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  • I know why I don't want to be a teacher. I'm tired to death of sitting, reading, and talking. I'm ready for some DOING.

  • What a week. You know how there are some weeks when everything happens all at once? - everything inside you and outside you? Allow me to bring you up to date, and forgive the lengthiness of this post. Yes, last Saturda…

  • Informal, string ensemble concert, two papers, piano jury, voice accompanying, and study for four exams is occupying me right now. Pray for me to stand strong! I'm almost done! Next week is the last week of classes, and …

  • Listen, I have never, ever been stopped totally breathless by a poem before. It's not that I don't appreciate poetry! I'm very fond of it, and I have my favorites like any poetry lover. But reading Gerard Manley Hopkins …

  • Should I play the Pagannini Rhapsody? Or the Liszt Totentanz? Or the Chopin first? What Romantic-ish concerto should I play?

  • Marshbanks Michelle: (running up from behind Rebekah and hugging her) You're not going to die. You're going to write that paper. It's going to be wonderful. You're not going to have a nervous breakdown. You're going to …

  • I really always wanted the experience of plunging both hands into a pan of barbecue and dropping the whole oozing mass in a plastic freezer bag.

  • I'm playing Prokofieff!

  • I've finally had my night lying in the grass looking at the stars. It was glorious. The fog was coming up over the field, and the mist was rising from the ground, and R. and I lay there and watched the cloud envelop us w…

  • More from Marshbanks M: You're crazy.Karoline: No I'm not! oh wait - yes I am. I'm glad you discovered that.M: (flourishing fork) I never saw anything like you! Your SAT is crazy! Your GPA is crazy! Your major is crazy.…

  • Anselm the Presbyterian has the floor: ----- I object to being told by a cellphone: "Drive safe. Be courteous." I object to being told: "Enjoy your meal," by the microwave. I object to being reminded to turn off the…

  • Wow. I'd so like to post the conversation I just had (thanks immensely Jason!), but I think it would take about four pages. I'd like you all to see it, and consider it, and weigh in on it. Maybe after the end of Novembe…

  • I think I should be highly pleased. Someone recently told me she came into my room, and tried to deduce my major from my books and belongings. She finally gave up: she couldn't tell if it was music, English, philosophy, …

  • Happy November! Can you believe it's really so late in the year already? Speaking for myself, it's taken me until now to realize how much my life has changed - all the old teachers I don't have and new teachers I do, the…

  • why does life have to HURT

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