day of unrest (32/365g)

After our 2am return this morning, Brian sang a mass and I helped kids with getting school studying organized. A friend of Brian's birthday was today, and he was celebrating by running his age in kilometers, Brian joined for half of them. 

I went to work for the afternoon, and got back after Brian had left for his Shape Note Singing. The kids spend tooooo much time on their computers. I hate it. 

We made a soup to absolutely die for...
3 inches of ginger and 6 cloves of garlic roughly chopped, sweated in a mixture of canola and coconut oil. Spicy Thai curry powder and sweet paprika and 2 big carrots. add hot vegetable stock and cook till soft, puree and add a can of coconut milk. mix ins in the bowl: ripped nori, lightly baked smoked tofu, and softened rice vermicelli. 

Athrive at forty-five (31/365g)

Brian's birthday today, which we celebrated the only way we know how - doing as much stuff separately as possible. I baked a cake while Brian was doing his park run.

Theodore and Henry had an organ recital, vorspielstunde, at which we were told they really should practice if they want to do a good job at the upcoming competition.

Theodore was off to do a special training from the university about how to perform on stage. Maybe that would have been useful before the recital this morning, haha. 

Brian and I started but did not finish the set list for the upcoming contra dance, and I wrote him a tune for his birthday.

Henry went over to a friend to work on school work, and when everyone was home again for 25 minutes we sang happy birthday and Brian's parents called.

I saw part of a cool show at Kraeftners with Manuela, (Maria Magdalena, the band name of Tobias Pöcksteiner) and then went to the communist ball with Brian and Jackie and Andi where we danced to way too loud music and stuffed napkins in our ear and drank warm beer outside in the cold and ate cake out of a Tupperware and stayed out till 2am.

i tune my viola down a half step (30/365g)

a few minutes before 9 i found out that the guidance councilor at school wanted to have a chat about felix. it was quite nice and helpful, and i came out of it with positive feelings.

hung out for coffee with andrea - we  didn't do any art this time, just sat and chat, and she showed me some of her art, which is always very impressive. sometimes a get a bit jealous. 

i was the last minute replacement to play at a gallery opening this evening. sometimes when i want to mask myself a bit i tune my viola down a half step so that everything resonates a bit differently. i practiced for a few minutes before i left to take care of quartet practice, and then a bit longer afterwards. i got some really positive comments afterwards. 

hopefully i chose pieces that matched what they wanted...... Tamara Friebel, Imogen Holst, Yann Tiersen..... for an exhibit called "Der Weg Nach Innen"

 

now do everything with a headache (29/365g)

uggh, i hate headaches, and sometimes I just gotta live with them - like today, I didn't feel like cancelling everything, but it did impede my enjoyment of the moments.

Drizzly cold rain and I biked to work, and stared at a computer for almost 4 hours straight. 

My baroque violin lesson was less than stellar, as was the chamber music afterwards.

Wikipedia evening was a little silly with two little old ladies who took all of my and Nina's attention and didn't get along with one another. I did get start creating nice list of Hungarian Female composers but there are almost none of them born before 1950.

Nina and I went out for Sri-lanken food afterwards just for fun. After that my headache finally subsided, but by then the day was done.

life really is a divine comedy (28/365g)

doomscrolling for an hour and a half starting at 5am, then waking up the kids.

yay dentist for felix and then right after brian and me have a parent teacher conference to talk about the "incident" from two weeks ago, which derived from a test taken a month and a half ago. Talk about immediacy of reactions. It was an intense debate that put stress on my emotional availabilities, but I think I managed well. 

Met up with Sina and a friend/colleague of his and felt so super old compared to his 28 and the other's 20 years, talking philosophy with all the enthusiastic ego of their youth. 

[photo from parks compared to painting]

I finally returned Henry's borrowed Cello to the kons, and just getting that out of the room downstairs felt lightening. 

[photo from the antique store dancing people]

Nina had tickets to tonight's performance of the Divine Comedy at the opera, which was a ballet set to music of Arvo Paert and Philip Glass. Glass who just decided to cancel the world premiere of his symphony about Abraham Lincoln at the Trump Kennedy Center. The show was funny because half an hour was spent with the public aimlessly walking around the entire opera building to find mini ballet performances before all trying to get to their seats and watch the rest of the show. 

[photo from oper graz maybe]

everyone wants to talk to me (27/365g)

So beautifully foggy, I wished I had my camera all day today. But wishin ain't the same as havin.

Henrik was at kunstGarten today for dinner. 

I went to pick up Theodore from his violin lesson so I could bring his instrument to the luthier. When I got there he was showing his organ composition to Anselm, and I couldn't help but watch for a few minutes.

back in town I ran into Mario, with whom I have some uncommon and unexplainable connection. He made me a cup of coffee at kraeftners, and I listened to him while I got about 5 calls from Sina. He wanted to meet me after an exam, and he was close by. It got so late though that I rushed to an elternverein meeting. I'm still not sure how involved I want to be with the parents of the school.

At home the kids were finishing the movie big, and I watched a bit with them until Jackie and Andi came to pick up their car after a nice evening out for them. They stayed and chatted until Brian got back from choir. 

Best days off are Monday (26/365g)

Specifically had nothing planned today, which made the day feel so nice. Wrote a new short music bio where I don't mention quintet, which was a kind of sore-spot for me for a while that I kept putting off. 

Was generally less productive than I wanted to be, but still sorted out some old clothes, put stuff on willhaben and made some phone calls to a bunch of people which was also nice, Mary and Edward and Jörg.

Also got a piece of music which was written for me for the concert series that feature women composers. First read through of it on Thursday to see how it is.