last week, i did lots of workshops and helped drive to escanaba and back. it was a great time. eli and kelly are great people, and hanging out with the context being working hard to try to spread music to kids while traveling through the beautiful upper peninsula is hard to feel bad about. then, the salsa workshop was awesome and is making me ( Read more... )

yesterday, i got my couch from lauron and said a mini goodbye. I'll miss you, and we'll see eachother in the near and distant future (whether or not it's only through us kidnapping you and feeding you booze in east lansing ( Read more... )

so, i've got some pretty skewed perspectives, i'm beginning to realize. the one i'm addressing here is my take on setting goals. goals are important, in that they help you do something you might otherwise have trouble sticking with. some things take more than a couple days to get done, and a couple days is about my maximum for staying motivated ( Read more... )

wow, i'm actually starting to feel like a regular person again. it has been a long time, i think ( Read more... )

so, against all my better judgment, I'm doing a masters at MSU, in music composition. here are some goals ( Read more... )

oh shit, i'm in grad school! i was surprised, were you surprised? i was surprised...

luke bought me a pun book today. this is trouble.

yesterday, i recorded tons of viola, that through editing it all together today, i've decided is probably ok and good enough for our album. my hands are all messed up from using computers alll day, but they weren't from recording viola for hours yesterday, which was a huge fear of mine. after developing this stuff in my hands this summer, i've ( Read more... )

If any of this sounds familiar to anyone, let me know. I'm so sure that some of this is based on real memories, but it's probably all pretty skewed.

( dream! )

i swam today, and it was good. i skated today, outside, in the cold, and everything was even better ( Read more... )