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Name: Lindsey
Country: United States
State: Alabama
Metro: Birmingham
Birthday: 7/30/1986
Gender: Female
Interests: Music, sleeping, driving long distances with friends in the car, psychology
Expertise: Sitting quietly
Occupation: Student
Industry: Art
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AIM:  linzalito
MSN: linzalito
Member Since:
11/10/2005
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| I'm on Spring Break in Alabama. Awesome. Today is Mom's birthday and she turned 49. Don't worry, she's not embarrassed of her age. I'm glad that it's spring break because that means the semester is halfway over. It also means, of course, that I'm way behind on my piano because I only have one piece learned, and not even memorized. The good news is, though, that this will be my last jury of my entire life. "So soon?" one might ask; but no, it's not soon. I've been at college for freaking forever and I'm ready to graduate.
I'm getting more and more excited about graduate school and doing what I want to do. I can't stop imagining myself working at my job and doing exactly what I want to do. I am really looking forward to having a career instead of a student's job. Ugh. I'm so sick of doing stupid pointless thoughtless jobs where I just get abused by idiot shallow customers who have no idea who I am or what I am capable of. Some people can be really ugly to other people about things that aren't really that big of a deal just because they're too self-involved to think about people outside of themselves. I don't mind my boring job so much when customers are reasonable, but I just want to punch some people.
I'm excited about the summer, though. Having a summer is the nice thing about being a student. You can go on trips and have fun during the day and go rafting and swimming. Summertime is nice. I would like it if the whole year was summertime. I could just do 60% of my life of doing real work and then 40% having fun. Except, my job s going to be fun, so maybe when I graduate my life will be 100% fun. That's reality, right?
John is coming home soon and I am very excited. Three weeks from today. Write it on your calendar.
Has anyone ever seen a comedic pair called "The Flight of the Conchords"? If you haven't, then maybe you should because they are hysterical. They started out as comedians and then HBO gave them a show (they did at least one season). They're not really raunchy or anything, but they are funny. Maybe give them a visit on YouTube...
Okay, I'm sitting on the floor in my parents' office and my butt is all flat and numb. I'm going to go practice.
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| I'm one week into the semester and the only thing I'm excited about it being friends with Dr. Chien again. I can barely motivate myself to practice, do my homework, or run. The only thing I've consistently done is homework. Today I am doing much better in the area of forcing myself to do stuff. I want to be home knitting and watching TV... But instead I'm doing my listenings for my Piano Literature class. I'm enjoying the music, especially this Isaac Albeniz fellow. He's a Spanish composer. This semester in Piano Lit we're focusing on 20th century music. That's good because I love 20th Century music, and it's bad because I need to learn more about the romantic period. I've figured that in only a little more than 10 months I can quit my job at the pharmacy. That'll make my run there about 3 1/2 years long. That sucks. I can't believe that I've spent so much time in a place that I hate so much. I think the same thing about high school. I hope after college I won't have to do that kind of thing. I want to love what I do. I guess everyone has to put up with crap they don't want to do to get where they want to go, but I hope eventually I get where I want to be. The good thing is, I don't hate everything about my life in Cleveland. I think that's why I've been able to endure the pharmacy for so long. There are so many other things that I'm doing that I love. There are many relationships in my life that I cherish. If you can't tell, I'm in a bad mood, but I'm trying not to be. I don't want to be writing this anymore. | | |
| Things have started again. Before the semester got started I spent as much time with John as I could before he left for Cambridge for 2 1/2 months. He left on Monday, and now I can focus on school. I have now attended all of my classes at least once, and I think I will enjoy this semester. I'm taking Economics on Tuesday nights from 6pm-9pm, and I thought I was going to hate it, but there are several people in the class that I know and I think that I'm going to be okay. The only class that I really don't like ends in mid February. I'm definitely looking forward to that. It's a general core class about traveling. I don't mind it except it's full of freshman. All the assignments are too big for what they are. Last night I had to write a 2 page paper on whether or not culture affects church. Duh. I could've written it in two words, "It does." But I suppose not everyone else has thoguht about it before. Ugh. So I just BS'd about 2 more pages of 12 point font, and I was done with it. I wrote it while I was watching "Rock of Love 2". Speaking of "Rock of Love 2", VH1 is doing 2nd seasons of all the reality shows I loved this summer! "Rock of Love 2" and "Scott Baio is 46 and Pregnant". Those shows are a complete waste of time, and sometimes trashy, but I can barely help myself. At least it's not like TMZ. I only want to watch celebrities who choose to be watched. (I know that's still an awful excuse for watching fluff on TV, sorry... kinda) I think that my roommates and I are going to have some good bonding time over those shows again. During the summer we really enjoyed watching those shows together. Also there's "Celebrity Rehab", which is kind of like "Intervention", but with celebrities. Dr. Drew was on VH1 on some other show before and I can't remember which one, but I really liked him then. I'm going to start running again. I ran 3 miles yesterday and I am super sore today. Hopefully, I'll keep it up, and maybe I'll run a 5K with my mom. | | |
| I thought about writing a xanga entry on a review of my year, but that sounds like something I would regret starting. The year was long. I did a lot of things, met a lot of people, and you can ask me about it if you really want to know.
