So it's been a while.
I didn't perform with that one orchestra. It was good because I didn't have to worry over a conundrum. Two Jennifers came to visit me while my parents were gone and I got to hang out with them (instead of being a bad host and perform).
Hey, good news. Remember how I tried to move my iTunes music to my external hard drive, it ate itself, I updated it, ended up deleting a lot of songs and a third of my library not playing? I fixed it! Huzzah! The songs were just hiding and iTunes wasn't smart enough to find them on its own, so I helped. :-D
Packing is consuming my life. I've been thinking logistics all day today while I raided the kitchen, packed just about everything except for my clothes, computer, and the 'necessities'. [I've always liked English grammar better than American for that rule alone.] All that kitchenware is boxed up in the living room and I'm starting a nice little pile of stuff that's slowly encroaching on usable space in the living room. Today, the living room. Tomorrow, the world! Eh...or not.
Man do I need to study/review all that theory and history before those entrance exams. Definitely not where I was hoping to be on that history review (I'm hoping on my good theory skills and only reviewing the 10 days after I move in before orientation week). Chapter 5 of 35 is never good when you've got a little over three weeks. Well, I always work better under pressure...or maybe that's just work under pressure. Hmm...oh well. At least I've been practicing more than not at all.
Hehe. Today I got Jess and Bryan an apartment warming gift that I think they'll appreciate...'twas fun playing on eBay for the first time.
Oh, I've been reading Catcher in the Rye and I just can't seem to get into it. All I know about the book is that [from hearsay] typically the book is found in the homes of snipers, serial killers, etc. worn from repeated readings. So I know it'll be in a different frame of mind, which I found out from the first few chapters. I keep reading and while I feel like I'm delving into the off-kilter mind of a sociopath, I'm also bored off my ass. Of course reading about a misfit guy taking a few days off before telling his 'rents he got kicked out of another boarding school doing regular guy stuff (with no exact plot line visible), only looking at everything differently, would be a little droll. Occasionally a few interesting things will happen where we are presented a weird situation (i.e. getting roughed up by Sunny's 'pimp') and see what Holden will do. I'm sure someone could point out that reading about a person who's bored with the world would be mildly boring, but that's what Salinger wanted to portray. Although it is interesting to see parallels in Holden's thinking and how it might pop up in my own or in what I've seen of others' thinking (based on their actions/words). Oh well, I read all of Atlas Shrugged and that was over a thousand pages! I think I'll handle a few hundred pages, maybe I'm going toward an inevitable event that I just can't see yet.
And that's a good enough post for today. Yay friends coming and I cannot wait to see Jess and Bryan, Carol and Matt, and go to the Flute Convention! :-D
Sincerely,
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