In weather like this, when it is cool, cloudy, and sunless, I feel like sitting on the couch with a good blanket, a good book, and an open window. But, as Robert Frost reminds me, " I have promises to keep, and many miles before I sleep..."

That poem has been stuck in my head for almost two months now. I dont know why, but perhaps because now, at ( Read more... )

So, it seems as if I post just once or twice per season. I havent made a post since the spring, so I think it is due time.

I survived my first semester as a graduate student assistant for the Music Therapy Department. I cant describe the stress that was involved in all of that, nor do I desire to, for fear of becoming stressed by proxy. The free ( Read more... )

"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."

During most of my spring break I was sitting in the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Atlanta at my 4th or 5th music therapy conference. I cannot remember which, but that' ( Read more... )

Ooookay, so I tried to watch Nim's Island on my one free Spring Break Day(Tuesday) and I fell asleep during the first 7 minutes. Either I was really tired, orthe movie was horrible...both could be, but I dont know which. I'll give the movie a second chance after I get back from my Music Therapy Conference/Spring Break.

Ever since Jeff and I got our Tempurpedic Memory foam matress, I have been having some very very weird dreams! I dreamt that I was at work, when this old white man in a black tuxedo came into my office and tapped me on the shoulder to let me know that I had a phone call. When I actually picked up the phone and said "hello" I found that I was ( Read more... )

Valentine's Day was a blast, as it has been for the past 3 or 4 years. I was blessed with the world's greatest husband, special liquor that I only drink once a year, special chocolate that I only eat once a year, Lou's Peking(the best Chinese food I've ever masticated- eat your hearts out, Hong Yip) and a full week of extreem happiness. It was all ( Read more... )

I feel like an old woman-- and old slave woman. I've got the spiritual, "Just a Closer Walk with Thee" stuck in my head. Maybe that's God telling me that I need to revisit my Bible(which I havent done in like two weeks) OR MAYBE it is because I had to listen to it 25 or more times while trying to mix the vocal and instrumental tracks for a CD in ( Read more... )

Early this morning,I heard the most beautiful version of "The Star Spangled Banner" that I had ever heard in my life. Up until this morning, my favorite version had been the symphonic version that was piped over the intercom of my old highschool back in Thomasville, arranged by my 6th grade band direct,the perpetually drunk, Ansley Fleetwood; and, ( Read more... )

Somehow, I knew that grad. school would be more difficult than college because it is only logical that a degree that gets you a $5-15,000 salary increase would require more work imput. But, I wasnt really prepared for this, and it is taking more than the psych textbook "two weeks" to get used to this habit.

I dearly beleive that part of the ( Read more... )

I was watching one of the 3 channels I get on our very old, very well-loved B&W T.V when Mom came into the room with a large white envelope ( Read more... )