"Congratulations! I'm pleased to offer you acceptance in the 2006-07 Academic Year in Freiburg program. Our committee hopes that the year abroad will help you hone your skills in German and contribute to your personal and professional goals."

I've been meaning to write this for a while now and it just keeps not happening! But now it is, so don't worry ( Read more... )

Right now I'm feeling an indescribably overpowering euphoria, about big plans in the near future and big plans in the far future, plans that are unimaginably far-fetched but somehow seem possible ( Read more... )

I wish I could just play music all the time instead of having to do this "life" thing ( Read more... )

Last weekend my dad taught at the 17th Annual Winter Fire School in Ames. I rode along with the firemen and stayed in Nathan's dorm at Iowa State. Adventure ensued.

Friday night, Nathan and I had deliciouses and then watched the Free Friday Flick Waiting... Later we went out busking. It was bitter cold, but it was still kinda fun. On our way back ( Read more... )

So, back in November or whenever when it was starting to get cold out and I thought it was too cold to play outside, I was wrong. I went out tonight. It was seventeen degrees out when I got out there around midnight, and got down to ten by the time I left two hours later. I never got too uncomfortably cold -- I had to stick my hands in my pockets ( Read more... )

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Holy asterisk, books for that goldarned Intermediate German class just cost me two weeks' wages ( Read more... )

Oh man, I'm getting better at guitar every day. I've got blues I sing in E, G, and B now, with simple but cool-sounding riffs (no straight chords for Caleb anymore!) while accompanying myself on my guitar. A couple days ago I realized I could actually do a cool blues progression in C, and just now I came up with a totally awesome progression in A. ( Read more... )

Does anyone reading this know who to ask about legality of and royalty fees associated with recording other people's songs to which they still hold the copyright? I'm playing at open mike at the Mill on the sixteenth and they usually record a tape of you playing and give it to you. I was thinking it would be fun to make a CD from the recording to ( Read more... )