The Beatles!

Mommy had all their records. I even have a bootleg vinyl for "Get Back". Can't wait to see the new movie!


Wow, livejournal! I had all but forgotten about you. It's school world for me now. We cast Joseph and our first rehearsal is Monday. I'm getting the band together for it, going over the music and picking out solos, and working on tough spots (where's my metronome that beats 7/8 and/or 9/8?)

Going on a photo store run today, for more tanks and reels. My photo group is three times the size it was last year, so I need more supplies!

Finally closing down the swimming pool for the year. I wish we could take it out and put a large hot tub in its place.

Tomorrow is the MD wine fest!

Can't say when I'll be back on here.

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Ha! Maybe I can play Queen Rania in a production about her life.

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Been busy with school stuff... I finally got my key I was waiting for and I've been cleaning and preparing the darkroom. Today I spackled all the holes and patched drywall so the dust would be at a minimum. Tomorrow I paint, scrub the sink, and organize my supplies. To interest my students and beautify the new art space I want to hang a small "show" of my own photography! Although most of my best work is currently decorating my walls!

I'm stuck home feeling like poo, so I thought I'd update. A lot's happened lately anyway! Today I was supposed to go to Philly with my mom and bro and gparents, but I am experiencing feminine discomfort if you know what I mean, and didn't feel up to walking around all day. Disappointing.. I like to spend as much time as I can with my mom when she's up here.

Well she's been here for the past week or so. :) I've enjoyed every minute of being with her and my lil bro. Who isn't so lil anymore- he's 15!

On Monday we went to Amazing Glaze in Bel Air and did the paint-your-own pottery thing. I made a soap dish with a music theme that says "Do Re Mi Fa SOAP" I came up with that! hehee Hope it turns out.

I have my offer for school for next year and things are in place for me to be full time!

I'm already planning my photo class. I can't wait!! I'll be cleaning and setting up the darkroom very soon.

I found an organ donor for the school chapel and the organ transplant will take place next Tuesday. lol No more dying ducks!

My dad is getting married! Daphne said yes and they are planning a date in September! Exciting. I'll be going there this Sunday and I'll get all the details.

Well now I'm going out today after all. I'm meeting Michelle at Arundel Mills to get Dad presents. I also need mosaic grout. I found a bunch more pottery shards at the river yesterday so now I have enough for a project. I also want a very large glass vase.

I think that about covers the adventures as of late!

I just had to share this embarassing moment from the other night.

It was the 8th grade graduation, and I was playing the organ in a little chapel on campus. This chapel and building has fallen into quite the state of disrepair over the years. Several months ago, when I first went into the chapel, I tried the organ and it didn't work- it turned on but didn't make any sound. Hadn't been serviced since 1989, according to the little sticker on it. Anyway, fast forward to the rehearsals for graduation. I figured if the organ didn't work, I'd just bring in a keyboard, but to my surprise it actually worked! Yay, I thought, I can just use this and I won't have to bring mine. So we rehearsed three consecutive days last week, and on each day the organ worked fine (although a spider crawled out of it while I was playing it one day, that was... exciting) so I concluded that I shall use this organ, even though the pedals don't work, the rest of it worked well enough.

Okay, so now it's graduation night (this past Wed) and about twenty minutes before 7pm, I turned on the organ to warm her up, played a little bit (couldn't play too much since people were all waiting in the chapel for it to start) and it sounded fine, and then I waited to begin. The graduates filed in as I played Pomp and Circumstance, that sounded fine. Then we did an opening hymn, and towards the end of that I noticed a strange vibrato whenever I played a "D". Hrm, I thought. So the next song, a responsorial Psalm, well that song is in the key of G so D is a pretty prevalent note. Well as soon as I hit that D, it sounded like a duck had DIED inside the organ. It emitted the most AWFUL noise. Not on pitch, totally scary. OK I thought, maybe that was a fluke so I hit the D again, same noise, only worse! Then I thought, maybe it will work itself out, so I played the D again when it came up, and no dice, SAME AWFUL SOUND OF A DUCK DYING. At this point, I laughed- what else could I do? I couldn't just stop playing.. and I couldn't stop the graduation to run out and grab a keyboard from another building on campus.. I just had to keep going, and just not play any Ds! It wasn't just the one D either, it was every D across the entire board, upper and lower registers.

I was MORTIFIED. I mean, to the unmusical in the audience, they prolly thought it was my bad playing. I'm sitting there, completely embarassed, trying to send out vibes of "it's not me, it's the organ, I swear I'm an amazing piano player, really I am". So I had to play the entire rest of the service without hitting any Ds, of course sometimes I'd accidentally hit one.. do you realize how hard it is to play songs and have to avoid hitting a certain note? I'm sure you can imagine my Distress with a capital D!

Well it certainly provided a comical element to the evening, but at the expense of my sanity.. Now I've started the joke around school that we need an "organ donor".

So that's my most embarassing moment lately! What's yours?