As you might have noticed, this blog has been offline for a while because of a breakdown of the server. The campus, where Ninniach is located, has had some power-outs and some internet difficulties lately. Ninni didn't always get up again by herself and we had to 'manually' fix that. Then one day (the 19th of November) an electrician came by to check on the power installation in the flat where Ninni resides. And he did the checking by turning power off and on three times in a row. Without warning people... so... some computers were fried, including Ninni.

The video card had been broken for a while, but since I mostly use Putty to connect to Ninni from my laptop, that was not a problem. Until Ninni was broken so badly that she didn't get to the point where ssh and the likes were started. Checking what the problem was required close contact with a monitor and thus a video card. Since Matthijs has a very busy life and I lack the knowledge of the inner workings of computers it took some time before we got around to fixing things. Matthijs spent last Monday evening reinstalling (again...) everything. Fortunately no data was lost and all Evolution Events photo's and the gallery were restored. Just in time for the photo's of Lextalionis IV.

Other news
The Musilon study weekend has come and gone. I did write a small report about it, but it is in Dutch and I don't much feel like translating. It was a nice weekend with lots of practising, a humoristic workshop of 'presentation on stage' and a minor food poisoning on Sunday, which luckily didn't last the whole day.

Then last Monday there were auditions for the upcoming Winter Concert. Just one week earlier Renske and Marjoke announced that they needed a third voice for the song they wanted to perform, and I volunteered. So we practised on Friday and Sunday evening and last Monday we had to perform in front of almost the whole choir. I was a bit nervous and it was our first time with piano accompaniment, but apparently it worked out fine because we were allowed to proceed practising for the upcoming concert. Some improvements were mentioned: like Renske and I have to produce more sound, sing harder. That's not a problem for me, but since I was uncertain if I had the right notes, I didn't dare to put much volume in it.

Tonight I will be practising a bit of theater/dance with Kor, one of the tenors for the song 'Embracable You'. Next concert I'll be in the spotlights. Exciting!