and Liszt and Berlioz and all those overly introspective romantics!)

I'll eat my fruits and vegetables too, but I like having a bowl of buttery, fat riddled, cheesy, carbohydrate ridden macaroni and cheese every once in a while. It keeps me from shrivling up and blowing away ( Read more... )

I want to graduate. I'm tired of professors, papers, university bureaucracy, tuition increases, and coming home from an eight hour day with STILL more school work to do (and concerts - no more concerts ( Read more... )

1) I wonder why there are so many programs encouraging women to go into male dominated professions like science and engineering, but music composition gets left out - if society is just trying to encourage women to go into professions where women are scarce - why not the artistic fields too ( Read more... )

I had a rather enlightening, if at first frustrating conversation with a co-worker at the bookstore. She was waiting around to see if we had a specific backpack in the backstock area - and I was checking - and she just kept talking, and I just kept listening ( Read more... )

I found out that one of my future roomie's cousins passed away in a car accident today. She was in her mid-twenties, had married in the last year, and had a child with her husband. I didn't know her personally, but it's still very hard, the person being someone my future roomie was very close to, the fact that she was in her mid-twenties (aka, ( Read more... )

I was out with a friend and several new people playing mini golf last night, and somehow, my composition work came up, and my friend said that one of my other friends (whom I had had in mind when writing one of the pieces - a vocal piece based on a Lord of the Rings text - "In Western Lands") had made a comment about my work being "crazy". When I ( Read more... )

Ha ha . . . so true. Be sure to read the whole thing (subtext included) before you agree with me ( Read more... )

For some reason, since I graduated from high school, around this time of year, I get really angry, and I don't exactly know why ( Read more... )

The way I knew I'd sold my dad on me being a musician was when he said something along the lines of "I guess if she has music in her heart, then we can't really stop her from doing it ( Read more... )