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I am sad. I am very very sad. I didn't get the job at TIP teaching "The Ethics of Shakespeare." I didn't think I would be so upset about not getting it, but when I got the voicemail this morning about the job being offered to and accepted by someone else, I got this sudden sinking feeling. I guess I was more excited about the class than I allowed myself to think.

Silk Road Project

I need music to wash over me, so loud it's a physical experience as well as an aural one.

I just went to the music store to pick up Silk Road Journeys: When Strangers Meet, the project by Yo-Yo Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble. Sometimes I think I get caught up in the idea of things too much. I like the idea of a music-album project that is also a musicological study. The album is in the player right now. It seems subdued.