what's new?

• ✔ apr. 1: easter sunday
• ✔ apr. 1: me + lollie's two year friend anniversary
• ✔ apr. 3: comp sci exam 2
• ✔ apr. 4: music history prelim 3
• ✔ apr. 5: work soundbooth
• ✔ apr. 7: dc trip !!!
• ✔ apr. 8: work pearl's recital
• ✔ apr. 8: work khoi's recital
• ✔ apr. 9: ken burns !!!
• ✔ apr. 14: me + min's 300th day !!
• ✔ apr. 14: a quiet place @ 12:00
• ✔ apr. 15: comp sci proposal due
• ✔ apr. 15: the marriage of figaro @ 6:00
• ✔ apr. 20: religion paper due @ 10:00
• ✔ apr. 20: half birthday!
• ✔ apr. 20: hostiles @ campus theatre
• ✔ apr. 21: symphonic band concert
• ✔ apr. 22: earth day
• ✔ apr. 22: work richard's recital
• ✔ apr. 27: dave's classical recital
• ✔ apr. 28: piano showcase
• ✔ apr. 29: work katie's recital
• ✔ apr. 30: last day of classes

goals

• ✔ practice well for april concert
• ✔ survive until the end of classes
• ✔ subscribe to astronomy news updates
• ✔ work in the studio more - at least twice a week

new lists

• original characters: writing

obsessions

• pinterest
• cults
• the department pianists
• perfecting the end of mvt. iii
• science videos on youtube
• astronomy
• asking jack as many questions that are unrelated to the course as humanly possible during office hours

inspirations

• kevin mcilvoy
• ken burns

scores studied

• pur ti miro ✧ claudio monteverdi

discoveries

• uy scuti is the largest known star, with a radius 1,700 times that of our sun - in other words, 8 au across
• neopets was run by scientologists! amazing
• planetary nebulae have nothing to do with planetary objects - they are named this way because they appear like the pale disk of a planet when viewed through a small telescope
• supernovae are not occurring in real-time when we see them in the sky - they already happened thousands, even millions of years ago
• starquakes occur when the crystalline shell of a neutron star adjusts itself, accompanied by a slight collapse of the star
• barnard's star has the largest proper motion of any star in the night sky

writing

• ghost in the shell trailer
  • film score
• amazing grace (again)
  • satb choir + using wordbuilder
• arrangement of the ludlows
  • string quartet
• final fantasy xv trailer
  • videogame score
• tomb raider trailer
  • videogame score
• funeral rites
  • satb choir
• oh, i'll miss you, my dear
  • string quartet
• setting of be still, my soul, be still
  • string quartet

crushes

• dave
• dave
• dave

quotes

• ❝ dwell on the beauty of life. watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. ❞ — marcus aurelius
• ❝ let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes. ❞ — walt whitman
• ❝ be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle, earth and high heaven are fixt of old and founded strong. think rather — call to thought, if now you grieve a little, the days when we had rest, o soul, for they were long. ❞ — ae housman
• ❝ loveliest of trees, the cherry now is hung with bloom along the bough. ❞ — ae housman