more San Francisco...

bay bridge

Ok, so I haven't been able to figure out how to get more than one picture loaded to a single post... so, as you can see, I've just had to make do by posting three times in a row and only writing in one of them.

I just finished my first day back to school after my final spring break as an undergrad. Yes, I am definitely ready to get out of here. The National Symphony Orchestra is in residence right now in this lovely state of North Carolina, and tomorrow they will be giving a concert at War Memorial Auditorium in Greensboro. Also, on the morrow, our humble university orchestra will have a special rehearsal directed by the awesome Leonard Slatkin himself!!

I'm slightly excited (if you can't already tell...), but I'm hoping that we're going to switch back to our previous rotation instead of the current opera seating, because I really don't want to be sitting first stand...

In reading news - I've read quite a bit since I last posted a list of things I'm reading...

books I've finished reading recently are:

Bridge of Birds, by Barry Hughart

The Great Failure, by Natalie Goldberg (who also wrote a fantastic book about writing called Writing Down the Bones)

and I'm now reading:

Reading Lolita in Tehran, by Azar Nafisi

Why Do Catholics Do That?, by Kevin Orlin Johnson, Ph.D.

Dreamweaver's Dilemma, by Lois McMaster Bujold

Death of an Expert Witness, by P.D. James

Amazing Grace, by Kathleen Norris

Anyway, I believe that will be all for tonight. At some point I do plan to improve the quality of my posts... until then, I will continue to ramble somewhat coherently :-)