um, someone named ME skipped school today. andddddddddd went to the library (beautifully situated about a mile away from the school) and read all day. (except for the part where it rained and i played on the playground. that happened. although the sogginess never quite went away.)
i finished who's afraid of virginia woolf? and read night and day ( ( Read more... )

alexipharmic: having the quality or nature of antidote to poison
(from 17th c. english alexipharmac, a noun that, in turn came directly from greek alexein, "to ward off", and pharmakon, "poison"...was used attributively so often that people decided it should be spelled with an -ici.e. you're looking rather alexipharmic today ( Read more... )

a progression in stages

stage one (the first stage)
i like piano -->
i would enjoy pgsa for piano -->
i should apply to said programme -->
SUCCESS

stage two (the second stage)
i am a semifinalist -->
i have an audition -->
i should prepare for said audition
SUCCESS

but oh! stage three (the third stage)doubt at my qualification and competency ( Read more... )

"Re: Application: MusicDear Alison ( Read more... )

recitaled out.
i cmu-recitaled wayyyyyy too fast and it was out of control. but still Good And Okay. and cory and alex and mara win at being Present, Accounted For, and The Best.

word of the day:
emas·cu·late
1 : to deprive of strength, vigor, or spirit : WEAKEN
2 : to deprive of virility or procreative power : CASTRATE

i win.

oh man.
for once, i started an english essay sometimebefore the night before. two nights before. i feel so...Effective. and Organized ( Read more... )

i mean, sanguine ( Read more... )

erm...yes ( Read more... )

WELL FUCK.

I got my new pieces in the mail today...John Thompson's "Variations on Three Blind Mice" and Sergei Prokofiev's "Suggestion Diabolique". Excitementexcitementexcitement. I sightread through the "Variations" in a few minutes...it's cute. Twentieth century, fun. The Prokofiev, however, took me eight weeks of struggling through octave-and-a ( Read more... )

Neither very short trees nor very bare trees are ideal for hiding from a rainstorm.

( SOME PICTURES SOME PICTURES )