quarter one: level completed
Hmm! So I'm thinking I want to learn a second instrument besides piano. I've been researching, and this is what I was thinking... I bolded the ones that I'm really considering learning.
String
Violin - I like violins, but they have a really high pitch PLUS like after piano, everyone and their mom plays the violin.
Viola - Possibility? It has a lower pitch than a violin.
Cello - I really want to learn the cello. It has a beautiful, BEAUTIFUL deep sound... but it's so goddamn BIG! Cumbersome and expensive, I would assume. Also, I find that cellos are more of an accompanying sound, rather than an independent one.
Bass - way too fucking big.
Wind
Flute - I don't like how this sounds.
Piccolo - ?.... can someone tell me more?
Clarinet - has a nice range of notes, can be both classical and modern. I like.
Oboe - can someone tell me the difference between the oboe and clarinet?
Saxophone - this is pretty sexy. But it's also quite large?... And I'm thinking for the big sound it makes, you might need to have better lungs that I don't have?....
Bassoon - ?... I don't know much about this one?
Brass
French Horn - I'm intrigued by this one. Supposedly the hardest to play, so I probably shouldn't start there.
Trumpet - I'm actually kinda interested in this one. It has a nice solid sound...
Tuba/Trombone - Haha, I'm kinda superficial and I don't think either of these look very elegant or cool when played.
Percussion
I'm not really interested in learning any drums, unless it's one of this big band sets. But I probably won't try to learn that until I'm old and gray and have nothing else to do haha.
If anyone on my flist plays any of these instruments, let me know what you think of them and if you'd recommend them. :)
Speaking of instruments. ANYONE EXCITED FOR THE NODAME ANIME IN JANUARY? BECAUSE I AM. I AM. HEEHEEHOO!
UH so uh yeah life. Quarter one is finally over, thank god. All my grades have finally been released! I canNOT get over that I got a solid A (95.3) on my chem final. Wow. Threw me off guard when I saw the grade, I totally cried. I'm also kinda shocked about the fact I got an A in my stats class. I feel like some kind of error was made, but I'm not going to question it. I accurately calculated that my grade in the class should be about a B, but... I guess maybe the curve was really generous? ... because... yeah, that's... a really crazy curve. Haha, and last but not least, there's my sociology 1 class. A solid B, whichhhhhh I pretty much expected. I basically skipped every single lecture, did all the papers (including the term paper) the mornings of/nights before they were due, and taught myself the whole quarter's worth of material a day before the final exam. ... yup. Story of my academic life.
And life in lifey generally life? Really good. Haha, so I've basically told this story to everyone in person already so I can finally feel safe to blog about it (I'm trying this new thing where I refrain from blogging about interesting/funny things until I've caught up with people in person. That way, I actually have things to talk about as opposed to getting cut off with a "oh yeah, I read it in your blog already!"). Sooooooooo a few weeks ago, me and my friends on the floor group-watched porn. Yes. That is correct. Gwen was turning 19, so to celebrate we mixed margaritas and chilled. We got onto the topic on how when you turn 18 you're supposed to buy "porn, cigarettes, and scratchers," when Gwen confessed she had never even seen porn before. Wow, bad move, Gwen. Tim gets really excited and is like WHATNOWAY and RUNS to his bathroom, comes back with 5 porno magazines and flips them in her face. I don't really want to think about what those books have been through. Vaguely, it worries me that he leaves them in the bathroom. Does that mean all the guys in their suite... jerk off to the same stuff? Isn't that weird? So anyways, Derek helps out with the defiling of Gwen and brings out his laptop and is like, YEAH I'VE GOT THE GOOD STUFF GANGBANGIN SHIT YEAHHH and puts all of his porn videos on a loop. Like... as in once one video finishes, it goes straight to the next one. Oh god. So much dick. Too many dicks. That poor girl. Oh god, the thrusting. The gyration. THE DICKS.
Anyways, even though it was... kinda bad, the porn had its moments. Two highlights of the night were 1) when the video loop landed on some dickgirl hentai (hilarity ensues) and 2) when one of the missing suitemates returned home with some visiting friends from his high school and was met with a big surprise. Ahhh...hahahha!
I'll make a huge picture post next time of various college life activity. But since I never blogged about Thanksgiving break, some pictures!
