A day in the Life

Everyday I wake up and thank God that I’m at Peabody and Johns Hopkins. I’m loving (when I’m not hating it) what I’m doing it and it just seems so complete. It’s intense but I love what I’m doing on both campuses and I wouldn’t trade it for the world. Music provides the necessary respite from studying, and studying from music, and everything is really fitting in very well even though I’m having to be very disciplined with my time.

Well, amidst all that perfection today was a distinctly inperfect day. Woke up with my arm overextended (and really hurting) so that I can’t straighten it. And then my watch strap broke. And then my watch stopped. And then Ann got locked out of her dorm so my printouts for my writing class almost didn’t come. Thank God not every day is like that.

Kyrie eleison.

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Exultate, justi

我告诸善人，欢跃主怀裏。             善人思无邪，讚主最相宜。

何以颂主德？鼓琴复鼓瑟。             何以咏主荣？新歌奏一阕。

弹者尽其艺，歌声务和协。             主言皆正直，主行皆笃实。

所乐惟仁义，慈爱被八极。

发号成诸天，嘘气生万物。             海水壶中贮，诸渊库中集。

众生当畏主，宇宙亦震慄。             主乃造化宰，万有应声出。

列国与兆民，千算亦何益？

何如主一算，万古永不易。

奉主之国必发达，承恩之民安且逸。

主在天庭上，垂视众生灵。             主自圣宫中，俯察万国民。

既造人灵心，亦欲观其行。             君王兵虽多，不能必制胜。

勇士力拔山，不能保其命。

马萧萧，车辚辚，穷兵黩武殃及身。

神目所青睐，惟在虔敬人。             一心望主者，必得沐甘霖。

大难得不死，饑馑亦能生。

吾魂惟盼主，主乃卫身盾。

所乐惟天主，所赖惟圣名。

鉴我耿耿望，赐我无穷恩。

Settling in

So I’ve been doing a lot more placement tests and settling in and generally just orientation stuff. The practice studios have been difficult to get, mainly because they are doing work on 2 of the 3 organs, which means that only 1 is usually available for practice. Other than that, I didn’t place into accelerated theory: which is a disappointment It means one more year of theory! Chorus and keyboard placements were pretty okay.

I’m really disappointed that I’m going to have to drop a Great Books course that I really wanted to take. I’ll be taking intro to Non-Fiction and Fiction Writing instead. Also, I will be taking harpsichord as a minor, either 1/2 hour or 1 hour: I also haven’t decided, it looks like I shall have to pay extra.

Some trivial: I realize that my mailbox no is 007, and my mobile no ends with 007! lol. Looks like I have a career as a secret agent ahead of me.

Heading over to Homewood now!

Kyrie eleison.