Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 01-07-19 10:25 <=-

are open to women, so a lot of the very best are
siphoned away from those positions that were formerly
filled by sometimes massively overqualified labor.

Probably a good thing over all, though... nice to have some of that massively overqualified labor in better fitting jobs... ;)

Better for everyone except the labor itself.

Perhaps.

There are many voluntary underachievers, but the
voluntarily underpaid are few and far between.

Generally, although it does happen....

Life gets in the way of second life.

Very much so... About caught up again, though... ;)

Hurrah, hurrah, hurray.

Don't cheer too soon... slipping again, though maybe not too badly... ;)

Write if you get work. Or even if you don't.

Easier to write here when I don't have too much work... ;) Might be
close to catching up again.... as long as nothing more jumps in... ;)

As above, with the additional cynical comment
that those who like administration tend to hide
some other character flaw, such as not liking
work or not liking people.

There is that....

I've met some and am even less sympathetic
to them than to insurance company executives.

Indeed.

Those who can do, they do; those who can't, they
make the rules. And those who can't teach teach
teachers.

And/or write the textbooks....

Don't think so - the only time I saw it it
was a Bergmanesque dark film, and I was trying
to play it back but couldn't. All I recall is
that it was a date, but I can't even recall who
the date was.

Probably too long ago....

Those were painful days anyhow. Speaking of which,
it seems the girl in question might have been a
(physically) beautiful blonde nicknamed The Golden Ruel
(you can guess what her last name was); she didn't
much like me, or any man it seems, but was willing to
accept the occasional free movie or concert or meal.

Something for her effort, I guess... :)

P.S. As she was actually kind of anger-driven (one
can speculate a thousand ways of why), I also called
her The Golden Mean.

Appropriate... :)

We'll find out, but I suspect that's the case.

Should be... :)

Stay tuned until about New Year's Eve eve.
If there's no word by 1/5, remind me.

Ok... As long as I remember... :)

And knowing you, you'll ask for a report
right away.

If I remember... ;)

I'll see you down the hall from me in the
memory unit.

At least we'll be in good company... ;)

So what was that all about again?

Something about Lilli's, and some candy she made.... and whether the
half batch remaining would still be good and/or what it would have
become.... :) I did take a look back into my saved messages, and it was
peanut butter toffee or more like caramels with peanuts or something...
As I'd hoped, we still had enough of the thread to be somewhat of a
reminder at least as to what to look for... (G)

... How can you eat one of God's own creatures? With mustard and onions!

Butter and pepper.

That would work, too... along with maybe a bit of ginger... ;)

Maybe. I prefer clean flavors, and ginger
almost qualifies.

Especially if not overdone... :)

cereal killer.

With due cause... ;)

"Godson of Vice-Chancellor runs amok; Kix waiters
and Cap'n Crunches errant restaurant chef."

That's one way to get one's 15 minutes of fame.... ;)

By and large, people would be better off with
zero minutes of fame.

Probably.

How not to be seen is a real skill.

True.

Probably born that way. Once a teacher,
always a teacher.

True... Grandmother could have been a teacher, too, though she wasn't, officially.... :)

But imparted lots of knowledge to lots of people.

Yes, she did. I learned my early lessons in French, particularly some
French songs (like Sur le Pont) from her.... :) Complete with a proper accent... ;)

Jalbert: Violin Concerto, and Vaughn Williams: A Sea Symphony.
They did creditably... :)

Who's Jalbert?

Dunno... It was listenable to, at least... I'm guessing somewhat
modern, though....

There's a backlash against modernism, and
composers are writing more accessible and
largely duller music.

Some of the modernism was rather dull music, for all the inaccessibility
of it... ;)

There's a point at which my ears say Enough,
but there are others who continue to apparently
enjoy and understand well beyond my capacity. We
like to imagine that anything we don't appreciate
is charlatanry, but that's doubtful.

As in most things, there's different strokes for different folks...

A few of us were sitting around doing stupid
musician tricks, and we were discussing pitch
acuity, and I came in second (I could reliably
distinguish 1/7 tones across the spectrum and within
the western scale midrange with which I am most
familiar quite a bit better). The point was that I
came in second, and the one who came in first has
quite a bit wider musical appreciation than I do.

So presumably has listened to more pitches....?

No, except the composer was there.

And presumably would know what he'd intended for you to play...

She.

Ah. Did she pick up on your mistakes...? or was it good enough for
her...?

Probably; but I've been tentatively hired to
play another performance of it later.

I'd guess you didn't do too badly then.... and/or she figures another performance would give you more of a chance to learn it better... ;)

explains why you'd never set eyes on it previously... was it a premiere...?

A second.

Almost as bad... :)

I thought so. I heard a tape of the premiere,
whose violinist was an old friend of mine (I
discovered after the fact), and she made a
completely different set of mistakes from mine;
on the whole I thought she had done a better
job than I, but she's more expensive, also.

That might be a factor as well.... or maybe the composer was less
bothered by your mistakes....

ttyl neb

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