In which I get wet and don't mind

Some mornings you can just tell when you get up that it's going to be a good day. The sun is shining, you feel clear-headed and refreshed, and the hint of some happy dream tickles your memory. Some mornings, on the other hand, you wake up long after your alarm with only thirty minutes before you have to be somewhere, and you have a shower to take and somebody has left the bathroom door locked on the inside, so that you have to stand there with a screwdriver for ten minutes trying to get it open.

Guess which sort of morning this was. But luckily it was not a portent of the day ahead. Of course, I did leave my umbrella in my room because the weather looked fine, and of course it did rain this afternoon, but what can you expect when you go out without your umbrella? (And I promised myself yesterday I would never again live in an umbrellaless state.)

Today was another full day of classes--similar to Monday, except with a piano accompaniment lesson in the morning and a voice lesson instead of theater work in the afternoon. I received my instructions for accompaniment today: I'm to accompany two students during their lessons, as well as practicing with them during the week and doing performances with them. Which could be a great experience, or could be nearly impossible depending on how many and how difficult are the pieces the students are doing.

Our humanities class was assigned the first few books of the Odyssey today, and our professor strongly recommended that we get together in groups and read it aloud. I found another student who was interested in doing that, so he and I met in the cafeteria after dinner and read the first three books, taking turns reading aloud. It was great fun. I think we're going to try to do the same with future assignments. (We actually heard that another group of students got together and did the same thing this evening, so maybe in the future we could collaborate. Beowulf is coming up...)

Tonight I've been working on a paper for my photography class (on Jacques-Henri Lartigue), organizing and scheduling and shopping-list-making, and listening to Berlioz's Requiem and some Rachmaninoff with my roommate.

Currently listening to: Mozart's Haydn Quartets