So...today was a really good day.

Like, really really good.

Today was the first time I played for studio class. The auditorium is difficult to control, since the piano echoes more than you would expect and the pedal muddies everything. But I got some helpful comments and one of my required four class performances is finished!

Spent a few hours procrastinating before seeing Hitlerjunge Quex for German, a ( Read more... )

Von der Webseite des Institute for the Environment: "The degree focuses on the social, political, economic and cultural forces that guide society's role in both causing and solving environmental problems, and on the role of society in perturbing environmental systems ( Read more... )

The Joshua Bell/Jeremy Denk concert last night was fantastic. They played:

Tartini - Sonata for Violin and Continuo in G minor
Prokofiev - Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in F major
Dvořák - Four Romantic Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op. 75
Saint-Saëns - Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano in D minor, Op. 75Following the regular program Joshua ( Read more... )

Yesterday I had my first audition! Samantha is apparently part of the creative staff behind a student film about vampires, and since I have the proper Transylvanian looks, I was coerced into auditioning for the leading role. There is a callback sometime soon, and then perhaps I'll be running around in the forest siphoning the blood of hapless ( Read more... )

After piano studio this afternoon I went to a jazz concert at Hill...one to which David was supposed to accompany me, but there were time confusions. In any case, I'm very glad I went. There were no fewer than eight musicians: two drummers, two trumpeters, a saxophonist, two pianists and a bassist. One of the drummers was in-house, apparently, but ( Read more... )

Argh! I hate being sick. Last night I had a weird hallucination (while fully awake) that my arms were too big. Then my fingertips were hypersensitive and I could actually feel the little molecules of air surrounding them. It feels like chaos, or too much information for my brain to process, because it makes me frantic ( Read more... )

I managed to get the flu yesterday, so my night was full of hallucinations and half-wakeful thoughts that my roommate was going to kill me with a knife. I missed classes because of being too weak to leave the dorm, but hopefully I'll be feeling well enough tomorrow to return to campus. I have work due anyway; thankfully I did my statistics ( Read more... )

Per a request from William, I am hereby mentioning him in a livejournal post.

William.
William.
William.

Maria and I spent a few hours in the coffee shop on campus a few days ago, just talking while life flooded past outside. It was like a small cocoon of time, a very lulling sensation that neither future nor past mattered very much ( Read more... )