my computer died yesterday

My computer died yesterday.

The hard drive crashed. So that's taking up a lot of my brain space.

I wasn't thrilled with how my audition for the orchestra went. It

doesn't really matter- I'll get in anyways- but I wish, especially

after having a bad audition last year, that I could have actually

played up to my potential.

I used to think that I had pretty good audition nerves. Sure I got

pretty nervous in the week or so leading up to it, but that day I used

to usually be pretty calm. I'm slowly coming to realize that this is,

in fact, false. I don't audition well. Which I need to get over.

Yesterday.

I found out what's happening with 1512. Well, sort of. 1512 itself has

been taken over as storage space for the construction work. In the

ROTC room, though they've put in practice rooms. Not modules. Actual

rooms with walls and doors and hallways. So yay for that.

I'm taking two music classes this semester, as well as musicianship

(sight singing and dictation).

National and Regional Identity in American Music and Literature: An

insane teacher but really interesting material and will be pretty easy

besides- three 4 page papers in a 400 level seminar! And one of the

papers isn't really a paper, more of a creative thinking exercise.

Plus, this course is made for the way I write papers- Les Miserables

and Music of the French Revolution anyone? (A quote from the syllabus:

Some examples (God forbid) would be "J. Wilbur Cash and Southern

Regional Identity in Lynyrd Skynyrd's Freebird," or "Images of

Urbanity in the Work of Richard Wright and Li'l Bow Wow" )

Pre-Modern Music (Gregorian chant - 1500): Interesting material,

boring teacher. We will learn and perform a Gregorian chant mass. I'm

not quite sure yet if that's a good or bad thing, especially since the

class time is up against USingers and currently the performance is

scheduled for Halloween, which is a Wednesday besides. Still, should