Well, another break has come and gone. Tomorrow I'll be shopping and packing, and Sunday I leave pretty early, arriving in Kitchener before dinner.
It was nice seeing family and friends again. I got to talk to some old band teachers, which provided some insight I think I'll find valuable while conducting With Respect To Time this summer. I also got to see many friends I haven't in a while, have a few drinks, play a reasonable amount of Brawl, and completely vegetate on the recliner in the family room. Somebody (she knows who she is) I didn't see at Christmas gave me a present that she'd been saving since then. If you're reading this: your Christmas present is full of win! Thank you!!
Last weekend I made a trip to Vancouver, driving one way (Mom drove the other), for my little sister's golf tournament. I had a good time; Saturday morning I stopped by Long & McQuade to take a look at some sheet music for WRTT, and while I saw some things I liked, big band arrangements cost something like $70 a piece. I'm hoping that the band will have room in the budget for a couple charts, and I'm thinking about getting in touch with a few publishers, like Kendor, to get their promotional CDs featuring the charts they sell sheet music for.
Work starts on Monday and I'm getting pretty excited about it. I have yet to really know the full spectrum of what I'll be doing, but it sounds like I'll learn a lot and like I'll get to travel to Arizona once or twice to work with a reasonably large telescope to boot. I'm more excited about the work than I am the pay, which is saying something given the improvement in pay over my previous co-op jobs.
Unfortunately, there's been a mix-up with one of my professors from this past term and it's causing some fuss about the midterm for that class, and another class has a final pending due to illness at the time of writing, but hopefully those should both get cleared up quickly, leaving me with a better (and more final) grade average for this term. Wish me luck!
Cheers for now; I have a barbecue to attend.
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Glad to hear you're enjoying your time at home
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