Sunday and Monday I was out with a cold or sinus infection or something, so there was not much going on except me being sick. Tuesday goes down as one of the worst days I have had here. Counseling: getting told that my problems are all man-made and all my fault, and the best way to fix them is to man up and get over it (while that might very well be true, it was not a good way to start my day, that's for sure). Missed my Dok class because I didn't know it was going to be at the NMC, so I missed the tour and discussion on something I was actually interested in. I got less than half of the lesson I expected on drums, so I felt totally jipped there. And my jazz arranging lesson was bad too; I felt like my teacher was making no effort to hear me out on my questions, like, what the heck are you talking about? What does that mean? Why does this work and why does that not? Nope, no help at all. Just blazed through the material and expects me to have it by next week. Sorry to let you down, but that 'ain happenin'.
Wednesday was good to try and get my life back in some sort of order. I tried to find a backpack for my week long trip (which I didn't find, and it looks like people may be bailing on the trip...). I did find my dad a birthday present, a Forge de Laguiole folding knife to replace his broken Laguiole that he has had forever. I felt pretty accomplished for being able to find this piece, it is quite a tool. Other than that, I spent some quality time in the library brushing up on my calculus. Gonna need to be on top of my game if I'm going to come back to Redlands and be a financial economics major. Then we had a few people over for dinner, and that is always fun!
Today was a pretty good day. Started way too early, in a practice room trying to get ready for my lesson. Said composition lesson went very very well too. My comp teacher really liked my piece (after totally scrapping the last one that we both hated), despite it being a piano piece, which I already have. NMA concert was very, interesting. I felt like I was pretty much out of my element with all of the electronic multi-media dissonant crazy ultra modern sound art.
Ok, so I'll try to keep up with the blog more, but no promises...
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