentation in Stravinsky class M did a 3D doodle and I said she should make a new career as a Symbolist painter.
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| Those pencil scribbles on the left are my contribution... |
On Saturday I went with a group to Fort Funston to look for caches, and this WAS exciting. The day was gorgeous and it was very, very windy at the beach - we were all blinded by stinging sand. We attempted to capture a webcam photo and spent quite a while standing around in different places trying to find where the camera was. Somebody suggested we try to make letters with our bodies and spell out a word - the best we could come up with was "YMCA" twice. Then people started complaining and asking if we had to hold our letter for the ten minutes it would take for the webcam to update. I thought the whole thing was hysterically funny. We ended up getting only a couple blurry photos because no one wanted to stand in the eyeball-tearing sandy wind for much longer. We slithered down a dune to the beach, where the ocean was being whipped into foam. I've never seen this before. The foam was coming in to the beach, pushed by the wind, and it was pure white at first. The foam that had been sitting on the beach for awhile was full of sand and browner.
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| That's all foam!! |
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| White foam drifting in |
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| Geo-buddy on a soft sand bed |
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| Saw on the way home |
Went to the library on Sunday and found a double tower of books and Ghirardelli. Sounds like a good plan.
Also noticed in the train station that the buskers are getting more creative. I guess competition is stiff these days.
- Antisocial Violinist
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