It is COLD here! I stepped outside to take the garbage out and by the time (15 seconds, I counted!) I got back into the house, my slightly damp hair was frozen solid and my fingers were too cold and stiff to work the doorknob. I love Chicago weather ( Read more... )

God. My brain is fried after taking my final for Dan Graves' History of Western Music class. Seriously fried, and probably still sizzling. Two solid hours of listening identification, score identification, writing short essays and long essays about things that I didn't really know and had to half-dredge up out of memory and half-BS... I didn't have ( Read more... )

Hey! It's my birthday in four days! And I'll be home in 2 days!

This is cool.

It's snowing outside! Real snow!

Snow snow snow snow snow snow snow!

When I was little, I used to pretend that I was a yeti when it snowed.

Time to go to orchestra!

Open iTunes/iPod or Windows Media Player to answer the following. Go to your library. Answer, no matter how embarrassing it is ( Read more... )

The concert was exhausting, but I think it went well overall. Thank you, THANK YOU to everyone who showed up, especially if you stayed for the whole thing. That was a damn long concert, and we all appreciated that people didn't take off in the middle it. People are great ( Read more... )

Break was really, really good. I bummed around town with my parents, fed a lot of ducks on an almost-daily basis, went for lots of walks in the woods, and watched deer ( Read more... )

Instead of studying for the past hour, I've been working on creating the perfect self-descriptive mix CD. Basically, I'm using songs that remind me of myself, songs that other people have said remind them of me, songs that I really identify strongly with, songs I really love, songs that parallel parts of of my life, and so on. I know that it sounds ( Read more... )

I gave blood today. I also learned that I shouldn't have let them take a-pint-plus-a-bit-extra from my bow arm at 3:50 and then race to orchestra immediately afterwards. I shouldn't have tried to join the rest of the orchestra playing the music from Vertigo (all those slippery ascending and descending scales!) while my field of vision was being ( Read more... )

Just to say this publicly:

I've been kicked off of the London Programme.

Goodbye London, hello Earlham again.

I would be happy to explain the situation to people who aren't here on campus through LJ or e-mail. I'm fine with telling people on campus, too, but I'd rather talk in person, so if you're curious or whatever, come find me.