Klarinet Archive - Posting 000209.txt from 2000/07
From: Lacy Schroeder <LacyS@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] The Joys of Home Ownership - New Thread
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 16:09:51 -0400
Well, this isn't exactly self-mutilation, BUT....
Last summer I played in the pit orchestra of an Opera festival. We performed
6 nights a week, and the cafeteria food got to be nasty after awhile. So, I
and two of my male colleauges (one of which I know for sure was totally in
love with me since he asked me out twice!), and we all had a big dinner. It
was so lovely, I had to finish it with a glass of merlot. WELL, I don't hold
booze too well. We were driving back, and we had just enough time to change
and warm up before the performance. I was soooooo sleepy and I was just
dragging! And the opera we were doing that night was Rossini's "La
Cenerentola", and you know how those clarinet parts are in there (PLUS half
of it being in C)! Needless to say, it wasn't my most sparkling performance
ever!
LacyS
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From: Kevin Fay (LCA) [mailto:kevinfay@-----.com]
Subject: [kl] The Joys of Home Ownership - New Thread
In this country, at least, one is instilled with the moral necessity of
owning one's own piece of real estate. Now that I own a house, it's dawning
on me how silly this actually is. It amounts to a great deal of work,
fraught with peril.
My fence needs painting (actually staining, in a particular shade that only
my wife can describe). Apparently, it's not just a matter of splattering
some of the stuff on with a brush. Oh no . . . one must "prepare" the fence
for staining. And the marketers are very quick to tell us that such
preparation is *always* best done with a power tool.
. . . which gets me somewhat to the point. While pressure-washing my fence,
I somehow managed to pressure-wash my right thumb. It is MIGHTY clean right
now. It's also bright red, and about 25% larger than its normal size. And
I have a gig tomorrow night.
I thought that this was perhaps the stupidest thing I have ever done. Upon
reflection, however, I realized that it's not - with a neckstrap and a
couple of band-aids, I'll be good to go tomorrow night. I wonder, however,
how many of us have anecdotes about pre-performance self-mutilation. Please
do tell - I will feel better!
kjf
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