Let's see, spring semester 2008:

Started dating the most wonderful man in the world...and still dating him for more than three months now.

Wrote the entire underscore and dance music for the play Pride and Prejudice.  9 shows in the Troutt Theatre.

Scored SIFE (Students In Free Enterprise) documentary for the Belmont Journalism Dept.  20 min long.

Completed recording my own EP at Sharkbait Studios.  Already on Snocap, looking to get on iTunes in a few months.

Played more sessions than I remember.  Had my first real B3 experience a couple of weeks ago.

Played two recitals, two departmentals, and alot of lessons and seminars.

Finalist for the Huff Composition Scholarship. 

I think I''ve been reasonably productive.  But love is better than the rest of that stuff. 

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It just occurred to me that I started this blog nearly five years ago.  That's a long time.

And that's a lot of progress in my life.

On the off chance that this will be seen...

So my Christmas break has effectively been planned for me.  The theatre department has hired me to compose the music for Pride and Prejudice which goes up in February so I have to get that music done soon, the piece for the orchestra competition is due mid-January, classical performer's recital auditions are mid-January, and my new repetoire for the spring is quite challenging.  I also need to start putting together demos for the Other Showcase in March. 

That's my break. 

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It's interesting to me that whenever my life falls into place on the surface, there is always something unquiet lurking just below the surface.  I suppose that is my lot.  I deal with it by taking nothing too seriously.  This works for me. 

I still associate Xanga with highschool but apparently a handful of people still actually use it.  To anyone that might actually stumble across this, I dedicate this post to you. 

In the past three months, my band and I have played about 10 shows.  It's been an interesting, exciting, and disappointing experience all at once.  I've played in a Belmont showcase.  I've gotten two songs recorded.  I've sung on a couple of tunes for another artist.  I've played for a few more.  I'm in the process of recording my first EP, to be released digitally early next year.  I'm trying to make it and yet none of this that I wanted is really taking me where I want to be.  Where do I want to be?  God only knows.

I went home for fall break for about 48 hours, didn't expect to see anybody, but out of curiosity I went to church on Sunday.  It's true, once you leave, you can never go home again.  I don't know this place anymore, but a handful of people are enough of a reason to make an appearance.  The questions I get are amazing to me, and how quickly people forget.  But it's cool, I stopped trying to be anything to anyone there long ago.  As my friends at home meet their significant other, get engaged, get married, have kids and I stay single, the gap widens.  According to my roommate it is going to stay widened since I am "undatable".  I suppose I can see where she gets that.  I'm a little rough around the edges and don't make much effort to hide it.  As a confirmed workaholic, I've no time for things such as these.  Yet I want someone to give me a reason to want it.  A paradox am I. 

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I can't begin to start with how much has happened since my last update here.  I'm going to try to do as best I can to give some sort of update to this. 

The past month (or so): I have parted ways with a singer I had been working with, parted ways with many of our friends because of that, and felt so much better for it.  I have several new people I'm working with and several groups that I'm playing with consistently.  I'm assembling a CD of every project I've either played on, written, arranged for, engineered, or done any work on this semester...I've come up with over 20 songs on there.  Its been a busy 16 weeks. 

I feel like this semester I've finally gotten over home (in Houston) and made this home here in Nashville.  Its going to be awkward, I'm afraid, going home next week for a little while before I come back here for summer school, because I go home so rarely now.  I enjoy seeing my friends and family and such, but really, my life is here now.  And I suppose that's how it should be.  I've been so much happier this semester, and I've been more productive than I ever have been in my life. 

But its also been a semester learning how to deal with complicated relationships.  If I had to pick a song to summarize this semester in terms of relationships, it would be "Tiny Vessels" by Death Cab.  The person that song makes me think of has definitely been good for some new songs, one of which is now on my music myspace. 

My classical jury is tomorrow morning, then I have to accompany 5 voice juries.  I love my job, I've really been surprised at how much I love accompanying.  Its pushed me in new directions and made me a much better player.  Its definitely forced me to use and improve my jazz and country skills. 

Because of my classical jury being at 10:43 tomorrow, I shall go.  That's what's been going on.