November 1, 2015

Guys, remember the article I mentioned last week, about how A-440 is Nazi tuning?? Well guess what, on Friday there was a group of people outside SFCM who were lobbying for A to be lowered to 432!! I was in class all morning and did not get to see or talk to them, but I heard about it from friends. Apparently they had set up a table and were handing out brochures. I couldn't believe it. Once I get over feeling confused, I'll probably think it's really funny.

On Monday Ian wanted to have a studio pizza party so we did. This is us playing charades on someone's phone app.

We tried to participate in "SFCM Spirit Week" by wearing matching Bach shirts on "Twinning Tuesday".

Friday was not a dull day. Besides the Schiller Institute people lobbying for A-432, there were all sorts of costumes at school.

M as Charlie Chaplin

I rehearsed a Handel aria entitled "Thou Shalt Break them with a Rod of Iron". The tenor was singing it while dressed like this.

Then there were these decorations at the symphony (M and I went to see Gidon Kremer play Bartok 1).

 On Halloween, A and I went on a ferry ride to Sausalito. We had lunch/dinner and cached around having a great time. The last cache we went to find was in a residential area (I made a foray into someone's backyard - oops) and it took us a while to find it. We became agitated as the sun went down and the 6:45 departure time for the last ferry drew near. Finally I located the cache with my flashlight app. We then jumped over a stone wall to take a short cut and RAN all the way back to the ferry terminal. Made it just in time. My best Halloween yet.

- Antisocial Violinist