Last First Day
Today was my last, first day of school. It feels weird, and I feel old. A couple of cool things are going on this semester.
1. Conducting recital
2. Thesis... (I'm not going to go there at the moment)
3. Playing a whole bunch in Ken's recital
and o yea - I learned this today:
4. Playing the Raise the Roof concerto by Daugherty in wind ensemble.
Last semester I jokingly suggested to Laverty (when he was trying to determine this semester's wind ensemble repertoire) that we play the Raise the Roof concerto. He asked "That would be awesome - can you play it?" So I said of course - because if someone asks you if you can play a concerto, you always always say yes.
I didn't think we would actually do it. But today he called me into his office and told me we're playing it on the first concert.
So - I'm going to be practicing a WHOLE frikin lot. But I'm also wicked pumped.
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Speaking of wicked, (did you like that segue?) my mom and I went and saw Wicked the other day. I had seen it in Chicago - but the Elphaba this time was frikin amazing. And she was the stand-in... which begs the question, how good was the main actress?
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And now I'm watching LOST. I bought a few of the seasons over break - and watched the first 3 episodes last night. Now I'm watching "Walkabout", which is one of my all time favorite episodes (aka the one where Locke kills the boar & we find out he was in a wheelchair)
It's funny to me that Jack was always whiny and annoying. Also - I really miss Desmond and Juliette in the beginning episodes. I even miss the character of Ben, just because he's so awesomely evil.
Okay - I think that's it for now.
Adios
-wong-
1. Conducting recital
2. Thesis... (I'm not going to go there at the moment)
3. Playing a whole bunch in Ken's recital
and o yea - I learned this today:
4. Playing the Raise the Roof concerto by Daugherty in wind ensemble.
Last semester I jokingly suggested to Laverty (when he was trying to determine this semester's wind ensemble repertoire) that we play the Raise the Roof concerto. He asked "That would be awesome - can you play it?" So I said of course - because if someone asks you if you can play a concerto, you always always say yes.
I didn't think we would actually do it. But today he called me into his office and told me we're playing it on the first concert.
So - I'm going to be practicing a WHOLE frikin lot. But I'm also wicked pumped.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Speaking of wicked, (did you like that segue?) my mom and I went and saw Wicked the other day. I had seen it in Chicago - but the Elphaba this time was frikin amazing. And she was the stand-in... which begs the question, how good was the main actress?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
And now I'm watching LOST. I bought a few of the seasons over break - and watched the first 3 episodes last night. Now I'm watching "Walkabout", which is one of my all time favorite episodes (aka the one where Locke kills the boar & we find out he was in a wheelchair)
It's funny to me that Jack was always whiny and annoying. Also - I really miss Desmond and Juliette in the beginning episodes. I even miss the character of Ben, just because he's so awesomely evil.
Okay - I think that's it for now.
Adios
-wong-