Ghost Story

Wednesday: Up around 8. Restless sleep last night, on top of being up late. MB off. Shower. Brief morning practices. Headed off to my lesson with Jun.

Hit traffic, so took a different route, circling around on the Mass Pike, then Storrow. Still arrived with about 5 minutes to spare. A good session, lots more music theory, and then some improvisation work. Looking at Bartok's extensions to Classical harmonic structure. Then, he surprised me by playing a fragment of "Larks Tongues in Aspic" on the piano. The power of minor thirds!

They only had one slice of pizza at my usual place, so walked down the street and found another pizza shop for slice number two. Headed in to work. A brief day. A few small graphical fixes. Talked with B about the Intel shift and XCode. Headed out a little after 6:30.

Arrived at KKC a little late. This was the last class before Geshela returns to India. Two more sections of the 70 Topics. I asked a question, but I don't think it made it through translation. A short class, running into Tara. I left at 9:05 while things were still going on, hoping to avoid long goodbyes.

Stopped at the Home Depot, and picked up an electrical plug and a switch cover. Back home, MB was hanging out with several people from OCBC. I sat with them, listening to conversation and eating some bean soup. One of the people present was a refugee from Africa. He said that in his country, what we think of as coasters for putting under glasses, they put on top of the glass to keep out flies. He began telling a ghost story. One of the people present suddenly became quite ill and had to go outside for some air. The party broke up. MB offered to drive the ill person home. I began cleaning the kitchen, goodbyes, then more cleaning. When MB returned, she took over cleaning, and I headed down basement. Transplanted morning practices. Soon bed.