Updates!

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005 @ 10:11pm

Yes, I’ve finally made some key changes to my blog. I was having issues with the code for a while but I wasn’t able to solve them until tonight. So I actually now have a logo and text in the menu! Sorry, but nothing will be there for a little while until I actually find time to do it, but I’ll let you know when that actually happens.

Oh yeah, the tables look funky in IE. Well, too bad. I don’t really feel like debugging my code at the moment to figure out what the real issue is, so go get a real browser. You know, like Firefox! You won’t regret it.

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Thanksgiving? Fall? What?

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005 @ 3:02pm

Well, so it seems to happen every year at this time. We skip Thanksgiving and fall. At least that seems to be the case in Alabama. There is no fall here, we skip straight from summer to winter bypassing any notion of fall that might exist. Earlier this week it was in the upper 70s to lower 80s. Now it’s down to the 50s and getting into a low somewhere around 20 tonight. Gotta love Alabama weather.

And we seem to have skipped thanksgiving as well. As soon as October and halloween is over, BOOM, it’s automatically Christmas. Thanksgiving is no longer a holiday that we apparently pay attention to at least not in the advertisement world. Oh well, at least they don’t skip fall break. I think that would make us students even more insane this time of year.

But there’s at least one less thing on my list of concerns to be concerned about. Band is over, sort of. I enjoyed band while we were doing it but it was taking up a lot of time and now that we played our last game this past Saturday I can say it’s over with for now. We still have a few pep-band things to do for a few of the basketball games and a student conducted concert in a couple of weeks but at least the workload won’t be as much as it was before. Stay tuned for future updates!

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Free Time? What’s That?

Sunday, November 6th, 2005 @ 11:21pm

That has pretty much been the “theme” of my life for the past couple of weeks, which you may have noticed if you kept up with reading the things I have wrote here. Even for the past week, I really haven’t had time to post anything although it hasn’t really been anything special since I’ve been spending nearly 95% of my time at school.

Anyway, to sum it up I basically spent most of my Saturday studying. How fun is that? Nearly 3 hours doing discrete structures homework; which I have a feeling the test this Friday won’t go too well for and the rest of the day from basically 7pm-12pm studying Japanese with David Thorton and Dana Springall. Mind you we were goofing off for some of the time we still got some quality Nihonjin time in, in preperation for the test we have in class on Tuesday.

Speaking of tests? What’s up with that? Nearly every test this semester has been lined up with a bunch of tests all in the same week. I imagine my professors all have a meeting at the beginning of the year and plan out their tests to occur all in the same week so I won’t have time to do anything else.

But yeah, I’m basically trying to study for as much as I can for 3 tests, 1 of which I’m not really worried about (programming class). The others might pose problems, but we’ll see how that goes.

But as of right now, I’m busy psuedo-studying in the library at 11:15pm on a Sunday. Trying to copy all my music for the listening exam we have in music lit on tuesday. And I just saw the most interesting thing… a girl, without pants, in the library. Yes, you heard me right. She was lacking pants. In other news, the 6th CD I need for my music lit exam is missing. Joy.

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2 Days for the Price of 1!

Sunday, October 30th, 2005 @ 12:34am

Well, so much for having time to do anything this weekend. Not that I’m complaining or anything, I really did enjoy myself for the most part it’s just that it was a rather busy weekend.

Yesterday and today was packed with events like sardines in a can. I had classes in the morning, then teaching in the afternoon, then finally a homecoming event going on at night with this huge bonfire and fireworks. We played as a band during the fireworks, which was quite an interesting experience. The whole trumpet section was directly behind the pit, so I couldn’t actually hear anything of what I was playing. But, it probably didn’t matter anyway because if I did play any wrong notes, no one else could hear them either. So after getting home late, I headed to bed just a little bit tired from the sinus junk that I’ve had recently.

I woke up this morning feeling yet tired again, and slept about 25 minutes past my alarm clock so it was a rushed shower and a quick drive to school to make it in time for this morning’s parade. Now this was probably one of the most interesting parades I’ve seen. Apparently it was a tradition a while back but they stopped doing it a couple of years ago only to begin it again this year. It was nice marching around campus for a good 3/4 of a mile for all 80 of the people that showed up. Oh well, I’m sure they enjoyed it anyway. But we did our thing and played for the homecoming game (which I might add Samford won, yet again) and then rushed to put away all the instruments in the truck. Then, around 5:30 I head to the Wright Center to see Bill Cosby.

Now I must say, this was quite an enjoyable performance and well worth the $20 I payed. It was a nice break for such a long day, although I felt slightly out of place considering most everyone was at least slightly dressed up and I was still in my dirty band clothes. Anyway, I finally get to head home after that and eat and watch some Seinfield to at least wind down some from the day’s events. At least when I go to bed I’ll get an “extra” hour of sleep tonight. I know I sure need it…

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Cranky Neighbor

Friday, October 28th, 2005 @ 11:27pm

So, I completely forgot about the little fiasco that happened right before I left on fall break.

