Improv and Improve.

I recorded another song and put it up on the space. Recorded it yesterday instead of cleaning my room. I did it all in one try with each track. I also made up the lyrics as well. Kinda fun. It's not the greatest, but it is fun fun fun. Enjoy?

Insert Noise.

For some odd reason I feel motivated to write more music. Be on the look out for more avant-garde weirdness.

Golden Ticket.

Admit one to 2009 scholarship auditions on January 31st in Seattle, Washington for the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts: School of Film + Television. I'm so glad fall break is during that time. And yes, I'll keep you posted.

Charles Darwin (1809-1882)

It's nice knowing that I am a third of the way through my biology course. Three hours a day is pretty intense, especially when talking about evolution the entire time. At least we do get breaks! That is how I am able to write this quick blog.

The weather has been quite ridiculous here. Spokane has made the national news several times in the past couple weeks. When I arrived back to school, I was surround by four-feet of snow. We just had a little path in our drive way in order to get to the house. Half of the snow has melted, but it seems like it could just dump some more any moment.

A school in NYC will also call me this week expressing my interest in their summer acting program. It is called SFT, meaning school for film and television. It is a smaller school on the east coast, but one of the big names from the school is Matthew Fox (Jack from LOST). Even if I won't do the summer program this upcoming summer, it will be nice to know what is out there. I'm so excited to get into this new field of study and fully pursue this new world. Updates will happen of course!

Water Aerobics and Evolution.

Let's just say, I'm never making fun of all those old ladies at the public pools. I'm currently taking two course during Jan-term. Evolutionary Biology and Water Aerobics.

I have never had a good teacher in the subject of science, so it is nice to have a refreshing look into science. It is a very interesting class discussing evolution in all it's forms and theories. Currently, we are discovering different religious ideas with evolution. There is this girl in my small discussion group that reads the bible very literal. I never actually met or argued with someone that is that literal with the bible. She doesn't believe there should be women pastors and she also believes that the Earth is 6,000 years old. It turns out she dropped the class yesterday. It is unfortunate that she wouldn't be able to back up her faith even more by learning all the details about evolution. It seems like quite a few Christians are ignorant to the world around them by not even take the step to understand why people believe what they believe, instead, they just drop the class.

Water Aerobics is intense. Sums it up in one word. I feel rather ridiculous running around in shallow water doing all these different exercises that look really foolish. My back is sore, my calves burn, my pecs hurt, but it feels great! This will be the most intense three weeks with science and working out in the water everyday. So I decided to set a goal and head to bed by 11pm each school night. Actually, I have gone to bed at 10pm already this week. Water Aerobics wears you out!

So please don't judge people that are evolutionists or water aerobic extraordinaires unless you have already dived into the depths of each.

A Story.

Once upon a time there was an old woman who used to meditate on the bank of the Ganges. One morning, finishing her meditation, she saw a scorpion floating helplessly in the strong current. As the scorpion was pulled closer, it got caught in roots that branched out far into the river. The scorpion struggled frantically to free itself but got more and more entangled. She immediately reached out to the drowning scorpion, which, as soon as she touched it, stung her. The old woman withdrew her hand but, having regained her balance, once again tried to save the creature. Every time she tried, however, the scorpion's tail stung her so badly that her hands became bloody and her face distorted with pain. A passerby who saw the old woman struggling with the scorpion shouted, "What's wrong with you, fool! Do you want to kill yourself to save that ugly thing?" Looking into the stranger's eyes, she answered, "Because it is the nature of the scorpion to sting, why should I deny my own nature to save it?"

-Sister Joan Chittister, a Benedictine nun

Reading a book for evolutionary biology called 'The Language of God'. I never thought I would enjoy a biology class this much.

Beauty and the Lonely Beast