Happy list.
I’m having a good day. Here are some things that have made me feel good recently.
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1. Being told by the trombone profs after I thought I’d bombed an audition that I made great improvement, and then talking to them later and having them tell me they were honestly very impressed by how far I’d come since my first audition into the college of music senior year of highschool.
2. Finding the Red Cross drive at my school, going up to one of the buckets, and just up-ending my wallet into it and watching the dollars float down, and no even caring how much I’d just donated.
3. Going home last weekend and taking every scrap of clothing that I didn’t wear anymore or didn’t fit me anymore and putting it into big plastic bags and driving it down to the Salvation Army.
4. Find the drive the animal rescue group was holding on campus and once more just emptying my wallet into their collection bucket. Seriously, if you live in the area think about adopting one of the animals that has been made homeless by Hurricane Katrina.
5. Making a 92 on my first piano test today and actually feeling like I’m playing piano, not just pushing random keys and having a melody magically come out.
6. Listening to Led Zeppelin’s “Bring it on Home” from the How the West Was Won soundtrack.
7. Having the afternoon off this afternoon.
8. Actually starting to enjoy marching band again. I swear, I’m starting to feel the effects of the endorphins. I’m getting a great tan too!
9. Having a sweet guy give up his seat on the bus to me (I’m actually starting to like Southern gentility!)
10. Feeling my great epiphany in theory coming closer and closer. It’s not here yet, but I feel that sometime around when we hit chromaticism, I’ll suddenly have an epiphany and be able to understand everything from when we were doing tonal harmony. Won’t do me a bit of good, but I’ll be able to understand it, damn it!
11. NOT freaking out about a part writing assignment in theory today. Last year had someone given me a blank piece of ledger paper and told me to write a 5-chord progression with purely progressive movement and a perfect authentic cadence at the end, I would have broke down crying. Today I had about 2 seconds of panic before my brain kicked in, told me to stop being a baby, and just do it. I was able to write the parts and check for parallels AS I was writing it. It was the closest I’ve come to an epiphany in a while.
12. Finding out that A Circle of Three Trees has made me an officer, and moved the meetings to Thursday nights so I could attend them.
13. Hanging out with my roommates eating ice cream and potato chips and watching cheesy chick flicks.
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-M