So my brother had come to pick me up at my apartment after he got off work so we could both head over to my grandparent’s house in Georgia for fall break. He had parked in my neighbor’s driveway, because the way this complex is designed our door is on the side of the apartment, and hers is out on the front making it appear as if that’s the only way to enter into the building. It’s a common mistake by many people obviously, I keep finding UPS packages there all the time, and several visiting friends have rang her doorbell as well.

Anyway, I grabbed my bags to put them into the car and our neighbor came back from walking her dog and preceeded to yell at us asking who we were. I explained who I was, and that we lived next door to her. Then, she threatened us by telling us that was her spot and she would call the police if she found us here again. I tried explaining to her that my brother didn’t know and that it was a honest mistake, and beside the fact that he had only been there 2 minutes but she didn’t seem to take it too well, even after I apologized. All this happened after she had previously told my roommate she didn’t have any problems with us parking there.

It makes you wonder though… she threatens to call the police on someone for something that was an obvious mistake that many people have made. And this, even though she had previously told us that we could make use of her spot. It makes me glad we didn’t take her up on her offer to dispose of our trash in her trash can as well, who knows what she would’ve done?

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Fall Break!

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005 @ 4:33pm

Thank goodness for fall break! It’s amazing what a weekend of doing nothing can do for you. I got very little accomplished, plenty of sleep and goofed off for most of the weekend at my grandparent’s house in Georgia. Yet I feel a lot better than I had in previous weeks just from the break. But now, it’s back to the grind.

Homecoming is this weekend, so that’ll keep me busy for the most part. Of course there’s the homecoming game, and any other activites that are coming up beforehand as well. Bill Cosby is coming to do two shows in the Wright Center on campus as well, so that’ll be a nice break in this busy weekend. But in the meantime, there’s some computer science homework to attend to…

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Busy, busy, busy…

Tuesday, October 18th, 2005 @ 12:23pm

One word pretty much describes this semester: busy. Considering I’m taking on a full load of classes, not to mention I have 7 students in my piano studio along with marching band and working with the computer science department at school, busy just doesn’t begin to describe it. Thankfully, I had a lot of time to goof off this weekend after the football game but the week starts right back up again right after Sunday. I can say I will be glad for Fall Break coming up this weekend.

So I got my test results back from the disaster of a class, discrete structures. Apparently, I’m not doing too bad with a very, very borderline B- in the class. If I end up making that as a final grade I’ll be very happy but that means I’ll have to at least get 80s on the next two tests as well; I suppose we’ll see how that goes.

Piano is keeping me very busy as well. I’ve been really slacking I suppose on the Jury pieces I have to perform at the end of the semester. I suppose I should pay attention to the Mozart and Brahms pieces I’m performing, both of which I might add are really fun pieces to play, but I’ve been trying to finish up on my Kabalevsky concerto. I know my chances are pretty slim at even winning the competition but I want to give it all I’ve got, since this year and next year will probably be the only chances I’ll have to play a piano concerto backed by a complete orchestra.

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Alabama Governor Election

Friday, October 14th, 2005 @ 6:23pm

I think the image below accurately describes the current situation with the election for governor in 2006:

Governor Candidates

We have Lucy Baxley… who hasn’t really done anything so no one really knows who she is. Then there’s Don Siegelman who attempted a failed lottery proposal and who is suspected to be indicted by a federal grand jury in the upcoming future. However, on the republican side of the election Roy Moore recently announced plans to run for governor as well. Finally we have Bob Riley who failed an education proposal early on in his first term as governor announcing his plans for re-election as well. All I have to say, is this will prove to be a rather interesting election this next year.

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Rumors say…

Friday, October 14th, 2005 @ 12:03am

That I’m learning the clarinet as well. I have not yet to confirm these rumors… Oh wait…

Actually, I’m not really learning the clarinet. Mostly I was just curious if I could have any luck playing a clarinet, since I was learning to play the tenor sax. Needless to say, it did not go well. I think I might have actually gotten a few real notes out, but I really don’t remember anything other than the squeaks…..I think I’ll probably stick to sax.

Anyway, at least the week is almost over and I can enjoy myself a little bit more once I finish with my friday piano lessons. At least until saturday afternoon’s football game, but thankfully that won’t be too stressful. Maybe I can finish learning the rest of my piano concerto as well, you never know…

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*Honk Honk*

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005 @ 11:26pm

So I finally was able to pick up a tenor saxophone today and make my best effort at attempting to play it, much to the dismay of my roommates I believe. It might take a while but I believe I’ll enjoy this once I actually learn how to play it as opposed to randomly honking out notes.

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