music

Music, music, music! Where did you go? You just sort of suddenly slipped out of my life in August and never came back!

I would love to start playing flute again. Especially since the semester is going by so quickly and I sure have nothing else to do when I'm not travelling this summer...

I was sort of going through what I wanted to minor in again today, and music came up. Why not minor in music? Because the music department sucks, that's why! Does it suck enough to not even consider studying it here? Hmmm...I thought about it and yeah, it pretty much does I think. Every time I walk by the music department they jump on me like pidgeons on a bread crust and beg me to come back. They're just so unprofessional though, and I couldn't stand being in the wind symphony again...I started recalling that the wind symphony was my LEAST favorite class of my first semester when I had only joined it for enjoyment. So music is out, sorry to say.

I have realized though, that as much as I love the flute and as much as I do think it is a cool instrument, I would love to branch out a little. I really want to learn some basic piano skills. I don't know the first thing about playing the piano! And I want to learn how to sing. I was really self concious about my singing voice for the majority of my childhood, so I never sang when I was around people because I was afraid they would make fun of me (in all honesty, I don't think I'm a horrible singer. Someone made a comment when I was really young that I was bad at singing, and for at least 10 years after that it made me stop singing in front of people). I think opera is such a cool art form though and I listen to so much vocal music that I want to learn how to sing better!

I'm feeling inspired, so I think my next entry is going to be about stuff I want to do with myself. Like learning to play the piano. And freaking picking up my flute again!

snow patrol

There was a Snow Patrol concert at school last night. I was going to buy tickets when they first came out, but they ended up being a bit pricier than I had thought they would be, so it wasn't going to work out. Ed and I decided to go check out the concert, since it was on campus and you could hear it by just standing outside the venue. There was a walkway which would have been a great place to chill out and listen to the concert, right behind the stage, but it was surrounded by caution tape. We found this perfect place which actually overlooked the stage from the second floor of Manchester Hall outside. I figured that nobody would bother us because we were pretty far from the stage (despite being able to see it) and there were no signs saying that we were not allowed to be there. But sure enough, after about five minutes a police officer approached us and told us that we were not allowed to be there. Ed started to protest, since there really was no good reason they shouldn't let us be there, and the officer (who apparently couldn't find a good enough reason to make us leave either) called for backup. So we just left. It was pretty stupid-- why couldn't they just have put caution tape on it if they did not want people standing there?