Thursday, 12th September 2024
Sorry to keep you waiting
I'm listening to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's opera Evgeny Onegin.
Pushkin's rhyming novel is the basis for this opera.
The person on the other end of the voice chat while I was making breakfast just happened to like Dostoevsky and gave me a link to Wikipedia, which describes Gogol and Pushkin.
I had been interested in Tchaikovsky ever since I read a passage in a novel written by Taichi Yamada in which a character talks about Tchaikovsky.
I'm glad I remembered that.
I've been listening to the same popular songs over and over again with a hazy head and no idea what I'm listening to.
I am not very familiar with opera, and the only opera I have on CD is Richard Strauss's Elektra.
The reason is that I saw Simon Rattle's introduction to contemporary music programme on NHK and became fond of the Contralto aria in Elektra.
It might have been an alto, not a contralto.
I only listened to it a little bit, so little that I can't remember.
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Knowing that the deadline for my work is approaching, I worked one hour overtime today because I thought that time pressure would prevent me from doing a good job.
The reason is that I won't have much time tomorrow.
I had a bad headache after I got home and ate beforehand.
It's after 8pm and I haven't taken a shower yet.
But tomorrow is Friday, so I just have to work a bit harder.
The loxoprofen sodium doesn't help with the headache.
My new workplace is the best I've ever worked in.
The photo lab I used to work at was good, but that company doesn't exist any more.
It would take a long time to talk about my memories of the photo lab, so I'll stop now.
If you think about it, the old site of this website already existed when I was working at the photo lab.
If there were readers from back then, I would be repeating myself.
No, no, no, no.
I should only think about now and tomorrow.
When I was saying that I had to update* the website, I was surprised when my husband started singing a commercial song from when Nissan launched a small car called March.
The song was sung by Masahiko Kondo, with the lyrics 'Sorry to keep you waiting, here comes the March to town' to the melody of the March of the Saints.
I laughed because it was so hilarious, but I usually update my diary with that kind of feeling.
*In Japanese, they sometimes call update kohshin.
And Marching is also called kohshin in Japanese.
They have the same sound but different meanings.
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