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Home again, home again, jiggity jig
We spent the past week in Berkeley, CA at the San Francisco Early Music Society's "Med/Ren Week", a week-long workshop on medieval and Renaissance music. I had three periods a day of shawm; D. had two of shawm and one of vielle. And we both sang in the "all-workshop collegium" concert, which had repertoire running from Machaut to late 15th century. It was exhausting but fun and educational.
Also visited briefly with my half-brother Jeb and his wife Grace, who live a few miles from the workshop venue. They attended Friday night's and Saturday morning's student concerts, then took us out for a delicious brunch, after which we sat around in their living room decompressing and chatting about movies until it was time to catch our flight home.
The flight from Oakland to LAX was delayed only about 15 minutes, and the airline upgraded us to "Comfort Plus" seats in order to make room in coach for some of the people waiting for seat assignments. "Comfort Plus" is the same width as coach, but slightly more leg room; more importantly, it boards earlier so we could get some of our musical instruments into the overhead bin, and deplanes earlier so we could make our connection at LAX. The flight from LAX to JFK left on time, and landed slightly early about 6 AM (3 AM California time), so everything is copacetic except our sleep budgets: we're still jet-lagged and sleep-deprived, but we have 24 hours before either of us has to be at work.
House is still standing, with no obvious damage; car is still parked in front of it, with no obvious damage except bird droppings. Leaving shortly to pick up dogs from dog-sitter.
Also visited briefly with my half-brother Jeb and his wife Grace, who live a few miles from the workshop venue. They attended Friday night's and Saturday morning's student concerts, then took us out for a delicious brunch, after which we sat around in their living room decompressing and chatting about movies until it was time to catch our flight home.
The flight from Oakland to LAX was delayed only about 15 minutes, and the airline upgraded us to "Comfort Plus" seats in order to make room in coach for some of the people waiting for seat assignments. "Comfort Plus" is the same width as coach, but slightly more leg room; more importantly, it boards earlier so we could get some of our musical instruments into the overhead bin, and deplanes earlier so we could make our connection at LAX. The flight from LAX to JFK left on time, and landed slightly early about 6 AM (3 AM California time), so everything is copacetic except our sleep budgets: we're still jet-lagged and sleep-deprived, but we have 24 hours before either of us has to be at work.
House is still standing, with no obvious damage; car is still parked in front of it, with no obvious damage except bird droppings. Leaving shortly to pick up dogs from dog-sitter.