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Last Week's Round-up: Fantasies and Weekends
Over at BNET last week, I tackled two issues: daydreams and weekends. Yes, it was that kind of week. A bit crazed, but a lot of fun. I was in Chicago Thursday through Sunday, singing at the American Choral Directors Association conference with my choir, the Young New Yorkers’ Chorus. We did the full-on college-style choir tour, making this the first tim… read more »
10 Ways to Stretch The 167-Hour Week
Yes, we are springing forward this Sunday. That means that this week is a wee bit shorter than most. But there’s no reason it has to feel like it. Here are a few ways to get that hour back:
Watch an hour less of TV. Commit this week to watching only shows you love and absolutely nothing else.
Do one thing at a time. When you try to check email while writing an essa… read more »
Sunday Night Blues?
It’s a fairly common phenomenon: somewhere around mid-day Sunday, people who aren’t blissfully happy with their Monday routines start to feel a twinge of anxiety. The brain is a tricky creature. The anxiety takes over and makes you feel like you’re getting into work mode, even though it’s still the weekend. This happens to st… read more »
A Tale of Two Requiems
If anyone reading this lives in New York City, I’m singing in a performance of the Brahms Requiem at Symphony Space on Friday night. Please come hear me sing!
I first learned the Requiem my senior year of college. Indeed, it was exactly 10 years ago that we started rehearsing it. I devoted a lot of time to learning the often chromatic fugues, listening to t… read more »
Creating a Focused Schedule
We have a lot more free time than we think. Even very busy people have favorite TV shows, or make time for Facebook, Twitter, personal email and the like. But one reason we feel like we don’t have free time is that in our distracted society, leisure moments come in disjointed chunks.
How do we solve this problem, and seize these chunks of time for recreat… read more »
