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Circadian Rhythms

Verbal manifestations of a pinneal gland and its sometimes meditative, constantly laughing, occasionally delusional and frequently distracted owner.

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2008-07-22 16:21:03

Being an accompanist– pardon me, a “guest instructor”– at the Suzuki Institute has been mostly what I expected: lots of cute children and tiny violins (and violas); lots of cheery swinging of my FACULTY name tag (look, look at me! I’m FACULTY!); lots of guesswork as to whether the teacher is giving an introduction, or [...]...

When life gives you lemons

2008-07-20 20:01:36

As on Friday, yesterday I was at Brötchen for six hours. Again it was roasting hot (=nice lemonade and ice cream sales), until it started raining at like 7 PM. But you know what? People will still buy ice cream in the rain! Plus they had the added bonus of being amused at my water-collecting apparati [...]...

Fueled

2008-07-19 10:55:25

How sad is it that basically the whole time I was at Brötchen yesterday, I was thinking, “Man, this is the stuff blog entries are made of”? Anyway, the customer of the day was the very first guy I served, who did a beautiful double take when he saw we had ice cream outside on a [...]...

Items of interest from my post-Prague life

2008-07-17 07:37:28

ITEM: I guess it’s the jetlag, or maybe just a sleep schedule hangover from early morning rehearsals and such, but these days I’m getting up at 7 AM and going to bed at 11 PM. It’s quite wonderful, really. I’m hoping to keep it up till school so that I’ll be all awake and chipper [...]...

Prague

2008-07-15 19:43:40

I don’t like planes. But last Monday, I decided I like plane ascents quite a lot. Here are my journal ramblings on the matter, because I couldn’t put it any better myself (wait a second…): I was actually really anxious while we were taxi-ing around, already feeling slightly ill and thinking it would only get worse. But [...]...

Packing should not take this long

2008-07-06 21:20:12

I’m going to Prague tomorrow. Well, I’m getting up at 5 AM (blech) and going to Oneonta first, then I’m going to NYC, then I’m going to Prague. I’ll be back late-ish next Monday, so unlike last year or the year before, I’ll be back before you know it. A week is no time at [...]...

Brötchen

2008-07-05 20:30:25

Today I finally worked at Brötchen for a significant amount of time, instead of like an hour. In my defense, Angela never did call me after my first couple times… but I went down and pestered her in person so it was all good. I didn’t have to make totally screw up any espressos, because I [...]...

Wakefulness

2008-07-03 12:04:43

Fireflies kept me awake last night. Fireflies and LEDs. Reading Denis Johnson’s Tree of Smoke right before turning out the lights at midnight did not help either, what with its scenes disturbing in so many ways. My lips were so uncomfortably dry I simply had to get up to apply chapstick. I sweated and shivered at [...]...

Post-ambulation cogitations

2008-07-02 13:57:14

I walked from Downtown to home today, and though that’s happened before, that doesn’t mean I have to be used to it. Ergo, I’m really tired. Every time I stand up, my legs start shrieking at me. “STOP STOP YOU’RE HURTING US!!!” “Calm down,” I tell them sternly, “I’m not going to kill you or anything. [...]...

Unwritten

2008-07-01 18:48:01

For a while I’ve had this itch to write something. Not like a blog-type something, but an actual something (as if I’ve ever had the ability to write a real something before). But I can’t quite remember how to start. While I am mulling this over, why don’t you go amuse yourself elsewhere. The Big Picture, the awesome [...]...

Seven things

2008-06-29 12:38:24

Stacy, in her infinite wisdom, has gazed into the crystal ball of her mind (because those of infinite wisdom have no need for an actual sphere of crystal; kind of heavy, you know). “Lo!” quoth she, “April has nothing to blog about! Thus I shall bestow upon her this meme, that she may go forth [...]...

2008-06-28 18:36:54

Me: “Did you put ginger in these? Because they taste like you were trying to make ginger and oatmeal raisin cookies… at the same time.” Mom: “No. There are two reasons why they might taste like ginger. No ginger, though.” Me: “Okay…” Mom: “First, I think I added too much molasses; ginger cookies always have a lot of [...]...