:) At the park near my house!
From what I remember, Thursday was Turkey day with family and my bro's really hot friend, Friday was lunch with Amy and then Challenger reunion on the field where we played two-touch football, Saturday was something??? I forget what I did Saturday afternoon, but Saturday night I picked up Andrea and her Canadian-Tibet-trip friend from the train station. We ate at Pasta Pomodoro's with my family on Santana Row, walked around, went to my house yay! We watched Walk the Line that night, though Andrea fell asleep. Her friend left in the morning, but Andrea stayed until late afternoon when my uncle/aunt/little cousin Vivian came. We played Disney Princess monopoly with Vivian until Amy came by :) :) :) and she drove us for some Fantasia PMT <3. After we dropped Andrea off at her train stop, I hung out with Amy all day ♥ it was raining, so we went to Golfland to use their arcade for what else? Puzzle Fighter. I had dinner with her family at a nice Chinese restaurant. All in all, a really good break.
Haha, wow, it really has been a long time since I blogged. Anyways, so fast forward to the present--... I.. I bought a betta fish with my suitemate on a whim about a month ago. Probably less than that actually. Since we couldn't leave it at school for 2 weeks, I had to take it home over break since she had to fly home and I was going home by car and well... it died. It died this morning, so I think I can reasonably conclude that I suck as a parent. Anyways, betta fish are known to be very colorful, and mine was no exception. It was really bright, iridescent blue, with magenta-red fins, so I was really frightened this morning when I woke up, peered into the bowl, and saw a dead WHITE fish with red fins, lying on the marbles at the bottom of the bowl. :( I think it was dying before I took him home, but I still feel terrible. I think our troubles started when we changed the water... you're only supposed to change half of its bowl at a time, apparently, because betta fish are really sensitive to water quality and require some amount of bacteria in the water to help it function. I stupidly thought that a full bowl of clean water was better than half, so I cleaned and changed it all. Damn it! I also think we fed it too much. DOUBLE DAMN IT.
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ps. OH SHIT. This Wednesday, the DECEMBERISTS will be interviewed by STEPHEN COLBERT. *wipes a tear* The most wonderful time of the year, indeed!
String
Violin - I like violins, but they have a really high pitch PLUS like after piano, everyone and their mom plays the violin.
Viola - Possibility? It has a lower pitch than a violin.
Cello - I really want to learn the cello. It has a beautiful, BEAUTIFUL deep sound... but it's so goddamn BIG! Cumbersome and expensive, I would assume. Also, I find that cellos are more of an accompanying sound, rather than an independent one.
Bass - way too fucking big.
Wind
Flute - I don't like how this sounds.
Piccolo - ?.... can someone tell me more?
Clarinet - has a nice range of notes, can be both classical and modern. I like.
Oboe - can someone tell me the difference between the oboe and clarinet?
Saxophone - this is pretty sexy. But it's also quite large?... And I'm thinking for the big sound it makes, you might need to have better lungs that I don't have?....
Bassoon - ?... I don't know much about this one?
Brass
French Horn - I'm intrigued by this one. Supposedly the hardest to play, so I probably shouldn't start there.
Trumpet - I'm actually kinda interested in this one. It has a nice solid sound...
Tuba/Trombone - Haha, I'm kinda superficial and I don't think either of these look very elegant or cool when played.
Percussion
I'm not really interested in learning any drums, unless it's one of this big band sets. But I probably won't try to learn that until I'm old and gray and have nothing else to do haha.
If anyone on my flist plays any of these instruments, let me know what you think of them and if you'd recommend them. :)
Speaking of instruments. ANYONE EXCITED FOR THE NODAME ANIME IN JANUARY? BECAUSE I AM. I AM. HEEHEEHOO!
UH so uh yeah life. Quarter one is finally over, thank god. All my grades have finally been released! I canNOT get over that I got a solid A (95.3) on my chem final. Wow. Threw me off guard when I saw the grade, I totally cried. I'm also kinda shocked about the fact I got an A in my stats class. I feel like some kind of error was made, but I'm not going to question it. I accurately calculated that my grade in the class should be about a B, but... I guess maybe the curve was really generous? ... because... yeah, that's... a really crazy curve. Haha, and last but not least, there's my sociology 1 class. A solid B, whichhhhhh I pretty much expected. I basically skipped every single lecture, did all the papers (including the term paper) the mornings of/nights before they were due, and taught myself the whole quarter's worth of material a day before the final exam. ... yup. Story of my academic life.
