quick!  what was the average annual acreage of corn harvested (not planted) in the US between 1945 & 1950?

this semester is going to be tiring. i'm taking five classes, all of which are hard, and two of which are history, which is probably my worst subject. um. in case you for some reason are interested ( Read more... )

goals!

get a job.
exercise more.
be less gluttonous.
do more reading and writing in place of napping and guitar-playing.
nonetheless, perform a song for people on at least one occasion, without it sounding like crap.
EITHER read alan pollack's notes for every beatles song OR get good at ear training
have a career based around helping those in need.
be a ( Read more... )

and so aural skills comes to an end... it's harder for me than any other subject, i think, except maybe physics. which is totally fine, since being able to recognize the sound of a diminished chord won't benefit me much in my life (y'know, since playing guitar won't be my career)... but even still, for some reason ear training is just about the ( Read more... )

imagine a room full of stacks of tires, then someone shouts SCRAM and they all start a-shiverin'!

ahh.. i met someone wonderfully self-righteous this afternoon. don't you love when that happens?
(we're talking "support only sustainable agriculture," not "aids is god's punishment for the gays")
i might move to a different room for next semester. you can't o.d. on change.

whoa... i think filament and lineage are affiliated through affiliation...

tonight i decided that i'm not going to study music theory or aural skills anymore, even though i told my professor that i was, and even though i'm good at the former of the two (bad at the latter though). and i think i might study spanish for at least a few more semesters. it doesn't interest me as much as this semester's music classes have ( ( Read more... )

guess what? i don't have a roommate this weekend ( Read more... )

wow.. if the course of my life is a length of wire unraveling from a spool, this week is definitely doing more in the name of ductility than any has since msa.