Be fun. Be happy. Be in tune. Be out of tune with everyone else. BE A440. Be social. Be open. Be assertive. Be original. Be perfect with flaws. Be stoic with emotion. Be yourself. Be taller. Beyonce. Be comfortable. Be mad. Be right. Be fine with being wrong. Be silent about passion. Be there. Be alive.

I'm exhausted.

My brother was in town on Tuesday and we had dinner. Apparently the broken knee my sister with cri du chat syndrome has is severe enough that she may never walk again. My brother wants to team up to figure out the Katie factor because my parents haven't done enough in the last 27 years so it's got to be the Yeomans children to the rescue. If anyone ( Read more... )

This Monday we had a masterclass with the new principal flautist of the Detroit Symphony. During the excerpt portion she told us that we are not working as hard as we should be. No one is working as hard as they should be. If we work hard, we will get to the finals and the finals will be picked on stylistic things ( Read more... )

The inclusion of Oreo into the Yeomans family was completely by accident. Fourteen years ago in June my mother and I had gone to a pet store in the mall next to Lawrence West Station on a Saturday morning with the intention of purchasing hamster food as well as checking out birds for a pet for my sister. During this process I had noticed the tiny ( Read more... )

I was in the Star this week. A bass player I knew in highschool had his custom bass stolen, started a facebook group to find it and is now organizing a concert to fund the Regent Park School of Music which "buys instruments and provides instruments to under priveleged kids" on October 29th. He sent a message asking for stolen instrument stories to ( Read more... )

Searching through my old files I found this little snippet of writing:

He stood outside her apartment in his old black trenchcoat and knocked on her door

"I thought you were gone"
"I was. Things haven't been going so well and I thought maybe it would be worth it to get back together."
"But you left me"
"I was wrong"
"You said you didn't love me"
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I can NOT get enough of the United States election. It's so flashy and dirty and exciting. I'm finding myself constantly checking my favourite blogs for updates and reviewing the latest polls with the past polls' trends and hypothesizing how the events of today are going to change everything. The main part of it might be that I'm just taking it all ( Read more... )

First day of classes was today and I'm starting to feel very good about the school year. At least half of the student body is completely new and so I got to meet a whole bunch of fresh happy faces just beaming with excitement over the new school and the new building. This year the orchestra ACTUALLY has a violin section so we were able to play the ( Read more... )

I am TWO DAYS away from finishing work at Rotman. I spent all of today with Jenny going through every single room booking for every single class of every single MBA course to make sure the were correct on the University Space Management website as well as the Rotman Portal for students and faculty. My boss also bought lunch for everyone today and ( Read more... )

I got my hair cut! It's short ( Read more... )