two days off. ahhh, gloroius time. it's amazing to me how little time there is. or how inefficiently I can manage (or not) to use it. today was lazy until afternoon when I did my calculus and then practiced for about 2.5 hours. I'll come back tonight for more hopefully, if I'm not too tired. Tomorrow I'm not going to let myself sleep in, ( Read more... )

so it's saturday night and all i want to do is practice and watch Aida. were I in moscow, I'd tubaween the night away, but alack, no such luck. tomorrow I have my first concert, in the chapel. I got to walk through the pipes in teh chapel's organ last night. there are some 2000+ pipes. and I stood in teh middle of them. it was the end of the " ( Read more... )

"it's easy to be seduced by a beautiful sound" -Mark Kellogg

she sent me a care package with a note in it. and food. glorious food. it's amazing how important food is, and how big of a deal events with free food are ( Read more... )

Watched a bunch of great movies this weekend. almost all of them had references to Plato, it was creepy. Wallace and Gromit's "The Wrong Trousers" gromit is reading "the republic", by Pluto, The English Patient has a huge thing about the ring of Geiges, it goes on...but I'll remember the movies, not the references. A STreetcar named Desire is ( Read more... )

I prentend to work by being with my computer. ha. right ( Read more... )

Dr. Eric Cornell, who won the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for Physics was here today! he talked about condensates and how they cooled them off, with magnetic trapping and evaporative cooling. He was an incredibly funny, awesome speaker. He gave us a "power point" presentation on overheads, which he'd hand written himself. he gave us quantum ( Read more... )

I'm bad. I'm a bad bad bad, dirty human being. and I don't feel like posting about it. (but I feel so dirty and bad! and I grin about it, it's terrible. and I'm being vague and freaky. sorry, y'all. I'll just go my spazy way and leave you with this ( Read more... )

aural skills kicked me in the ass today. the rhythmic dictation in 6-8 so totally was beyond me. and I did all of the minor melodic dication a third to low. gaaaaaah ( Read more... )

it has stopped being achey from the shots. it's a very kind improvement. I had to move onto horse-sized pills (antibiotics of extraoridinary strength) to keep the abscess away, though. I HATE MEDICINE. probably becasueI hate being dependent on it ( Read more... )