ah vous dirais-je, maman...

       i saw a meteor tonight. i was returning a couple movies to blockbuster (once again, a shameless plug for the total access program...it's wonderful) and on the drive home, just as i was merging onto north sixty-three, a green (yes, green) and yellow light caught my attention. the meteor came out from behind a cloud (at first it appeared to be coming out from the bottom of the cloud, but i'm sure it had to have been higher than that) and fell in a smooth arc for several degrees before it went out. quite amazing.

       i've been learning a couple piano pieces. a friend from rcm, jason, asked me to accompany him on his cello for church towards the end of the semester. he chose two pieces and asked me to look them over to see if i approved. one of them is among my favorite hymns ("it is well with my soul"), so of course i agreed. i love playing, but it's been years since i've played seriously and i'm a bit nervous about it. both pieces are difficult, especially for someone who hasn't played in a while and wasn't that good to begin with, but i've been practicing them every day since he gave them to me (on sunday) and i'm almost thinking that it might work. i'm hoping. except my last public performance on the piano was a catastrophe. it was my senior year in high school at the annual talent show. i chose a song that i could both sing and play at the same time and which i had memorized so i wouldn't need music. i ended up being so nervous that i forgot the chord progression in the second verse and started singing bits of the third verse in place of the second and ended up switching the whole thing around. it wouldn't have been so terrible if every verse wasn't a key change. it was a train wreck. i think i even had dead air for a while when i was trying to remember the notes. so, imagine my enthusiasm this time around, where i'll not only be accompanying someone, i'll also be playing some difficult pieces, one of which is entirely chords, which i don't like. i'm more of a linear fellow. anyway. yeah. my hands are remembering their strength, though, with all the practice. i was the "mercy" king all through high school. fingers of steel. haha.

       thirty-one days until graduation. i don't think i'm going to be ready. on so many levels. still waiting to hear about just about everything. even so, it is well with my soul. today was a happy day. i slept in until ten. i should go to bed, though, so i don't sleep in tomorrow. too much to do. have a good one, all. later.