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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 [...]

So I think it rained a lot harder here for Hurricane Rita than it did for Katrina. I lost power for about 24 hours. My fridge was defrosting with about $70 worth of food that I bought the day before. Classes are canceled until Tuesday. Last night I went to the local coffee shop and [...]

I found a folder I had when I was in the 7th grace. It only held my english papers into. Mrs. Manning's class. In the sixth grade, her son spit a spitwad in my face and I punched him in the eye. I was ~5'5" and he was already 6 foot. He picked me up [...]

Another reason that I love Law and Order.

So some people got trampled in a small town that will probably get its name in the paper for the first time. And the thing that caused people to be knocked over, trampled, torn from their carriages - an apple product. A fifty dollar apple product - unheard of. An outdated model of iBook. I [...]

I was talking to someone the other day about writing music. And I compared writing everything either by hand or on something like Finale a lot harder than writing on something like Garageband. I think I said, "Well, with all the consumer technology availible these days, anyone could use something like Garageband and call themselves [...]