Stolen from Jenn: Take the first sentence of every month from your journal, and put it all together so you get an idea of what 2004 was like for you:

February: So, this is my live journal.

March: I'm in a computer lab at Central because the Student Center smelled too much like food.  (that was during the 30 hour famine!  which I am actually ( Read more... )

You scored as Strings. You should be a string player! Violin, guitar, harp... Depending on your technique, you can make people dance or bring them to tears. Contorting your fingers to bring out those notes isn't a problem for you, and your most famous attributes are your fantastic orchestral vibrato and your difficult chords and bends. Artists ( Read more... )

I dreamed I could play the cello last night. Man was that a good dream. When I do finally pick up the instrument, the first real piece I'm going to learn is Bach's cello suite no. 1. In the meantime, I think I'll work on becoming fluent in bass clef ( Read more... )

Emails from certain people make me happy. Letters from certain people make me happy. Especially reading them at 3:30 in the morning ( Read more... )

So, yesterday was depressing. Why? Because I went on Blackboard to check my grade on the first calc exam. And it was a 68. Sigh. And my brain goes through its usual I-got-a-bad-grade routine. Which ends in dispirited acceptance. Afterall, it's just the first test. It's not the end of the world if you bomb it. But I had thought I had ( Read more... )

Lately I've been remembering my dreams when I wake up. Last night I guess I dreamed I was in medical school, or something. Anyways, my class was going to work with cadavers. So we went to a pool, and there was a circle of dead bodies floating in the pool, and between each body was a shark. And the instructor yelled, "Bellies up!" And the ( Read more... )

On my agenda:

• Beat up Ted
• Send out 50 bazillion internship applications
• Ok, so more like 50, but still a lot
• Invent my Ted-proofing device
• Do laundry

AHEM, I'd just like to wish everyone a Happy Mozart's Birthday!

Go listen to some Mozart (try Symphony No. 40, the Requiem, Violin Concerto No. 3, or of course there's always Eine kleine Nachtmusik) in honor. While not as brainy as Bach or as baroque as Vivaldi, Mozart is worth listening to and even the frivolity is pure genius.

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People keep telling me to update, so I guess I should. Um, now I don't know what to write about ( Read more... )