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Monday, March 23rd, 2009
1:39 am	Alive I am indeed alive. For those few of you not on myspace, April 17th Freezepop will be playing at The Depot in Baltimore with Red This Ever. I hope to see all local friends there ;p (Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
9:22 pm	Betrayal Betrayal 1. to deliver or expose to an enemy by treachery or disloyalty: Benedict Arnold betrayed his country. 2. to be unfaithful in guarding, maintaining, or fulfilling: to betray a trust. 3. to disappoint the hopes or expectations of; be disloyal to: to betray one's friends. 4. to reveal or disclose in violation of confidence: to betray a secret. 5. to reveal unconsciously (something one would preferably conceal): Her nervousness betrays her insecurity. 6. to show or exhibit; reveal; disclose: an unfeeling remark that betrays his lack of concern. 7. to deceive, misguide, or corrupt: a young lawyer betrayed by political ambitions into irreparable folly. Friend 1. a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard. 2. a person who gives assistance; patron; supporter: friends of the Boston Symphony. 3. a person who is on good terms with another; a person who is not hostile: Who goes there? Friend or foe? 4. a member of the same nation, party, etc. 5. (initial capital letter) a member of the Religious Society of Friends; a Quaker. Something seen months ago only to have confirmation over the past several days. Betrayal is something that destroys friendships. Forgiveness cannot always be achieved. One is, was a friend, the other an acquaintance. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
10:18 am	Here's The Little One... (Comment on this)
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
9:14 pm	"For the good of all us, except those who are dead" Just got back from Katsu yesterday. Overall the weekend seemed to be fairly smooth. Other than a trip north for stuff. Long car trips tend to fry my brain and just generally make me a very tired and cranky person. I will admit having Leilani to help out with lights for the dance does make it a bit easier. I can get food or whatever. I'm starting to get a bit more familiar with the pearl now. I just need to learn how to actually program cues into it. It's probably not that hard. Came home to a baby bunny. We named it Neko. For those of you who don't know japanese, we named it cat. Other than the sniffing thing, Neko seems to act very cat like. The whole, I'm going to acknowledge you called my name but I'm going to do my own thing. Neko's current main play area is the hallway with all the doors closed. Neko has also deemed the large box her crate came in as a nice spot as well as any of the bottom bookcase. Got a few musical propositions for cello stuff. I'm quite curious as to how those are going to go. I haven't done any kind of recording in a long time. Overall school is not going too bad but not too well either. I failed my first 2 exams. It seems I did much better on the retake of the one. The next written theory exam shouldn't be too bad. I'm more worried about the aural exam. We're naming pitches and intervals. We're also naming scale types and doing rythm dictation. That's what's going to kick my ass tomorrow. We have the aural exam first and then the written theory...Neko is making some serious noise, so i should probably investigate what trouble she is causing. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, January 26th, 2008
11:13 pm	After much weighing of things. Lots of decisions had to be made regarding my living situation, school and work. I've dropped the business bs I was doing. I've made the decision to pursue my music degree without the other stuff. I'm back at AACC only taking the required music courses. I'm still going to pursue a semester of every instrument I can afford to get my hands on. I'm going to be here for 4 terms. I'm going to complete the music theory program which will help open doors to other colleges. As much as I would like to move, there is no feasible way for me to do this. I'm going to try to stay as local to Baltimore as possible. This also means I'm going to try to go out no more than once a month. Any more than that, don't expect me to come without homework. I'm also going to be hitting some of you up for music theory stuff. There is a lot I know, and there is a lot I don't know. Pat, Meg and I have been discussing the idea of moving into a house once the lease is up. We are looking to stay local to the area. There's so much going on in my head right now. Current Music: The Verve (Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
8:39 pm	So despite all it's been. My lower back is bothering. Not in the constant pain kinda way. It's the achey sore muscle kinda way. I think it's from my accident. So off to the doctor tomorrow. Got to see Trans-Siberian Orchestra. I could do without the crappy narrations and story telling and singing. But the lights and instrumental part of the show were amazing. Toccatta and Fugue in G minor is always a plus, but done with in thier style was cool. I want the violin players bow. It glowed. and so did the rim of his violin. It was pretty and green. I want a cello and bow that does that :) The moving light rig and led curtains were cool too. I would love to have seen how that was built and mounted. I'm probably off to the depot as I'm off tomorrow, and I really don't feel like staying in. bah. bunnies Current Music: zero- anna tschuya insp` black stones (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, January 4th, 2008
8:56 pm	My car is cursed I got rear ended by a vw that was rear ended by a prius that didn't want to stop. The prius has no front end. The vw wasn't too bad. My car has the back damaged on the drivers side and tailpipe was hit. I'm fine. The car needs some repair...I just want my car back for longer than a month. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
