Rise n' Shine
Its a little early, but its my new wake up time on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Tyler gets up and goes to class at 7:45 so I wake up too and come back to DG to study and get ready for the day. Its not a bad routine at all.
This week has been surprisingly pleasant, given that it is the first, real week of school. I shouldn't speak too soon, it is after all only Thursday and I still have conduction in an hour and a half with Mr. Smith... this could change my ENTIRE outlook. At least it isn't raining.
It is good to be back on DePauw's campus, strange to be older, different with the priorities I now have. I see all the freshmen getting so dressed up and worrying who is watching them at any given moment. A girl actually fell down the stairs in the student union last weekend, worrying whether or not I was looking at her. I would probably tell you now, thats too bad. I remember getting dressed up and worrying so much about what other people thought, that I forgot about what I thought. Don't get me wrong... its fun every now and then to get dressed up and go out with Delta Gammas, but dressed up for me. I guess the freshmen will learn all of these kinds of things as the time goes by. I just feel like I have something more important to do at this point... and I do.
I've been practicing more and more, it feels like less and less. I have probably practiced at least 16 hours this week already, not including rehearsal time. Basically my week as far as practice goes is only half over, so thats pretty good. Its probably time to start grad school shopping. I can't believe that at this time next year, I'll have picked a grad school audition program and be sending in applications... THAT is scary. As always though, a lot more to do before I have to worry about any of that.
I am glad to be taking my 18th Century Lit. class... its so interesting to me that there are so many connections between literature, art, and music. I'm not going to lie though, we are reading Sense and Sensibility... enough said.
Miles topics class is fun too, Tyler is excited and playing me all the old recordings of his different groups trying to see if I can differenciate between John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Sonny Rollins, and Charlie Parker. I am definately learning to love jazz, I'll never be able to love it as much as he does... but I don't know if there are many people who could. Most of them are probably names I just listed and teachers. Its so wonderful to watch him listen to music, and play, its one of my favorite things in the world. His teacher's wife told him once when I was with him "Tyler you have the most beautiful soul for music", and its so true... I'm so proud of him!
This week has been surprisingly pleasant, given that it is the first, real week of school. I shouldn't speak too soon, it is after all only Thursday and I still have conduction in an hour and a half with Mr. Smith... this could change my ENTIRE outlook. At least it isn't raining.
It is good to be back on DePauw's campus, strange to be older, different with the priorities I now have. I see all the freshmen getting so dressed up and worrying who is watching them at any given moment. A girl actually fell down the stairs in the student union last weekend, worrying whether or not I was looking at her. I would probably tell you now, thats too bad. I remember getting dressed up and worrying so much about what other people thought, that I forgot about what I thought. Don't get me wrong... its fun every now and then to get dressed up and go out with Delta Gammas, but dressed up for me. I guess the freshmen will learn all of these kinds of things as the time goes by. I just feel like I have something more important to do at this point... and I do.
I've been practicing more and more, it feels like less and less. I have probably practiced at least 16 hours this week already, not including rehearsal time. Basically my week as far as practice goes is only half over, so thats pretty good. Its probably time to start grad school shopping. I can't believe that at this time next year, I'll have picked a grad school audition program and be sending in applications... THAT is scary. As always though, a lot more to do before I have to worry about any of that.
I am glad to be taking my 18th Century Lit. class... its so interesting to me that there are so many connections between literature, art, and music. I'm not going to lie though, we are reading Sense and Sensibility... enough said.
Miles topics class is fun too, Tyler is excited and playing me all the old recordings of his different groups trying to see if I can differenciate between John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Sonny Rollins, and Charlie Parker. I am definately learning to love jazz, I'll never be able to love it as much as he does... but I don't know if there are many people who could. Most of them are probably names I just listed and teachers. Its so wonderful to watch him listen to music, and play, its one of my favorite things in the world. His teacher's wife told him once when I was with him "Tyler you have the most beautiful soul for music", and its so true... I'm so proud of him!