Artsy Fartsy

I feel so out of my comfort zone. I've spent most of tonight memorizing lines of Shakespeare, "window" shopping for batons and musical scores, downloading and listening to Felix Mendelssohn's Oratorio Elijah - and enjoying myself immensely.

Whoah. It's like I'm cultured or something.

I do feel very much like the square peg in a round whole in my conducting class. There are only 6 of us in the class. Everyone else is a music major. They sing and play all sorts of instruments and are used to having to get a hold of all sorts of expensive classical music. While I am very comfortable in my music theory classes, this feels very... high brow? to me. Either way, I am throroughly enjoying immersing myself into this culture. I hope that I will always make sure that this becomes a part of my life - and my family's life - for good.

Does it strike you as rather strange for me to have a love for human relationships and psychology, loud rock music, Homestar Runner, physics, Longfellow, jazz and classical music? I like the diversity in my interest. I feel like that's character. I just wish I understood better what these combinations of interests mean. Why they co-exist, where they come from etc.

Also interesting to note are the interest of the people I associate with: my friends. There are definite overlapping interests. Computers, gaming, blogging - but only since we've known each other - then theatre. I might be mistaken, but for the most part, I think we all like similar music. Are those similarities cultural? Did we gravitate towards each other because of our similarities. Or did we become like each other through spending time together? Do we even have any more in common than any 2 random people on the street do?

I love observing the dynamics of social life here on campus.

Ok. I'm really out of anything of importance to say and I'm not even half done with downloading Elijah. I sense that this will take a few days. Time to move on to other things besides blogging.

Ok-bye.