11:28 pm	My Holiday Adventures Thus far I have only continued the realization from retail that december and more specifically christmas shopping make people even more crazy. I have also learned about Christmas eve mass. I was invited by a close friend to join himself and his family for Mass and After Mass dinner. I thought it would be a neat culture learning experience. Mind you, I had some idea of what to expect in terms of how the musical response thing goes. I did a thesis paper for my music theory class a few years ago. I even had to present it. I understood that. I recognized a couple of the carols sung. Little town of bethlehem, hark the harold angels sing, silent night. I also knew a couple of the other songs. It's very interesting to see that Gloria doesn't change whether it's methodist, lutheran, southern baptist or catholic. It's been a long time since I sung gloria and was quite suprised when I instinctivly started singing. Hearing the apostle's creed was a bit scary. It was more of the fact that just about everyone was repeating it. and it's long too. I behaved myself at mass. I respectively followed everyone's sitting, standing and kneeling. When people prayed, I quitely watched the preist setting up whatever it was at the time. I did not take part in communion. This is where the biggest debate in my head happened. I am not christian but I have been baptised. I was baptised by choice and confirmed in a southern baptist church, not a catholic church. I chose to simply step aside as our aisle let out into the line. The sermon was quite tolerable. It was not really a suprising topic either. The priest spoke on how commerical christmas is now as well as the happy holidays instead of merry christmas phrasing. There was someone else who did a reading and I was trying to not laugh. I actually could not listen to what he was reading because of his reading out loud skills. He emphasized the wrong words and wrong parts of words, making it painful and funny at the same time. Overall it was really only about an hour and really not that bad. Yesterday was a relaxing day spent with family. I did however get to hear about "the Demon Barber of Fleet st." or Sweeny Todd. Apparantly Angela Lansbury was in the first movie and stage production. My parents are encouraging me to go. I find it very amusing that sometimes its my parents and not my friends who introduce me to deranged and fun things. Current Mood: amused Current Music: rose-BlaSt (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, November 29th, 2007
11:33 pm	Got registered for classes. But I need to combat the out of county tuition. That's basically me going to the leasing office and getting a copy of the lease. I actually signed it in Sept not Oct. and the MVA screwed up and thought I moved in August. So things should not be an issue. They gave me till monday. Plus side. I'm in Music Theory and Electric Bass Guitar. I will be borrowing my best friends baby for at least the first month, possibly second. Of course this agreement means I get him a case and restring it before the semester. I in theory get my car back tomorrow. I'm over the insurance coverage limit and the deposit. Listening to Luminal's lovely 2007 industrial mix and panicking because I thought my cell phone was going off while driving, only to realize that indeed i like a23 was rather interesting. On that musical note, it's bedtime. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
1:29 am	Noise Noise Noise ( Read more... ) (Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
12:14 pm	No internet sucks. We had to cancel Millenium...We have comcast. We will see how this goes. We just got internet up yesterday after no week and a half. I have a new phone number. Trying to not carry 3 phones.... I get to work at the Marley Station Verizon next month after I get back from ausa. Everyone has been cool with my time off for that. Time for me to leave for work.. (Comment on this)
Monday, October 15th, 2007
6:22 pm	Lots going on. Getting ready to go to G-St Fabric store. Working with the roommate on designing her white mage costume for her character. Need to pick up historical patterns for another cosplay outfit. Just started working on my Mithra costume. Lots of costuming going on... I recently started playing FF online. I am indeed a Mithra still in RSE. I'm on the Cerebres (spelling wrong probably) server. So far, most people seem pretty friendly. I'm such a noob. I was so proud of myself for talking to the people on my linkshell all by myself. Meg has been helping me out and teaching me to set macros for stuff like Cure. It's not bad but I can't wait for Dancer to come out :) Cello updates. I ordered my pickup. Thanks to beta58 Still waiting for that to come in. Then I get it installed. At least the wiring. They need to drill a hole in my baby. I'm still a little anxious about that. I have determined there will be no math class in the spring. I have managed to fail again. So I'm taking a break for a semester before I end up in the hospital. I am going to take some kind of music class. Since I will be back at AACC, I can actually learn useful music skills. I'm thinking about orchestra, guitar lessons or vocal lessons. And a history or religion class for fun. Current Music: smashing pumpkins (Comment on this)
Saturday, September 22nd, 2007
10:41 pm	Life is way more complicated than it needs to be... Current Music: Unicorn- apoptygma berzerk (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
8:27 pm	The first day of school I went to the Elkton campus at 8am. I ended up being about 5 minutes late. Then I along with my teacher realized that I was in the right classroom, right teacher, wrong time. My class is from noon till 4pm. My weekly assignments include homework, more problems, a pre-test that I have to pass with an 80% or better in order to take the actual chapter test. My teacher does not lecture the class in regards to the math. She pretty much babysits and answers questions since everything but the chapter test is on the computer. But the good points. I am in the right level math. YAY! If I get through all the chapters by halloween, I am done for the semester. Learning this means I'm going to find a way to get to 2 to 3 chapters per week. Got a key made for the apartment. Only it doesn't work. In fact the key the rental office gave me doesn't work either...That will be taken care of tomorrow. Current Mood: tired (Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
