This Friday I performed in a production of Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor". Our graduate student conductor had gotten together a little orchestra and some singers to perform the second act, and this week we had a couple of rehearsals and pulled off the show. It was a lot of fun and some great music, although I find the Italian gibberish highly amusing (opera characters really like to shout at each other).
Yesterday I went out to the Embarcadero with a friend, to introduce her to geocaching. The limpid late-afternoon light was lazily lapping the Bay......and the day was clear and bright.
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| Fully loaded |
Then today I had the greatest adventure of the month so far. I woke up at 6am, went to 7:30 mass at St Patrick's, then met Nick and Maddy at the CalTrain station and went expeditioning down to San Jose for a competition. We had an awesome time studying the maps, hiking through the city and arguing over which way to go. The CalTrain is a LOT of fun to ride as it's a real train, with two levels.
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| AWESOME!!! |
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| We sat on the top. There's a guy sleeping in the lower level |
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| Luggage racks, just like an airplane |
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| Explorers!! |
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| Found this in the SJ station |
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| Dorks on a train |
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| "Zanker Road" |
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| Coyote Creek!! |
The competition atmosphere was relaxed and friendly, and there were only eighteen of us, and this afternoon I got an email informing me that I had tied for second place, and that Nick had gotten an honourable mention. So it was a good day for SFCM and for Ian's studio and for the Three Explorers and for my bank account.
- Antisocial Violinist
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