Dragons!

I have a pet light switch. No, I did not finally sucumb to insanity, I mearly though of an intertaining way to say that I conisder the dragons on my lightswitch to be pets. The irritating Noah's ark switch plate that used to adorn my wall is now gone. I say the switch plate was irritating, becuase it was so raised that finding the switch became a challange. I hate that kind of cover. The person who designed it should have one installed in every room of thier home. See if they like it then! Anyway, I digress. I now have a beautiful pair of vivildy green dragons on my wall, and am discovering anew that I really like dragons. One of the best things about dragons is that you can use a lot of supper cool words to talk about them. One of my favorite obscure words refering to dragons is "squamus." (this will not show in your spell check or dictionary) Squamus means scaley. It is so much more fun to say that you found a squamus dragon, than a scaley dragon. Another really cool thing about dragons is that they breath fire. Think of what an asset that would be! Lets say I want a good excuses for not doing my homework? "Oh, my dragon ate it." Somehow, I don't think they would buy that! One of my favorite things about dragons is thier color. No one disputes the fact that healthy dragons are bright colors. The really cool thing is that they are way nicer colors than your average reptile. Greens, purples, blues, reds, yellows, and pearl are all aceptable dragon colors. If I could have a choice, I would like my very own purple dragon. I wonder what the nighboors would say? One of the down sides to having a full sized dragon would be the fewmites though.
I have my first piano lesson today. I guess it went alright. I have never had a guy teacher, so that is really different. In a way, I consider Dr. Sulton to be a bit of a dragon. I find him somewhat intimidating. However, I think we will get along well. When you come to think of it, a lot of people are a little like dragons. Some hoard things, some keep large collections (my hand goes up), some are rather fierce, and some have firey tempers and forked tounges. I guess in a way we really do have dragons among us! It all depends on how you define them.

I wonder...

Have you ever wondered what was going through a composers head as he worked? Okay, I know that most of you non-music people couldn't care less or that particular random thought never came (I love random thoughts!) into your head, but I have been wondering that today. I love the movie Amadeus becuase it shows Mozart conducting this beautiful peice of music. The music grows, and then all of a sudden it stops, you see Mozart sitting at a table and looking up at his wife who has just entered the room calling his name. The one I really wonder how he ticked is Beethoven. Hell for me would be losing my hearing. I do not think that I could go deaf and stay sane. To be a musician and locked in a silent world...I can not understand how that is even bearable. I need sound! I wonder how these songs come to composers. How do you know how to translate something into music? Music really is a language, yet how do you turn the spoken word into sound? Facinating! I wonder what it feels like to have a symphony bursting to get out of you. How much can you hear at first? How can you dream up complex sonatas? God is truely good to let echos of heavens harmonies drift down to earth. I wonder if composers ever feel like they are only grasping what they wanted to say, barely doing what they heard justic?

I made it!

The first week of school is drawing to a close, and I can soon go home and collapse. Being a music major is at the same time insan and one of the most fun things that I can think of to do in the whole wide world. I have done a lot of new things this week, and so far God has given me the grace/peace/ability to handle whatever comes my way.
It has been interesting for me to look at college from the perspective of an almost sofemore. Watching the freshmen is rather interesting! Watching the loud kids can be quite intertaining. I can't ever remember being a loud kid. I don't understand the need to make noise at every half good excuse! I would rather be happy quietly. Freshmen are also interesting to observe in class. Most freshmen fall into one of two catagories when it comes to note taking. Either they take copius amounts of notes, or they don't even have note taking materials. I know now what kinds of notes I need, so my amount varies.
Freshmen are also fun becuase they are so nieve about everything! They think that they can function well on three hours of sleep and a lot of caffine. There are some stout advocits for this theory, but I am not one of them. Sleep is good. Sleep and caffine are even better! Freshmen also think that the day starts at 10pm around here.
There are some interesting differences about ETBU that I really like, and there are some that I don't like so much. I love the lockers in the music building. I would be going in to see a chiropractor on the hour if I didn't have a locker! My backpack can get soo heavy, and the sad thing is that it is all with ligit stuff! Whats more, I am enjoying the pernounced fine arts emphasis. LU needed more of that. I miss the devos before classes though! I wonder if there is any way to start a campus movement for that?