And life in lifey generally life? Really good. Haha, so I've basically told this story to everyone in person already so I can finally feel safe to blog about it (I'm trying this new thing where I refrain from blogging about interesting/funny things until I've caught up with people in person. That way, I actually have things to talk about as opposed to getting cut off with a "oh yeah, I read it in your blog already!"). Sooooooooo a few weeks ago, me and my friends on the floor group-watched porn. Yes. That is correct. Gwen was turning 19, so to celebrate we mixed margaritas and chilled. We got onto the topic on how when you turn 18 you're supposed to buy "porn, cigarettes, and scratchers," when Gwen confessed she had never even seen porn before. Wow, bad move, Gwen. Tim gets really excited and is like WHATNOWAY and RUNS to his bathroom, comes back with 5 porno magazines and flips them in her face. I don't really want to think about what those books have been through. Vaguely, it worries me that he leaves them in the bathroom. Does that mean all the guys in their suite... jerk off to the same stuff? Isn't that weird? So anyways, Derek helps out with the defiling of Gwen and brings out his laptop and is like, YEAH I'VE GOT THE GOOD STUFF GANGBANGIN SHIT YEAHHH and puts all of his porn videos on a loop. Like... as in once one video finishes, it goes straight to the next one. Oh god. So much dick. Too many dicks. That poor girl. Oh god, the thrusting. The gyration. THE DICKS.
Anyways, even though it was... kinda bad, the porn had its moments. Two highlights of the night were 1) when the video loop landed on some dickgirl hentai (hilarity ensues) and 2) when one of the missing suitemates returned home with some visiting friends from his high school and was met with a big surprise. Ahhh...hahahha!
I'll make a huge picture post next time of various college life activity. But since I never blogged about Thanksgiving break, some pictures!
:) At the park near my house!
From what I remember, Thursday was Turkey day with family and my bro's really hot friend, Friday was lunch with Amy and then Challenger reunion on the field where we played two-touch football, Saturday was something??? I forget what I did Saturday afternoon, but Saturday night I picked up Andrea and her Canadian-Tibet-trip friend from the train station. We ate at Pasta Pomodoro's with my family on Santana Row, walked around, went to my house yay! We watched Walk the Line that night, though Andrea fell asleep. Her friend left in the morning, but Andrea stayed until late afternoon when my uncle/aunt/little cousin Vivian came. We played Disney Princess monopoly with Vivian until Amy came by :) :) :) and she drove us for some Fantasia PMT <3. After we dropped Andrea off at her train stop, I hung out with Amy all day ♥ it was raining, so we went to Golfland to use their arcade for what else? Puzzle Fighter. I had dinner with her family at a nice Chinese restaurant. All in all, a really good break.
Haha, wow, it really has been a long time since I blogged. Anyways, so fast forward to the present--... I.. I bought a betta fish with my suitemate on a whim about a month ago. Probably less than that actually. Since we couldn't leave it at school for 2 weeks, I had to take it home over break since she had to fly home and I was going home by car and well... it died. It died this morning, so I think I can reasonably conclude that I suck as a parent. Anyways, betta fish are known to be very colorful, and mine was no exception. It was really bright, iridescent blue, with magenta-red fins, so I was really frightened this morning when I woke up, peered into the bowl, and saw a dead WHITE fish with red fins, lying on the marbles at the bottom of the bowl. :( I think it was dying before I took him home, but I still feel terrible. I think our troubles started when we changed the water... you're only supposed to change half of its bowl at a time, apparently, because betta fish are really sensitive to water quality and require some amount of bacteria in the water to help it function. I stupidly thought that a full bowl of clean water was better than half, so I cleaned and changed it all. Damn it! I also think we fed it too much. DOUBLE DAMN IT.
/edit
ps. OH SHIT. This Wednesday, the DECEMBERISTS will be interviewed by STEPHEN COLBERT. *wipes a tear* The most wonderful time of the year, indeed!