4 posts tagged “money”
I found a horn to borrow, from an alum of my school who's now living and teaching up in Beverly, MA. The trip to retrieve it was more strange than I'd have liked, but it's in my possession for the next 3 days and I don't have to worry about Monday's concert.
It's still on, and I'm still set to perform. Only I now have no horn to play. In rehearsal today I felt that my horn just wasn't right. Notes were weirdly out of tune, some weren't speaking, some made awkward gurgles and jumps. The first cause that pops into mind when these problems come up is a leak somewhere on the instrument.
UPS has all my shit. It's in Watertown. I don't actually know where Watertown is, but I also have to go there to get a new driver's license so the federal government will give me more cash money for school.
If the previous tenant of my apartment had gotten out on the day he was supposed to and not 5 days late - especially being that he was already 3 weeks late - I would have been there when UPS tried to deliver all the packages I shipped to myself and they wouldn't have gotten sent to a warehouse in idontknowwherethefuckitis. But I guess I'm going down... going down to Watertown.
Today I would like to get my cats into the apartment. They've spent almost a week living in my sister's place, rotating between rooms so they don't meet the dog. There have been 2 cat-dog encounters, neither of which have gone especially well, so I don't enjoy the situation. I also don't enjoy kenneling the cats while I move boxes in and out of my apartment, so there's that, too.
It's still very drab here, and Becky tells me the weather in Chicago is not any better. Ordinarily that would be bad news, assuming the weather moves to the northeast as it usually does, but the forecasters in the area seem to disagree. They are predicting sunny days in the low 70s for the rest of the week. Still, that's much cooler than I am used to. It will be nice not to have to put on sunscreen in September, though.
At this point I'm really searching for things to write, so I'll cap it and come back later.
It's cold here. And really, I mean that. I have been here since the morning of the 24th and it has not once been above 70 degrees, which frightens me. I've lived in cold climes before, Chicago being extremely cold, but not the same kind of cold. In Chicago the wind blows 35 miles per hour all winter long and it's as dry as a desert. It also doesn't come down from the 80s until the end of September. Obviously being at a more northern latitude and right next to the ocean in this city is going to change the dynamic a bit. If it's 65 degrees on August 27th, I am slightly concerned about what it will be like on Halloween.
