Just a note (this one's an A flat, I think)

My entire senior recital is now available online at www.stellwagen.us/recital.html

*takes deep breath for the plunge*

Well, college orientation starts this afternoon. I may not be blogging much in the next few weeks. I'm having very mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, I will get to meet a lot of new people and at least some of them will end up becoming lifelong friends. On the other hand, being around a lot of people can be difficult for me, and I'm not going to get very much of my precious alone time anymore ('though I am staying at home, not on campus, so I'll get some). But on the other hand, I get to learn a lot of new stuff and that excites me! But on the other hand, I'm going to have a bigger load this year than I've had in a while, and on top of that, a couple of classes I'm not going to enjoy (like writing - I have issues with writing). But on the other hand, I get to be in a choir again for the first time in a year and a half, and I can't wait!!!...but on the other hand, I've still got to convince the music prof that I DO belong in Concert Choir, not Choralons (the less challenging group). I also have to talk with him about continuing lessons with my current piano teacher, not a teacher at the school, which is looking a lot less likely to happen than it was, because I just found out my current teacher doesn't actually have a Bachelor's degree, even though he knows enough to have a doctorate. I could use some prayer about that. I know God will work everything out to His glory and my ultimate benefit, but losing my piano teacher would be about the worst thing I can imagine happing to me right now. It would be the difference between a challenging, but fun, year and an awful year.

So stir all that up together and you can figure out why I have a few knots in my stomach. I'm glad I have you guys to unload onto.

So what'm I supposed to do with this thing, anyway?

Well, I had another post planned on here, but I lost some sermon notes and now I can't finish it. It would have been really good too. I may try to salvage it.

I have this urge to fill up all the white space below my one-and-only post here. My original conception of this was that I'd use my blog to post really inspired bits of my own writing, like the one below, but since I'm not really that much of a writer, that would make for very erratic posting. So what would you all like to see on here besides that - updates on my life in general, book reviews (since I'm always reading), random musical insights that nobody will understand or care about except me, something else?

Oh, and tell me what you think of the layout, title, etc. too!

The Music of the Spheres

Stars His choir in the heavenly cathedral,
Precipiced mountains and proud pines its buttresses.
Echo by echo the song rings forth
From shaking foundations to silvery treble,
Treading, majestic, the vault from pole to pole,
Each note making hearts quiver and breath catch
Here on the tiled floor of land and sea, forest and plain
Where men stand, stained glass pictures of a greater reality.
Listen, mortal.
Can you hear the Music of the Spheres?