Website of the week

Found

A really cool site. I encourage you to look at random found objects on the site.

My 100th post!

So, this is my 100th post, and I am going to commemorate it with something a little special...

...oh wait. No I'm not.

UGH. One week until finals.

And this is all my brain can handle.

...and

And, if you keep up with Ray's blog, you'll see that there is another GROW thing up. I haven't figured it out yet, but I'm very close!

GROW Island

Rice is Nice

So, I guess I have to admit that I do not posses the world's best vocabulary. That's no surprise to anyone who knows me. However, now I can use that to the advantage of hungry people all over the world! On FreeRice.com, they donate 10 grains of rice for every vocabulary question that you answer correctly. So, you get to solve world hunger and sound smarter, too! Yay! Win win win!

Free Rice


Feel free to let me know via comments what your vocabulary score is! I'd love to know!

Robot Guitar?? Drooooool...

Yes, it has happened, Gibson has created a Robot guitar. No, it's not a ROBOT that plays guitar, but a guitar that has robotic technology to enhance it. It is self-tuning guitar. I am going to do a very crappy job explaining what it can do, but basically, you turn on the tuning device, strum the guitar twice, and off you go! Different tunings don't even phase it. It has to ability to tune to pretty much any other tuning you want it to, and it's really easy to do.

I really can't do this guitar justice, you just have to go to the website, read the stories, watch the instructional video, and check out all of the awesome features!

Anyone have a few thousand dollars to give me so I can buy one?

A little laugh for you

(It's about Elizabeth Barret and Robert Browning. Well, based on their lives...)

Amazing? Yea... Magical? Pretty much...

So, I had my conducting debut last Friday, and it was wonderful! I want to be a high school band teacher, and last week was something I really needed. Yes, it really freaked me out to be in front of a band, all expecting me to lead them, and with an audience sitting behind me, wanting me to do well. But, to be completely honest, once I got up on the podium, it was easy to completely tune out the audience and get immersed in the music. I was so nervous the entire week before; disaster scenarios running through my head, and I was shaking really badly right before I walked on stage.

However, let me tell you...conducting is magical. It is the best feeling in the world. There is nothing else in the room but the music, and the general area that a cue should be. There is no audience, no other distractions...just a bunch of nicely dressed musicians in front of you.

Yeah, great night! Go me!

(this is not the way you should conduct
...just FYI)