My bad, I never updated.

I took the job! Effective January 4, I will be a high school teacher. I can't wait to not work in an office.

Uh oh. I'm behind in reading up on LJ. Can you not go back more than 20 entries anymore? I went back to the second page, but then my only option was "Later," no more "Earlier"s. Did I mess something up in my preferences? Does anyone know?

In my grad school interviews all the faculty had nice things to say, but if they had one consistent criticism, it was that I need more figure drawing. I can take a note, so I found art classes downtown. I've been taking charcoal figure drawing for the last 4 weeks. I've really liked the classes and the teacher has had some really good ( Read more... )

Real fast, here are some honorable mentions for my albums. In no particular order ( Read more... )

#1 Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon. I get goosebumps when I hear this album starting. I, of course, love every track, but get sad when I hear them on the radio, because to me it's not complete without the whole album. It's really soothing to me to listen to the whole thing. It's got the whole Wizard of Oz/Dark Side of the Rainbow thing as a ( Read more... )

#2 Jump, Little Children- Magazine. I love this band. I think they're assholes for breaking up and I think they're tools for changing their name to just "Jump" before doing it. But I love them. I'm so glad I got to see them live before the end. I learned about them because of Improv!Able Cause's obsession with the song U Can Look. Then we all ( Read more... )

#3 Queen- A Night At The Opera. I don't have any repeat bands in my list, so the fact that my bar-none favorite band is coming in at #3 should tell you something about how much I love the two albums yet to come. My love for Queen goes back a long way, and has a foundation made of Greatest Hits compilations. My knowledge of Queen albums as they ( Read more... )

#4 Traveling Wilburys- Vol. 1. When you look up the term "supergroup," there is a picture of the Traveling Wilburys. The group is composed of George Harrison (of the Beatles), Jeff Lynne (of ELO), Roy Orbison (of... Roy Orbison), Tom Petty (of the himself and the Heartbreakers), and Bob Dylan (BOB DYLAN.) They recorded the album in 10 glorious ( Read more... )

#5 The Rocky Horror Picture Show- The Soundtrack. This album is extremely special to me. I remember very clearly the first time I heard it. I was sitting at dinner when we lived in Tokyo, my family was all eating together, and my mom said the word "anticipation." My father dashed into the living room and put on the Rocky Horror Picture Show ( Read more... )

Friday night I went to a concert in Chapel Hill. I saw Midtown Dickens, Paleface, and Holy Ghost Tent Revival. I'm going to try and keep my rhapsody short, since I'm wearing myself out writing about albums all the time and reading other people's entries, but the show was fantastic ( Read more... )