empowerment here!!
October 22, 2002 at 8:41 a.m.
wooooo!!! Empowerment, thy name is REVA!
I've had this nasty transcription assignment due for weeks and I was too afraid to touch it... but since it's due today, I had no choice, oh poor Reva...
And how do you transcribe a jazz violin solo when you don't have a working CD player??
*transcribing is when you listen to some music and then write it down, all by ear. It's very difficult and even more difficult when it's a jazz solo because the notes can go by reaaaaal fast-like and it's SO HARD to catch 'em with your ear... luckily I have a BA in violin and I was trained to do this sort of thing, but it doesn't make it any easier*
*did you notice I just let it drop that I have a BA? heh. I'm so cool.*
Anywho, by some freak luck, I got my CD Rom to start working and my bro Quinn helped me by-pass what wasn't working in the system. THEN by another fluke, I happened upon a program my dad put on my computer that you can punch a song into it then loop whatever sections you want at WAY below normal speed with the pith staying the same! It was a program designed for losers like me who can't transcribe fast notes!!!!!!!
IS ANYONE AS EXCITED ABOUT THIS AS MUCH AS I AM?????
I know Loren wasn't, poor thing doesn't get to sleep because I keep him on the phone at freakish hours all the time and he zonked while I was trying to explain at 1:30am (his time) why this was the most incredible thing that has EVER HAPPENED EVER.
I am not a music geek. I'm jsut pumped I got my assignment done. I feel so empowered and ready to start practicing again. I am woman, hear me roar!!
So yeah, I'm freaking excited. I am a maaaasters student. We can figure this junk out ourselves! Oh, and after 30 minutes of screaming at my printer this morning, I patched in the right cords and got my assignment to print out.
I don't know what I could do at this moment that could top how cool I feel. I feel all.. responsible, indepentant, smart... and my lip gloss is making me feel frisky, but that's another problem entirly. I should porbably switch to something with a matte finish... heehee....
It's like when I went to college for the first time and woke up puking one randome morning (excuse the graphic example). but whenever I threw up at home, mommy came in an cleaned me up and made me feel better.
The first time I bowed to the porcelin god in my dorm room at a random 3am, I cried a little (we all do), then I cleaned myself up, washed my face, changed into some snugglier jammies and got back into bed.
I felt so good about myself! I could take care of myself! I felt so good I couldn't ever get back to sleep.
Call me weird. I just love taking care of the Reva.
It's odd to have a boy around who want to help you, and given a very nasty situation I had with a controlling guy a few years ago, I don't let anyone in close enough to know what I need.
Exept loren somehow finds a way to give me space and be caring at the same time.. that's new.
Enough about the dreamiest boy in the western hemisphere - back to meeee. I DID IT!!! WOOHOO!!! I transcribed a Turtle Island solo allll byyyy myyyyself!
SUPERCRACK realizes she may seem a little dorky about this, but she dinna care. she can transcribe like a big girl now!