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Aug. 24th, 2017 05:16 pmThis, I feel, is a lesson I should have learned a long time ago. Ashley is as she has been. She won't acknowledge me and I can't see any anger or sadness or discomfort, just an empty vessel. Maybe it's because I won't say hi to her or update her on the last four months at the wildlife center because I'm afraid of what her response will be.
I did apologize to her for being in a not so good mood but I don't think she heard me. Maybe I'll try again when she's not so busy. When I get another chance.
If you want to know what ash trees look like, there are some at the Holocaust Memorial. In every other language on the planet, that sounds perfectly innocuous. I suppose it's a lot better than having cedars.
Maddie has an unspecified type of cat. She was wearing a shirt with some lyrics by Catfish and the Bottlemen, not to be confused with a completely apocryphal late 90s band called Catfish, from Llanduduno, Wales.
The lyrics are "Larry call a load of smoke in."
Donia has a puggle and I thought she said her name was Dahlia, and she wishes she could draw.
Lauren was counting the train stations they passed through on her fingers and Kylie made fun of her for that.
Two overheard conversations:
"I'm not that stupid. I made it through the entire 6th grade." I have no idea how old she is.
"Beep yourself." A man was walking his bike across the footbridge and shouting beep. "You know how it is. When you're in a car, you hate pedestrians; when you're a pedestrian, you hate people in cars."
Bruno is so lazy he jumped into the stroller so he wouldn't have to walk.
There was a shih-tzu with a thin brown stripe on his face.
Gabriella wore clothing and jewelry of black and white. She thinks that skunks are exceptionally cute. I love the word skunk. It sounds exactly like what it means.
Mallory and Holly told me about a fox so sick with mange that they couldn't tell if it was a red fox or a gray fox.
Johann Strauss Jr. - Emperor Waltzes
Dedicated to Kaiser Franz Josef I of Austria (who was the uncle of Archduke Franz Ferdinand) and Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany.
Antonín Dvořák - String Quartet in F. Major (Lento)
Dvořák wrote this as a guest in a Czech community in Iowa, and while the music is all his own, he evokes spirituals and Native American music. Two dancers performed onstage.
George Enescu (Francified to Georges Enesco here) - Rapsodia română nr. 1 în La major.
In Romance speaking countries, instead of using letters of the alphabet to name the notes, they use d'oh, a deer, a female deer.
Enescu felt that his Rapsodia romana overshadowed his better and more representative works, a la Finlandia and Bolero. There are a lot of elements of Romanian folk music here: a boy-and-girl duet, a viola solo, a harp imitating a cimbalom, a lăutărească dance at the end.
There are two of these. Enescu once alluded to a third one but there's no indication that it exists.
He now has a village named after him.
Robert Sheldon - Danzas cubanas
A conga, a festival dance; a son-salsa, a 20th century update on the traditional form; a mambo, a midcentury dance with big band.
Leroy Anderson - Irish Suite: The Girl I Left Behind Me and Irish Washerwoman
A set of variations and a jig. Irish Washerwoman is a traditional song that has been embedded into our cultural consciousness. The dancers were wearing clacky shoes so it sounds a bit like it was overlaid with Ligeti's Poème symphonique for 100 metronomes.
Ryan Edwards and Apostolos Paraskevas - Santiago in the Stream
an ode to The Old Man and the Sea with hand drumming and these instruments that sound like ocean waves. It depicts the vastness of the sea, Santiago's memories of a distant waltz, the battle with the marlin where dancers come up on stage, and his return home with the fish after his final journey.
Aaron Copland - Rodeo
Wait a minute, what's this? Old-timey piano and a reprise of the themes in Buckaroo Holiday? Wikipedia tells me the symphonic version omits Ranch House Party. There's an interstitial segment of Hoe Down that isn't in the suite.
The journey home was uneventful.
burning question: why did Lauren need to count on her fingers anyway?
I did apologize to her for being in a not so good mood but I don't think she heard me. Maybe I'll try again when she's not so busy. When I get another chance.
If you want to know what ash trees look like, there are some at the Holocaust Memorial. In every other language on the planet, that sounds perfectly innocuous. I suppose it's a lot better than having cedars.
Maddie has an unspecified type of cat. She was wearing a shirt with some lyrics by Catfish and the Bottlemen, not to be confused with a completely apocryphal late 90s band called Catfish, from Llanduduno, Wales.
The lyrics are "Larry call a load of smoke in."
Donia has a puggle and I thought she said her name was Dahlia, and she wishes she could draw.
Lauren was counting the train stations they passed through on her fingers and Kylie made fun of her for that.
Two overheard conversations:
"I'm not that stupid. I made it through the entire 6th grade." I have no idea how old she is.
"Beep yourself." A man was walking his bike across the footbridge and shouting beep. "You know how it is. When you're in a car, you hate pedestrians; when you're a pedestrian, you hate people in cars."
Bruno is so lazy he jumped into the stroller so he wouldn't have to walk.
There was a shih-tzu with a thin brown stripe on his face.
Gabriella wore clothing and jewelry of black and white. She thinks that skunks are exceptionally cute. I love the word skunk. It sounds exactly like what it means.
Mallory and Holly told me about a fox so sick with mange that they couldn't tell if it was a red fox or a gray fox.
Johann Strauss Jr. - Emperor Waltzes
Dedicated to Kaiser Franz Josef I of Austria (who was the uncle of Archduke Franz Ferdinand) and Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany.
Antonín Dvořák - String Quartet in F. Major (Lento)
Dvořák wrote this as a guest in a Czech community in Iowa, and while the music is all his own, he evokes spirituals and Native American music. Two dancers performed onstage.
George Enescu (Francified to Georges Enesco here) - Rapsodia română nr. 1 în La major.
In Romance speaking countries, instead of using letters of the alphabet to name the notes, they use d'oh, a deer, a female deer.
Enescu felt that his Rapsodia romana overshadowed his better and more representative works, a la Finlandia and Bolero. There are a lot of elements of Romanian folk music here: a boy-and-girl duet, a viola solo, a harp imitating a cimbalom, a lăutărească dance at the end.
There are two of these. Enescu once alluded to a third one but there's no indication that it exists.
He now has a village named after him.
Robert Sheldon - Danzas cubanas
A conga, a festival dance; a son-salsa, a 20th century update on the traditional form; a mambo, a midcentury dance with big band.
Leroy Anderson - Irish Suite: The Girl I Left Behind Me and Irish Washerwoman
A set of variations and a jig. Irish Washerwoman is a traditional song that has been embedded into our cultural consciousness. The dancers were wearing clacky shoes so it sounds a bit like it was overlaid with Ligeti's Poème symphonique for 100 metronomes.
Ryan Edwards and Apostolos Paraskevas - Santiago in the Stream
an ode to The Old Man and the Sea with hand drumming and these instruments that sound like ocean waves. It depicts the vastness of the sea, Santiago's memories of a distant waltz, the battle with the marlin where dancers come up on stage, and his return home with the fish after his final journey.
Aaron Copland - Rodeo
Wait a minute, what's this? Old-timey piano and a reprise of the themes in Buckaroo Holiday? Wikipedia tells me the symphonic version omits Ranch House Party. There's an interstitial segment of Hoe Down that isn't in the suite.
The journey home was uneventful.
burning question: why did Lauren need to count on her fingers anyway?
