So one of the parents on Saturday offered me hardboiled eggs. I like eggs. I also like being able to eat, because as someone who's more-or-less self-employed that means I can do things like "not have mandatory lunch breaks in the name of efficiency" and y'know pay the consequences later ( Read more... )

Usually when I compose, I get bogged down in details - namely "how complicated can I make a chord progression". And then I get stuck.

I woke up hearing this in my head as strings and thought it had a very Zelda feel to it, so I wrote it out. I actually managed to complete it, but for some reason my streamer stopped recording the audio. Forte ( Read more... )

About two weeks ago I slammed my finger in a doorjamb. My left pinky hurt like HELL for the weekend, but it gradually faded to an annoyance ( Read more... )

If I really wanted to, I could order someone to go to my current favourite bubble tea place and bring my order to me.

So one time Peter and I were playing SWTOR. It was a lot of fun - we were Chiss, he was a Bounty Hunter and I was an Imperial Agent. Great story ( Read more... )

My online handles are pretty cute or feminine. More recently, I started using a forum with a distinctly unisex name, and my Steam account to plain Chinese characters (the origin of the username, which appears feminine ( Read more... )

So sometimes, instead of a piano lesson, my students realize I'm a font of random knowledge (plus have a teaching degree) and instead of spending all the time on a piano lesson, they ask if I can provide homework help instead. And I'm okay with that, because I tell them that this is their choice: if they cannot focus for 30 minutes on a piano ( Read more... )

I really want to learn another instrument. It's mostly making the discipline and time commitment to do so ( Read more... )

Thanksgiving dinner was great. We noticed that the weather was cool outside, so we tried sleeping with a window open.

Except for the part where we have allergies, so I didn't sleep very much, Peter snored, and today my brain is entirely devoted to keeping me breathing.

Woke up when Peter did (crack of dawn, in my opinion). Packed him a lunch and snacks for his day at work ( Read more... )