| Aug. 18th, 2009 @ 09:33 pm hail the conquering hero? |
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For those who just can't get enough of me (I know, I know... there are plenty of you out there), I've been conned into doing lj again, at least for a while. Who still does it? Like Tamagachis and Furbys, has it gone out of style? Or like Pokemon, will it never go out of style?
I've had an eventful summer. Tom and I started brewing beer. The batches so far have turned out really good, though Tom's a lot more fond of third batch (a porter) than I am.
I started motorcycling. Not as often as I'd like to admit, party because of the rain in July and the heat this month, though before autumn rolls around I'll get back out there surely.
I'm moving into an apartment with Tom and Dan on Thursday. In Danbury. Come visit. It's going to be a lot of fun. Basic cable and no video games!
I reread the Harry Potter series (and enjoyed it more this time, I think). The movie was good too.
I went on some quality hikes and some good ol' fashioned adventures with Stacey, including canoeing to and camping on our own island in the Adirondacks, hiking Mount Monadnock and Mount Washington.
I started playing scrabble with increased regularity. I like to think that I've gotten pretty good at it. My best word so far has been Equinoxes for 147 points. Nice.
I started looking at and practicing for grad schools. I can play the first movement of the Sibelius violin concerto okay and the second isn't too bad (albeit I can't play it well yet) but the third movement, holy jeans, it's freaking ridiculous. I can't do that on yet, at least not more than the first page minus the flying staccato over an ascending double stop scale in thirds which happens twice after an arpeggio that ends in the stratosphere. Grr.
I'm going to learn to play golf (I think), with Stacey... her dad is going to teach us. I'm also going to learn to ski (I hope), also with Stacey (who already knows how).
String camp was loads of fun. Good times hanging out, coaching, playing cards and teaching little uns. I came back with a reborn love of my violin and wanted to practice all day (and did, for about a week).
I started working out! I put together a plan and everything. I ran three days a week, did pushups and situps and stuff 3 days a week and rested one day a week.
Not everything this summer has been glamorous though...
I stopped working out. After string camp. It's not that I didn't have the time or the motivation, I just kinda forgot to. Hopefully I'll fix that.
I missed out on Colorado this year because unfortunately I was stuck here in CT teaching a class at Bethel Music Center which I couldn't really cop out on.
I helped a family friend move some floorboards closer to her house. She warned me to wear long pants, because there was poison ivy. Thankfully, I didn't get it on my legs. I only got it all over my arms.
The Mets are an embarrassment to baseball this season, in their on field play, front office management, injury management, off the field fiascos and the disaster that was CitiField. I won't bore you with any more except to say that it was enough for me to spend some of the summer seriously contemplating changing colors. I haven't done it yet. We're just fighting and I'm cheating on them with other teams.
The weather went from really wet to really hot... and I'll bet few or none of you would oppose me if I were to cheer on autumn to show up soon.
I have to go to an "EFFECTIVE TEACHER WORKSHOP!!!!!!!!1" next week. Will it help me teach 9 and 10 year olds how to play the violin? SURVEY SAYS NO!
That's it, really... I can't complain, I mean I have a good job and a wonderful girlfriend. I'd be a ass to complain.
I leave you with a list of current life goals I have set for myself to do before I die. Many of them were conceived this summer.
Perform the Sibelius violin concerto
Hike the Triple Crown of long distance hiking, that is the Appalachian Trail, the Pacific Crest Trail and the Continental Divide Trail
Dave-Face a stadium
Hike one of the Seven Summits
Trek the 9 Great Walks of New Zealand
Discover why NASCAR is interesting to some people |
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