I Actually Learned Somthing
In fact, I learn something interesting every day.
Yesterday I learned that not everyone is fascinated by brass instruments. This actually came as a little bit of a shock to me, honestly, since I was sitting in class thoroughly enjoying a lecture about euphoniums and their unique compensation systems, intonation issues, etc, etc. It suddenly occurred to me to look around the room, and there were four extremely bored faces staring back at me. Not exactly at me, but definitely not as focused as I was on the lecture.
I wondered what I’d look like in Woodwind class, and besides disliking the teacher before I even get there, I figured that I’d pretty much look the same. I am a sponge: give me knowledge; I am full of knowledge: wring me out.
Albums Updated
Hi there,
Just letting you know that my web albums have a whole bunch of new old pictures. Stuff from a couple years ago, stuff I made, just stuff I wanted to get out there. The quality is lacking, and there’s no organization on the pictures I made, but what they heck, it’s up there.
Enjoy.
A Tantalizing Read
For education class, we’re required to do a vast amount of reading. Well, not really, but compared to other classes, three books is a lot. One of those books is a highly entertaining journal written by a first year teacher in Chicago called Educating Esme. It’s a book about undying loyalty to being the best teacher possible in some of the worst circumstances imaginable.
It’s a tasty read.
More Vacation Pictures
Driftwood and the sky
Hello: this is me writing, just to let you know that I do still exist, and do occasionally do what I say I will do. I just finished updating the new Myrtle Beach vacation gallery on Picasa, so it’s here for all to see. Never mind the silly pictures of me; obviously I wasn’t taking those.
Also, all of the excellent driftwood pictures (one of which is demonstrated in glorious full color above) were taken by M as well, so enjoy those. I took lots of pictures of a lighthouse because it was the only thing that sat still long enough for a silly amateur photographer like myself.
So head on over there to enjoy a small portion of my summer vacation. Hopefully it won’t be too dull for you!
In other news:
- There’s been a shortage of Lego Brick awesomeness on this here website… let’s fix that.
- Also, here’s our motorcycle quota.
- And a very tall tower of Doom!
can make this something real
Excellent
Watched Coraline last night. It was excellent. Reminded me of Psychonauts, an equally excellent game.
There was a trailer for 9, which came out, hmm, 9-09-09, which was three days ago. How convenient. It’s a take off from a short film of the same name, and it also looks excellent. They style reminds me of More, another short film, also excellent.
Excellent.
Did you hear that?
Whoosh.
There it goes again! And another one! Wow.
The weeks certainly are flying by, aren’t they. Thank goodness I can get to work and do nothing.
Well deserved, I’d say.
Weekend Road Warrior
I haven’t stopped running since last Saturday: Move in day and the first week of classes made me lose about thirty pounds and three hundred hours. I have a feeling the next two year will go by… somewhat rapidly.
So Many Instruments…
So very little time.
If I only had an hour to spend every day practicing, I wouldn’t have nearly enough time to even scratch the surface of what I have to accomplish this semester. Conducting, Brass Methods, String Methods and Guitar Methods, plus Applied Trumpet, plus 4-5 ensembles.
It could turn out to be a busy semester.
I Survived My First Day Back
And all I got was this stupid blog post.
Turns out Guitar Hero Skills are adversely proportional to Actual guitar skills. At least, that’s the case if you’ve never played actual guitar. I also need fingernails in about… a month, and since that isn’t really possible, this is going to be interesting. Thank goodness he’s starting with actual picking instead of finger picking. I keep missing the strings! Gah!
