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Not a huge day today, I just feel like writing something now, it's been a while I guess. Midterm is coming up Friday. I need to make sure my vocabulary is up to snuff along with my mastery of both the preterite and imperfect tense conjugations of Spanish verbs. I had a question for my professor at the end of class while everyone was filing out. So he asks me how history is going (he asked us our majors on the first day of class) and I told him that Spanish was the only subject I needed to graduate, and then he starts talking to me about graduate classes and starts pushing me to try to find assistantships. I tell him it would probably be more prudent for me to get a job to save up some money before hand and then he says something along the lines that he has to get to an appointment with the dean in three minutes. I thought it was a little weird to keep a largely small-talk conversation going on for that long, so maybe he was kind of looking for a way out, or maybe he's a little spacey, or maybe my interpersonal skills have just degraded that much. Who knows. (At least it's not my intrapersonal skills that have degraded, whatever that means).
I rented Rock School a couple weeks ago. Something that the teacher in that school said along with something my guitar teacher said made me feel that in order to push myself further it would be best to pick something difficult and just stick with it until I get it (rather than just learning slightly more difficult stuff a step at a time) so I put together a CD of songs which I felt might be out of my reach or at least had parts that were out of my reach, of course my CD collection kind of fell short on really technical stuff since I'm not a huge fan of genres that push the technical aspects of guitar playing. Anyway of the songs I had on the disc he said Santeria by Sublime would work for our purposes of trying to push for more mastery, of course as we started it he then said that the intro and solo would probably be the hard parts (I agree, it was kind of a stretch to put on the CD and I put it there as I was running out of ideas). Other than just trying to get better in general, I'd like to learn some songs that I might be able to perform in an open mic type environment but I think the hardest part of that is learning to sing and play at the same time. Which is difficult given that I'm not very gifted in the vocals area to begin with. Maybe I should download some solo acoustic shows to see how they differ from full band renditions of songs. There's an open mic at school Wednesday that I'm probably going to check out to see what it's like.
Speeking of stuff on campus, I saw that there is a dodgeball group on campus. I'm guessing this is an outgrowth from people who watched a movie by the same name. Not to say I'm cooler than these people, but I did have the idea of a National Collegeate Dodgeball League a couple years before the movie came out (they all laughed at me for the idea). Anyways I'm thinking about hitting them up to see what it's all about.
I rented Rock School a couple weeks ago. Something that the teacher in that school said along with something my guitar teacher said made me feel that in order to push myself further it would be best to pick something difficult and just stick with it until I get it (rather than just learning slightly more difficult stuff a step at a time) so I put together a CD of songs which I felt might be out of my reach or at least had parts that were out of my reach, of course my CD collection kind of fell short on really technical stuff since I'm not a huge fan of genres that push the technical aspects of guitar playing. Anyway of the songs I had on the disc he said Santeria by Sublime would work for our purposes of trying to push for more mastery, of course as we started it he then said that the intro and solo would probably be the hard parts (I agree, it was kind of a stretch to put on the CD and I put it there as I was running out of ideas). Other than just trying to get better in general, I'd like to learn some songs that I might be able to perform in an open mic type environment but I think the hardest part of that is learning to sing and play at the same time. Which is difficult given that I'm not very gifted in the vocals area to begin with. Maybe I should download some solo acoustic shows to see how they differ from full band renditions of songs. There's an open mic at school Wednesday that I'm probably going to check out to see what it's like.
Speeking of stuff on campus, I saw that there is a dodgeball group on campus. I'm guessing this is an outgrowth from people who watched a movie by the same name. Not to say I'm cooler than these people, but I did have the idea of a National Collegeate Dodgeball League a couple years before the movie came out (they all laughed at me for the idea). Anyways I'm thinking about hitting them up to see what it's all about.