Settling into San Diego

I'm settling into my new place in Cardiff by the Sea, a neat little neighborhood of Encinitas California, which is about 20 minutes away from the University of California, San Diego. Orientation mercifully starts on Wednesday, which allows me a few days to fix my car and start the process of becoming a California citizen.

I am looking forward to a productive semester, though I am sad that I can't take Shlomo Dubnov's Musical Information Processing class, because it conflicts with my main composition seminar. UCSD gets it right when they give you 6 credits for composition, which is about half of the minimum load. I also can't take an introduction to critical studies, for the same reason, which is disappointing because I have been very interested in getting to know the major works in Critical Theory. I suppose I'll just have to read The Culture Industry on my own.

Hopefully sometime in the near future I will be able to either finish linking to all my YouTube videos on each of my composition tabs, or alternately insert a new tabbed panel with all my YouTube videos. I am still pleased with the efficiency of the Spry widgets in this page and the aesthetic appeal of the slight transparency of the page. However, in order for embedded objects to work properlly (such as YouTube videos), I'll have to make this page opaque again, or at least have the tab that contains the videos turn itself opaque. Yay web design.