Taken from soldiergrrrl, who first took it from hellgirl13.

Explanations to seven of my more obscure LiveJournal interests:

1. clarinet - I started playing the clarinet in Jr. High and played regularly all through High School. After graduating, I only really played for special occassions and even played with the Beethoven Orchestra for a short while. I still own an ( Read more... )

So we're here at the State Fair in Dallas. Not nearly as hot as it could be, but still enough to kill most northerners ( Read more... )

I've been steadily paying more attention to the way people talk the last few years. In doing so, it's occured to me just how depressingly bad at talking people are. When I say talking, I don't mean making sounds and forming audible words with those syllables. I mean taking words of the english language and trying to put them in an order that ( Read more... )

You know what I miss?

When Hotmail worked.

Yeah... those were good days.

This weekend was an exceptionally good one.

Friday night's Oktoberfest in San Antonio went spectacularly well with one of our best shows in recent memory. The Dance Group put on a great performance for the Beethoven Maennerchor's festival. We'll be back there again on December 1st for the Kristkindlmarkt festival. Good times will be had. Next ( Read more... )

Mike Anderson, the father of a gold star recipient that died on deployment, is speaking on C-SPAN 2 right now ( Read more... )

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Luciano Pavarotti just passed away at the age of 71, after fighting a long, hard battle against pancreatic cancer.

He will surely be missed by anyone who even once heard his vibrant tenor voice.

The most well-known of The Three Tenors leaves behind his wife Nicoletta and their four daughters.

So, I'm watching Star Trek: Voyager, like I do ( Read more... )

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