Off Sabbatical
Hello world. I’m still existing, see? Just being a tad slack and regrouping. A break is always useful, in almost every pursuit (except maybe for things like air traffic controlling, or life-support machine running, or other such hundred-percent essentials) in order to function properly and not go crazy and caught up the wrong way around. Beside the standing back aspect, it’s been another particularly crazy, stuff-filled week featuring (but not limited to) giving two presentations and taking an ultra-short/ultra-intense course in biochemistry.
I also got a well-fancy new phone, which brings up an interesting dilemma. The ringer one. Do I destroy for all time my appreciation of a piece of music, by using it as a ringtone? Because it’s all fancy and not three years old, I can stick whatever piece of music is desired into the ringtone slot. This is not only a privilege but a necessity, since all the built-in ones are annoyingly noodly. However, from past experience, whichever piece of music undergoes this will cease to have certain musical properties in the future. It will forever be a ringtone, a harbinger of the “reach for the pants pocket” move.
In the end it was decided (by a large and ineffective committee consisting of me) that we could sacrifice a ballet to the ringtone gods, since those movements are brief and independent of each other (so the whole piece won’t be destroyed even if one movement is). The “winner” of the competition is:
Which is fairly obscure, I think. Anyone recognize it…?
Now I’m feeling guilty about using it as a ringtone. Eugh. I feel dirty even typing that word. Ring-tone. Maybe I’ll switch back to using the one that sounds like an old fashioned telephone, in order to preserve my classical karma.
Tags: classical music, ringtone