7:08 pm	And..... First, I want to say I'm sorry to people I have not contacted and any recently missed birthdays. There have been quite a few of you guys. The move is official now. I start living in Glen Burnie on Oct 1. My furniture move date is Oct 6. This is the date that I need help. Crash space is not an issue and neither is food. My tenative plan is for anyone helping that does not have ez pass to meet me at the new apartment. I will transport people. Meet me at the current residence if you are coming from north. I will reimburse tolls. I just need the help. It's about 5 bookcases, a solid but smaller entertainment shelf and cabinet, a bed with mattresses. I've already made arrangements for truck/trailer driving. It's really not a lot of furniture. The problem is I beleive in solid furniture, which in turn means I am unable to move it without help. The new apartment is right inside the door up about 4 steps and immediatly to the left. Yes, this means a serious lack of steps. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Most of you have my cell#, my email is jlgriffin83@yahoo.com. Thank you. (Comment on this)
Saturday, August 18th, 2007
11:40 pm	Okay, Been dealing with insurance quotes and such...I put the application in for the lease. Since I am being added to an existing lease, I don't forsee it as an issue. They said about 5 days. Then I will know for sure if I can move. Once I have the confirmation. I will set a date with Pat and Meg to the actual truck move date. Been going through a lot of my clothes and purging. For the sake of sanity and time, I'm just going to donate what I don't want. Most of what I don't wear anymore is in decent condition. I would offer friends first dibs on things but honestly a lot of it is stuff I don't wear because it doesn't fit anymore. I'm also doing a purge of other belongings. I have some star wars stuff, i.e figures and a darth vader display for one of the books...email me or post back for more details on things. Also lots and lots of childrens books. Current Mood: tired Current Music: mom watching house flipping shows... (Comment on this)
Thursday, August 16th, 2007
10:38 am	Tough Decision Time: I have been asked to move in with a couple of friends. Both of which are among the tiny number that I could live with. My parents are quite comfortable with who they are. I can financially do it, but it would be tight. School and gas and tolls. I just got transferred to Bel Air which is closer to home, about 20 minutes and 1 $5 toll. But the place is Americana in Glen Burnie/Pasadena. This is about a 45 minute drive and $4 toll. I have ezpass so that's about $0.80 and $1.00. The drive either way is still less than my 1 hour 10-15 minute commute to work and 2-2 1/2 hour commute from work to home. Regardless, I am dropping the theory/ensemble classes. School is 1 day. I NEED to get through math. That would be in Elkton, I can also use this a laundry day. Have dinner with the parents, etc.. So that's not that bad but it will allow for a very very small savings of $100 each month. Everything else will cut me so close. But with November and December, 6 day work weeks are inevitable and so is overtime...I said I would let them know by tomorrow but I started this process about about a week ago. The other bonus, I can seek my music stuff at AACC again...But I still need Math. I actually need calculus to get the degree that I want. If I move it will be Oct 1... Current Mood: contemplative Current Music: Wish you were here-Rasputina version (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
8:25 pm	Freshman year was the last time I took a test this long;P Got this from djluminal, sorry no good at html stuff... The Everything Test There are many different types of tests on the internet today. Personality tests, purity tests, stereotype tests, political tests. But now, there is one test to rule them all. Traditionally, online tests would ask certain questions about your musical tastes or clothing for a stereotype, your experiences for a purity test, or deep questions for a personality test.We're turning that upside down - all the questions affect all the results, and we've got some innovative results too! Enjoy :-) Personality You are more emotional than logical, more concerned about others than concerned about self, more atheist than religious, more dependent than loner, more lazy than workaholic, more rebel than traditional, more artistic mind than engineering mind, more idealist than cynical, more leader than follower, and more extroverted than introverted. As for specific personality traits, you are romantic (71%), intellectual (63%), greedy (57%), artistic (56%). Stereotypes Old Geezer 83% Emo Kid 78% Prep 77%   Life Experience Sex 10% Substances 30% Travel 15% Politics Your political views would best be described as Socialist, whom you agree with around 78% of the time.   Socioeconomic Your attitude toward life best associates you with Upper Middle Class. You make more than 69% of those who have taken this test, and 33% less than the U.S. average. If your life was a movie, it would be rated PG. By the way, your hottness rank is 76%, hotter than 93% of other test takers. TAKE THE TEST brought to you by thatsurveysite Current Mood: calm Current Music: negativland- escape from noise (Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
6:53 pm	I'm back I got back late but I have to admit I saw the wierdest vending machine at DFW airport on my way back from st. louis. An iPod accessory vending machine. Um. Yeah, I took a picture... (2 Comments |Comment on this)