I had suspected, but only today realized that the flowers blooming in the big sundial planter outside the music building are paper whites. It made me think of my favorite flowers. Here is a list ( Read more... )

A single tone is actually a combination of notes. Multiple notes sound sympathetically (by mathematical relation) to a single note. A string plays a pitch at 60 hertz (60 vibrations per second, 60 being simply for the sake of explanation). That string halved and played again vibrates at 120 hertz, an octave higher. The 60 hertz string divided in ( Read more... )

Today was the first snow of the season: 5 inches. Snow’s silence is unsettling; rain lets you know its weight and duration. Snow slips down and swallows up the world, unexpected and unnoticed until you turn your head toward the window or lift your face toward the sky ( Read more... )

Today, in my Introduction to Psychology class, we started a section on motivation, and spent the class talking about motivation and sex. The professor, after we had taken some notes, told us that we were going to do an experiment, and we needed to pick a partner of the same sex. When that was done, she said, "Now, you're going to hold hands with ( Read more... )

My voice teacher said to me today, "It is never wrong to want to be as good as you can be."

I've been trying to think about myself in small positives instead of broad negatives.  Because it's time to be better.

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they took your clothes

and cut your hair

and couldn’t change you

not you

...I want to be a groupie. 

We got our costumes for the opera last night. Mine is burgundy, and relatively nice. There are big shoulders and stiff itchy petticoats, and it has that musty, sweaty smell of rented costume. We struggled into them, fought with the strings and hooks and zips, and wondered who had worn them last, and for what, and did they do anything while in them ( Read more... )

I'm not hungry these past few days, but I keep eating jellybeans until they make me ill.  Because jellybeans remind me of home. 

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
I like peanut butter
And you, too.

Roses are red,
Violets are violet,
On such short notice,
Where will we find a pilot?

Roses are blue,
Violets are red,
You're a hottie
And I want you in my bed.

Roses are pretty, 
Violets are cute,
Where you going
With just one hooker boot?

Roses are red,
The ocean is blue,
You look good with an ( Read more... )