h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I've been having a lot of trouble practicing my cello lately. It's not because I haven't had a lesson, it's not because I feel frustrated because I don't play as well as I want to...it's just because I don't feel like it. I have no real reason... Hmm.... Each day I decide not to practice, or only practice 15 minutes, it will only make me worse. I will lose all of the hard work I've put in to those passages from Hades... Especially that run on the last page that goes insanly fast.... hmm... I can't really afford to take a "vacation" away from the cello... or else I might. A planned vacation, that is. Grr... Maybe I should try playing something fun on it at the beginning of practice... That might help. I always feel self-conscious if I play random notes when I know everyone in the house can hear me... Even though I've taken an improvisation class for music therapy last semester... I'll start with something simple, like, I'll make up a fun way to practice my scales or something. Or maybe I'll play the whole piece in a funky-weird style, make it sound like it's seriously messed up. Or do a different rhythm than is written... Hmm... Sounds like fun.

On Friday I'm taking a day off work, and my mom and my little sister and I are just going to lay around all day. My mom has a vacation this week (we were suppose to go to a music camp this week, but we couldn't afford it), and so my mom thought it would be fun to lay around in our pajama's and do absolutely nothing all day!! It will be fun, because it's only one day. But, I don't know how long I'll be able to stand just watching television--especially when my mom is in charge of which channel!! She doesn't like to watch educational channels, but I LOVE them!! Maybe we'll get some movies so it won't be so bad...

I keep talking and talking, but am I really saying anything??

That one must "scrounge and be stupid"

My Literature teacher advised us today

[quote] Moderation Is Not a Negation of Intensity, But Helps Avoid Monotony by John Tagliabue
Will you stop for a while, stop trying to pull yourself together for some clear "meaning" - some momentary summary? no one can have poetry or dances, prayers or climaxes all day, the ordinary blankness of little dramatic consciousness is good for the health sometimes, only Dostoevsky can be Dostoevskian at such long long tumulous sketches; look what the intensity did to poor great Van Gogh!; linger, lunge, scrounge and be stupid, that doesn't take much centering of one's forces; as wise Whitman said "lounge and invite the soul." Get enough sleep; and only only because (as Cocteau said) "poetry is the literature of sleep; be a dumb bell for minutes at least; we don't want Sunday church bells ringing constantly. [/quote]

whoa. deep. I should read it a few more times...

Be a dumb bell.

A dumb southern US girl???

just kidding!

Right I'll just be stupid.

Sounds like good advice.
When I was depressed in the morning before going to work I used to watch Python episodes before I left home. Start they day off with the right foot in a manner of speaking.
Sometimes I meow aloud. It helps to relive some of the tension. People are used to it now

I see. What is your work?

meowing??

her work is in the army. I feel sorry for her.

I know I would go in the army if I HAD to, because I would be too scared to protest against it.

But, I am non-violent so it would be hard for me.

Ah

hence, "world citizen"

mais oui [but of course]

yea, I still remember that french term.

Yes, I didn't want to go either for about the same reason, but there wasn't much I could do
It's almost over now.
I work with comuters myself. Terrifing power point presentations, that make all the enimies shake with fear. I'm tough.
Still, we are talking about an army that would give a loudly meowing girl a very big gun

he he!!

But seriously, would they arrest you if you refused? Would they ever let you out?

They recently released two guys who refused.
After two years

Oh.