general boasting

[wavyarms]

I now have a Masters of Music in Choral Conducting. GPA: 4.0. *bows*

My family (well, most of them *peers at a517dogg*) came up for graduation, which was excellent. It is always very nice and comforting to have conversation with my family - I feel suddenly affirmed in my world-view (why, yes, naturally it is ridiculous to sing all religious music at the graduation ceremony of a secular institution! We don't even need to discuss it, it's just a given!) It sort of reminds me of who I am in a way that interacting with other people doesn't. Reminds me I was brought up right, if you will.

Tomorrow is 4 hours of rehearsal. (Aha! You think just because graduation happened, there are no more rehearsals? Fool.) Also, I need to clean my room, do massive amounts of laundry, pack, and find anything in the fridge that is likely to develop a complex nervous system in the next month and throw it out. Also, clean my inbox. (Ha!) Also, take care of certain job-hunting-related issues, certain bills, and certain timesheets. Sunday I leave for the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC with the Westminster Choir for a month.

It would be nice if the world stopped for a moment, but I suppose one oughtn't be picky.

Comments

[wavyarms.livejournal.com]

Well, I was last night.

And yeah, I know that it would have been silly for you to come, especially for what was basically a church service. We'd better hang out sometime this summer, though!

[ex-a517dogg70.livejournal.com]

Any closer to getting a job in DC? Where are you going to be this summer? I will basically have the house to myself for like 5 weeks while mom and dad are cavorting around in europe, and I currently have no job.

[wavyarms.livejournal.com]

Well, I haven't found any openings. I'm working on a CS&A app, but haven't finished it - hopefully later this week. There's apparently not a lot of UU church openings around there, whereas there are a lot in Boston. I also did some prelimanary scouting on private schools, but didn't come up with any openings.

If you can come up with a list of private schools within a one-hour commuting radius of Georgetown, I will apply to them - apparently blitzing areas of schools is actually a very productive method of finding a job. But I haven't had time to figure out where Georgetown is, and what would be close-ish (getting a car is definitely an option.)

[ex-a517dogg70.livejournal.com]

http://dcregistry.com/schools.html

I don't you should apply to Gallaudet... but the others maybe. Also, that's only DC, so there are probably lots in VA and MD.

[wavyarms.livejournal.com]

Cool, I'll check it out. THe problem with VA and MD is that I don't know which parts are close to DC, so I don't know what towns to look in. Can you point me to a good map?

[ex-a517dogg70.livejournal.com]

http://www.wramc.army.mil/welcome/wash_map/

[wavyarms.livejournal.com]

Oh, as for this summer, after I get back from SC in mid-June, I'm going to be spending most of my time here. I can come up and hang for a week or two, though - that'd be pretty awesome, with the house to ourselves. Movie marathons!