is good! Thus far, at least.

( Class round-up et al: )

( New Year's Resolutions/Reflections )

It's obviously been far too long since I wrote something here...so for a brief update, let's go ( Read more... )

I've been having a lot of really good days lately...I hope that the trend continues ( Read more... )

Grieg quartet=new love affair. And I do believe that it is what we are playing in my quartet...be jealous, kiddos. Download the Emerson Quartet's recording of it on iTunes...it's like $5.46 and worth double. So good. Delicious. That's all!

PPS: Symphony is stressful because I have a lot more to be worried about as 2nd chair...I sit with a bunch of foreign doctoral students who are way better than me. It's not that I shouldn't be in front of the people who I'm in front of, it's that there need to be more people in front of me (like a few more Master's students, and I wish the doctoral ( Read more... )

The only bad thing about no math/sciencey classes is that I have to write a lot of essays...up to 5 a week...ew. The reading for this week is pretty bad, 600 pages...I need to get on that, I'm only about 100 through...ew ( Read more... )

I got 2nd chair! SO much stress! Ack!

Right before I leave CO they tell me that they won't let me take the Doctoral Poetry Seminar OR the Senior Poetry Seminar. "Your skill and accomplishments do not assure that you will perform well in an upper-level course, so we feel that you should gradually become familiar with our Creative Writing Program by taking a lower-level course first ( Read more... )

I do believe that the Astrophysics major will be dropped...oh, what I can do with the extra time ( Read more... )