Well, first off, my spring break was very relaxing, although mostly uneventful. I didn't see nearly enough of you guys though. Obviously, this is because many of you weren't in Long Beach...but still. Anyway, the part of this break I'm really going to remember is the trip back to Amherst. It took me 28 hours. My flight out of LA was delayed ( Read more... )

Ok, so I joined The Desperados as a drummer on Thursday. On Friday night, Steve calls me up to tell me that our debut has been moved up...the Saturday night. Yes, we were going to be playing a party two days after I had been told I was suddenly going to have to get really good at something I had never done. So that night I went over to Steve's ( Read more... )

Some famous once said, "Nothing happens and nothing happens. Then everything happens." This rather applied to me today...in a good way. Well let's get started with the news story that made me jump up and down: I'm going to Florence! Yes, I got into the study abroad program and I'm going to be there for the fall semester! This is like, the ( Read more... )

Ye Olde Rock Show is back! You can catch me and some awesome music online at wamh.amherst.edu Saturdays starting today from 4-6pm EST (1-3pm PST). However, for the next couple weeks I'm going to be slightly preempted by basketball, so today I'll be on about 4:45. I'm not sure about next week, but I'll let everyone know. Listen and be ( Read more... )

I stole this from Mel. ( quizamajig )

I just came from the best thing ever! One of the senior music students had his composition thesis performed this evening. It was entitled A Symphony of Spam with it's text taken entirely from...spam e-mails. The movements were as follows: I.Verification Required by Visa, II. Fwd: (no subject), III. YOUR HELP IS NEEDED FOR A GOOD WORK, IV. Harder ( Read more... )

Well I had myself a pretty good day. This morning, before class, my music professor took us all out to breakfast. He brought along his four year old daughter who was very shy at first but by the end of the meal we had her singing for us. And the non-Val food was good, as was being able to sit around for an hour with my class and talk and joke. ( Read more... )

I got my first birthday present today, a full week before my birthday! My family sent me a nice looking article of clothing that's shaped like a fleece, but made out of cotton and copy of Bob Dylan's new book, Chronicles Vol. 1. Just what I need at finals, a distraction. My brother wrote in the card, " 20: too young to drink, too old to get away ( Read more... )

Well, today couldn't have been much worse. Let's see...I was up until 5 o'clock in the morning trying unsuccessfully to finish a french paper. I'm sick, which gave me an excuse to miss class to work on said paper, but I squandered the extra time. I lost both the elections for president and vice-president in Glee Club and I got served with a $5. ( Read more... )

Well, here I am back at Amherst. It's freezing and snowy...yay. I feel like I was barely home at all. I didn't even get as chance to start missing people here. Oh well, I better get to that mound of homework that's waiting for me.