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| I think maybe I'm developing ADD.
My attention span is rapidly diminishing.
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| The time has come, my friends, to write of many pointless things, which I should be doing right now instead of writing about them. Maybe they're not so pointless. Eh.
Uni is alright. It's better than school, in the way that there is no maths or English or stuff to do. But because it's first year, my courses are a little less than inspiring. Thank God for QYO and So-La Voce and quartet and things like that, because otherwise I would 1. be failing, or 2. be bored out of my mind. Luckily! end of semester is almost here, and I am going to be LOVING swatvac! Because I only have 1 exam, a tech exam for viola and a theory assignment to do, and the vla exam is the only one that's going to be a problem.
I have been struck with a sudden bout of inertia! Someone kick me into action so, if inertia is still there, I'll just keep going :D
See? I do remember something from physics... *cough*
Go see http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=20849&l=5c002&id=753705858 for some of the highly advanced things we've been doing in music tech.
It's Asami's birthday today!!!!!! She's 20 now, which means she's an adult in Japan :D:D:D 誕生日おめでとうあっちゃん〜
Ok getting bored of this now,
ciao!
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| ... I've pretty much abandoned this place. But I'll be updating sporadically... extremely sporadically. that is a funny-lookin' word.
Anyhow, today's theme is whoop-dee-doo. Because things are really going pretty damn well at the moment. Apart from a few buzzy, annoying assignments and stuff, for one, tonight was opening night for Into the Woods! For an opening night (as far as I can tell... never actually been in the pit before) it seemed to have gone very well. We got through it; it never really fell apart, and nothing exploded. I didn't screw up my particularly evasive solo either, which was also a plus :D so I'm on a bit of a high at the moment, and that coupled with lots of tiredness = me not making sense. So I apologise for any nonsense or extreme weirdness.
Also plus - I'm getting paid for it! (Into the Woods that is.) Not much, but it's good fun so it doesn't really matter :D I'd do it anyway.
Going uh. opposite-chronologically (I can't remember the word. Sorry! XD), So-La Voce did a gig at St John's Cathedral on Thursday. It was pretty damn awesome to sing in there, and I think we sang quite well. Two of our strongest sopranos are on maternity leave - they both came though! - and so we realised suddenly in the rehearsal beforehand that we were missing a part. So Elly and I sightread it... bahahaha. XD Also! Elly has very kindly agreed to give me vocal lessons, which will be extremely exciting - I've never had them before and I'm finding all sorts of things that I can fix :D
Wednesday! Well. The night before, I had an Ignations (that's the society doing Into the Woods for those who don't know...) rehearsal from 7PM.... and it ended at 1 AM. That was interesting. In a not-so-good way. But we got stuff done, so eh. However! the point is, I had a performance to do in prac class at midday on Wednesday, so that was kinda not so great to be lots of tired. But it went surprisingly well! For some reason, I wasn't as nervous as I usually am, so maybe my stage fright is going away... hopefully! :D And I got some good feedback, so I was very happy about that.
Then, that afternoon when I came home, there was a letter from 'UQ Scholarships'. I thought it was yet another of those silly little books which tell you next to nothing apart from the name of the scholarship, so i was like yeah yeah. And then I opened it.
cue: BOUNCING OFF THE WALLS!!!!
Ummm so there's this Sleath award mabob which you just tick a box for in your application for UQ music. And it's for vln/vla/cellists and I think there are 4 given? Anyhow. I totally wasn't expecting it, because it's quite late in the year and I thought it had already been decided, and also there are a lot of good strings players in first year this year so i was like yep. nope.
ZOMGGGG
Which means I can definitely go on the Emin Tagiev orchestra tour in January without having to be in horrible multiple black hole-inducing debt!!! :D:D:D
So yes.
I am quite the happy.
hurrah!
Sadly my bedroom is a complete bomb site and I will have to find some time to clean that up before Mother Dearest decapitates me.
Oh well! I made brownies today for the orchestra (we just sit and eat sugary goodness when we're not playing... bahahaha XD) and some are left over so I can bribe Mother Dearest with those. Maybe. <_>;;
Ciao!
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| http://www.itsnotcheating.com.au
pretty damn good if you want office 2007... which is not me because i am a mac bum xP There's also something about a contiki trip mabob... which I've heard are kinda meh. But whatever.
cash card thing - http://www.mycanvascard.com.au
aaaaand the only reason I plugged that so hard (>_>;;) was because you gotta write about it to go into a contest to win lotsa monies.
Right.
So anyway...
I am feeling blerghy and unmotivated to do anything except for make my desk progressively messier along with the rest of my room and search for half-hearted student discounts in the pile of crap scattered around. Which makes it not a pile, but many of various sizes, all struggling to dominate the others. Hence war was thrown into existence.
ahhhhh whatever, i'll post something real some other time :P ciao
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| ... is about to start. And by about I mean next week. So at the moment, I'm running around having a good time at o-week, and stressing about my lesson today.
Ah whatever, this is going to be stream of consciousness from now. BEWARE.
Well first, I have my first vla lesson with Patricia today, which is somewhat freaking me out. Probably more than it should. Oh well, in approximately 6 hours I will either be happily reassured that she is not out to eat me, or sitting in the corner bawling my eyes out. Preferably and probably the former. She's asked me to prepare one movement of the first Bach cello suite, and some scales... not a hard ask, but I get paranoid and try to get things to performance standard for occasions like this xD;;; I just hope I'm good enough...
Speaking of which, I'm starting to get a bad case of the low self esteem. It's so useful: I can chuck it at the wall and it will bounce straight back! woohoo <_> Ah well... hopefully with some hardcore practice it'll frump off by itself. But starting a music degree is kinda scary, because everyone's going to be really good and intense and stuff, and I'm not sure I'm ready. I wouldn't give it up for anything, but I'm just not quite sure.
And practising 3+ hours a day is just a little bit daunting atm xD;;; I've been used to practising 1, maybe 1.5 hours a day... so slack! bahaha.
In other events, it is Mum's birthday today!!! I spent about 5 hours last night trying to find a decent origami box pattern that wasn't missing vital steps, or covered with stupid cartoons that made it impossible to read xD;; I ended up settling for pretty simple ones which is somewhat annoying. Oh well. She (Mum) seems happy today so that's all that matters isn't it? :)
If I haven't shown you/raved to you about it, JAPANESE SNAP IS THE AWESOME OF THE WORLD. It's so violent and amusing xDDDD
Hmmmmm I need to get off my bum and finish all these compositions I have lying around (in my head) half finished. It's kind of sad :( At least I finished Minda's! That was good, because the piano part was dragging on like all hell.
Oh randomly, I've found out that in fact I AM employable!!! I have a job at the newsagents, and in a month or so I'm going to be doing some casual teacher aide-ing at school, and from June I'm working at Simply for Strings which I am REALLY REALLY looking forward to >w<
AND OMG OMGOMG!!!!! The ACO and Katie Noonan have a gig together on the 3rd of March!!!!!!!! And it's an entirely English (as in.. from England) program, with Elgar and RWV *w* I'm in heaven!!! I can't wait ahahahaha!!!! Oh in case you didn't know I really like English music xD;;; And Katie Noonan's voice is amazing - like a classical soprano with very little vibrato as opposed to opera which would sound WHACKED singing her program xD
alright that's been long enough. If I get to the point of this much nothing-to-do-ness I might update again.
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