Monday Monday Monday

Well, I won't attempt to follow up last nights super rant, just an update tonight I guess. Got my new luggage for the trip to NY. Getting kind of excited now, its just days away. Not looking forward to finding my luggage in LGA, but other than that, the trip should be awesome.

I made some major progress on my research, and I'm closing in on being finished with the coding part. If my damn new laptop would get here, I would be making a lot more progress. This transfering crap across the net from one office to another is getting to me. I keep working on copies of code that aren't the newest ones and then having to re-incorporate the code. Oh well, it will soon be over. I'm also starting to get a little stressed about the conference deadline. I need my paper written by the end of the month and I haven't even finished the experiment yet. Its definetly crunch time now. I think I'll be able to pull it off though. If not, theres always next year.

Went to Evie's first concert of the year tonight. Lots of different kinds of music, it was pretty cool. There were a couple pieces I could have done without, but most of them were very good. You could tell the ones they had practiced, and the ones they had not. Most of the ones Evie played in were good. I'm just not a big fan of smaller groups, and that was part of the problem with some of the pieces. But when the whole symphony played, it was great. In particular, they played a piece called October by Eric Whitacre that was phenomonal. It starts out very similar in sound to the score from American Beauty. Then it branches off in a totally different way. I'm going to try and find it online or somewhere. Thats the only thing I hate about finding new music I like, especially orchestral, its usually hard to find anywhere to buy it (much less download it). There was also a great piece called Mayflower Overture by Ron Nelson (who happens to be at Brown University!). Both of those pieces were enough to make a great concert alone. I had a good time.

Guess I better get to bed. Gotta get up at 6am. Dreams of NY...