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  • For those of you who have not made his acquaintance, a monster lives in our room, a noisy, colossal, and hungry monster, whom the uninitiated refer to as the heating vent. Said heating vent extends across three qua…

  • Conducting is going to kill me! It's said that it takes thirty years to master the art of conducting, and that ten of those are spent simply acquiring the basic physical skills. Trying to learn them in the space of …

  • It's finally starting to sink in. I'm going to Greece this summer! Not only Greece, but Turkey, and Troy, and Crete! Not only am I going, but I'm going with the most delightful and remarkable group of people I know…

  • I have a new hero. I didn't realize how much Beethoven has fallen prey to iconoclastic historians until I started researching for a music history test devoted exclusively to Beethoven. The more I discover, the more I'…

  • Friends, Romans, countrymen! rejoice with me! Counterpoint next semester has been moved from 8 am to 10 am.

  • Isaiah 43 I gave Eypt for your ransom,. Ethiopia and Seba in your place. Since you were precious in My sight, You have been honored, And I have loved you; Therefore I will give men for you, And people for your l…

  • It's way too late to sit up and type xanga entries, but I'm doing it anyway! Not only is it Friday - well, it was - but it's St. Patrick's Day. Speaking of which, I wore bright green socks all day, and a shamrock ribb…

  • Tonight I played "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" with Eddie for the Lyricist Open Mic night, and I bought lots of little earrings and a new package of pretty sticky notes! All of which rank high on my list of lov…

  • I've got a violent case of spring fever, and spring break just ended.

  • At least when I’m in school, I have to pretend to have a brain. When I’m on break, disaster descends. Yesterday I climbed into my car, noticed a full cup of water in the cupholder, said, “What’s that doing here?”, pic…

  • Only I could have arranged to come home Friday for a whole wonderful week of Spring Break only to realize that I'd left an enormous stack of highly important papers at school, and needed to drive back Saturday to r…

  • I just mistook a soap bubble for a bug, and nearly dropped a stack of saucers because it flew right into my face. But I don't mind feeling silly! Spring Break officially starts Monday at 8 am, but it started five m…

  • How do you behave to them? - those people who sit in the pew behind you at church, or in the row across from you in class, the ones who aren’t bad or vicious by any means, but are tasteless, tactless, selfish, puerile…

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