Yay, Nomenclature des voies is back!

[tenlittlebullets]

OMG, the Nomenclature des voies de Paris database is back online! This thing was my best goddamn friend when I was researching Les-Mis-related locations in Paris, I was so incredibly sad when it died, and now look! Back online and shinier than ever! Have been playing with it for the past fifteen minutes, clearing up some minor questions about the location of the Café Musain. (Was v. confused about references to the rue de la Harpe in the vicinity, but the database made it clear that the rue de la Harpe used to extend south almost to the Jardin du Luxembourg, and that it was absorbed into the boulevard Saint-Michel. That has been minorly bugging me for ages.)

The Paris university system is CHAOS I TELL YOU. I have a provisional list of classes to choose from, but minor details like class times, locations, and which professor is teaching what are either unavailable or buried in the labyrinthine web sites of Paris VII. Other minor details they haven't decided yet include when class sign-ups take place and when classes start. Some girl in another department of Paris VII has already started classes, but most of the departments are all "lol guys still recovering from all the strikes last year, will give you details... sometime."

But! I possibly have a voice teacher. elyse24601 and I will go to see her on Wednesday. To celebrate, we bought a bunch of extortionately expensive sheet music (seriously, guys, printed materials are SO CHEAP in America, you have no idea), holed up in my apartment because I have a piano and I'm alone for the weekend, and started learning the Flower Duet from Lakmé. I haven't sung in ages, my voice is rusty, and I keep jumping to the soprano part because I sang it in a recital years ago, but it was so much fun. We were producing mad-crazy overtones and generally being awesome.

Orientation period is over--we had exams for our orientation classes today--so now begins a week of chaos and tumult and possibly class sign-ups if we're lucky. And good riddance to the orientation; it was a disproportionate amount of work to the credit given, and being in class from nine to six every day didn't exactly encourage us to go out and explore the city. I might end up enjoying our week of chaos and tumult more than the past three weeks.

Re: Lausanne, some of the charges have disappeared from my card, but I still haven't had an email from them and I still can't find my order in my account on their website. Should probably call them tomorrow and demand what the fuck is going on, lest I end up having to buy a shitty seat at the last minute. And yes, I'm going, the train ticket is bought.

Comments

[reconditarmonia.livejournal.com]

Oh that duet. That's one of the few pieces I still know how to sing the harmony in. Singing soprano in chorus has shot all my harmony skills to pieces.

Did I mention at all, by the way, how extremely jealous I am of where you are? In spite of the chaos and work and how much things cost.

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

Heeee. Normally I am Super-Alto, but the fact that I already know the soprano part (and didn't know the alto part before) is screwing me up. And it shouldn't, because dude, seriously, most of it is just singing in thirds. *headdesk*

And wow, rereading the entry I sure do sound like I'm bitching about Paris. *g* Which I totally did not mean to do, it's just that shit is CRAZY around here.

[reconditarmonia.livejournal.com]

I think that might be one of the reasons I still know it. ^__~ thirds!

Oh, I know. Tu ne dois pas en faire l'éloge in every entry for me to know you love it. (just woke up, blanking on English for some reason.)

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

On the one hand, thirds! On the other hand, doing the same thing as the soprano part, only a little lower, means we keep ending up in unison when my brain forgets the "a little lower" part and goes "I don't want to sing a G sharp in my icky passaggio, I want the high B!"

[reconditarmonia.livejournal.com]

Heh, true. (It only occurs to me now that my stuff for Gondoliers will be really the first harmony I've sung for over three years. Poor choral arrangements of already-known songs do not count, since the sopranos usually lead those anyway.)

[in-a-greenhouse.livejournal.com]

lol, French people love fait-ing la greve.

[mmebahorel.livejournal.com]

i swear I accidentally once, in high school French class, meant to say something was "en panne" and said "en grève" instead. Which is actually hilarious even as it's embarrassing because I wasn't trying to make a joke, the wrong word just came out.