Weather

The weather never stops the arts from their never ending march towards achievement. The weather here in Central KY has been absolutely horrid, and the city I am in is running out of salt to put on the roads. Evening classes were cancelled at my University, but that didn't stop the Wind Symphony from holding a 3 hour long recording session. The roads were bad, the auditorium was a bit cold (we turned off the heat to reduce noise), but we played some really nice music.

Two evenings ago, I decided to feed my art by "Living the Dream" as my friend Elizabeth Rennick says. She is the oboe professor here at my school and she is always talking about living the dream. It was about 10pm, and my friends and I were watching a movie when we decided we wanted to go to Applebees. What started as an adventure to get half price appetizers turned into an epic journey that included digging a friend out of a ditch at the bottom of a very steep hill, obtaining 30lbs of university owned salt through rather shady means to melt the underlying ice, and finally ending up at Waffle House instead.

How does this apply to my "A Classical Journey" blog? I'm Living the Dream people! I'm doing music stuff, AND I'm having a normal life. It has been really... quite strange to be honest. The past 7 years of my life I have had every waking moment of my day filled with one activity or another. And to finally have time to be normal is quite refreshing. And consequently, my musicianship is really thriving. Evidently when that light goes on saying that the machine is recording, I change as a musician, and I change for the better. Our conductor actually stopped the recording session to compliment me. What a rare treat.