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flac  ·  1720 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: July 3, 2019

Hello, comrades - it's been some time!

My first year of teaching at an actual school is officially over, having trained the summer teacher yesterday. Despite some helicopter parents and challenging kids, it was a really rewarding (if unbelievably exhausting year).

My summer break starts today, and boy oh boy do I have some stuff to take care of - a preposterous amount of music has been on the back-burner all year, hopefully going to put out at least an EP of some kind by the end of the summer, with any luck there'll be more. Anyone interested in a collaboration? :D

Also have a lot of work to get ready for my wedding, which is in just over a month (August 10th!). I am going to a fabric store today to find something (preferably in charcoal grey) to make a suit out of. I have silver coming in the mail soon to make the wedding rings out of. A harpist friend of mine is playing during the ceremony, and I am working on finishing writing some pieces for her to play throughout.

Some things I have been enjoying:

Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber

Jerusalem by Alan Moore

The Black Hack Second Edition

The Quiet Year

My ongoing music backlog

After finally fixing some issues my 3d printer has been having for the past few months, I am hoping to possibly get production on little art pieces to sell underway sometime this summer too. I'm finishing up writing a simple code in p5.js to make generative designs, and am working on some original designs as well.

Things are good, and it's nice to have some time to breathe before getting back into the school year. I hope everyone here is doing well, you should be seeing more of me (until september, at least!)





thenewgreen  ·  1720 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Congrats! That sounds like a really personalized and awesome wedding. Handmade rings and suits. Very cool. Also, Harps are awesome at weddings. You’ll have to share some pics.

You should write your own wedding march or theme song :-) !! You’re such a brilliant writer.

flac  ·  1720 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh thanks :)

I never considered having my own theme song, that might be too much power...

zebra2  ·  1720 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Anyone interested in a collaboration? :D

Consider me down! I’m about six months behind on an album I’ve been wanting to wrap up myself.

It’s great that teaching has gone so well. I know some teachers and they work HARD. What grades?

flac  ·  1720 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Sweet! I was thinking we could maybe exchange tracks that we're stuck on/have given up on, and see what the other comes up with to add to it, although I am certainly open to starting some tracks from scratch.

I teach mostly preschool, 2-4 years. I also do some music things, and am going to teach a bit of computer science next year as well.