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Well, I'm doing better on the creative front.
I'm randomly back in Fredericksburg, so I'm cleaning out as much stuff as I can manage so that eventually I won't feel like I'm a kid living with separated parents, ha. I'm constantly wondering where my stuff is and then realizing it's at the other house. Cleaned the desk, so that's a major victory. Found all sorts of things -- lyrics I'd forgotten ( Read more... ) -
Life update.
Last night was my last show as part of Twins of a Gazelle... we're done as a band, just how things go, but there are still plans to record some things and to collab occasionally in the future. The show was at Busboys and Poets and I pretty much just played tambourine all night, but it was cool to get to perform there and people had some nice write- ( Read more... ) -
Look, you just have to go for it, self. This is your make-or-break moment.
I googled "precipice" a minute ago. As far as words go, it's pretty right ( Read more... ) -
A Year in Review (But Just the Good Things)
It is now 2011. I want to make a list of things I accomplished this year, as proof that it wasn't a complete wash.
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Gratuitous Sing Off Video Post
I've been watching the Sing Off because it's mildly entertaining, the performances are generally good and mostly because it's a short-run reality show, and I can always get behind those. All shows should run in three weeks, it's brilliant. But anyway, the boys in Street Corner Symphony are my favorites forever because they sound incredible and are ( Read more... ) -
Art is an incredible thing. So is happiness, and collective group experience.
I've started and deleted two posts in the past week or so. One was very happy; the other was extremely depressed. Tonight I'm in the middle and so I feel like I'm going to commit to this post for a change. Good for me.
Yesterday was an incredible day. I drove up to Philadelphia to go to the Yule Ball, one of the few holiday traditions I have. As I ( Read more... ) -
Being sick, writing music, and making decisions.
One of my elementary school students got me sick, but luckily I've had all day to sit around and wait for my body to recover. Yesterday was my first real shift being a mall-Santa-photographer, and it went all right despite my sniffling all over the place. Santa is super nice, and CNN was there covering it and I don't suck at the job so I suppose ( Read more... ) -
I need the money money money.
I have come to the very sad realization that I can't sustain my current lifestyle past January. If I fight and really get creative, I may manage to hold out until my lease runs out in June - that would be ideal. But I really wanted to take most of April off from life to tour, and I just don't see how that can happen unless I actually start to make ( Read more... ) -
Things I'm working on, worried about and looking forward to.
The whole point of this journal was to inspire me to be more creative and productive, and that hasn't really quite happened yet. I'm still on the lurker fringes of Doctor Who fandom, but I don't think that will change until after this Deathly Hallows exuberance dies down a bit. I'm headed to New York in just a few short days and I am extremely ( Read more... ) -
Taking Little Steps Forward
This is one of those nights where I have too many words in all of the wrong places. My NaNo is shades and shadows of what I want to one day write, which is okay because that's partially the point of NaNo. And so I'm pleased to be writing fiction again, after mostly writing nonfiction for the past four years, but I have completely forgotten to do it ( Read more... )
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