Compliments and Summary
Here are a few of the best compliments ever:
Katie McCarthy: You're smart. Not like academic smart, well that too... but you're mostly smart about things that matter.
Elysa DiMauro: That orchestra needs to play down to you. Your softs are pristine.
Me: This horn sounds like a whale.
Katie McCarthy: But you play it like a dolphin. (unbeknownst to Katie at the time, dolphins are my fav animal)
These are my two best friends in Madison. There are a number of Gigi comments and Melissa comments that belong in here as well, but these ones are all in the last few weeks.
Also: I don't have a girlfriend anymore. I took out more money in loans because my stable employment is working for Doug as a copyist/personal assistant, which I don't actually do enough of to pay my bills (which includes travel to Syracuse for Thanksgiving, NYC for NYSOS in December, and the various travel expenses incurred next semester by the various auditions I will be taking). My senior recital is Saturday and I feel generally confident about my horn playing. I'm ready to take pro auditions and get myself a job. In the meantime I am filling my life with social observations and experiments (through which I am learning that all people are meaningful, rational to the best of their ability, and not pitiable or pathetic, but should be empathized with to the degree that all feelings are universal and all people experience them, however "irrational" some peoples reasons are), using my modern philosophy class to help me get a handle on my ever-evolving belief system, making new friends and hanging out with the old ones too, and generally feeling better about life than I ever have. Things turn out the best for those that make the best out of how things turn out.
Katie McCarthy: You're smart. Not like academic smart, well that too... but you're mostly smart about things that matter.
Elysa DiMauro: That orchestra needs to play down to you. Your softs are pristine.
Me: This horn sounds like a whale.
Katie McCarthy: But you play it like a dolphin. (unbeknownst to Katie at the time, dolphins are my fav animal)
These are my two best friends in Madison. There are a number of Gigi comments and Melissa comments that belong in here as well, but these ones are all in the last few weeks.
Also: I don't have a girlfriend anymore. I took out more money in loans because my stable employment is working for Doug as a copyist/personal assistant, which I don't actually do enough of to pay my bills (which includes travel to Syracuse for Thanksgiving, NYC for NYSOS in December, and the various travel expenses incurred next semester by the various auditions I will be taking). My senior recital is Saturday and I feel generally confident about my horn playing. I'm ready to take pro auditions and get myself a job. In the meantime I am filling my life with social observations and experiments (through which I am learning that all people are meaningful, rational to the best of their ability, and not pitiable or pathetic, but should be empathized with to the degree that all feelings are universal and all people experience them, however "irrational" some peoples reasons are), using my modern philosophy class to help me get a handle on my ever-evolving belief system, making new friends and hanging out with the old ones too, and generally feeling better about life than I ever have. Things turn out the best for those that make the best out of how things turn out.