Nick Hwang
On the the connecting flight on my way home from Atlanta to Tampa, I sat next to a girl who had just gotten out of basic training. She had just got her release and was flying home two weeks before going her assignment. She told me the hardest part wasn't the physical traning but rather [...]
I'm back in Florida. I haven't been back in 4 months. Gloria came back last night- she's the last one to come back. It's been really weird living without my siblings. I did pretty well this semester and I'm really glad to be back home. I've been completely relaxing, playing video games, seeing my grandparents. [...]
My life right now is so streamlined I don't really have time for new things. I hardly have time for Law and Order. Everything else in my life is scheduled so I can do work. I realized a couple days ago that I don't really want anything for the holidays. I wouldn't be able to [...]
I stayed in Baton Rouge for Thanksgiving. My sisters went home. My mom called today and sounded really sad that my brother and I weren't there. I wish I could have been home. For Thanksgiving dinner, I made myself a turkey pita and a protein shake. I tried to make a baked potato, but didn't [...]
My brother wrote a post the other day about his experience in Chicago so far. I related with it so much, I joked that I would copy the entire post and replace 'Chicago' with 'Baton Rouge' and would be completely true for me. But the following week, he made a post contrasting me with him, [...]
Besides my assignments of woodwind quintet and string quintet (and bassoon sonata for fun), i want to write a piece for solo soprano. Please give me a original poem with sad/serious tone and subject of moderate length. 1, 2, or 3 parts. If 1 part, no more than 200 words. 2-3, no more than 400 [...]
April came to visit last weekend. She's the first person to come see my place from Gainesville. It was so good to see her- I missed her. I took her around town and we saw Saw 2 and Dreamer. I showed her campus, discovered a little room up a ladder, and made a scene in [...]
I went to the movies this weekend to see Saw 2. If you're interested in seeing something that will make you uncomfortable for about 2 hours, it's your movie. The acting is slightly better than the first, but it is far more gruesome. Completely gratuitous. At least in A History of Violence the action was [...]
I spend almost every night at a local coffeeshop just north of campus. I first went there the first day of class as most of the new masters students went to get to know each other. I noticed the number of cute girls and mac users and figured it would be a good place to [...]
Today I signed up to write for a 12-movement piece by 12 different composers for the 12 chapters of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, where each composer will try to convey the text in their own respective movements. I'm actually excited about this. It's being performed by the New Music Ensemble in two weeks. The instrumentation [...]