So much for blogging every day. I never was good at keeping resolutions ( Read more... )

So May kind of... didn't happen on this blog. Not because I haven't been doing anything blog-worthy. I've just been lazy about updating. But in a nutshell, I've been ( Read more... )

I never sleep well before any big events. Like last night. I woke up about every ten minutes with the first page of my opening piece (Buxtehude) going through my head. And then I had a freaky dream where I got to St. Paul's to practice and the organ was gone. Just one big hole in the sanctuary wall and Hans sitting on a wooden chair in the middle ( Read more... )

I took the theory assessment at MTA yesterday. Nothing surprising. Heck, my Dad made up the test, so preparing for it wasn't hard. As I was waiting in the lounge with the other kids, though, it struck me how young they look. I know I'm only two years older than they are, but the two years feels like a lot right now. So... audition and interview

I've got a reputation in my family for having delayed reactions to jokes; someone tells a joke, everyone chuckles, then they look at me and wait until I burst into gales of laughter, usually anywhere from thirty seconds to a minute and a half later. It used to embarrass me, but everyone else tells me they enjoy it. It gives them a chance to enjoy ( Read more... )

Things have been satisfyingly busy around here. I got through MUN's theory assessment fairly easily and recorded my audition pieces for them. Now all I have to do is wait until the perfect time to tell them - with a condescending sneer, tee hee - that I'm not coming. And while I'm talking about organ, I'm going to let myself brag for second: I ( Read more... )

I love playing in church, I really do, especially on Sundays like this one when Fr. Kevin schedules those totally English hymns like Monk's Gate and The Call. But it gets ever so slightly disheartening once in a while to look out at the end of the postlude and find nobody listening. On the other hand, it makes times like this morning, when someone ( Read more... )

So I knew it was Fr. Kevin before I even answered the phone. I mean, who else would call our house at 7:30 on Sunday morning but a priest in desperate need of an organist? I managed to get through a Eucharist with only a few more wrong notes than usual; I already knew the mass well, and luckily I had learned one of the hymns a while ago. When I ( Read more... )

I haven't dropped off the face of the planet... just haven't been doing anything especially blog-worthy. My application is off to Mt. A and I've met with a guy in admissions who generally seems to agree that I'm literate and could function at university, so with the exception of one last essay that needs revising, the whole getting into college ( Read more... )

I know this post formula has been used to death, but it seemed so appropriate for a day like today:

Ten Things I'm Loving Right Now...1. Snowstorm! A week before Christmas and the world looks beautiful ( Read more... )