the sound of music rehearsals

Another day of music classes. Hope I'm not getting typecast. :)

This was Basic Guitar and Women's Chorus at Soquel High School. For the guitar players, I basically let them do individual and group practice - I don't know how to teach guitar! Some of the kids also took a stab at the piano - umpteen variations on "Heart and Soul", gah!

The chorus class was more fun - there were a couple of girls in there who had notes on what had gone wrong in their last rehearsal, and they really wanted to hit the problem songs again (apparently they have their spring concert in 2 weeks). So that class had a proper run-through. Then we watched a movie for the second half of the (two-hour) class.

Speaking of which... whose brilliant idea was it to subject high school students to two-hour class periods, and make them go to school from 7:40 to 3:00? It's just NUTTY.

shopping up and down

So today was over-the-hill-and-to-the-mall(s) day. Lots of shopping. Boy, most of this year's designs are crap. (Of course, I've been thinking that every year for several years - this is why I wear essentially the same clothes (in some cases, actually the same clothes) that I wore in high school.

So, after much searching, suitable clothing was found for all family members. Then we had nice cheap sushi (how come the sushi is generally a) better and b) cheaper in San Jose than it is in Santa Cruz? We're right next to the freakin' ocean here, people!) and came home.

Nice day with nothing essential to do. Haven't had one of those in a while.