Peter Creasey Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 Margaret, can't visualize anything "depressing" about this scenario once the event gets started. After it's over, you'll surely be feel good about having done everything. Totally a normal sequence! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
joethefoodie Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 I feel the same as you, voyager...and I haven't even started doing dinners again, now that we're back in our abode. It's always a lot of work, and it doesn't get any easier. Though since I am getting older, I think I am getting smarter...that is, there is some stuff that can be bought that's as good as, if not better, than my own. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Peter Creasey Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 Yes, Joe, we have dramatically toned down the prep time/demands. And we have not observed any diminution in guest enjoyment. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
voyager Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 I just now realize that I don't cook in order to entertain, but entertain in order to actualize food ideas that I've been mulling. In sleepless moments, I tend to mentally play with food, combinations, juxtapositions, presentation. At any given time, I have a bunch of plates in my head nagging to happen. None are proven or necessarily practical to realize, Tapocketapocketapocketa... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lex Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 That's not a bad "fault" to have. In fact it's kind of cool. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 I just now realize that I don't cook in order to entertain, but entertain in order to actualize food ideas that I've been mulling. In sleepless moments, I tend to mentally play with food, combinations, juxtapositions, presentation. At any given time, I have a bunch of plates in my head nagging to happen. None are proven or necessarily practical to realize, Tapocketapocketapocketa... I have the same thing. Except my ideas are almost always terrible. And the execution inept. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
prasantrin Posted January 28, 2018 Share Posted January 28, 2018 https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/01/the-sex-lives-of-conductors/ I really hope the bit about the young soloist who was raped just before performing isn't true, but it would not at all surprise me if it were. (not sure if the discussion of sexual harassment was deemed political, but feel free to hide/delete as necessary) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Suzanne F Posted January 28, 2018 Share Posted January 28, 2018 https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/01/the-sex-lives-of-conductors/ I really hope the bit about the young soloist who was raped just before performing isn't true, but it would not at all surprise me if it were. (not sure if the discussion of sexual harassment was deemed political, but feel free to hide/delete as necessary) From the article: For this to change, we need to see more women on the podium. Wrong, or at least only partly correct, but for a different reason. Once again, putting the burden on women to fix the problem is to deny its source: men who abuse their power and those who allow them to continue. Boards and staffs need to change their attitudes and behaviors. (Even I knew about Maestro Jimmy years ago; his behavior was an open secret among my musician friends.) Yes, we need more women conductors. But not so they can replace abusive men, rather so they can do the job they can do well. Ask anyone who heard an orchestra play under Mälkki. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
prasantrin Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 Today I learned someone I know, and have known for about twenty years, was convicted of sexual assault. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephanieL Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 Someone I went to high school with died a few months ago. I believe he's the first one in our class to go. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Suzanne F Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 Someone I went to high school with died a few months ago. I believe he's the first one in our class to go. Yeah, I always check those listing first in my high school and college alumni magazines. It's always a relief when I don't recognize any names. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
voyager Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 Or my own. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Anthony Bonner Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 Someone I went to high school with died a few months ago. I believe he's the first one in our class to go. That's incredible good luck. I've lost three classmates from a class of 120. Two to drugs and one to cancer. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AaronS Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 there were 92 people in my college class and weve lost four people. One fell over dead in his late twenties, two had cancer, and another one was one of the people under the commuter trains outside sf. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
joethefoodie Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 This sounds like all the gatherings I can remember, when all my old Jewish relatives got together, Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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