So my advice to your student would be to go ahead and major in harp. Take the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to work your tail off and perform two recitals of serious music and be judged on it. Your choice of 'Music Performance' rather than 'Managerial Studies' will be at worst a minor inconvenience if you decide on a different career later, but ( Read more... )

So I went on a quest yesterday to find an alarm clock without a snooze button (and honestly, as far as I can tell, everyone HATES the snooze button and everyone advises everyone else NOT to use the snooze button, so why do they keep making snooze buttons? Easy novelty, I guess). I searched high and low and finally found a real cheapy (for 5.99) ( Read more... )

I need to be more disciplined.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

I got a meningitis vaccine today. It hurt and now my whole arm is stiffish. I had her do it on my right arm so that I could still practice, but the fingers on that arm are now so weakly that I guess it didn't make much difference :P Oh well, I will do the best I can.

But I am not here to talk about vaccines or meningitis or even weak harp hands ( Read more... )

well for goodness sake, I'm not allowed to watch or read domestic dramas anymore ( Read more... )

today i went to a wedding rehersal for a wedding i'm playing tomorrow. i felt painfully awkward and far too exhausted to do anything to remedy my awkwardness.
actually, i felt awkward all day.
i'm determined not to be an awkward adult someday.
but i'm not sure how to go about that. ive dug a right awkward little hole for myself.

"let's listen ( Read more... )

I am tired... I hope I can wake up for summer running tomorrow... I've been sleeping in every day this week just long enough to miss it, and then going back to bed and sleeping far too long. i miss it, too ( Read more... )

I woke up, got ready, and practiced. I drank white tea. It was very good. It tasted soft, if that makes any sense. While I drank, I read a book about practicing. I think it was geared towards children, but I still enjoyed it. Then I taught and it was good. This is my last week of teaching ( Read more... )

i had registration today... it was ok... i still feel really confused, and i hate this feeling. im anticipating a time when everything will be a routine... maybe 3 or 4 months from now? the nice thing was coming home and practicing... i felt reassured. harp feels familiar to me, and that is what i will be doing most of the time at u of i. so i ( Read more... )

Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?

p.s. next year, lets keep updating so we can still keep track of each other via lj