I have my jazz piano final in a week.
Right now, it’s hard to even think about practicing, as my hands are blocks of ice, thanks to the broken heater here at work. However, I have failed to practice much for most of a month.
Last night in class, we got our final jazz arragement: O Tannenbaum, as arranged for the Charlie Brown Christmas Special.
Ironically, class conflicted with the annual airing of the Charlie Brown Christmas Special. But anyway.
I think, if I can practice it enough, I might play the jazzy O Tannenbaum for my final. I’ve always wanted to be able to play jazzy Christmas tunes!
2005 in review:
Take the first sentence of the first entry of each month of 2005. There’s your year in review.
January: Subject: Grief. “denial”
February: Subject: Dreams “I dreamed about being in a polyamorous female-dominated society where I was in some kind of power role.”
March: Subject: Outside My Comfort Zone “I tried something new yesterday.” [Technically, my first post was a to-do list that's now marked private.]
April: Subject: Scrapbooking…. help? “OK, I joined a scrapbooking class (please don’t laugh at me, I don’t know why I did it).”
May: Subject: Seven Years “Seven years ago as of tomorrow, John and I were married.”
June: Subject: Allegro “NO CANCER!!!!!”
July: Subject: OMG “WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!?!”
August: Subject: Still too hard. “I wish I could turn off my emotions, like an android or something, because some emotions are too hard to bear.”
September: Subject: Boo. “I was deferred yesterday from donating blood because my iron was 35, 3 points below what it needs to be to donate.”
October: Subject: Lost “John and I are now caught up to the rest of the world in Lost.”
November: Subject: Loot Bag! “I went trick-or-treating a la LJ Support, and got the following treats:”
December: No Subject “It’s pouring rain today.”