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Today I got a wonderful dollar store gift. It is a puple keyboard that says "music party" at the top with one kid playing a keyboard and another playing the saxophone. From there, it gets weird. They keyboard is labeled with numbers from 1-7 for the scale, except 1 starts on D. So I guess this is a dorian mode keyboard? On the right side of ( Read more... )

Whatever. High school drama is stupid. The feelings are totally understandable, but I just need to keep my emotions away from it. I'm sorry.

I forgot how cold it was in my house...

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!

I can't wait for Black Friday shopping tomorrow!!!!!

I love playing the clarinet. But I get so motha f-ing scared when I have to play in front of people. How come I could do it at auditions but I can't play in front of people I know? I guess it's because I have to play in front of people whose opinions I care about. And yeah I get a grade for my lessons, of course. My grade sucks. I'm trying ( Read more... )

I love college. I really do. But I worry that I'm getting burned out already. Some days I really just don't feel like practicing, or doing anything. I want to go out, have fun, meet people. Not do stupid things, but just go out and meet people and just chill without drinking and all that usual college stuff. I think drinking is stupid. But ( Read more... )

Yesterday, the clarinet studio went to a string quartet concert with Ricardo Morales (principal clarinet of the Philadelphia Orchestra) performing in a quintet with them. He is PERFECT. His sound is ridiculously good. We got to meet him after the concert, which was cool except for the initial awkward silence ( Read more... )

I suck at clarinet and at mostly everything else too.

I got in to wind ensemble!!!!!!!!

I also ate all 3 meals with people today, not alone!

Things are looking up!

I'm not a complete failure!

So I really haven't said much about the summer. It has been going well and is probably one of the best summers so far *knocks on wood*. So anyways, Ireland was good, recovering from wisdom teeth is good (I can eat real food again!), Brian is very good, etc. The weather is not good but oh well. Everything else seems to be good!