One really awesome update - ERIC HAS A JOB! :) I am so extremely happy for him. After six months of unemployment, he is finally back in the work force. I can't imagine what he has been going through. So many interviews, so many rejections. Besides frequenting the gym and learning Dutch on Rosetta Stone, he's basically been stuck in his house doing nothing but searching for jobs and chatting with me on AIM. I'm so proud of him. He begins working at Weston Solutions as an Environmental Scientist on Monday. Good thing"going green" is so in style!
With the semester winding down, things have been extremely hectic lately. Final papers and group projects seem to be the bane of my existence. One week, 2 papers, 1 group project, and a presentation stand between me and freedom (at least for the three weeks between spring semester and summer session!). I absolutely cannot wait until my cruise in 3 weeks!
I'm playing two concerts in the coming weeks -
Tomorrow (May 6) I'll be performing with the Centre Symphony at 8pm on 54th and Lex at St Peter's Church. We're playing some Mozart pieces and Dvorak Symphony 2.
On May 17 I'll be playing Beethoven's 9th with the South Shore Symphony at 7:30 at St Agnes Cathedral in Rockville Centre. I'm super excited - I have a HUGE solo!
It's been a pretty rainy Spring here in NYC. I'm hoping that tons of showers will make for a beautiful summer!
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Where has the time gone?
I apologize for being a complete blog slacker! Between moving into a bigger, cheaper apartment in a ritzier area, audition season at work, a full schedule of orchestra gigs, grad school, and ushering (my part time job), I have been SWAMPED.
Here are some updates on my life:
I'm so grateful to be working in education, a field where we're not expected to have any staff layoffs. Even though work has been really busy, I love my job and I am really happy at Juilliard. I feel so lucky not to have to worry about the economy. My boyfriend, Eric, is still looking for a job and his struggle is really difficult to watch. He has a Master's degree and graduated suma cum laude from a prestigious school. He is an intelligent, personable guy with a lot going for him but with no government funding, there seems to be no room for any additional Environmental Scientists. I've got my fingers crossed for him - hopefully things will turn around soon.
A little about my new apartment... it is on 72nd street between 1st and York and I LOVE IT. It's a second floor walk up studio with a separate kitchen in a super cute, very clean building. The super lives accross the hall and keeps the building in top condition. My apartment has new appliances, hardwood floors, a dishwasher, 3 closets, 4 windows and is cheaper than my old studio (for those of you who live in NYC, you know that this is a rare find). My neighborhood is full of yuppies who carry around miniature dogs, leave their kids with the nanny, spend their days getting Botox at the salon, and hold $30,000 bags in their freshly manicured hands. How the heck can I afford to live here? ...I think I'm liking the recession.
As far as grad school goes, it is flying by - I can't believe I'm half way through my second semester already! I have declared my concentration as Arts Management :) So in the spring of 2011 I'll have graduated with a Master of Science in Nonprofit Management with a concentration in Arts Management - what a mouthful!
I start rehearsing for Beethoven's 9th next week and have been squeezing practice time into my already crazy schedule. Hopefully by our performance in May, I'll be owning the 4th horn solo.
My 24th Birthday is right around the corner. I'll be celebrating next weekend in DC - Eric is taking me to the Cherry Blossom Festival and is showing me around the city where he went to college. He's planned a romantic weekend birthday getaway and I can't wait :)
Here are some updates on my life:
I'm so grateful to be working in education, a field where we're not expected to have any staff layoffs. Even though work has been really busy, I love my job and I am really happy at Juilliard. I feel so lucky not to have to worry about the economy. My boyfriend, Eric, is still looking for a job and his struggle is really difficult to watch. He has a Master's degree and graduated suma cum laude from a prestigious school. He is an intelligent, personable guy with a lot going for him but with no government funding, there seems to be no room for any additional Environmental Scientists. I've got my fingers crossed for him - hopefully things will turn around soon.
A little about my new apartment... it is on 72nd street between 1st and York and I LOVE IT. It's a second floor walk up studio with a separate kitchen in a super cute, very clean building. The super lives accross the hall and keeps the building in top condition. My apartment has new appliances, hardwood floors, a dishwasher, 3 closets, 4 windows and is cheaper than my old studio (for those of you who live in NYC, you know that this is a rare find). My neighborhood is full of yuppies who carry around miniature dogs, leave their kids with the nanny, spend their days getting Botox at the salon, and hold $30,000 bags in their freshly manicured hands. How the heck can I afford to live here? ...I think I'm liking the recession.
As far as grad school goes, it is flying by - I can't believe I'm half way through my second semester already! I have declared my concentration as Arts Management :) So in the spring of 2011 I'll have graduated with a Master of Science in Nonprofit Management with a concentration in Arts Management - what a mouthful!
I start rehearsing for Beethoven's 9th next week and have been squeezing practice time into my already crazy schedule. Hopefully by our performance in May, I'll be owning the 4th horn solo.
My 24th Birthday is right around the corner. I'll be celebrating next weekend in DC - Eric is taking me to the Cherry Blossom Festival and is showing me around the city where he went to college. He's planned a romantic weekend birthday getaway and I can't wait :)
Friday, January 23, 2009
Hitting the ground running in '09
So it's been an interesting start to audition season at my job...here is a small selections of stories that will give you a glimpse into my life as an admissions counselor at a music school:
On an evening of auditions last week, a nervous bassoonist pulled up his music stand a bit too quickly and ended up hitting himself in the mouth. In the fight of the musician v. the music stand, the music stand won. The poor out-of-town applicant had to be taken to the hospital. 5 stitches, 2 nervous parents, and an incident report later, he was prepared to attend his audition the next day. What a trooper. (I really hope maintenance found the bloody music stand and cleaned up that mess).
During a busy audition day last weekend, a one-legged bird managed to sneak his way into an audition room. A work-study had to coax him out with a muffin and lock him in another room until we figured out how to get him safely out of the building. Unfortunately, shortly after, he died and maintenance staff had to be called to remove him...which they did...2 days later.
The next day a girl from Korea was rehearsing with her accompanist and somehow managed to drop her cell phone into a piano. After 2 hours, we were still unable to retrieve the phone from under the strings of the Steinway. It took 24 hours and a very skilled piano tuner to remove the phone and return it to the applicant in one piece. (Good thing she didn't leave for Korea earlier!)
Needless to say, it has been an interesting start to audition season. Hopefully this was the extent of the weirdness that will take place during the 2009 audition period.
::crossing my fingers::
On an evening of auditions last week, a nervous bassoonist pulled up his music stand a bit too quickly and ended up hitting himself in the mouth. In the fight of the musician v. the music stand, the music stand won. The poor out-of-town applicant had to be taken to the hospital. 5 stitches, 2 nervous parents, and an incident report later, he was prepared to attend his audition the next day. What a trooper. (I really hope maintenance found the bloody music stand and cleaned up that mess).
During a busy audition day last weekend, a one-legged bird managed to sneak his way into an audition room. A work-study had to coax him out with a muffin and lock him in another room until we figured out how to get him safely out of the building. Unfortunately, shortly after, he died and maintenance staff had to be called to remove him...which they did...2 days later.
The next day a girl from Korea was rehearsing with her accompanist and somehow managed to drop her cell phone into a piano. After 2 hours, we were still unable to retrieve the phone from under the strings of the Steinway. It took 24 hours and a very skilled piano tuner to remove the phone and return it to the applicant in one piece. (Good thing she didn't leave for Korea earlier!)
Needless to say, it has been an interesting start to audition season. Hopefully this was the extent of the weirdness that will take place during the 2009 audition period.
::crossing my fingers::
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