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Right. I worked the election yesterday. 9am - 10pm. We closed the AV board at 8:05pm , after we ran the last ballots, but it still takes at least 90 minutes to finish everything -- there are specific procedures to follow for the voted ballots, the unvoted ballots, the envelopes that the ballots were returned to the clerk in, the thumb drive from the tabulator, etc etc etc. Then we had to have the receiving board make sure that we'd done everything correctly before we signed the poll book and sealed the last envelope. Ideally, it won't matter, and the containers won't need to be opened for eight years, at which point the clerk cuts the seals off and shreds the ballots.
Monday evening was more notes played -- the FCB did a joint concert with Farmington HS. There were a few moments of 'interesting' before the concert, and a bunch of empty chairs in the set-up, as both groups were missing a significant number of musicians. The fast piece was not as much of a trainwreck as I expected (at least partially because the less-confident TSax player had stayed home due to illness or threat thereof - he tends to flail at the "lots of dots" passages, and often messes up the people around him). I think we may have taken it a bit slower than we rehearsed it at, too. People said the concert went pretty well, although J says that the difference between a good HS band and an excellent HS band (like Chelsea's) is pretty apparent (mostly blending of sound and listening across the band). The joint pieces went pretty well, I thought. I still don't like the Curnow piece, though.
Missed LCCB rehearsal last night because of election. Found out today that the other Bari player was at rehearsal. He didn't tell anyone he was going to be at rehearsal, so he didn't have any of the music handed out last week. If he'd told someone, I would have sent copies to the section leader, or gotten my folder to the section leader for rehearsal on Tuesday. Not my problem, though.
UMS has postponed/cancelled their on-campus performances for the next few weeks in accordance with UMich policy, so no ushering for a while. Tech and Central have both told kids to not come back to campus next week -- they're on spring break this week. J has been theoretically working from home Thursdays & Fridays, and this week is actually doing do. He kind of expects to be working from home all of next week. I went to the grocery store today for the weekly trip, and while the sanitising stuff was pretty well stocked, they were out of TP, fancy single-serving frozen meals, cooking oil, and running low on sugar, and non-store brand flour. ??? (We have about 3 weeks of TP on hand, which is when I start looking for sales. at this point, I may just look for some in stock.)
New shoulder PTs - the one I had today went off to check his books twice after I said "that hurts" "where" "here" "hrm. that's not supposed to hurt There while doing This. Do Other Thing while I go look something up". PTs always claim to enjoy solving puzzles, but *I* get tired of being the puzzle, yanno?
Monday evening was more notes played -- the FCB did a joint concert with Farmington HS. There were a few moments of 'interesting' before the concert, and a bunch of empty chairs in the set-up, as both groups were missing a significant number of musicians. The fast piece was not as much of a trainwreck as I expected (at least partially because the less-confident TSax player had stayed home due to illness or threat thereof - he tends to flail at the "lots of dots" passages, and often messes up the people around him). I think we may have taken it a bit slower than we rehearsed it at, too. People said the concert went pretty well, although J says that the difference between a good HS band and an excellent HS band (like Chelsea's) is pretty apparent (mostly blending of sound and listening across the band). The joint pieces went pretty well, I thought. I still don't like the Curnow piece, though.
Missed LCCB rehearsal last night because of election. Found out today that the other Bari player was at rehearsal. He didn't tell anyone he was going to be at rehearsal, so he didn't have any of the music handed out last week. If he'd told someone, I would have sent copies to the section leader, or gotten my folder to the section leader for rehearsal on Tuesday. Not my problem, though.
UMS has postponed/cancelled their on-campus performances for the next few weeks in accordance with UMich policy, so no ushering for a while. Tech and Central have both told kids to not come back to campus next week -- they're on spring break this week. J has been theoretically working from home Thursdays & Fridays, and this week is actually doing do. He kind of expects to be working from home all of next week. I went to the grocery store today for the weekly trip, and while the sanitising stuff was pretty well stocked, they were out of TP, fancy single-serving frozen meals, cooking oil, and running low on sugar, and non-store brand flour. ??? (We have about 3 weeks of TP on hand, which is when I start looking for sales. at this point, I may just look for some in stock.)
New shoulder PTs - the one I had today went off to check his books twice after I said "that hurts" "where" "here" "hrm. that's not supposed to hurt There while doing This. Do Other Thing while I go look something up". PTs always claim to enjoy solving puzzles, but *I* get tired of being the puzzle, yanno?
