Back in London

[artsyhonker]

Long time no post. I've been meaning to post here more, and not quite managing.

I'm back in London this week, after nearly three weeks in Aberdeen during which I heard the Chapel Choir sing my Stations of the Cross, and visited with my parents who had come over to hear it, and then stayed on to give a presentation.

Now I'm pretty tired, and my next PhD-related thing is in early May: the meeting where I'll sit down with my supervisor and a pile of scores and we'll decide which ones belong in the portfolio and which ones don't. After that, I'll know whether I get to spend this summer frantically writing more music, or frantically writing a dissertation -- or maybe both...

In the meantime, I am trying to step back a bit, and spend some time sorting out various things at home: the garden has had the lion's share of attention this week, and there is some tidying to do inside.

I don't post to the Book of Face much, but I'm very aware that "it's where people are" these days. As far as I'm concerned that's part of the problem: the more you use it, the more money Facebook gets from their advertisers, and that means that you, the user, are the product. I've never much liked that. But what with not spending much time on Twitter these days (having largely moved to Mastodon, where I am artsyhonker@mastodon.art and also artsyhonker@smusi.ch) I am missing a lot of the people I used to share a running daily commentary with.

I think I might try posting here, and then linking to the posts from there.

Comments

[cmcmck]

Aberdeen?

Lucky you!

I'm married to a Scot with origins in Stirling and spent some of my uni time in Dundee (that gets me teased as he and most of his older friends are St Andrews grads ;o).