Right now, I'm writing this on my personal computer that I got a wireless adapter for. So I'm hijacking wireless from someone in the Mt. Laurel area, even though my Mom's office computer has a legit connection. Oh well.
I got a new iPod for Christmas from Santa. It is a Nano and it is red. I like it. I'm going to be very careful about treating it well because I don't want this one to die on me the way my other one did. But this better b/c it is 8GB and the iPod Mini I had was 4GB. That's right, it was an iPod Mini. It was lime green and it had my name engraved on the back. Actually, it had "Linzalito" engraved on the back. I got that one for my 19th birthday. Then I ruined the battery because I charged it all the time. Also, one time I dropped it in a rain puddle, which I'm sure did some damage to it.
This semester I'm going to begin preparing for my Senior piano recital with Dr. Chien. She'll FINALLY be back. This means two things: 1) I'll be a lot more stressed from my piano lessons 2) I'll be happier about my piano lessons. These things seem conflicting, but they are not. Dr. Chien believes that she should push me as hard as she can. Mr. Brownlee believed that he could sit on his butt and get the same results from me that Dr. Chien got. Sorry, it doesn't work that way. Maybe if I were more committed as a pianist, but I'm not. It's a sad realization that I've come to. I want to be a therapist more than I want to be a pianist. But I still don't know if I love music or psychology more. We'll see as my life progresses.
I can't wait to be in Cleveland again.
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| I like the word "Christmastime" because it doesn't sound the way it looks. If I didn't already know the word, I would pronounce it Christmah-stime instead of Christmas-time.
Finals begin this week. Good. I'm tired of this semester. All of my projects are done, and the only things I have left are my jury, my accompanying, and my finals. As soon as my jury is over, I'm going to feel really great. I haven't even really been trying as hard as I should, but I don't care. This means I won't get nominated for my last honors recital. I won't mention that to my mom because I think she'll be really disappointed because she always wishes that I would perform in public. I don't mind, though. Pretty soon I'll be happy again like I am during the summertime.
By the way, I figured out a way to graduate earlier than I had anticipated. One year from now I'll graduate. I only have 46 hours to go. That means really heavy loads for the Spring, Summer, and next Fall, but I can do it. I will.
I've been really into folk music recently. Even old school country music. I'm pretty sure it has a lot to do with my History of commercial Music class. Also, this Bob Dylan documentary came on VH1 and it was awesome. I loved it a lot. I didn't get to finish it, but I hope I will soon. I love learning about commercial music. I like it more than "legit" music history, probably because I understand commercial music a lot more. I've always thought about studying commercial music history pretty seriously, but I want to do therapy too much. Maybe I can do it when I'm rich and can afford to take school just for fun. Wouldn't it be awesome if I wrote a textbook on commercial music? I wouldn't do it the my textbook did it. I don't like how disconnected everything seems in that textbook. Really, it's all connected and I understand how, but I think the textbook could do a better job detailing that.
I know you guys really don't want to read all of that.
I'm also purchasing Christmas presents. I think it's so fun to buy other people presents. If I had a lot of money, I would buy everyone a present. At least when you don't have a lot of money you don't have to explain why you didn't buy presents for the people that you don't like very much that you act like you like.
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