Cody Russell

Peabody Symphony Orchestra concert

Last night was the first PSO concert. It went pretty well, I think. We played “Bright Blue” by Michael Torke, which I didn’t really like very much, then the Nielson Flute Concerto with Marina Piccinini (who is totally awesome), which was good, and then the Hindemith Symphony in E-flat, which is a fantastic piece. Whee!

Still no compilers..

They still haven’t fixed the compiler on the Mac at school yet, so I still haven’t been able to hack on anything I want to. I’m suffering from withdrawal, and I’m about ready to have my computer shipped up here from home.

Hacking

I’m trying to start doing some hacking on OS X, but our privilege restrictions are making it quite impossible. I can’t even compile a program that prints a line of text and exits, because of some issue with /usr/lib/libSystem.dylib or whatever.

I want my own Mac. Using school computers sucks ass!

Computer lab

We have new computers at school. They did away with those old clutsy CRTs on both the Macs and the PCs and gave the Macs nice LCDs and they PCs shitty LCDs that probably cost an assload of money. Plus, they got rid of all the old G4 tower Macs and got brand spanking new dual-processor 867mhz G4 tower Macs. And face it, a music school really needs that kind of processing power! It’s not a waste of money!

Additionally, they decided to restrict privileges to certain programs on the new Macs. Such programs as Terminal and Help are no longer available to the users due to insufficient privileges. Clearly, Help is a major security problem in MacOS X 10.2, but it’s no match for our computer administrators! Way to go!

Coke Machine

We have a new Coke machine too! It has a neat little elevator thing with a conveyer belt on it. It rises up to the level of your Coke, then the conveyer belt sends it over to the little place where you get it out. And with a glass front on it, you get to really watch the action. It rocks.

The Foot

I broke the fifth metatarsal in my left foot while playing Ultimate Frisbee over at the beginning-of-the-year picnic over at Hopkins last week. It’s been a lot of trouble for me and for everyone else. I’m walking around on crutches and trying my best to stay off the left foot. Going down several flights of stairs in my apartment building and then hobbling about five blocks over to school is a lot of work. Last Thursday and Friday I was so sore and tired I couldn’t even hold up my viola, so I stayed in the apartment all weekend and stayed off the crutches (I have a little wheely office chair that I can scoot around the apartment in.. whee!). I started practicing a little bit in Saturday, then some more on Sunday. On Monday, Cameron took me over to the hospital again for my appointment for the cast or whatever, and I had to walk to school from there. Then I had a lesson, Symphony Orchestra, and Conducting Orchestra later that night. By CO, I was again to the point to where I could barely keep my viola up.

Unfortunately, I have an orchestra audition tomorrow and I don’t think it’s going to go very well. My excerpts didn’t go very well in my lesson on Monday.

Cameron and Rebecca have both been really cool about giving me a ride from school back home, which is a big help because by the end of the day I feel like I don’t have the energy to get all the way back home. Whenever I see Klevjer at school, he always mocks me and says something like, “Hey there, cripple!!” And everyone else sees me and asks what happened, so I am as tired of talking about it to people in the hall as I am of hobbling around on my crutches.