Find me next to a burning bush

if ever anyone asks you,

2007-12-06T22:24:38Z

"I have a choice between sibelius and finale, which should I spend my time learning?"

Tell them sibelius. Because Finale is a buggy piece of shit software probably written by musicians with a month of coding experience. How they manage to sell such filth year after year would be beyond me, if notation software wasn't so terrible a market to begin with.

football.

2007-10-19T22:37:54Z

FSU go boom. Tomorrow, OSU goes down against Michigan state (probably their hardest game all season, despite playing #23 Purdue and #25 Michigan), or Michigan gets on the ball eventually and beats them in week 10. Auburn comes off a tough win against Arkansas and beats a disheartened LSU team. A week from tomorrow (they have a break this week), Boston College goes down against Virginia Tech, their toughest game all year, and only one of two ranked teams they play (#11, they beat #15 Georgia Tech).

3 teams ahead of us:

Ohio State will play 2 ranked teams this season, ranked #23 and #25.
Boston College will also play 2 ranked teams this season, #11 and #15.
LSU will play 5 ranked teams, 2 of them in the top ten. The hardest part of their season is over, just as soon as they pass Auburn. Yet, over the last few games it seems like it's so close to all crumbling to pieces.

Oklahoma plays 3 ranked teams this year, none of them in the top ten. We have a rookie QB. But we do an awful lot of butt-kicking. Tech will be our big challenge, and then who knows for the big 12? Kansas? Doubtful. KU's been prancing around with the likes of Baylor and Florida International for 7 weeks. Coming up, they've got A&M, O(klahoma)SU, and of course Mizzou. Mizzou seems the obvious favorite out of the B12N, but if they fall again, and Kansas pulls a miracle for just a few more weeks, I'd be just fine with kicking their butt for the Big 12 Championship.

I heart Cox.

2007-10-18T15:43:09Z

sustained, avg 1.13MBps for 696.84MB :)

Black Forest Bluegrass

2007-10-18T13:48:37Z

I kinda want to perform some PDQ Bach at my recital next semester. There's a piece (Duet: "Ich Sehe") that features banjo, violins, I think a bassoon, and flute, and voice (bass and tenor) that's all in nonsense german and really quite amusing. I don't think it would be hard to put together (except I don't know any banjo players...there's gotta be one in catlett somewhere), and it would make a good exit piece.

frustration

2007-10-13T17:17:40Z

If my flute keys don't stop sticking, I'm gonna have an aneurysm. I can't practice the technical parts, because any time I lift the G key, it doesn't move for about a half second. Same with the Bb key. After a thorough cleaning, it is now airing out. It'd better be fixed by this afternoon.

Oh, this is just full of win

2007-10-12T12:59:23Z

sometimes I have bad ideas

2007-10-08T03:10:36Z

Like really, deep down, I belive The Sweet's "Ballroom Blitz" would sound pretty awesome in a flute choir format.

locked myself out of my house.

2007-10-06T04:46:51Z

Cost of hiring a locksmith on the weekend at midnight? At least $100.

Cost of buying a 7-amp drill and a full bit set, and a new handle? $85.

I could have saved more by buying a dremel knock-off and just a 3/8" bit, but I wanted to make sure I got the job done.

Now I have a decent drill and a titanium bit set.

public embarassment

2007-10-03T17:49:40Z

http://www.fitday.com/WebFit/PublicJournals.html?Owner=eatadonut

Feel free to be supercritical of my diet and exercise habits. Remember, the first step to eliminating your chub problem is shame. The next 4 steps, also shame.

bad timing

2007-10-01T13:00:27Z

I just had a completely empty weekend. The perfect time to get sick. Actually, I felt great.

But now I think I should go pray. To the porcelain god. Was it something I ate?

#1 weight loss solution!

ahhh

2007-10-01T03:53:31Z

it feels good to have workouts scheduled. Nothing kicks my ass more than having appointments in writing.

Debussy had something I don't

2007-09-30T17:08:48Z

I really, really, really suck at writing counterpoint. I don't know why. Every exercise takes me forever and never comes out sounding good.

PS:

2007-09-27T01:05:34Z

Just in case you weren't paying attention, congress just passed a bill allowing us to go to war with Iran.

Heh.

2007-09-25T19:37:37Z

What a day.

Concert went pretty well, I thought. We were all flat, but we were all flat together.

Afterwards, Mary Jane cornered me, asked me if I was on drugs or an alcoholic, recommended I seek counseling, and then told me she put in the paperwork to have me fired. I'm so glad I quit, though I'm about 2% disappointed it won't leave me with a reference. One of the guards told me Amber quit, too. I knew something like that would happen. I'm not the only one who things MJ is a little crazy.

