B WHAT? B-YU...?

Do people chant that at BYU sports events? I guess I'll find out when I go there next fall! I will be making the transition from wildcat to cougar over the summer. The very short summer, that is. I'll be getting out late and starting early, which actually really sucks the more I think about it. So anyway I'm a little overwhelmed with everything I have to do to get squared away i.e. doing housing stuff, meal plan, registration, financial aid, etc. I'm basically just really excited about it. It's definitely gonna be a huge change in culture and campus. And if I go there next year and it doesn't work out or whatever, then no big loss, I'll just come home and do whatever! Not too worried about it. I better start making blue and white hats...

Ramblin' Man out.

Arnold Schoenberg

This blog will be a letter to the late Arnold Schoenberg:

Dear Mr. Schoenberg,

It will be hard to convey my feelings toward you because if I say I hate your atonal music you will just have a big smiling party in your coffin, wherever you are buried. May God have mercy on your soul, by the way. And if I say I love your atonal music you will get all angsty and mad and plus it would be the BIGGEST LIE of my life.

I had to listen to your 4th quartet piece 6 times in a row (about an hour total) and I about threw myself out the window. It would've been unfortunate had I actually done that because I probably would've only broken an arm and a leg or something, thus adding to my misery. It took me about as long as I spent listening to you listening to really really good music just to get your piece out of my head. And by your piece I mean the 9 minutes of random notes thrown together into a seemingly endless assault on the listener's ears.

Anyway, I won't deny that your method of creating 12 tone "music" is genius, it's just too bad that the outcome is absolute trash. I can't believe you actually performed it in concert! What were you expecting at the end? Applause? Nay, you wanted people to hate it. I'm very confused about this. Let's just say I won't ever be listening to your atonal stuff again. Thanks for making me appreciate real music.

Sincerely,

Ramblin' Man

Finals/Rock Climbing/Videogames

So this is supposed to be finals week: long awaited, well feared, loved by none. Well, actually...I love it. First there's dead day, where no one has finals. Automatic three day weekend. Then there's kids like me who already took most of their finals the week before and are only sticking around for that odd-ball final that will probably only take 30 minutes tops on one of the days of this week. For me, there's two and they're on Wednesday and Thursday. So that gives me a four day weekend, plus a chance to extend my spring break-awesome. I know kids who are leaving today or on Wednesday, if they haven't left already because they finished all their finals the week before, giving them a two-week spring break. Basically it's just been ridiculously easy, annd I'm a little nervous to take on Provo. Who has yet to get back to me by the way. Gettin a little antsy.

I rock climbed today, which kindof sucks because now I won't be able to use my arms for the next couple of days, which REALLY sucks because one of those easy finals is tomorrow and I'll be writing for probably over 2 hours. It was really fun though, I almost made it to the top! That will be my goal for the end of the quarter, if I ever regain strength in my arms. I think every vain in them was trying to push through the skin by the time we left, thanks mom and dad!

I downloaded a Nintendo 64 emulator and played Super Mario 64 for a while, it was just as perfect as I remember. It's amazing how far videogames have progressed in the last 10 years. It was even more amazing when I played GoldenEye and saw the HUGE differences in graphics/gameplay/etc. from stuff like MW2 and Fallout 3.

Ramblin' Man out.

Latest Developments

Sooo it's been a little while since I posted last. I didn't even bother looking at my last blog. Anyway, I saw a blog posted on facebook and I realized I could write something new about my life right about now. Let's see some differences...probably the biggest one: I'm Mormon! Sometimes you just never know I guess. Next: I am now a intramural pickleball champion, thanks to my buddy Dan Burdsall. Also: I crochet hats. I've made over twenty-some and still going strong. I put them all on last night and it was quite hilarious. What else...I'm still waiting to hear back from BYU. I'm pretty confident I'll get back in, but we'll see. Like I said, you never know. If I do get in again, it'll be a struggle to pay for it. Also my class load will be huge. A.k.a 5 classes a semester-just to cover gen-eds. I'll probably be taking another French class, so that makes 6 classes a semester. At least. This year has been cake, I'm sure, compared to what I'll face next fall. I'm pretty stoked though. Caitlin says she has my year planned out, which makes things a little easier, especially if we end up in some of the same classes together :) Jacob says he's gonna try to get me a job bailing hay over the summer. Great way to make money, horrible way to try and enjoy the summer. He was always working last summer. Sometimes for like 30 hours. Not exactly how I had planned on spending my summer...but if that's what I gotta do thennn not much I can do about that. I have to get a job somewhere. Applied here at food services, haven't heard back yet. Did hear back from the talent contest, and I guess I made one of the 20 acts that will perform for $400. I think I have a pretty good shot playing "Drifting," although when I played it for my music class I kindof screwed up, which is why I'm gonna use Jordan's guitar. It was his birthday today, we went to roadhouse grill-fantastic artichoke and chicken melt. Got some yarn afterwards for him and Dan, soo I'm pretty loaded with hats to make. Gotta finish Till's and start Justin's. I also have to send out Emily's, Katy's, which I've been slacking on for a while now. This is why I'm the Ramblin Man. Time to get on those hats.

Ramblin' Man out.