The Weekend before Opera....

BAM! As a gunshot flies past your head, you feel the force of the bullet move the hair on the side of your head as you stare at your attacker, deathly afraid for your life. As you take a deep breath and try to come up with the best plea you possibly can in order to not get killed, you wake up and realize that you have at least 10 hours worth of opera rehearsal and a performance to put on this week.

Oh wait, that's me. Well, me and everyone else in the Opera Pit for Magic Flute.

Am I excited for the performance? Yes.

Rehearsals? Nope.

Also, this weekend was spectacular. Mostly. Some ups, some downs.

Ups:
Won at Poker Night at House (LIKE A BOSS)
Saw a little bit of Collin and Company's set at Spiccoli's on Saturday night
Hung out and jammed at House, and ended up going home instead of to Pablo's at 2 am.
Played Skyrim
Went shopping with Caroline and Toni

Downs:
Snowpocolypse
Single Digit Temperatures
Loud Hallmates
Lack of sleep

Regardless, I will hit this week hard and fast.

Or it'll shoot me.

Either way, expect an update every two days or so? We'll see how that goes....

Also, an image for your entertainment.

hahahahaha

And I took you by the hand, and we stood tall.

The title of this post is a snippet from the lyrics of 'After the Storm' by Mumford and Sons, a rather brilliant tune, I must say. It's probably one of the most emotionally provocative songs I've ever heard. It simply hits me in a way that I never really thought about before, but thankfully, it's quite enjoyable, (and Caroline and I sang a cover of it for fun once haha).

Simply put, I've been thinking about a lot of things lately; what my priorities are in life, what I feel in my own soul, and what I want out of life. I've realized that some things in life pretty much consume all of my time (ie. Facebook), the amount of time that I have or haven't spent on some things is shocking, and I just needed a change of pace. As such, my Facebook is on hiatus until further notice. I deactivated it temporarily, (so if some of you happened to try and search my name on there and couldn't find it, there's a reason).

Continuing, I'm beginning to realize more and more, that all I really need in life is my music. My ability to perform, to sing, to interact with other musicians. I don't need anything else.

Do I want something more?

In the simplest of terms: yes.

But am I going to continue pining over the fact that someone I could have been quite happy with leave because it 'might not work'?

Yes, and no.

I need to step back and examine myself, and my life, before I can be anywhere stable enough to deal with love, or anything like that.

I just can't handle it right now.

If I hurt people in the process of saying any of this, I'm sorry. But, I have to move away from the familiar and pursue something else.

As such; thank you for reading my words. It means more to me than I can say.

Peace, and have a wonderful (if snowy) Friday!

Consistent Blogging: Day 1

So, sometimes I wonder if I'm just confused about how life functions. Like, the fact that you have due dates for things. Also, I am going to madly attack the enormous pile of homework before me, and hopefully destroy all of it before this weekend.

It has to be like this, otherwise...my life will turn into this....

Hyperbole and a Half seems to explain my life in some ways. Mostly because this picture will be what I look like as I struggle through everything....

So...hopefully I can be motivated enough to get this stuff accomplished. If I have to stay up all night, OH WELL! I am a college student, and I will get stuff done...and stuff...yeah...

Anyways, I had my first String Pedagogue class today, and it was wonderful. We had a great discussion about basic over-arching ideas of teaching, and we talked through a bit of the Suzuki method, and what his thoughts on the process of learning the violin were. It's really fascinating, and it makes me enjoy the class even  more. :)

Regardless, I'm going to go crawl into a hole and die finish my homework. Cheers and have a good Wednesday everyone!

-Isaak