Ce qui se passe

I surprised myself today when I was able to speak authoritatively to one of my students in French. As far as he knew, I was fluent, though I'm not (yet).

I'm very excited beacuse I am going to hear Steve Swallow play tomorrow at Upstairs with Steve Kuhn and Billy Drummond. I've never heard Steve Kuhn or Billy Drumond, but I recently saw Steve Swallow play at the Vancouver International Jazz Festival with the John Scofield trio. This was at the Center for the Performing Arts, so I am excited to hear Swallow in an intimate club setting. Hear's hoping for masterful standard-playing.

I'm also reading one of the greatest books ever written. Ulysses by James Joyce contains some of the most dense and varied prose I've ever read, yet is a completely logical progression from earlier works like Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners. The only thing crazier is probably Finnegan's Wake, which I've wanted to read for the past 5 years (and have tried several times). It might finally be possible after digesting Ulysses.