Snarkattack

So I’m looking at $80 (Australian dollars, this is) in membership fees for the Australian Viola da Gamba Society, and the Victorian Writers’ Centre (Victoria is the state in which I live). And I know membership renewal for the Early Music Society of Victoria is just round the corner (major ‘outing’ of geekness here).

Then, to further complicate matters for myself, there’s a gamba workshop coming up next month, being run by the AVdGS. The fee is slightly cheaper if you’re a member (by five dollars, woo woo, I can hit the town on that. It won’t even buy me a vodka and tonic. Sad).

Not to mention, the gamba I’d be using if I went doesn’t actually belong to me. In fact, I should have returned by now (3 weeks ago, even). Damn it, do I keep it for a little bit longer and go to the workshop, or do the right thing and return it to its owner? It isn’t used much by her own admission, but still, it’s not good of me to be so casual about returning an instrument easily worth more than my soul. It might be a bit greedy of me to hold onto it for so long.

Here ends the supposed-to-be short, personal and serious snark. Or half-arsed snark. I’m none the wiser.