today is the Immaculate Conception. after church this evening i got a little lost downtown and ended up at a christmas-tree sale. i was unscathed and in good spirits i sat down to a bowl of soup while i listen to this violin concerto. next semester i will be part of the accompaniment, by the way, as i am now a part of orchestra again ( Read more... )

wow. i didn't realize how crazily passionate and profound the songs of schubert and schumann are. they are very different in their approaches; schumann is more Romantic. i just finished listening to the Dichterliebe cycle, and sometimes it's so sad that i was seriously sitting here sniffling. i'm glad everyone else in the house is sleeping ( Read more... )

do people still read this?

i do so enjoy the rain ( Read more... )

today is the landmark date of bernheim forest. it is now one year since i began dating allen. this has been a wonderful year, and i'm so happy to return to bernheim this afternoon for another hike.

in many ways, i wonder why i still keep this livejournal. can anyone answer that for me ( Read more... )

recently i've learned that i have an inner pathos that is capable of being set off by a number of external factors such as schoolwork. basically, anything that generates an excessive amount of stress is potential pathos-triggering. the pathos is always temporary, but the temporality of it depends on the severity of the external factor that sets it ( Read more... )

wretched wretched disease.

this illness must end NOW.

they gave me sleeping pills, though, so i won't be up for 3 nights in a row again.

why can't i just go about playing musical instruments and being joyful, as the semester is supposed to be?

it's unfortunately sunday night, and i wish it was friday night ( Read more... )

two little sausages ( Read more... )