Another ending

2008-06-27 21:36:17

Listen. Do you hear that? That is the sound of my actual summer break beginning. It sounds a little like Poulenc. As of now, I officially have NO MORE SENIOR RECITALS… until my own! I think I’ve been rehearsing every waking moment—i.e. at least once a week—since spring break up until now. I actually had people coming [...]...

Imagine what I’ll be like next year

2008-06-26 16:27:07

So, it’s graduation day and I have been merrily traipsing around town since nine this morning. I have been to two CTB locations (I’m in Collegetown itself now), Autumn Leaves, the public library, Bartels Hall… and I’ll be going back to Bartels Hall in an hour. Ish. At least it’s not roasting hot today like 2006, [...]...

2008-06-25 10:26:49

To my long list of favorite numbers (3, 17, 31, 51, 131…), I’d like to welcome a new member. I’m typically not vigilant about archiving my emails* as soon I’m finished with them, usually allowing them to accumulate for a few days (or longer, if their importance necessitates it). But once I have inbox counts in [...]...

Exams ‘08, day seven

2008-06-24 20:19:13

Stand up

2008-06-22 17:22:21

Could a world record attempt for the largest human peace sign only happen in Ithaca? Probably not. But it definitely does happen in Ithaca, and I’m pretty happy about that. In the following photos please note: the planes flying overhead, the lack of rain, the clearly stoned guys holding musical instruments up in the air (in [...]...

Uninteresting

2008-06-21 20:56:53

So actually, my life is spectacularly uninteresting right now. I spent an hour leisurely eating dinner, much of it spent marveling over the word “gnocchi” and how it seems to have so many more consonants than “instant” even though they have the exact same number and distribution of vowels and consonants. (It has to do [...]...

Exams ‘08, day six

2008-06-20 19:25:39

Further proof that I am divine

2008-06-19 15:36:23

Amy was using my computer to import CDs and such, since her antique iMac has a defective CD drive or something, and of course this bothered me to no end because I urgently needed to go on Facebook. And of course it had to be on my computer and not hers. Duh. It also annoyed me [...]...

Guess what?

2008-06-18 16:41:48

Firstly, my sister’s ancient version of Firefox (1.0.7!!!) apparently hates WordPress, so I am composing this entry in Gmail. So if it has a distinctly different flavor than my usual fare, that is undoubtedly why. There also may be some spaces missing because the space key on this keyboard is unusually hard. (Did I mention that [...]...

Guest entry by Amy*

2008-06-16 16:26:17

I asked April what I should write about for my guest blog entry. She said, if she told me what to write about, then she could just write it herself. My rejoinder was, then it wouldn’t be from my point of view. She then told me my point of view is dumb. I kept quiet, [...]...

Exams ‘08, day five

2008-06-16 14:35:40

Too long for a status message, too short for a blog entry

2008-06-15 20:44:03

1. Five soloists + two accompanists + people playing more than one instrument = long, LONG recital. But very nice! Even though (or perhaps because) Andrew and I didn’t tango at the end. Also, all the Asians happened to be wearing black and all the white people happened to be wearing blue and black, which [...]...

Keyboard fiasco II

2008-06-14 18:13:17

Okay, it could’ve been worse. And I’m not going to be negative, because that wouldn’t do anything but cause Marza to smack me. Let me just say that I am so incredibly thankful to all the marvelous people who showed up and suffered through the horrible heat of Barnes Hall and stayed to eat our cake and [...]...

Keyboard fiasco

2008-06-13 20:15:12

But first! Where are you going to be at 3 PM on Saturday? Answer: Barnes Hall, listening to Marza and I (and Amy L.! and Kiera!) playing the ‘cello and piano, respectively. Don’t give me that blank look; I know I’ve told you about this. You’ll be there? Good. [...]...

Looking back

2008-06-12 21:58:50

Sophomore year: September ‘06 | June ‘07 Junior year: September ‘07 This day was not supposed to come this soon. I am so bad at this whole “dealing with the passage of time” thing. Well, at any rate, here comes the moment you’ve all been waiting for: my year-end reflections on my classes, paired with my predictions [...]...

