Cool, my kitty ears arrived this morning. I wore them to my consultations, with that white dress and lace jacket combo. My project students are familiar with my idiosyncrasies so this elicited nothing more than raised eyebrows. Lunch at the nearby restaurant, however, was an experience to savour.

Spent a couple of hours marking papers - darn exam season - then went down to the student lounge where they just installed a piano, one of those console jobs. I hate it when people treat those things like ornaments; like, "look, we got us a piano! we're neat." That's so stupid. And students were just sitting around it and using it as a table. Jeez. Not an appreciative body amongst this lot.

I motioned impatiently at the girl until she got off the seat at the piano, who seemed taken aback that what appeared to be another student would dare be that impudent. Apparently these were the student union reps. As I ignored her and sounded the keys she shifted from surprise to annoyance and started going, "hey, what's the big idea".

A couple of bars then I tried Moonlight Densetsu as I remember from the SuperS Piano Fantasia OST. An easy song, and the piano was good. Well, it's still new. Give it a couple months in this humidity and I bet it'll sound like crap. The girl was like, "sorry ma'am", guess someone clued her in that I wasn't a student but staff :p

Some muted murmuring at my playing. "Do you teach music here, ma'am?"

"No, IT faculty." The only subject here with music in it would be music appreciation, a co-curricular subject meant to be more of a filler than anything. Not that I'd want to teach music. Sure I can play like I'm possessed but I do it because it amuses me.

Sena's Long Vacation masterpiece never fails to focus attention. I skip the short parts, I just want to test this thing (and show off :p ). It's a nice piece of hardware. I hope they do something about the location though, sure it's nice and visible here but too near the window - sun discoloration would be ugly.

I get up and they part for me. As I walk past them, I wink at the girl once. She just looks flustered and confused. Pull yourself together dearie, you won't last on the student council with looks alone.

My own college days? I was too busy polishing my guitar and cello playing (strings are easier for me than woodwinds) to participate in anything other than the occasional volleyball game. Student council? Far as I remember I avoided anything even remotely popular.