same old (ish)

so much for blogging more often. some updates, none too significant.

1. Now possible to blog MUCH more often: an iPod touch. This thing spoils me: Internet... in bed. That is all.

2. Singing and stuff. Getting involved in the local church choirs, to keep my voice from atrophy, and to keep me occupied during these uneventful days of ungainful post-undergrad unemployment. Also in a local-ish volunteer chamber chorus, for a challenge. All Bach, all German, all the time; should be exciting!

Now also looking for possible employment as a professional chorister; a far-off idea, I know, but it's good to dream big. 'Twould be sooooo awesome to sing in Trinity or St Patrick's or St Bart's or even in the Met opera chorus. But I gotta start small and get fully settled in socially to the NYC area again.

3. Driving. I finally got my driver's license this past September. Yay. It's a mixed blessing, for sure. Driving does give me a greater sense of autonomy and freedom that unfortunately pedestrianism cannot easily provide; as an avowed pedestrian, I'm still torn, but I'd be lying if I said that driving doesn't feel good.

On the other hand, I might have to be my mom's driver from now on. After almost twenty years with her employer (which had been in the process of shutting down for a coupla years now) in Manhattan, she is leaving for another job in NJ, in the Newark area. Problems: it's (allegedly) in a part of Newark that isn't easy to get to by mass transit (I don't know where it is exactly), mom has a driver's license but refuses to drive, and we'll have to get ANOTHER automobile (bringing our total to 4 cars in our already tight driveway/front lawn, not to mention the added expense of yet another car to the collection). Which means: we have to buy another car, and I have to drive my mom to and from work every day. Oh joy, Turnpike rush hour traffic. C'est la vie.

4. Other stuff. I've been learning French from a teach-yourself-a-language course called Assimil. It's been easy so far, but the language can get confusing, with all the silent letters and whatnot. We shall see.

More stuff to follow soon. Yay, I'm blogging again!