Also, I am looking for pictures of mint sprigs, stalks, or just the leaves for a minor redesign project.

If you have any, or know of any, please let me know.

Full credit will be given – I just don’t feel like buying more stock photos right now, and I don’t have any mint at hand, either….

Thanks!!

So, I’ve got a student-ish dilemma. I can only afford (cost, and time-wise) to take ONE course this semester, and I’m not sure what it should be.

Anyone care to lend a hand with the popular vote?

The choices are:

1. Music in the baroque era
   
   A survey of the major genres and composers in the period 1600 to 1750. Genres considered will be instrumental music, oratorio, motet, cantata, sonata, concerto, and opera. Some of the composers studied will be Monteverdi, Schütz, Lully, Couperin, Rameau, Vivaldi, Bach, and Handel.

2. Ragtime and Jazz
   
   A survey of ragtime and jazz from their roots in pre-twentieth-century black music and white music to contemporary jazz idioms, including an examination of New Orleans jazz and Dixieland, swing, bebop, cool jazz, and free jazz.

3. Music and Gender
   
   The role of gender in the theory and practice of music in western and non-western cultures. Attention is directed to women’s participation in music to make good their absence from traditional accounts in music’s history, significance and development.

4. Computer music techniques
   
   An introduction to the techniques of sound synthesis primarily through practical experience at the digital synthesizer and computer. This course includes the basics of machine operations, software and computer applications to composition and synthesis. Enrolment in this course is limited.

Also, the kit ti es went back today. :(

They were all very good about it though, and hardly mewed-howled-bellowed at all (unlike the trip to my house from the shelter a few weeks ago). They are in great shape and oh-my-god heavy. Much heavier than you’d think, just looking at them.

But they’re sweet, and I’ll miss ‘em, even if they had this nasty habit of leaving litter all over the kitchen, and managing to find a way onto the counter to eat my basil plants, and despite Pica’s obsession with the broom. They were fun, and good company, and always kept me from getting a case of the lonely’s when I was missing not being in the same place that I always was.

Nothing beats a little snuggle from a fluffy kitty to lighten your spirits just a bit.