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Procrastinating on that Shakespeare paper... there comes a point when you're just too tired to care anymore. At least I'm onto a third single-spaced page, and it's supposed to be 7-9 pages double spaced, so there's something.

Beethoven rehearsal with orchestra was disastrous. Both the orchestra and the chorus have a lot to work on. We basically fell apart in the presto finale section. There are rhythmic as well as other problems. I hope we can iron stuff out before Saturday night; I want a great concert for a great piece but I don't know how well we'll do. I think part of it is getting used to being off the stage (on the balconies/side steps of the concert hall) and not having John in front of us the whole time. I've done it once (in high school for Brahms Requiem) and it was tough then... I don't think it's any easier now.

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The Shakespeare paper is at least drafted. That is good.

Tomorrow morning: revise paper.
Scramble to finish as much of 111 problem set as possible; there are a couple I'm pretty close to getting. I'm really glad I got the Marion and Heald e/m book out over break for working on antenna stuff; they had a good section on Bessel functions and Laplace's equation in electrostatics. That, I think, helped make my working out of the Bessel function problem much less painful than it has been for other people. There is one problem with reflection/transmission coefficients of a wave incident on a length of string of higher density which is just going to be awfully tedious algebra. There's another one on dispersion relations and Gaussian wavepackets that I'm pretty close to finishing, too. So hopefully things *might* be manageable.

Alas I will be missing the rehearsal tomorrow night because of seminar. It's going to take a miracle for Saturday's concert to go off well. I'm not the only chorus person unable to make it tomorrow night, and they definitely didn't have the whole orchestra there tonight. So Saturday night may be the first time we get all the soloists, the entire chorus, and the entire orchestra playing together at the same time.

As long as people don't walk out shouting at us, "O Freunde, nicht diese Tone!"