My birthday is tomorrow. I will be 18 years of age. Many people are older than this but I am in all honesty quite excited. I have a great God who is patient with me, a great family and great friends. I have been blessed beyond what I can imagine. I just need to remember that when I can't pay my tuition bill.
18 is a pretty cool year. It's the year when most guys start thinking about joining the Army. Most just toy with the idea and then put it aside. For years I was certain I wasn't going to do that. I knew that I would enlist on my 18th birthday. But God had other ideas.
St. John's just landed in my lap. I have no idea where it came from or how it found me. But I fell in love with it, visited, applied, and was accepted. So on 28 August I leave for Santa Fe, New Mexico to study Philosophy and Mathematics, with a double minor in music and language. It will be intense, reading all those classics, but it will be time worth spent.
Also in the last year I became a spiritual member of the Roman Catholic Church. I didn't see that coming either. I knew they were heretics. But God saw fit to enlighten me and used many people to bring me home. This is a shout out to people like Victoria and Ben who cured my misconceptions and set me on the quest for truth. Thanks be to God, for truth is a real concept and can be attained.
18 is a cool year. I can vote, participate in the process of choosing our great Republic's leaders, as cynical as I may be about the whole process. One doesn't become a libertarian/anarcho capitalist without a healthy dose of cynicism. But a little more cynicism could save the world! Spam? Gone. Sales calls? Gone. Media advertisements? Gone. Politicians? Dead. See? It is a marvelous concept.
It will be a good year. I have enjoyed being 17, and believe that it was the best year of my life to date. I learned a lot and I even changed a lot. I never thought that would happen, that I could say, "I'm not the same person I was six months ago." But now I can.
Soli Gloria Deo Patris, Deo Filius, et Deo Spiritus Sanctus! Amen.
6.14.2007
6.09.2007
Piano Engagement
I play for Mr. Alan St. George again tomorrow morning.
I leave for HoneyRock 18 June.
I turn 18 in six days.
I leave for St. John's College 28 August.
Wahoo! Lots of stuff is happening all at once.
Aren't I glad this blog is private? Yes I am
I leave for HoneyRock 18 June.
I turn 18 in six days.
I leave for St. John's College 28 August.
Wahoo! Lots of stuff is happening all at once.
Aren't I glad this blog is private? Yes I am
5.27.2007
Piano Work
Maybe this should go in my music blog. But it is work and real-life related, so, being the Supreme Owner of this blog, decide otherwise.
I got a call from Mr. Alan St.George who lives in Savanna, 30 miles north west of here. He owns a castle overlooking the Mississippi river and is having some sort of semi-formal party day after tomorrow and needs a pianist.I got a job! I will be playing background music (Mozart would die of apoplectic rage) for a dinner/luncheon event at this dazzingly ornate castle. It will be so much fun.
In other news, Jack ran off. Again. I wish he would come back. I hope no one took him or he got hit by a car. I miss that big black dog and I want his return posthaste.
I am getting closer to finishing school, and summer vacation looms.
Next time I document HoneyRock and more work,
~Aria
I got a call from Mr. Alan St.George who lives in Savanna, 30 miles north west of here. He owns a castle overlooking the Mississippi river and is having some sort of semi-formal party day after tomorrow and needs a pianist.I got a job! I will be playing background music (Mozart would die of apoplectic rage) for a dinner/luncheon event at this dazzingly ornate castle. It will be so much fun.
In other news, Jack ran off. Again. I wish he would come back. I hope no one took him or he got hit by a car. I miss that big black dog and I want his return posthaste.
I am getting closer to finishing school, and summer vacation looms.
Next time I document HoneyRock and more work,
~Aria
5.09.2007
Over And Done: Onwards To Employment
My recital is over and done, as I noted on my music blog. Now I am ardently working towards the end of my year and the employment.
I have applied at about ten different institutions but there are few employment opportunities for me. Arthur's looked promising and so did McDonalds but I would rather not work at either. My dream part time job is working at a movie theater, but that does not seem like the job in line for me this year.
It sucks, really. I need to come up with about fifteen hundred dollars in a matter of weeks. I should have been working for ages, not just trying to find a job like a maze rat just this past week. Shucks and other comments.
So I am finding a job as best I may. More later when I have graduated and am employed!!
I have applied at about ten different institutions but there are few employment opportunities for me. Arthur's looked promising and so did McDonalds but I would rather not work at either. My dream part time job is working at a movie theater, but that does not seem like the job in line for me this year.
