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Re: Mission Accomplished

By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (0)
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Joey auditioned Sunday morning to join a student run a cappella choir similar to his old one. 85 people - a huge number - initially tried out for just a few openings. 13 were there for Sunday's callbacks.

The choir has fewer than twenty members, so it's about the size of Joey's UVA choir. It is, in his opinion, a far better choir. He said it has some 7,000 followers on youtube, while the UVA choir had just 500. This may mean that it's a better choir but could also be reflective of superior marketing or the choir's age: 26 years versus 8 for the old. It competes with other colleges, so that might be interesting.

Joey thinks he did well but there's no telling when it comes to student-run groups. They like who they like and could choose anyone - EXCEPT that they're going to want to fill the slots that were vacated. A photo reveals it to be very ethnic (15 of 19) so that may be a factor for the students at this extremely "woke" university. I sincerely hope not. They also may not like it that he's a grad student.

Four guys were among the 13 callbacks and Joey is the only one asked to sing solely for Tenor. Another was asked to try for both Tenor and Bass. One was asked to sing as Tenor and Baritone. Soooooo... drumroll, please. Results later today.




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Mission Accomplished
By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE
Mon, 04 Oct 21 12:52 PM 		Msg. 24796 of 60008

Mission accomplished. We got our son and his roommate moved to their new, UCSD-owned apartment 11 miles closer to the campus. Saturday was a whole lot of back and forths, taking a carload at a time. We didn't know how much a 15' U-haul would hold so we did everything we could to reduce what we'd be putting into it when we got it. U-haul then screwed up and didn't have a truck for us on Saturday even though we'd reserved it well ahead of time. That turned out to be a good thing, I think.

The new place has about the same size footprint as the old, but it has three bedrooms instead of two and, naturally, three tenants. That effectively makes it much smaller. Whereas each of the boys previously had his own bathroom, each now has shared use of two bathrooms. There is no tub.

Joey lucked out and was assigned by the school to the largest bedroom. This put his old roommate into a real bind since his room is tiny and most of the communal property was his: The big TV, its stand, the stereo, the coffee table, the kitchen set, the lamps, wall art, kitchen appliances, spices, cleaning supplies, dishes, etc. The place... and especially his own room... has less storage, so he's pinched for space. He'll probably decide to get rid of the kitchen set. That's a shame. It's really nice but far too big. The couch, TV and coffee table are too big too, but I imagine they'll keep them. It all would have been better if he'd just bought things that were SMALL, but he didn't. He had no more expectation of moving now than Joey did.

Joey is a Ph.D. Computer Science student. The old roommate, from Chile, is too. The new roommate is a 1st year Computer Science Masters student from China. Since Joey is fluent in Spanish and took a year of Chinese in High School, the roommates are well matched, though I imagine Joey would have been happy gaining exposure to people with more varied interests.

We did a couple of more runs by car on Sunday, got the truck around 2 p.m. and were done with it by 5:30 p.m. Except for our things and a few others the boys left behind to sell or junk later in the month, the old apartment is now empty. We'll probably stay in it for a bit, FINALLY doing some actual relaxing and maybe a little touristy stuff. San Diego isn't new to us, so we may tire of it quickly. Once we're bored with the city and feeling energized (could take awhile. I'm pooped... and not in the Nemo way.) , we'll resume our drive.

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