I just finished my first ever paying gig; I made $50 in about 20 minutes of playing! It was playing Mozart's Piano Concerto #21 with a high school string orchestra, so naturally they thought we were fantabulous, even if I may have been a scoontchy bit out of tune with the first oboe... but just a scoontchy bit! Most of the time we were a lovely ( Read more... )

Can I just say that I've had "Milkshake" stuck in my head for the past five days?! YAIIIRGHHH ( Read more... )

I have a question. Last night I was talking with someone about the nature of sex and it really got me to thinking. I have a pretty good idea about where I stand when it comes to when sex is a good idea, but I'm curious to know what people think nowadays. There are a few standpoints that I can think of ( Read more... )

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Whitney, I love you for making me go to this site.

There's this dangerous mix happening of nostalgia from reading through my livejournal (which I haven't touched in a long time), discouragement from researching a bunch of professional flutists' biographies and realizing how different I am from them, plus the usual comic spinstery bitterness. Therefore I will limit what I put into this entry for the ( Read more... )

Happy halloween ( Read more... )

Basically, I'm wasting time because I don't want to go to bed because when I wake up, the week will have started, and I want to be lazy ( Read more... )

Midterm 1 out of 3 is now over. And no, I still don't have good studying habits. I'll start tomorrow, maybe. And maybe there is nothing worse than an indecisive procrastinator.

So now to summarize my past couple of weeks. I've come quite far in my lessons with Lorna, for which I'm rather proud of myself. It's almost time to start preparing for NYOC ( Read more... )

There goes week #2 of university ( Read more... )

So the first week of university is over, and millions of people across the country open their blog entries with "So the first week of university is over ( Read more... )