I feel it’s going to rain (paperwork)

This week that passed on grad school…

1. You may mess up completely in your conducting and may have to meet your professor for further assessment.
2. The day feel ready to meet your professor is the day he’s not on campus.
3. That’s not the way you hold a baton… in your case you should ’cause that baton is like a Harry Potter wand. My response… CRUCIO!
4. Handel composed “And the Glory WRATH of the conductor shall be revealed”. A song specially dedicated to all conducting majors in the world.
5. When you think you don’t have enough work, think again.
6. How many grad students does it take to move a speaker?
7. Are we on key? Is that a C? a C #? C flat? whut? My thought process when we Glory the anna
8. Britten concert was a cool experience as a birthday.
9. You can fall asleep on your couch after a skype call, while your friends wait for you in their house to celebrate.
10. You will start missing people the day before, during, and after your birthday. (Specially those who are in the moving process).
11. You all did well, but you still have to take another test of the same material next week (this Wednesday).
12. My abstract was French with a touch of Dutch… I think I can roll with this… if I can ACTUALLY get the dissertation and scores I asked for… 3 weeks ago?
13. Lully and Mendelsohn are cool… so cool that I listen to their pieces for basically an hour on repeat and then say WAIT I need to annotate things on these scores. Process may be repeated at least three times this weekend.
14. J. S. Bach is a cat. With fluffy ears, which I want to pet (if he doesn’t kill me first or tries to escape, and succeed.)
15. Starbucks Colombian coffee is NOT good enough. I need my Puertorrican coffee.
16. That moment when your harmony professor calls you and tells you “if you migrate from our harmonic system to theirs (US system) I will disown you. Hey, here’s my email. Anything you need call me, text me or email me (specially for scores).”
17. Choral Literature Jepordy:  Here… listen to these 3 obscure passages from the 16 pieces. They have no text. Who wrote it?
18. Something as simple as assisting in giving a midterm may be reassure yourself that you want to be a professor.