It's been a pretty good month for me this year - well, fun at any rate. I went ever so slightly insane & coughed up for the Adobe Creative Suite (student edition - I guess that's not that much coughing, all things considered) which I've been having a marvellous time with. In particular I've been playing round with Photoshop CS in preparation for my first uni assignment of the semester. Cool assignment - how often does one get to roam about Sydney clutching a near-pro-level digital camera and pretending to be a real photographer? I based my assignment around decaying buildings in Pyrmont, so got to take photos of a couple of my very favourite buildings - the old CSR site and the Edwin Davey & Sons flour mill.

I've also been teaching myself Illustrator and exploring the wonderful world of Acrobat 6 (Save As Word - yee-ha! This feature alone is going to save me 3 hours' work for every publication I need to put online for work).

Work's pretty much taken over my life for the past six weeks, while my manager's been living it up in New York on secondment, so musical activity has been rather curtailed. However, my fiancé's taking his eldest son to New Zealand for two weeks on Monday, so I have the house to myself & am hoping to get back to the solo flute piece I abandoned in mid-August & have it all finished by the time he gets back.

The harp piece I finished in July, (en)twine, should also be published in the next few weeks, when I'll post it - and hopefully some sort of recording - in the scores section of the site.

So that's it for the moment - a bit dull I fear - I'll try to do better next time!

# posted by minim @ 2:59 PM