This semester is slowly driving me crazy, but in a good way. I'm so over-busy that sometimes I feel incredibly behind - and I still always manage to catch up. The only downside to what I'm putting myself through is the lack of sleep and accompanying irritability, which normally leads me to muttering things under my breath to cool down while giving ( Read more... )

I am pretty much having a heart attack from sheer amusement. Thursday afternoons after getting out early from my Biology lab seems to be my time for meeting interesting foreign men: last week it was Ferdinand and we talked research/family until he got a phone call and I had to get off at my stop, and today it was an aspiring musician that lived in ( Read more... )

Violin lessons went extremely well today. I had a chance to ask my instructor a lot of questions about some issues I've had on certain songs (ex: staccato strokes causing a second twang when crossing strings on "Song of the Wind"), and then she gave me pointers on playing "O, Come Little Children", which I had been struggling with quite a bit. I ( Read more... )