Thats about all I can say about today, as I sit in my bed with the top of my outfit from today still on including my school badge... and pajama bottoms ( Read more... )

Renaissance - Mat Kearney

This is my renaissance
This is my one response
This is the way I say I love you
This is my second chance
This is my one romance
This is the cutting line
On which I stand to show you

It happened fast in a flash just this evening
I hit the gas, horn blast, brakes screaming
Car crash, broken glass, broke my dreaming
I hit the dash so ( Read more... )

I'm so glad this week is over!
It has just been a nonstop whirlwind ever since school started back up, and its like every week some new layer of craziness gets added into the mix. This week it was.... my 7th grade students. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely LOVE teaching, but sometimes it can be a lot to handle, especially when it is tacked onto an ( Read more... )

I haven't written for so so long, but I am going to make it a point to try and write this year and get down on paper? internet? my San Francisco experience before it is over!!!

So now the question is, where to begin??? So much has happened in the past year...

I survived my first year of grad school with all of its challenges and triumphs. I love my ( Read more... )

 I now realize that the point of being a grad student is to ( Read more... )

Ohhh today was great, yea. I had my sightsinging exam\joke. Then next, I had coffee with my new friend and fellow masters oboist Ben... we'll call him Benny who is also an Aussie gent. We told our life stories and then went back to school and failed the dictation placement exam. I mean, seriously. I haven't done music theory for over 2 years man ( Read more... )

5. Definately no shortage of vegetarian cuisine, I've got enough tofu, sprouts, hummus, squash, veggie loaf and fake "chic-n-nuggets" to keep me full for awhile

4. The weather is lovely, at least I think so. It always feels like fall, and if you travel around the city to enough neighborhoods in a day, its bound to be sunny in at least one of them

3. ( Read more... )

I'm here, can you believe it? I never thought when I came to the city on the stupid DePauw Orchestra tour to the city that a little over a year later I'd be moving here to start out my real, adult life. My apartment is beautiful, old and worn with all of the precious details that a building thats seen its share of tentants should have. I have a ( Read more... )

So... after weeks of shitstorm; finding out I DID NOT receive a performance certificate, STILL not knowing the outcome of grad school stuff, and graduation quickly approachng....
What happens Wednesday night after my final band concert? The light at the end of the tunnel: A phone call for San Francisco Conservatory of Music saying that they have a ( Read more... )

And after months of absence, here I am. Its halfway through April and a month until I walk across that stage in my mothafuckin cap and gown and am DONE with DePauw University for good!!!!

Don't get too excited yet...

Standing in my way are a Senior recital, two band concerts and one orchestra concert, two exams, a paper on an opera that i haven't ( Read more... )