it's 3:41 in the PM here in scenic Martinsville, Indiana. it's about half an hour from Indianapolis and about the same to Bloomington. i've scoped out the place...pretty much everything you could need within walking distance of our hotel except a borders. ya got yourself a bar & grill, pizza hut, mexican place (i reeeally hope it's good), subway ( Read more... )

i played a jazz gig last night for the first time in a long time. little trio thing with carter and doug gross. i was really looking forward to it. then i got there and realized that the clutch on my hi-hat doesn't fit my father's hi-hat stand (basically rendering my hi-hat useless). and i was just outside of augusta, so i couldn't exactly ( Read more... )

i figured out what iPod stands for. Since I'm going to be on a bus for a great portion of my time pretty soon, and it won't be practical to take every CD i own with me, i bought an iPod. the iPod Photo to be exact.......60G.......heavens to betsy, that's a lot of music. i also bought a 300G external hard drive so that i could actually put all of ( Read more... )

the title of this entry informs/reminds you of the phrase that prefaced any and all of my answers to the question,"What are you doing when you graduate?" over the past few months. well, about two weeks ago, as i was arriving at the airport to depart for the UK, i got a call that made it not such a waste of time for me to have continually said that ( Read more... )

i have successfully completed a college degree. i love the forward thinking of human beings (and i'm not being sarcastic, i really do LOVE IT). you tell most people you just graduated from college and you don't even get a "congratulations"--they just ask you what you're going to do next. it's like when micheal jordan won the NCAA tournament ( Read more... )

today was possibly my last visit to the wendy's between my house and parkview (the last official day of my student teaching). i never ate lunch during the day; instead, i stopped at either wendy's or subway on the way home. i went inside to order, but before i could begin, a man walked up to the counter with a caesar side salad and dressing in ( Read more... )

i'm finally updating ( Read more... )

i'm going to try and not make this update negative in tone. friday i woke up in athens planning to check out some apts., record some audition material, and knock out another camp weekend for Odyssey. however, i was feeling rather ill, so went to the health center where they informed me that i had some kind of heinous flu, a 104 degree fever, and ( Read more... )

non-sense title...just a lyric from a song to which i'm listening ( Read more... )

why didn't i know rufus wainwright was so awesome until just recently ( Read more... )