Madison morning
Continental breakfast was predictably carb-based, but I could work with it: there was cereal, bagels, fruit, and the university's own milk (only in more or less defatted versions...evidently they steal all the cream for their ice cream). Only about a half-dozen people showed up for it. I sat with a guy named Aage Nielsen from Boise, who plays bass clarinet in a bass clarinet/viola duo, but whose big thing is playing doucaine in a 14th-c group with vielle and countertenor.
After breakfast I went over to practice some dulcian. the practice rooms were locked, but I found an open classroom and got some good work in.
Then I went shopping. I got some manuscript paper at the university bookstore, and checked out the required book offerings. Not too much happening in the ag dept. over the summer (gotta get that hay in), but there was a course, Nutrition Science 350, which required "I Rigoberto Menchu", Ehrenreich's "Nickle and dimed", and another book of the same ilk. So where's the science in that? Stopped in this incredible classical record store on State St.but didn't buy. DID buy some super-premium ice cream from a place that refused to give nutritional information, saying "You want nutrition, eat carrots." By 11, the street was already full of beggars.
I'm in the library now. Seems to be a nice place, but I had to apply for a pass even to get into the doors; evidently State St. encourages a fortress mentality. From the stories I hear from KSL, can't say I blame them.
And I'm off to register!
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