Hey, guess what? I haven't died or fallen off the face of the earth! I know, I know, I'm sure there were thousands of people out there wondering...not.

So, the last five months in review:

• I finished student teaching with middle school band. I got to conduct half of the pieces at the spring concert, which was a really great experience. I keep ( Read more... )

I'm listening to my recently acquired album of music by Gustav Holst, which I'm pretty much in love with at the moment.  It has First Suite in E-flat and Second Suite in F as well as several other orchestral pieces.  I'm quite taken with the two suites, having played First Suite in high school band and Second Suite last year in my college band.  ( Read more... )

Well, I've finally finished my history paper, at the expense of getting any practice time in today.  Which is kind of sad, considering it wasn't that  long of a paper, only three pages, and it was more or less a book report.

This is the first day all semester (yes, I realize that's a grand total of 2 1/2 weeks) that I haven't been at school by 8:00 ( Read more... )

So now I have an online journal.  I'm not sure if it's really that great, or any better than a normal journal, but I like to try out new things.  So here I am.  I don't know if I'll ever make any of this public, but I can at least see if I like it this way.

So, what can I talk about?  I guess I'll just ramble.

I talked with a girl from Germany ( Read more... )