out-nerded
So a couple of interesting things happened yesterday. I was asked to be a ringer in this concert for the Philadelphia Sinfonia, which is a by-audition and membership fee-collecting youth orchestra. I auditioned back in September at the advice of Sam, my percussion teacher, but kinda chickened out of signing up when I found out they wanted 550 dollars for the privilege of playing with them. The conductor offered to simply call me if they need me for a concert, which I think is a much better deal than trying to find 550 dollars that I don't have, to spend every Saturday afternoon in rehearsal with a bunch of high schoolers. Anyway, I went to my first rehearsal with them, and Katie asked me to show her how I play the cymbals, because she thought my technique was cool. I was like "well I'm really not a good person to ask because I am still learning it myself, but this is basically what it is." So I was showing her how to do a really big crash where you turn the cymbals out to face the audience right after crashing them together, when this girl said "whoa dude it's like, inside out." I was like "what D:" I had somehow managed to turn the cymbal inside out like a china cymbal! what the helll x_____x A bunch of them came around to look and all started laughing, while I was standing there horrified and wishing I could just disappear immediately. How was I going to find a thousand dollars to replace the pair, now that one of them was ruined?! The tuba player took it from me, and put it on the ground and basically stepped on it to reverse the curvature again, which seems to have worked okay. Thank goodness. Oh my god. That was really scary, even though everyone else thought it was hilarious. It was pretty funny, I'll admit except for the fact that it was happening to me.
So then I spent the next few hours basically jumping from group of friends to group of friends who were all going to see the Philadelphia Orchestra, even though I was not. I had a date to wait for. But it was nice that I managed to spend all of the downtime with other people. The date itself was really nice, too. We went to this very cute coffeeshop down by South Street, that had lots of interesting furniture and huge drinks. The guy's name is Joey, and he is a drummer, an Andy Samberg lookalike, and a huge internet nerd. Like, reads Encyclopedia Dramatica internet nerd. He asked me if I had heard of "b" and I didn't know what he was talking about until I mentioned 4chan being too full of horrible people, and he said "oh then you know what /b/ is!" I dunno how I feel about that yet. But other than that he seemed pretty cool. We played Scrabble, and that was really fun. We didn't kiss so I can't really say whether I think he'll want to go out again on a date type thing, but it was nice to have a date with someone that was just all fun and laughs. I didn't feel like either of us was wasting our time, or the other person's time. So it was good.
The other good thing that came out of hanging out yesterday was finding out about all the cool repertoire the Philadelphia Orchestra is playing this season. Next month is Scheherazade and the Firebird, and Debussy's La Mer. I'm pretty stoked for those, and there's a crapton of other good music as well. I could easily find myself going every weekend for the next two months, especially since student rush tickets are only 8 dollars, and they don't check the expiration date on student ID's if you look young enough. :3
Mom and I are watching Lost like crazy since I got it for her for Christmas. She says it's one of the best presents she's ever gotten, which made me feel really good. It's such an addicting show that we have trouble keeping our promise to only watch it together, and stay up every night until like 11 watching 2 or 3 episodes at a time. (11's late for my mom since she gets up at like 5 or 6) The only bad things are that 1) it's giving me Lost-themed nightmares quite frequently, and 2) I really want to talk about it with other people but can't until we catch up, because there are so many spoilers. Everyone I mention it to who's seen the show is just like "ahh so many things I can't tell you! we'll have to wait to talk about it." It is such a crazy, crazy show. Just...wow. But it's really exciting! I don't think I've ever really had so much fun watching tv before.
So then I spent the next few hours basically jumping from group of friends to group of friends who were all going to see the Philadelphia Orchestra, even though I was not. I had a date to wait for. But it was nice that I managed to spend all of the downtime with other people. The date itself was really nice, too. We went to this very cute coffeeshop down by South Street, that had lots of interesting furniture and huge drinks. The guy's name is Joey, and he is a drummer, an Andy Samberg lookalike, and a huge internet nerd. Like, reads Encyclopedia Dramatica internet nerd. He asked me if I had heard of "b" and I didn't know what he was talking about until I mentioned 4chan being too full of horrible people, and he said "oh then you know what /b/ is!" I dunno how I feel about that yet. But other than that he seemed pretty cool. We played Scrabble, and that was really fun. We didn't kiss so I can't really say whether I think he'll want to go out again on a date type thing, but it was nice to have a date with someone that was just all fun and laughs. I didn't feel like either of us was wasting our time, or the other person's time. So it was good.
The other good thing that came out of hanging out yesterday was finding out about all the cool repertoire the Philadelphia Orchestra is playing this season. Next month is Scheherazade and the Firebird, and Debussy's La Mer. I'm pretty stoked for those, and there's a crapton of other good music as well. I could easily find myself going every weekend for the next two months, especially since student rush tickets are only 8 dollars, and they don't check the expiration date on student ID's if you look young enough. :3
Mom and I are watching Lost like crazy since I got it for her for Christmas. She says it's one of the best presents she's ever gotten, which made me feel really good. It's such an addicting show that we have trouble keeping our promise to only watch it together, and stay up every night until like 11 watching 2 or 3 episodes at a time. (11's late for my mom since she gets up at like 5 or 6) The only bad things are that 1) it's giving me Lost-themed nightmares quite frequently, and 2) I really want to talk about it with other people but can't until we catch up, because there are so many spoilers. Everyone I mention it to who's seen the show is just like "ahh so many things I can't tell you! we'll have to wait to talk about it." It is such a crazy, crazy show. Just...wow. But it's really exciting! I don't think I've ever really had so much fun watching tv before.