Week in Review

Monday - Holy Week Madness.
Tuesday - Holy Week Madness.
Wednesday - Funeral AND Holy Week Madness (Why not throw in a couple of funerals? It's only The Busiest Week of the Year).
Thursday - Holy Week & Passover Seder Madness.
Friday - Holy Week Cramming Madness

Also visited a new apartment complex. It's not actually new, since it has been around since The Dawn of Time, but it will be new to us. Doing some number crunching to decide if we truly will save enough money to merit moving there and having to buy a W/D.

Avoided deadly tornado.

Friday Evening - AMAZING concert with the Nashville Symphony. I was literally on an emotional high after hearing James Ehnes perform Alban Berg's Concerto for Violin, composed in 1935 using Arnold Schoenberg's technique of 12-tone composition. The conductor was brilliant to give the cliff notes version of scales and tone rows before the performance, and he had individuals in the symphony play the original tone row and variations of it so we could digest it properly throughout the performance. The piece was originally created as a Requiem for Mahler's "step-daughter" (easiest way to describe it), but as the composition progressed, it became clear the the Requiem was also written to reflect milestones of the composer's life, as it was the last piece he would complete in his lifetime.

I am truly fascinated by composers who create their own requiems, and also at examining the final pieces completed by composers before what could only be their dramatic and untimely deaths. Composers are quite dramatic, after all. ;)

Saturday - Received junk mail from Furman Alumni Assn. offering me a credit card. Gasp and shock! Proceeded to write a sternly worded email to voice my complete outrage at receiving a credit card because of a connection with my alma mater. Ugh!

Rescued a co-worked from total isolation by picking him up at a bar - a convenient place for a car to break down - and earned myself a free beer!

It's been a busy week! I am so looking forward to cooking on the grill tonight, and celebrating Easter with another family tomorrow afternoon!