It sucks, really. I need to come up with about fifteen hundred dollars in a matter of weeks. I should have been working for ages, not just trying to find a job like a maze rat just this past week. Shucks and other comments.
So I am finding a job as best I may. More later when I have graduated and am employed!!
4.12.2007
What A Nightmare
That indeed is what it feels like sometimes. A full-blown, crashing, momentous nightmare.
But hey, nightmares are the stuff of which dreams are made, right?
I think I mixed that up. But my brain is frazzled from my Mozart and Debussy, not to mention my Latin, Theology, and Philosophy courses. I am so lucky I finished math my Junior year. Doing a semester of Calculus was all I wanted to do. I will take Algebra review at St. John's but we have a year or so before we get to Calculus with Newton. First we study Geometry with Euclid.
Naturally piano takes up a great deal of time, but all the same, I will be relieved when this concert is over. The tuxedo is ordered, the program is being composed, and the piano is definitely getting a workout.
After I finish my school for the year, I graduate! That is fairly obvious since I am a Senior and unlikely to spend two years for my last two semesters in high school, but it is exciting nonetheless.
I would post about ze crisis but I refrain from placing such content on the Internet.
But hey, nightmares are the stuff of which dreams are made, right?
I think I mixed that up. But my brain is frazzled from my Mozart and Debussy, not to mention my Latin, Theology, and Philosophy courses. I am so lucky I finished math my Junior year. Doing a semester of Calculus was all I wanted to do. I will take Algebra review at St. John's but we have a year or so before we get to Calculus with Newton. First we study Geometry with Euclid.
Naturally piano takes up a great deal of time, but all the same, I will be relieved when this concert is over. The tuxedo is ordered, the program is being composed, and the piano is definitely getting a workout.
After I finish my school for the year, I graduate! That is fairly obvious since I am a Senior and unlikely to spend two years for my last two semesters in high school, but it is exciting nonetheless.
I would post about ze crisis but I refrain from placing such content on the Internet.
3.29.2007
Torsion
Yes, it is a word that reminds one of catapults and trebuchets. But it aptly describes me as of this moment.
I am frantically trying to get ready for graduation and still retain some autonomy but such is not working. I need to try a different tack.
On the chipper note, my registration for St. John's is in and a spot for me on the Santa Fe campus is assured. Now I need to register for dorms, etc.
There was the nasty event that happened two weeks ago but if you (whoever you are) think I am going to write about that on the Internet you are crazy.
I am frantically trying to get ready for graduation and still retain some autonomy but such is not working. I need to try a different tack.
On the chipper note, my registration for St. John's is in and a spot for me on the Santa Fe campus is assured. Now I need to register for dorms, etc.
There was the nasty event that happened two weeks ago but if you (whoever you are) think I am going to write about that on the Internet you are crazy.
3.13.2007
The Question On Everyone's Mind
Is winter done or is she just lurking in the background? Upstate she usually comes and goes until April. WILL SHE DO IT THIS TIME OR IS SPRING REALLY HERES?!!
It was about 60 degrees Fahrenheit today so the snow is mostly melted and the ground is drying with great rapidity. This means I get to loose the chickens from their cooped-up hell (ha hah!) and have them roam in the Great Outdoors. Funsters.
I also washed the living room windows - it took almost an hour, but at five bucks a pop, how could/would I refuse? I'm too much of a capitalist for that.
I discovered a web comic that I actually like and found all by myself. It gets rather crude sometimes, but Pintsize is worth it. www.questionablecontent.net. Beware.
I'd post my musical progress but I really should keep these two blogs separate, even if they're anonymous - no one I know knows I have these things. That's how it should stay, for obvious reasons.
It was about 60 degrees Fahrenheit today so the snow is mostly melted and the ground is drying with great rapidity. This means I get to loose the chickens from their cooped-up hell (ha hah!) and have them roam in the Great Outdoors. Funsters.
I also washed the living room windows - it took almost an hour, but at five bucks a pop, how could/would I refuse? I'm too much of a capitalist for that.
I discovered a web comic that I actually like and found all by myself. It gets rather crude sometimes, but Pintsize is worth it. www.questionablecontent.net. Beware.
I'd post my musical progress but I really should keep these two blogs separate, even if they're anonymous - no one I know knows I have these things. That's how it should stay, for obvious reasons.