So there’s about 14 things I could be doing right now that would be a much more productive use of time than blogging, but oh well, it’s essentially Friday for me! Yay!

My “warm up”:

Alrightey then… my first random song from the classical genre, Jean Sibelius’ Symphony No. 4 movement I: Tempo Molto Moderato, which is Latin for “I’m almost two minutes into listening to the thing and I still can’t hear the orchestra playing over the faint buzzing of the air conditioner in my room”. I can’t say that I’m too entirely familiar with this piece, the current playcount is 0, which means I probably got bored with it the first time I listened to it and gave up all too easily. Speaking of classical music, I remember growing up having mixed feelings about classical music, whereby on the one hand I loved the loud and powerful chords of Beethoven’s symphonies, Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos, and Tchaikovsky’s suites. And on the other hand, half of the time, classical music would bore me out of my mind and put me to sleep.

Anyway, I doubt I’ll be hearing very much classical music this weekend as I head to the desert (Indio, CA) with two fellow math teachers for the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival. Similar in style but grander in scope than L.A. Weekly’s Detour Festival (see previous blog entry), Coachella hopes to be a great time hearing great music and getting great sunburn.

I hope to take photos and post them hear upon my return!

Have a great weekend!

As I finish this blog post, I can finally hear Sibelius.