All Aboard!
In my last post, I talked a ridiculous amount about food, mostly because school hadn’t yet pinned me to my desk or a seat in the Biomed Library, which I fondly refer to as the Eskimo building. Eskind and Eskimo are similar, okay?
I was so obsessed about food the first week that I put myself on a sad two-week baking hiatus. Good thing too, because classes have plowed on, full steam ahead! Most of my professors are pretty awesome. In Musicianship III, we train our ears, which sounds like we force our ears to do intense body building workouts or something, to hear intervals and chords using only a piano and a few sight-singing books. Chamber groups have been decided and orchestra rotations have been set, our first concert of “Scheherazade” is going to be epic, so chilling with Dmitri (my cello) in a practice room has sprung up exponentially with the amount of repertoire to be learned.
For the Blair-to-Owen program, I’m taking Macroeconomics. To demonstrate the concept of price versus quantity demanded, our professor auctioned off what he claimed to be the most aromatic, sweet oranges. One girl had bought the first orange for an incredible $5 and then outrageously offered $20 to get another one even though the professor stipulated one person per orange. Who does that kind of thing?!
By the time Friday rolled around, I was happy to take a break from the intense schoolwork. My friends and I packed sixteen people around three tables at Chuy’s and Samantha and I split a Big-As-Yo-Face Burrito. A few of us decided to spend the rest of Friday night playing this super fun, all strategy and skill, no luck game called “Game of Thrones” which went on for a while until a crazy kid flipped the board so that everyone would play Super Smash with him.
Playing for a former Blair harpist’s wedding, answering a freight of homework questions, reading ahead a ton of material were other events that happened this weekend. Maybe I will have to glue myself to a seat in the Eskimo building later tonight. Choo choo!