Tuesday, April 03, 2007
More notes on a life
The opera was fun. It was a rather obscure opera by Haydn, and it was a lower-budget, smaller-scale production, with the atelier de l'opera rather than the principal singers. It was a comedy, and as a first opera experience it was very nice, but not the spectacle I was imagining or hoping for. It whetted my appetite... and it was nice to dress up and be downtown and sit in a beautiful theatre. Unfortunately I had to come home right after because of the babysitter; I would have liked to have gone out for a glass of wine somewhere.
Work is heating up, as we approach the festival week. I've just had a meeting with the technician who will be doing the recordings for us, and man did I feel stupid. My French sucked (and all techs are francophone) and I didn't have a whole lot of, er, knowledge about the technical, er, stuff. Fortunately the 2 guys at the meeting were very nice and told me that it's okay to be ignorant about this, that's what they're there for. Still, it would have felt good to look like a real, and really bilingual, professional. Sigh.
Speaking of bilingualism, my sister has snagged a great job with the federal government and guess what? She gets to have an entire year of full-time French courses before she even starts the job, fully paid by your tax dollars. Isn't Canada wonderful? Congratulations, A! They are totally getting our money's worth.
The opera was fun. It was a rather obscure opera by Haydn, and it was a lower-budget, smaller-scale production, with the atelier de l'opera rather than the principal singers. It was a comedy, and as a first opera experience it was very nice, but not the spectacle I was imagining or hoping for. It whetted my appetite... and it was nice to dress up and be downtown and sit in a beautiful theatre. Unfortunately I had to come home right after because of the babysitter; I would have liked to have gone out for a glass of wine somewhere.
Work is heating up, as we approach the festival week. I've just had a meeting with the technician who will be doing the recordings for us, and man did I feel stupid. My French sucked (and all techs are francophone) and I didn't have a whole lot of, er, knowledge about the technical, er, stuff. Fortunately the 2 guys at the meeting were very nice and told me that it's okay to be ignorant about this, that's what they're there for. Still, it would have felt good to look like a real, and really bilingual, professional. Sigh.
Speaking of bilingualism, my sister has snagged a great job with the federal government and guess what? She gets to have an entire year of full-time French courses before she even starts the job, fully paid by your tax dollars. Isn't Canada wonderful? Congratulations, A! They are totally getting our money's worth.
# posted by becca : 11:22 AM