In which junior year is personified

2008-06-11 20:04:45

Wait a second. WAIT JUST A SECOND. Junior year? Did I give you permission to end? No, don’t give me any of that “but it’s already been nine months” BS. You think you can make up some excuses about time passing and shit and then just END tomorrow, or in two weeks, except exams don’t count, [...]...

It is ridiculously hot.

2008-06-09 22:02:15

Highlight of my day? Hands down, Latin class. If only for the infinite awkwardness of walking down the hallway holding a knife. (Counterfactual scenario: “Do you have a pass?” *brandishing knife* “You wanna ask that again?”) But hey, we needed to cut our cake. Also we had gelato, sang happy birthday in [...]...

Audiobooks

2008-06-08 15:45:21

This is sad. Last night I had a dream that I was looking at my blog stats– which of course is NOT because I look at my blog stats constantly, oh no– and I noticed a traffic spike for the current day, which was actually December 2. So I scrolled down a bit [...]...

My last day of SAT testing, ever

2008-06-07 20:09:39

So I walk into my testing room in upper H-building. “Wow,” I say, “I’m glad we chose a nice cool day and a nice cool room for this.” Everyone somehow sums up the energy to laugh. And we turn up the fans a little more. Fortunately this was the SAT Reasoning Test, which I found [...]...

You wish you were cool enough for math seminar

2008-06-06 20:56:04

Seminar is not yet over. To be precise, we have at least one and possibly two meetings left. But could I wait any longer to post this list? Of course not. So without further ado, here is an unorganized list of unexplained things that were uttered in H202, between 12:17 and 1:02 roughly [...]...

17 minutes

2008-06-05 15:46:04

I’ve learned a couple things in the past 17 minutes. Well, now it’s actually the 17 minutes that transpired about 9 minutes ago*, but I digress. First of all, I learned it takes me about 17 minutes to walk from IHS to Cornell. Or more specifically– seeing as Cornell is actually all over Ithaca so that statement [...]...

Time and GEB and…

2008-06-03 22:27:50

What began as me giving a practice presentation on Gödel’s incompleteness theorem to my mom developed into an hour-long discussion on number theory, the Goldbach conjecture, truth, time, special relativity, 1984, the Aeneid, quantum mechanics, Bach, canons, isomorphism…… It was pretty fantastic. I also feel a lot more confident about my ability to explain these things [...]...

This was a natural next step.

2008-06-02 16:51:13

Now presenting a fragment of an online conversation I participated in last night. 10:04 PM Rachel: did you read my lovely comment on your post? [this one] me: yes did you read my lovely reply? Rachel: not yet when i checked back there wasnt one yet 10:06 PM did you read my lovely reply to your lovely [...]...

Impossible

2008-06-01 20:45:06

Next time I attempt to do something blatantly impossible, like write a 5-10 page paper summarizing a 400 page book– or write said paper in a single evening– please stop me. And then give me chocolate. Because, um, I like chocolate, and you seemed to be in the mood for obeying orders. No? [...]...

Cake = love

2008-05-30 17:26:17

So, you know, the cake was pretty good. Hah. Actually it was amazing, rich and chocolatey and beautiful, really: so smooth that it shone under the fluorescent lights, and composed of layers of such smooth frosting and delicious cakey goodness, and topped with this extravagant sculpture of chocolate ribbon decorated with gold fractalicious designs and… My [...]...

Today, plus 95 minutes

2008-05-27 21:53:25

(The title references this. And now, for the first time ever, I am going to just rewrite my personal journal entry as today’s blog entry, because it would take much too much effort to craft a new one. And it’s kind of amusing anyway. But be warned! No clarifying hyperlinks and few complete sentences [...]...

Mostly complaining

2008-05-26 20:51:59

My schedule these days is a little like a puzzle: every time I plan another rehearsal, I have to make sure it fits just right in that little slice of time between one thing and the next. It’s funny, because I always thought of May 18, the date of Ping’s recital, as the turning point between [...]...

With all due respect to quail farmers

2008-05-25 18:18:29

I think my mom is getting desperate. She’s pretty good at hiding it, but I can tell. Mom: “Quail farming is very interesting. Maybe you can go to Cornell and–” Me: “Study agriculture?” Mom: “No, just go out to quail farms and–” Me: “Study quail farming?! Is that a major?” Oh, future. Whatever am I going to [...]...