In Marking Hell

[chani]

I keep eating chocolate and cookies, and drinking coke...

But as usual, Chopin helps me to go through the papers. I don't know why but for me it's the best music to mark on. I tried Holst's  The Planets earlier but it was less efficient. And when it's Samson François who plays Chopin, Marking Hell tastes a bit like heaven.

He looked like a poet and played piano like a poet, and of course his life ended too soon due to a reckless spendthrift lifestyle and a surfeit of alcohol, tobacco and drugs..

I think I'll go on with The Preludes when the beautiful 4th Ballade is finished.

Comments

[kazzy-cee.livejournal.com]

*joins you in marking Hell*

I also have Inspection hell that I'm in as well (can you be in two Hells??). The Inspectors arrive next week, and every 5 minutes there is another email from someone asking for advice, telling me to read something or produce something. This evening I have to teach until 9.30, then come home to mark 64 papers for one unit, 14 for another, and produce 5 programs of work for the 5 units I teach that fit into the new layout they have decided is the 'house' style....all by tomorrow !!!!!

I don't think I shall be asleep early tonight so I may have to eat chocolate too!! Coke sounds good though....

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

Well in Divine Comedy there are 9 circles of Hell...of course it's funnel-shaped, but I'm sure we could imagine several Hells with intersections like sets in Mathematics !

Good luck for the Inspection and for tonight. Methinks you need to chew coca actually!

[kazzy-cee.livejournal.com]

I know exactly what I'd LIKE to have right now, and that's chocolate covered expresso coffee beans, but that might mean I will not sleep all night! LOL!

[so-sharlemaine.livejournal.com]

I think it sounds wonderful! Chopin, chocolate, and cookies. I like a little cabernet instead of coke, but otherwise, I'm right there with you.

I just downloaded some of his recordings based on your rec too. I love Chopin.

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid that cabernet and marking would be un-mixy! I'm drinking tea now.

Chopin is the best.

[so-sharlemaine.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I love cabernet and chocolate!

[so-sharlemaine.livejournal.com]

oh, I just realized you said cabernet and "marking" would be unmixy.

Sorry...my bad.

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

Hee! Have we drunken too much cabernet, luv?

Cabernet and chocolate would be super-mixy!

[jamalov29.livejournal.com]

Chocolate , cookies and Chopin sound like a nice help through the marking process. Bon courage !

I love Chopin as well , especially The preludes. I didn't heard of Samson François though.You give me the need to have a look.
I'm listening to Vivaldi, The stabat Mater..

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

Merci!

J'ai fini un paquet de croquis, mais il me reste encore 25 études de documents en géo à corriger... et c'est sur "La façade maritime de l'Europe Rhénane, une interface entre l'Europe et le monde"!

Mais qu'est-ce qui m'a pris de leur donner un truc aussi chiant?!

[jamalov29.livejournal.com]

La façade maritime de l'Europe Rhénane, une interface entre l'Europe et le monde"!

Hum.. chiant me parait le mot juste.. je suis désolée !!!! ;-)
Tout à faire pour demain? Je penserai à toi!

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

Oui car j'ai rpomis de leur rendre jeudi matin or demain après midi j'ai prévu un déjeuner puis un ciné avec un collègue (mon collègue fan de Buffy qui est donc quelqu'un de très bien et qui en plus trouve que Spike est le personnage le plus intéressant de la série), et le mercredi soir je regarde "Veronica Mars" sur le cable. ;- P

Je ne suis pas encore couchée...Heureusement que la nuit dernière fut reposante.

PS: Plus que 24 copies !

[chrissie-linnit.livejournal.com]

Now, if we ignore the tobacco and drugs, you could almost mistake me for Chopin's sister!

And, I insist that if you life a life of, ... chocolate and cookies, and.....coke... that you at least have the decency to whack on a hundred pounds in weight! Shame on you, Chani!

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

Actually I was talking about Samson François! Although Chopin didn't live a healthy life either.

Sorry luv, I burn everything I eat with constant anxiety and bad dreams!

ETA: Or rather....everything I eat I burn with constant anxiety and bad dreams.

Oh I just spotted a Norvegian film (UNO) that is out tomorrow here and that used Tom McRae's music according to the French! I wonder if other ad in foreign countries mention him...

[chrissie-linnit.livejournal.com]

TeenLinnit burned a copy of Tom's album for her b/f... he thinks it's 'retro cool' *huh?* Still, another convert.

Must look up tour dates, I'm actually feeling well enough to dare!

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

Another convert is good. Some day we'll be billions!

Strangest land is kind of "retro cool" indeed.

Next year, a friend of mine will move to London for her job so I might come more often, and since I sired turned her into a Tom fan, we'll definitely go to see him on stage over there.