Tuesday, March 22, 2005

   Stuff happening
Yes, things are happening. Can't recall it all, memories are dimmed everytime I get on the computer. Just went to Barnes and Nobles today and bought three books: The Prince, The Book of the Courtier, and The Art of War. I'll be reading those for awhile, should keep me busy.

The orchestra has decided to both go to the state MPA and study new music for the Spring Concert. This will be a lot of strain on the players. We'll have to perfect our first three pieces (which we're sick of) and then learn a couple new ones on top of that.

Today we had a substitute in that class however, which was a little refreshing for the most of us.

He was not certified to teach music, though. I thought, like all the other times subs were assigned to a music class, he was just there to baby-sit us. It turned out, however, that he knew a good bit about music and his unusual personality and peculiar habits and terminology (1st fiddles, 2nd fiddles) gave a bit of a change of gear for the players.

This change seemed to have done good for our morale or atleast it did for me. It was a nice change, even for just a day, from our inexperienced and up-tight new orchestra director. At times the replacement director seemed a bit internish.

Monday in sword class, Vash 106 and my sister and I (the entirety of the active brown belts in our class) started memorizing the new series of kata which mandatory for our rank. 5 of the 6 were taught that day, the names of which I forgot almost as soon as I learned them. Tomorrow they should be reviewed again to strengthen our familiarity with them, along with the 6th being taught as well.

Next class should go well, also. I'm hoping to spar again, we haven't done so in over a month.

Haven't been writing much in my little black book lately. It was intended to keep track of my thoughts and experiences in order to look back later in life. I don't trust my memory to keep track of everything. I was also hoping to use it to keep track of how my thoughts evolve over time. Turns out that I'm a bit too lazy to make daily or even weekly entries in it. It also became difficult to keep up with my ever changing mode of thought and put it in writing. It appears that once I write a thought down, after reading it and subconsciously evaluating myself, I rethink and my ideas change again. Trying to write down the reevaluated version brings about change then again. It's annoying.

I think that's enough for today. Have a test on a novel tomorrow and I haven't started reading yet (it's 11 'o clock at night).
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