I remembered the old Livejournal! Hah! I kind of miss this stuff. I'm staying up very late here to finish my thesis on Messiaen's Trois Petites Liturgies. My recital went well, and I'm graduating in a couple of weeks ( Read more... )

in a few days i will be Allen's wife ( Read more... )

today i took a shift at work to do alumni research, which consisted of thumbing through ancient yearbooks and trying to figure out who was in marching band, then figuring out if that person was still alive according to their alumni ID,and if they are potential candidates for the marching band campaign in the fall. it was really fun. is it just me ( Read more... )

i have recently returned from a glorious trip to ireland. the tea was highly memorable as far as items of consumption go, but the most memorable aspect for me was the terrain. it was really something to be atop mountains in county kerry and county cork (ciarri and corcaigh, as they spell it there), and to see sheep gently sharing their hillsides ( Read more... )

i've recently been interested in starting up a practice that is common among composers. i'd like to start keeping a Sound Journal, recording and reflecting upon the many sounds i hear in each day.

already my ears have become so much more open.

have you ever tried listening intently to the plethora of sounds in your environment? the whole world is ( Read more... )

there's nothing like being in one of those bands that rehearses for 14 hours in two days and then puts a concert together on the second day to make me realize that in fact i am not burned out on clarinet. i absolutely love clarinet ( Read more... )

i'm also going to ask this question:

in which hogwarts house would i end up?

ravenclaw
hufflepuff
slytherin
gryffindor

i honestly don't know that i'd fit into any of these.

i had a lucid dream last night about great-grandpa. he was sitting in a chair in my grandma's living room and talking to us. he kept asking me about current events in my life, like school and allen and music. it didn't occur to me that he's been dead for a while now, because i was enjoying the conversation. but then allen walked into the room in ( Read more... )

it was a lovely christmastide ( Read more... )

i think i will close this journal in the near future. this is not a negative thing, but it is simply a moving onward. i will continue to write, but in paper form. i am still not taking any action, though. if anyone can convince me to keep the journal open, i will do so gladly. if not, i will simply close its records and recall a time when i wrote ( Read more... )