two weeks ago i called a large music supply company in vancouver to see about having them ship me an oboe lyre so i could play in the santa parade here. there is no such thing as an oboe lyre. interesting. i started to think about why they wouldn't have oboes in marching bands.
last night was the Santa Claus Parade. apparently it wasn't nearly as cold as it was last year. i had on 2 hats, a coat, a fleece vest, a fleece jacket, a sweater, a long-sleeve shirt, a t-shirt, tight socks, two pairs of long underwear, a pair of cords, and 2 pairs of socks. i may have looked a fool but i was at least warm. more or less. the only things that were cold were my bare fingers on the metal keys and my oboe itself. i think there are no oboes in marching bands because when it gets cold, oboes don't work. mine would only play one note the whole parade. I think it was a D but maybe it was an E flat. my friend said she could hear me. HA! I faked it the whole parade! (thankfully its not a very long parade). afterwards we played in an empty store. it took several songs for my oboe to warm up enough to actually play something. by the end of the mini concert i could play one whole octave. and to think i thought playing the flute would have been worse since its all metal....
my friend met me for chinese buffet after the concert. mmmm chinese buffet.
i went home pleasantly bloated and stripped off all my excess layers of clothes. i was deciding between bed and doing my pile of dishes when the phone ring. i found myself standing in the icy parking lot outside the video store with a group of youth. it reminded me of some people's high school experiences. it reminded me of the beginning of an after-school special.
sleepyhead JV ended up being out until 2am watching the new superman movie with strangers. but that's how friends begin - as strangers.
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Way to regress back to high school! I wish I was cool enough to do that.
So, how was the new superman movie?
but you ARE cool enough!
superman was ... long. with predictably cheesy elements in it, but maybe that's true to the original superman movies. even now, all i am truly left with is a sense that it was long. but maybe its because it was 1 o'clock in the morning. maybe.
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