This past month has been all about travel, it seems, and not enough about the things in our lives which involve peace, introspection, and the things we enjoy locally.
First off, I had to go down to Southampton for a day, which meant leaving Glasgow at 6 a.m. and arriving back at something like 11 p.m. Quite a long day, and it was on the day that the British played in the World Cup. So, lots of chaos, lots of travel, and one tired out me.
The following week, we were both at Glasgow Airport, on our way to Washington, D.C., for the ALA conference.
We’ve described the conference a bit already, but the city itself we didn’t really visit: we went from place to place, visiting people, going to coctail parties, and only taking pictures incidentally. The conference, as you can see below, was absolutely packed with people. This wasn’t to our liking, as we both tend to avoid crowds like the plague (which they, no doubt, carry).
The National Cathedral was much more our speed, and I dare say that we spent more time just enjoying the peace there than we did at the ALA Conference. I’d say it’s a shame, but … well, it was peaceful!
We’re back home, now, and a few weeks have gone by … and we’re feeling as if we’re able to finally look around, examine things a bit, and ask, “what do we want to do, in our final year in Glasgow?”
One of the things we’d let drop, this past year, was the choir. When we think back to what we disliked about it … we won’t be going back. But there are other options, such as the Glasgow City Chorus (please schedule any visits with us around their concert schedule). We hope that they’re a bit more about the choir, and less about the soloists / musicians. They practice somewhere in the City Chambers / Council (shown to the right), I think.
We’ll be getting our music early (see The Mutopia Project to get your own, free music, and Lilypond to understand just what goes into the music available there). Between the concert schedule and the (free) music (when we get a chance to transcribe it, as it doesn’t seem to be up there yet), we expect somebody out there to sing along.
-D