update on the last few days ( Read more... )

So last saturday night i went to ravinia for a rachmaninoff concert where they did rhapsody on a theme by paganini which is one of my all time favorite pieces, and symphony 2 which was also awesome. I went with cheryl and david, amanda and aaron, marina, rafael and steve. Rafael got into a slight accident on the way:( but i think everything was ok ( Read more... )

so, july fourth was a lot of fun- went to the evanston fireworks with a lot of people from the dept, which was awesome- the fireworks lasted like 45 minutes which was really cool, and then we all headed to PM and pretended it was a thursday night:) I spent time hanging out/talking to the usual suspects, and played darts and had a very ON game. ( Read more... )

so i cannot believe it's july already ( Read more... )

So tonight after orchestra i headed to the bar as usual...and hung out talking to dave and tom for a while, then headed over to the darts area where i convinced dave to play with me and challenge the winners of the current game. however, we didnt' know that marco and this girl had already called next game. so hipo stopped playing and tom graciously ( Read more... )

so today summer orchestra started, and we're playing tsaich 5!!!!! i haven't played this since the good old days at saratoga, it was like the summer before 9th grade. but i still remember some of it and its great to be playing again! and i'm in the 2nd violin section this time, which is good for my ability to play the music by the time the concert ( Read more... )

Saturday morning I did a hunger walk with a girl from church- it was really fun- we did the 5K in about an hour. it was downtown ish near a harbor. we had some trouble finding it though, becuase we were really early adn walked by on a lower level of the harbor, near the boats, and the tents to register were blocked from our view. but it was nice to ( Read more... )

Just got home from the concert- it was SO awesome!!! I already knew i liked ben folds, but i now feel like I should run out and buy the rufus wainwright CD bc his part of the show was so awesome! His voice was amazing- reminded me of the lead singer of jump little children, in the way that it was so deep and crisp and clear. IT was a lot of fun. I ( Read more... )

So Monday we moved cheryl in after the workday...we had a team of 8 ppl- me her her sister maria david matt tom brian. it was crazy how much stuff she had!! how she fit all that into her tiny dorm room is beyond me!! hehe. but it went fairly quickly and then she took us all out to giordanos. (I ate 1.5 stuffed pizza pieces...i've come a long way!) ( Read more... )

So after finally being DONE! i have now gotten back into "research" mode, where I am still trying to figure out how to set up this experiment. at least the lamp company finally got back to me. So i spent much of thu and fri during the day reading and re calculating stuff...and writing my preliminiary evaluation ( Read more... )