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I get it now
Thursday, March 17, 2005
Thirteen kids showed up at the first PS rehearsal, which was awesome. I wasn't prepared enough though. All the hymn sheets were in this big, chaotic, 4-inch tall stack, and after I had passed it all out, some of the parts were missing. This was solved by the next practice though; my mom gave me a bunch of folders the kids could use, and I was able to sort in the rest of the songs and figure out which parts I didn't have. Phew. After fixing some of the other mistakes I'd made the first time, like the just-plain-bad sitting arrangement, I was feeling a lot more comfortable and was able to really start listening to what the kids were playing — pretty important if you actually want to rehearse a song, rather than just get it played though a bunch of times.
So, hopefully, it'll get better from here ^^;;. There are like, half a million more improvements that I still need to make to the whole thing, like actually reading through/explaining the hymns, creating different mixes for the different verses, doing some arranging, copying more music, and, oh yeah, figuring out performance dates. On the optimistic side, I'm pretty excited about the blend I'll be getting — five violins, four violas, three cellos, two clarinets, and two flutes. Perfect for a small ensemble, if only a bit bottom-heavy... but who could complain about a group like this being one-fourth VIOLA!? ^___^
Btw, remember when I was saying that I was hoping to submit something to the COD comics page? Yep, you guessed right, it somehow didn't happen. HOWEVER. XD. Now that someone's starting a COD comics anthology, with a deadline and all, I'll be doing everything I can, for real this time, to turn something in. I decided that I'd just based it off the story of BattleSong, since the characters and plot are there already. And I think it would be a good homage to my old dream. I guess we shall see...
Work has been exciting as always. The other day, they let me make a little flash clip to introduce the Daily Success program — you can see it here. Man, I'm so glad I took that one "useless" multimedia course at COD! You never know what you'll need again.
David, lol yeah, Pictionary doesn't require much artistic skill; it's all in a quick sense of visual interpretation which is why it's so cool.
PJ my dear... that's just how it is for crazy highschoolers who decide to take 5 college-level classes and 2 part-time jobs at a time, gah!
Weien, those were some pretty deep comments about art... I luff joo xD!!
And thanks for your gbook entries, Suz and Kd5KiJ!! So encouraging ^^.
Oh joy, spring break. And partying at Tara's/Kari's! This is gonna rock...
8:28 AM
Comments
When the night is quiet, and all are dead, and no one is commenting...
Weien comes alive. Anyway, I'm glad the folder bit worked for PS; I had some unverbalized doubts at the time. But like I said, maybe we should pull (or we already are pulling) a Gideon. We get more bottom heavy by the week...
Anyway, right now you're somewhere in your room, very quiet--
No, nevermind. You just looked over the balcony and said "yuhu!" Anyway, I hope that the time spent in your room was cleaning or comic making, rather than something commonplace like... sleeping. Glad you get it now.
[By the way, have you noticed that "randomness" is suddenly in vogue? Few tragedies are more grave than when the last foundations of madness has be undermined.]
Props if you can decipher my total-non-randomness. At any rate, life is like a box of chocolates--good-looking stuffs tend to be icky and pink within.
--Wongeth Wongee, the Zordfadrian Cheesemonger of... Zordfadria. (Aka "W.")
Posted by Weien at March 20, 2005 8:32 AM
Gah. I haven't commented in a long time. Many, many apologies.
Glad Praise Symphony went/is going well and am happy to hear of the not-lost comic idea.
May your systems simulate the ideal and your ciruits be complete.*(and your stress be minimal)
~Ag
Posted by Ag at March 21, 2005 11:22 AM