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is or why he was important but I found out with my iPhone!

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So I found this cool Firefox extension just for blogging. It pops up on the right side of your screen and gives you suggestions in the form of photos (free!) and related links that it finds concerning your topic. You have to type a certain amount so that it can get a ballpark of what you're talking about. It gives you suggestions for labels, links, photos and related articles. I think its pretty cool so far. So I think I'm going to keep it and see how it goes.

In other news...

• I'm almost finished with May term. I made a 97 on my midterm and have my final on Friday.
  
• I've switched my Summer I class to Summer II so that I can have a break in between.
  
• Young Musician's Camp is coming up and I'm very excited. This will be my first one since my freshman year to counsel
• I'm in a documentary!! I'll be Lieutenant Werner Von Haeften in Operation Valkyrie produced by Media Works Communications of Birmingham, AL. I don't have any lines but I do have a scene where I rig a bomb for detonation... I have to get my hair cut pretty short but I get to wear a SS officer's uniform. I'm just excited that I get to do something interesting this summer and not just the same old stuff.

Horray for papers being through!!

Hopefully it is good enough for my professor. Here's to hoping!




This picture is what I did while I wasn't writing. I started to doodle. Then an idea came up about the music on the page. I've been studying Chopin scores all night and it kind of reminds me of that. I really hear it though with woodwinds. Clarinets, and saxophones... which is really odd because I don't like to write for those instruments. We'll see if anything comes of it.

Bacon, Egg and Cheese sandwiches from Hardees tastes fantastic after an all nighter. I guess sleep would be good too.

Today I'll hopefully find out what I'll be playing for next semester. I'm kind of excited about that.



Sorry for the random, random post but I'm all energized now after eating... Have a good day!!

it all comes down to...

So I made it through a week in hell.

I did my recital. The only good thing that came out of it was getting to see my parents and getting LOTS of free food. I sucked up the playing but its too late now.

I'd really like some of these pillows... sounds gay but trust me, they're cool. I just want to fill my living room up to about waist high and live there.

I should have started this earlier when I don't feel so grumpy...

haha thats a fun word, grumpy. It looks grumpy... lol


Who needs a break? me

Unaccomplished

So i think i failed my physics test. This'll be the 2nd time. I should really drop that class. I feel this way about several of my classes really. I hope the Man doesn't take away my scholarships...

Thought things were worked out with friends but it doesn't seem that way anymore. Particularly one friend. i don't think he reads this section of the post doesn't really matter. People need to grow up, stop assuming things, and learn to communicate. I think i just answered the answer to all of life's problems in that last sentence but who knows.

I have a recital in four days. I hope everything goes well.

Oh procrastination...

10 or 11 o'clock

So I could totally be studying for my Physics test tomorrow. Or reading "The Joy Luck Club" for English on Tuesday. Or even cleaning my room. But here I sit, listening to music and blogging. And Stumbling. The last one is the main proponent of my lack of drive... if you don't know what it is, go here and prepare to be sucked into the world of I-just-wasted-three-hours-of-my-life-ville.
Anyways, I'm currently listening to Awadagin Pratt's recording of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 which is always a favorite.
Things are straightening out between my friends, thankfully. I was worried there, for a bit.
Found a new game. Ikariam. Pretty great, if I must say. Its free, thankfully.
Still haven't studied for Physics.
Still haven't practiced.

1:16

went to "practice" and ended up goofing around on the piano: jazz standards, Schubert Waltzes and "The Last 5 Years".

Still have to study for that damn test...

Pre - Recital Jury Drama

So since I'm majoring in piano, I am required to do a recital displaying all that I've learned over the past 3 years. But in order to do this, I have to do a "pre recital jury" or "hearing" if you will. This is where the piano faculty all come to hear me play a 30 minute recital. All two of them. You could say this is a stressful experience. I was supposed to have my jury on Thursday of last week, April 3rd. I wasn't ready so they pushed it back some more to this Tuesday, April 8th. I failed. They were gracious enough to allow me to play again Today. Apparently they thought that the two days I had to practice and mentally prepare myself for the next jury was going to be enough to get me to pass. I don't know why they thought that but it worked. I passed this time.

Their only comments were that I was too aggressive. In everything. The Mozart, Scriabin, Brahms. All of it was to pushy and loud and bangy. I guess I have to tone down the aggression and put on a more charming, elegant demeanor for the recital hall.

That is hard to do when there are so many things to be upset about and sad about and angry about. I find it hard to mask my emotions that much. If I'm feeling angry, it is going to come out in my playing apparently. I can't go into what is making me feel this way. Anonymity is not a friend here, unfortunately. I will, however, say that I'll never ceased to be amazed at what people will do; against, for, to, with, in spite of, in anger at, mockingly at, in kindness to, out of love for, jealousy at, hatefully at, not knowing, hopefully for, to please, pleadingly for, other people.
I should of gone into psychology. People will always be messed up enough for therapy. Everyone could go deaf one day though...