I don't have everything in my life on track - still only working at Fort Snelling only during the summers, still living at home, still not sure about grad school, still a thousand-plus miles from Miss Flourance - but I added back an ingredient that has been missing for a while. Tonight, I went to a community band rehearsal, and played concert ( Read more... )

It's been far, far overdue, but today I finally graduated from college. For real, this time - I've been attending Augsburg College for a year and a half, finishing what I didn't (and couldn't at the time) at Michigan Tech, and gaining a much more thorough idea of what it means to be a historian ( Read more... )

Is it alright to tell my uncle to go eat a dick?

He, my dad and my other uncle went to their hometown to do some genealogy, and along the way they came across a railroad historian's manuscript about an obscure electric railway between their hometown and a nearby city in southeastern MN. Problem was, it was patently false - I know of every electric ( Read more... )

Yes, I'm serious, they say that. Since a bunch of yuppies from the suburbs in Cedar-Riverside are sooo ghetto, haha ( Read more... )

Ok, so we went to the Wild game tonight too. Instrumentation was even more sparse, but better spread around, with me, two trumpets, a flute and the snare and bass drums. The (annoying) trombonist wasn't there, having ducked out at the last minute - could have used his music, but we were better balanced without such a heavy low end. Also, I ( Read more... )

I'm taking some classes at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, a fairly small liberal arts school. While looking at their website, I noticed that one student had started a pep band this year, and thought, "Oh, good for her." Then, at the bottom of the article it said, "We especially need low brass ( Read more... )

I bet you wouldn't recognize me if I walked by ( Read more... )

Winter Carnival always ends on a bittersweet note for me ( Read more... )

Today ends my 3 and some months of work at the Minnesota Historical Society - for now. I had a ton of fun working at Vatican Splendors, despite knowing next to nothing about the Catholic church to begin with. My coworkers were almost all really awesome, my bosses as well, and the patrons were generally decent too. That, and I got to hang out in ( Read more... )

(stolen from mekkababble)

In 2009, ( Read more... )