I was just totally blown away by Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique. Anyone who has not heard this piece (especially wind players) must find a capy of this piece immediately. If not the whole thing then just two movements 1) March to the Scaffold and 2)the Witches Sabbath ( Read more... )

Sean was trying to connect to the internet in my apartment last night and couldn't so while he was searching around for other networks wee came across these beautiful netwroks ( Read more... )

I may just have to invest a little less energy in Seattle teams because this weekend has left me feeling extremely pissed off. Seriously I did not ride for 9 hours in a bus and watch 5 hours of TV to see BOTH teams lose. Well ok, I have to give props to womens basketball because they kicked WSU's ass today ( Read more... )

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEARS!!!!!

I overheard a guy say this to his girlfriend in solstice today:

Football is like the burly mens' ballet.

Wow, best line I've heard in a while.

I had a panic attack this morning. I realized that I wasteed all of my quality homework time this weekend in favor of other frivolous pursuits (mostly involving band in some form or another), and fun as it was I'm not positive it was worth the panic. I hate crying in public but I felt so overwhelmed that I almost didn't realize I was doing it. Now ( Read more... )

Ahhhhh Davis...always nice to come back to, and always a much needed reminder of how AMAZING seattle is in comparison. I loved sleeping in as late as I wanted, eating chocolate in bed, reading romance novels (and other real books too), eating too much, excersizing too little, seeing everyone I know, not feeling guilty about being antisocial on ( Read more... )

I love feeling the burn in my legs after a day of intense skiing. Last years work paid off because I hadn't regressed like usual, AND I didn;t ski lke a pansy! I went to Northstar with my two dads (sounds like a book I've read) and then drove into Reno. We stayed in circus circus for the night (as per usual because bob, the master of discounts, can ( Read more... )

I ate my way through Seattle tonight and it was majestic.

Just got back from Leavenworth (A Bavarian town in central washington) and it was the most fabulous way to kill a few days in between finals. First of all we reserved this two room suite call the Shakespeare Room that had a balcony overlooking the mainstreet and there was snow EVERYWHERE!!!! We totally played UDubopoly and drank on the utilites and ( Read more... )