Thesis Fever

Not much new here. Just working on my thesis and getting behind in my classes. The usual. No, actually, I'm on top of my crap, It just never ends.

Thesis fever is setting in. This friday there are no classes, so I don't have to teach or go to my lesson. However, I had a pre-emptive make-up lesson this morning. So Friday and Saturday I hope to spend all day on my thesis. It's coming along. I can't wait to have it done so I can begin the endless cycles of editing and revising until I graduate. Yay.

I have sightsinging exams to give today and tomorrow, and the Forum II to go to in Toledo tonight. Honestly, I think having the second composers' forum recital in the Manor House in Toledo is a terrible, terrible idea in the first place. I'm also a little resentful that my first Tuesday evening without the New Music Ensemble is being spent in Toledo instead of the dojo.

Did I mention I hate Toledo?

Time marches forward, and more work seems to get done somehow. Still more work piles on, and more conversations are spent over coffee in the basement lounge. More days pass, and more notes are written. Another day closer to dying, another day closer to living.

I was talking to a friend yesterday about how time slips away, and we spend it all working. When we both realized it was suddenly November, and the year was almost half over, we were awestruck. Not necessarily in a good way, either. Looking back on the amount of fun we had, I realized there should have been room for more. She commented on what a hard worker I am, and somehow I found that very flattering. Maybe because a few minutes before talking to her I was agitated over the opposite view. Funny how disarming a conversation with a friend can be.

But I have accepted my fate this weekend: life as a hermit for the sake of my thesis. I want the preliminary work done, so I can be more free with my time. Once the actual composition is done, the rest will be a matter of weekly sacrifices to appease the comp lesson gods. I have done a lot of work, and it's nice to be credited.