This journal, in large part, has inadvertently (and on occasion purposely) been a chronicle of mental health issues that I have struggled with since before this journal existed. I think that at times I was very conscious of exactly what these were, and at other times I had a great degree of false confidence in my ability to self-diagnose. But ( Read more... )

1. What did you do in 2012 that you'd never done before?
Buy my own car. Go to South America. I'm sure I'm forgetting many other answers to this question.

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I can't even remember what they were. Probably losing weight (did, and then put some of it back on), dating more ( ( Read more... )

It has been another, what, 9-10 months ( Read more... )

Well, yet again it has been a long time ( Read more... )

I'm not sure what to say about the last 6-7 months. By and large it has been life as usual ( Read more... )

Briefly, to catch up, August was the woodwind camp in Eastern OR and the Cabrillo Festival in Santa Cruz. They went well overall, but I could have done a better job. Because I was teaching outdoors in the rain - and at temperatures not appropriate for woodwind instruments - my teaching was not as good as it should have been. I'm not sure exactly ( Read more... )

I played a couple music festivals recently, both I had fairly prominent parts (Sibelius "Violin Concerto," Berg "Wozzeck," Francaix "Divertissement," etc.) in, which went well. I was extremely happy with my performance at the second festival - with the exception of maybe two bars, I absolutely killed the Francaix. It's not an easy piece either, but ( Read more... )

I have a little more free time due to the symphony season ending, although there's still another week of teaching at PSU. I've been getting a little work done here and there, but by and large doing not a whole lot on my own. I'm sort of being pursued or courted or however the hell you want to say it, I don't think either is the right word, but ( Read more... )

This is my third journal entry this year. One of you asked where I have been. I honestly don't know.

My life mostly consists of work. I play in the orchestra, I teach, I write music, I take freelance work here and there. In my free time I hang with friends, I play for fun, I tune out, I go to the gym (barely), I (more likely) play Wii, I watch ( Read more... )

My Great Aunt Jane passed away recently. My Dad's Father, who is my last living Grandparent and is currently using my Dad's basement as an apartment, was her older brother by a few years. He's now in his nineties, but still pretty coherent, healthy and well-functioning. I know this will be difficult for him, but my Great Aunt has been mentally ( Read more... )