Feb 18 2009
A night at the opera
That’s right, I was at Oslo’s fancy new opera to see “The Bat.” It’s an operetta about a ballroom fiasco.
The opera building had almost its entire foundation laid out in the water, though I may be wrong about that. It’s a gorgeous building with a sloping roof that you can climb all the way to the top (when it’s open in the summer). It was technically closed on account of all the snow but there were loads of people on it.
I’m off for a week at the moment so there are no lectures for me to attend. My work has been going slowly with one of the private students canceling a slew of appointments. The main chunk of my bread and butter though, the school I teach at, has resumed and is going on as normal.
My pompous British professor has grown on me, as those types usually do. I’ve managed to catch him making a mistake and so he has become human to me. Unlike what he was before, simply a hypercritic of everything imaginable. Now that I can hang an error he made over his head I feel justified in believing he was nothing but a pompous dink. But in that process I forgot my righteous anger and simply accepted him as a person who makes corny jokes.
In other news, my sister is going to be visiting me a few days. I’m very excited. I have a number of things planned but what we’re going to be doing depends on her. Of course there will be photos for all of you to see.
That’s about it then. Go see the photos of the opera house.
[sarcasm] oh man, Tomek. when i come to norway, you should take me to that operetta about the ballroom fiasco- that sounds like so much fun! i’d give my right nut to see that, seeing how i’m such a cultured and somophisticated (sic) person [/sarcasm]
glad to hear you’re having fun
. you’re obviously missed here!