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Holy LONG TIME WITHOUT AN UPDATE! I know!!!!!!!
There was like 1-2 weeks there we all just neglected LJ collectively hahaha In January or early Feb perhaps? I think this has to have been the longest gap in my lj ever......
Wow, so besides the many busy reasons I never update, I tried about five separate times (during the past like 7 weeks) to update from Mozilla and it would always error out on me! Not cool. Anyway, I finally just took Janelle's wonderful advice and now as you can tell, I'm typing in Internet Explorer. NOT my beloved Mozilla. I think I only was hooked on it due to Pat's suggestion anyway... it's probably healthy I'm not as attached now. Obviously if it keeps me from updating.... I won't use it for livejournal- but seriously anyone have any clue why?
So.... life is really great. School/ flute/ living alone/ practicing pretty much whenever makes me so happy. I've randomly discovered that practicing later than 9:00 PM is actually really helpful in lots of random ways. Until like last week, I hardly every practiced after 9. My body tends to be too tired then to lift up my shoulders for no goddamn reason whatsoever ahaha
OHHHHH man so I'm getting more and more excited about my playing, my recital, this semester, next year, my career, music in general, orchestra, projecting, not covering, breathing well, and probably lots of other stuff. I had a little rut like two weeks ago where everything was just ok, not great but not horrible, but most aspects are progressing little by little! YEAH!
My teacher continues to be freaking unbelieveable on everything he plays and everything he talks about. There really aren't enough words for how highly I think of him and his playing. He sightread the last four lines of Ibert's Piece (which he's never actually performed) in my lesson and before he did I said something like "I'm not sure if I want to play this part for you today".... so then he played it and it was flawless and gorgeous. When I picked my jaw up off the floor I said "Now I REALLY don't want to play it for you! haha" hahahaha -"Why? I was just sightreading." Exactly.
In two days it will be exactly a year since I got into this school!!! It is obsessively idiotic of me to remember that BUT hell, I like dates, I always remember them. It's an extremely exciting anniversary of sorts. I remember the exact place, the couple of times the previous days I thought about checking my mail... but put it off. Only to find the best piece of email after I was done with all grad school auditions/ tests. AHHHH it was so cool. I'm still caught up in it. Details like that are always exciting to me.
My recital is coming up..... in less than three weeks....March 24th! Due to harpist flaws, no Hanson Serenade but everything else is working out. Still so much work to do so I don't crap all over ANY of it.
Later in the semester I'm performing on about 5 or 6 other peoples recitals (some Crumb, Stravinsky Octet, Jolivet Pastorales du Noel, and Harbison). Luckily only one of them is before mine (tonight actually). Other things coming up include: Rite of Spring on piccolo, Alto flute for a Crumb piece, Beethoven 5 piccolo, mannnny more excerpts, a 15 page paper on the Bach e-minor which is going on my second masters recital! (AHHHHHHHHHHHH talk about procrastination), and of course Milhaud and Harbison quintets.
SPRING BREAK starting on Friday will be absolutely lovely. I don't know how I feel about turning 23 pretty soon...
I made soup on Sunday again. It's delicious! I have been watching less tv....but using the internet more. Someday I'll actually vacuum....
Yeah, now more than ever, life is gooooooood :)
There was like 1-2 weeks there we all just neglected LJ collectively hahaha In January or early Feb perhaps? I think this has to have been the longest gap in my lj ever......
Wow, so besides the many busy reasons I never update, I tried about five separate times (during the past like 7 weeks) to update from Mozilla and it would always error out on me! Not cool. Anyway, I finally just took Janelle's wonderful advice and now as you can tell, I'm typing in Internet Explorer. NOT my beloved Mozilla. I think I only was hooked on it due to Pat's suggestion anyway... it's probably healthy I'm not as attached now. Obviously if it keeps me from updating.... I won't use it for livejournal- but seriously anyone have any clue why?
So.... life is really great. School/ flute/ living alone/ practicing pretty much whenever makes me so happy. I've randomly discovered that practicing later than 9:00 PM is actually really helpful in lots of random ways. Until like last week, I hardly every practiced after 9. My body tends to be too tired then to lift up my shoulders for no goddamn reason whatsoever ahaha
OHHHHH man so I'm getting more and more excited about my playing, my recital, this semester, next year, my career, music in general, orchestra, projecting, not covering, breathing well, and probably lots of other stuff. I had a little rut like two weeks ago where everything was just ok, not great but not horrible, but most aspects are progressing little by little! YEAH!
My teacher continues to be freaking unbelieveable on everything he plays and everything he talks about. There really aren't enough words for how highly I think of him and his playing. He sightread the last four lines of Ibert's Piece (which he's never actually performed) in my lesson and before he did I said something like "I'm not sure if I want to play this part for you today".... so then he played it and it was flawless and gorgeous. When I picked my jaw up off the floor I said "Now I REALLY don't want to play it for you! haha" hahahaha -"Why? I was just sightreading." Exactly.
In two days it will be exactly a year since I got into this school!!! It is obsessively idiotic of me to remember that BUT hell, I like dates, I always remember them. It's an extremely exciting anniversary of sorts. I remember the exact place, the couple of times the previous days I thought about checking my mail... but put it off. Only to find the best piece of email after I was done with all grad school auditions/ tests. AHHHH it was so cool. I'm still caught up in it. Details like that are always exciting to me.
My recital is coming up..... in less than three weeks....March 24th! Due to harpist flaws, no Hanson Serenade but everything else is working out. Still so much work to do so I don't crap all over ANY of it.
Later in the semester I'm performing on about 5 or 6 other peoples recitals (some Crumb, Stravinsky Octet, Jolivet Pastorales du Noel, and Harbison). Luckily only one of them is before mine (tonight actually). Other things coming up include: Rite of Spring on piccolo, Alto flute for a Crumb piece, Beethoven 5 piccolo, mannnny more excerpts, a 15 page paper on the Bach e-minor which is going on my second masters recital! (AHHHHHHHHHHHH talk about procrastination), and of course Milhaud and Harbison quintets.
SPRING BREAK starting on Friday will be absolutely lovely. I don't know how I feel about turning 23 pretty soon...
I made soup on Sunday again. It's delicious! I have been watching less tv....but using the internet more. Someday I'll actually vacuum....
Yeah, now more than ever, life is gooooooood :)