Well, as of today, I completed my last bit of schoolwork. I am officially done with my Master's degree ( Read more... )

The first semester was weird and uber busy as predicted. I tried for memorizing my jury music, plus the music for my voice jury. I'm bad at memorizing music and didn't expect to be -that- bad, so I didn't work hard enough and both were failures. It was a learning experience ( Read more... )

This semester started at a sprint ( Read more... )

Yesterday started the new semester ( Read more... )

I do miss one thing from the old place: the small light over the stove top ( Read more... )

Today was my birthday, so yay for that. It was a good day. Nothing overly special. Kyree made me some tasty food and we hung out with Matt and Katie ( Read more... )

I will begin by saying that as I type, my perception is that I type with few errors. I will also begin by saying that I catch most of my errors. Yet, in rereading an entry, I always find errors, and sometimes they are things I would consider beneath me. Curious, that ( Read more... )

For my Psychology of Music class we have to write a six page paper about current trends in music psychology. That alone is a broad topic. Specifically, as I've mentioned, I'm investigating motivation and flow. This will include thoughts/discussions on behavior/how to change behavior. The paper is due in two weeks this coming Monday. My goal is to ( Read more... )

My Senior year at ONU involved discovering Zen Buddhism and becoming wildly fascinated with the subject. I also happened across some minor connections between Zen and music. 4 years later and Zen and music are crashing fully together for me. How interesting ( Read more... )

Well, as you saw with my last post, I've not been in a very happy place here the past week or so. That finally came to a head last night, but in talking with Kyree, things are looking better. We'll see what tomorrow brings as practice/life resumes. One step forward ( Read more... )