Summer settling in and a new living space.

So it didn't occur to me that I had summer vacation until after returning from Cape Cod with the Brotherhood and Sisterhood. Now that was a fun time. Imagine just three days of drinking (or not drinking), hot tubs, freezing pools, heart to hearts on the beach (and the jetty), and, in my case, serenading the water with a drum cadence on my new djembe. It was a spiritual, sometimes stressful, taking care of drunk people, meaningless cuddle fest-ful time. Strange thing was, I packed for six days of fun...when the trip was only three. I was told this on Day 2. Oh well, I had plenty of spare socks to make up for all the sand and water damage.

I've settled in to a futile attempt each morning to rise at 8AM, sometimes 7AM, but I always just end up going back to sleep. I blame going to bed at 12:30. I know it isn't smart, but I do it anyway. 10:00. Maybe 10:30. The few times I went to bed that early during the school term, I woke up rested, relaxed, and energized. I loved it. So why don't I just do it again?

The majority of my time right now is spent relaxing (hey, after this past semester, I think I've earned it), but my version of relaxing may not match the definition of the rest of America. It's more like procrastinating with a purpose. I'm playing through FF Tactics to the bitter end (like getting all the secrets), so I can put it away and not think What If. I'm also playing through Taiko Drum Master (thank you, brothers), to see if I can unlock anything else. I was very sad to learn that we had already unlocked all the songs. You'd think they'd have more than 31, especially when one of those is "Foster's Medley." :(
Business: I have been trying to accomplish a number of things so far in this break. I'll just run down the list: improving ear training (I barely passed with a D in Harmony IV = not spiffy), reread both Musical Theory books, read/listen ahead for the last semester of Music History, arrange "Hands" by Jewel and "White Shadows" by Coldplay, for the A Capella group, reorganize everything about Service for Tau Beta Sigma, write music for Dan's campaign (one song done!), order merchandise for next UCMB season, and successfully move to my new house in Coventry, CT.

Oh yeah, I've got a house for next school year. No basement, no upstairs, just one of those three-bedroom, huge kitchen, small living room with a giant fireplace permanently closed sitting in the middle of the wall kinda' places. It's very good rent, and I got the big room. :)
And a few words about Dan's campaign. We've been, as a DnD group, exploring my epic campaign, a few side mini-quests with Rob, as well as his epic story campaign, but Dan's is different. See, Rob and I were existing in a world still very much akin to Lord of the Rings. Dan and his imagination, is more toward futuristic western. And, he built it from scratch. It is, in a few words, a welcome shift. Plus, it's loads of fun. I've got guns. Big ones. More on that later, now that my internet is back.

I need to go exercise. Have a nice day.
-Adam

PS: Watch Heroes. Holy cow. Watch. Heroes. Tonight at 9:00.

Sick as a Canis Minor

I am sick. I dislike this thoroughly. I wish I had something more interesting to tell you at this point, but my head hurts, I have a bit of a cough, and a possible sore on my tongue; all of which not as condusive (sp) to playing tuba, or the horn for that matter.

I can say that I am maintaining at least 3.5 of my 4 New Year's Resolutions. The organizing of my room and life is becoming ridiculous, but it might just be necessary. My left hand's nails at least are clipped not by teeth. Flossing, firming up gums, mouthwash, and a sensodyne toothbrush keep the "take better care of teeth" category running full strength. And an ab workout everyday is helping, at least my ego anyway.

Resolutions aside, practicing has been lackluster this week. I didn't practice Monday, Tuesday's shortlived exercise was awful, Wednesday was short but had glimpses of the god-tuba player from last week, especially at the Basketball Game, and yesterday was the best of the week, but still not the level that the week previous was.

Can I just take a moment and rant about my Basketball Team? This is the UConn Men's Team. Now, granted that it is a team comprised of all Sophomores and Freshman, so they are young, I can see why they acted the way they did on Wednesday. But when every shot you make, no matter how cool it looks in your head, does NOT go in, it usually means that you need to return to fundamental basketball. Every shot, every single shot, did not go in, until maybe the second half. It was ugly. The majority of the game was comprised of foul shots, making it longer than any game I have ever attended. If anything, they'll learn from this game...I hope.

Back to practicing. Thanks for reading.
Adam