Chorale is really freakin hard, much more challenging than any other ensemble I've been in. I love it. Just makes me more resentful of this bullshit with the band. I'm surprised at the quality of the other basses, though. Maybe I really am just that good? Seems hard to believe. I want to talk to Dr. Greenlee.

I'm also disappointed that I turned into a little child in band yesterday when Jahnke started patronizing me. I can't stand the man, but I'm a big boy and I should be able to fake it for 90 minutes 3 times a week.

looking in my fridge...

2007-09-25T14:24:45Z

for a bunch of guys, I think we eat pretty reasonably. Lots of home cooking, sandwiches, fresh foods, and only a little bit of real junk.

Now, the beer fridges...

blam! blam blam blam! blam!

2007-09-23T00:18:14Z

I sorta want to start shooting. Guns are cool (Jim's dad's were pretty great, though I wish the AK had worked), but I'm thinking maybe bow. Less law to worry about (even though in OK there's barely any law anyway), and shooting a bow is awesome.

EDIT: maybe I'm just feeling wild. I also just had the mad urge to throw 3 liters of water and enough food for a snack and breakfast into my daypack and disappearing for the night. *sigh*

boomer sooner

2007-09-21T22:22:25Z

So apparently the world is in need of a flute choir version of boomer sooner. Sigh.

Is there a traditional key it's played in? also, fast four, slow cut, or fast 2?

whoa

2007-09-21T02:51:07Z

can we please start playing this, guys?

Also, I'm an orchestrating MASTER.

I put myself on a wedding diet. (+exercise of course)

2007-09-19T17:51:59Z

I'm such a fatty (on the inside, mostly). I'm training myself to eat less (like after a backpacking trip. I can never eat a full serving of anything. It's great.), but it means I'm hungry, pretty much all the time.

200 by end of semester, 185 by april 1. Both reasonable goals.

So I probably need some recipes. Josh, I recall you used to make some darned good smoothies - do you still? What did you put in them?

seriously? SERIOUSLY?

2007-09-13T15:10:26Z

http://www.nbc17.com/midatlantic/ncn/news.apx.-content-articles-NCN-2007-09-11-0027.html

Here, I'll pick and choose for you: All of them are acceptable. Who gives a damn?

steve fossett is missing :(

2007-09-04T22:28:31Z

I hope they find him alive on the side of a hill, wanting some good food.

as the summer comes to a close

2007-08-16T16:44:01Z

I'm reviewing pictures. I see that I have experienced more of the best parts of America this summer than many people will their entire lives. I have gone through 2 weeks of the most stressful and fun schooling I can remember, and now I can set a broken bone on top of a mountain. I've climbed several mountains, and hiked to the colorado river and back in one day. I saw mount rushmore and yellowstone with my little brothers. I covered nearly 10,000 miles by automobile in 3 months. I rowed a canoe all the way to Copperhead Island, something my 8-year-old self dreamed of doing. I got engaged. I was inside a cloud at the top of a mountain. I did 2 sets of combat abs. I bought 2 pairs of chacos. I got a car.

A good summer.

my car

2007-07-18T18:29:07Z

I just got the new title in the mail. Now I feel like it's really mine.

My Cutlass Supreme. That's right. Supreme.

I had no plans of making the bass booming (definitely to upgrade the system, but just because I demand quality sound everywhere I go), but Jim might have a large amp and two 12" for the trunk. C'est la vie, I suppose.

Also, I've become hooked on C-span 2. Like C-span, except the senate is way cooler than the house.

The new harry potter is good, I guess, but it seems a little strange.

I love the internets.

2007-07-17T16:05:04Z

Right now I'm looking at a page that says, simply, "

Harry Potter
and the Deathly Hallows
By
J.K. Rowling
Illustrations by Mary Grandpre

Arthur A Leviny Books
An imprint of Scholastic Inc

"

Ridiculous. I thought there was "security" this time around!

a new obsession

2007-07-11T22:47:25Z

apparently, I don't know how to wash a car. Wheels clean, upholstery vacuumed (cleaning to come tomorrow, probably), vinyl is in progress. I even got all the pine tar off the hood and roof. But I can't figure out how to make the sudsy stuff work. I got suds, I got cloths, I got a sprayer. But the side I washed looks exactly like the unwashed side, except for the bonus water spots. What the hell? I can't believe I'm reduced to reading the instructions on the back of a bottle of soap.

Now I smell like gasoline and soap, and I'm going to miss happy hour.