A Day Off

Too Wired... Can't Sleep...

Before I went to bed, I was looking at a piece that I'm going to be conducting at Mayfair on Friday. You know, the one that's really hard and I only get to work with the students once a week until March, and then I have it adjudicated on March 31st at a festival? Yeah that one. Well, I was studying to tonight (and I say tonight because its a little after midnight) and I rekindled my fire for analyzing music. It's fun, it really is and I forgot why I didn't do more of it at my time in Davis.

Anyway, my eyes were getting heavy so I decided to stop working on the piece and head to bed. But as I laid there my mind just kept going over the music. I couldn't stop thinking about it: the polyrhythms, how I was going to teach it, what exercises I was going to use to teach a certain rhythm.... All of this was flowing through my head and I was just muttering and tapping my mattress to all the rhythms I was going over in my head. If you were lying next to me, you probably would've thought I was insane with what I was doing!

So, I'm awake still... and I can't seem to fall asleep. I want to look at the piece more, but the more I look at it the more wired I'm going to get. I would probably stay up until 4am and then kill myself the next day trying to get through it. To prevent that, I'm typing this up and actually, its working. My eyes are getting a lil heavy and I'm having trouble focusing at times. Probably a good sign I'm ready to go to bed. :)

Here's a pretty good recording of the piece. Well then, with that I'm off to bed. :) Hope your interview goes/went well! I love you and can't wait to see you whenever that may be.

Always loving you,
~Clover

PS: We should plan on going to Korea after we get married. Dr. Whitener sent me an email asking if I'm looking for part time or full time and I explained I may want to go Korea. He pretty much said to do it. We're young and we're not going to get younger and it'll be harder to leave once we're settled down with jobs and kids. So we should plan on doing it. So, let's plan on going to Korea after we're married. :)

The Cut

So, Youtube totally botched up my video. I had to reupload it again. At least its up. :)

LYD - Cook Something

Punishment Comic

Had problems with my scanner or this would've been up sooner. :<

Forgot to Record Stuff

Not So Eventful Day

Writing a Book

Teaching My First Class

Fail Camera is Fail

So apparently my camera doesn't want to charge at the moment so I hope you don't mind a text version of what I was going to talk about today.

I came back from class and man it was a long day. Class started at 1 until 3 and then another class from 4 to 7. By the time we got back outside it was dark again. Anyway, in the first class there was a lot of talk about preparing us for the job. Like teaching. And there was something Whitener said that got me a little freaked out. So apparently the credential we're getting is only preliminary. There is something called the BTSA (Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment) that teachers go through to become full-fledged teachers. I don't know if the preliminary credential expires or what not but even if it didn't, it made me wonder, "What happens if I do get a job?"

Now I know we haven't really talked about it so I have to bring up the chance here. What happens if I do get a job? Like one falls into my metaphorical lap? And it's really good? Good pay, good benefits, the whole shabang. Would I take it? And if I do, what would that do to the marriage date? Would we still be able to do it? Should I just not apply to begin with and hope for the best? I'm curious what your thoughts are so let me know.

I hope the blood drawing went well today. (OMG, I can't type for such a long time. My arm is cramping. Waaat?) Anyway, I guess I'll talk to you online! I love you and hope you had a good day. And hopefully I can get my camera working again >.>;;