What Am I Excited For?

There are a lot of things that I honestly cannot wait for right now. I've been fairly content during the first two months of my living in Boston, but all of a sudden there are things that I want more than I can explain. Firstly, I want fall back.

First...

Over the past two or three weeks I've begun hearing people around me saying things like "It's about to get real cold around here!", and I hate the cold. But despite all of these words of warning, it's been fairly nice out! Yesterday it rained, but hey, it was pretty warm! Today that all changed. Today, at least from my perspective, was cold. very cold. Now mind you, as I said earlier, I HATE the cold. The cold made me want nothing more than to go back to the beginning of the fall here in Massachusetts. I miss being able to go for long walks where I didn't come back feeling like an ice cube. I guess I'll have to just make sure I'm extra thankful next year when it's still warm in the early fall...

This is one of my favorite photos from a long walk to Harvard Square
early this fall. 

Next...

This one is obvious to any college student, Christmas break. This year I have an entire month off to be back home in Pennsylvania. I am super excited for Christmas right now for a few reasons.. Firstly, I love being home! As much as I love Boston it is incredibly nice to be home, back where I grew up and I know like everyone (not literally). Second, and most obvious, I have off from school for an entire month! Lastly, Christmas is one of my favorite times of year, there's such an awesome feeling you get the week before christmas where it just kind of seems like everyone is getting along... actually maybe not... I do fully realize that for many people tensions run high around holidays, but for me ... It's just fun! 

I am a self proclaimed christmas cookie artist.

Finally...

I'm super excited for this coming Tuesday. Which is by far the most short term on this list, but there's a good reason why. My wonderful girlfriend Betsy will be visiting and when I get home from class on Tuesday she'll be waiting. I love her! She's incredible. She's one of the best graphic designers I know, and definitely the best photographer I know. She's been fantastic during this whole long distance part of our relationship over the past few months, especially considering the fact that we spent pretty much every waking moment together when I was back home. I cannot wait to see her even if it's only for a few days! 

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention she's brilliant and already
has her masters degree in education!

That's it! I'm a simple guy who wants simple things, like the ability to travel through time... But really that's all that I want in my life right now... Time needs to move a little quicker.

IT'S OVER!!

IT'S FINALLY OVER!!!

... midterm week ...

No one has ever accused me of being the best student, and I'm fairly certain no one ever will. Way back in elementary school, before facebook or cell phones or anything fun.. I actually was a pretty good student. I was actually in the "Gifted" program and basically that meant I got to leave the normal classes once a week to go and do independent study, where I learned everything from basic animation and graphic design to how to build a raft out of duct tape. Eventually though, around the end of 6th grade, I totally hit a wall. I could no longer really keep up with some of the stuff in school, specifically in math. I generally think of the years from 7th to 9th grade as the hardest time for me in school. But honestly this year is giving that span a run for its money. 

I think the reason this year has been so hard right now, besides Berklee just being very challenging to begin with, is because I am really worried about screwing up. Like I said, no one has ever accused me of being a good student. There were times at Wilson High School that I was worried about graduating. All of that was frightening to me then, but now there is real money involved. Berklee is more expensive per semester than my previous school (York College of Pennsylvania) was per year, and that sort of terrifies me. Not doing well here would mean essentially throwing away tens of thousands of dollars. The past three weeks have been especially scary because it's been midterm time. Any average college or high school student may read that sentence and say "What do you mean three weeks??". Well, of course there is "midterm week" which is the generally acceptable time to give tests and make projects due. But of course this is music school, so no one is on the same page ... Some professors decided to move midterms a week up, and some moved everything back a week, but guess what....

As of 11:47 pm EST MIDTERM WEEK(s) IS OVER. 

Inauguration

It feels like I've done this a million times. I've had close to 7 different websites that I created with the intention of posting on and I always fail. ... Come to think of it, the last 6 have started this same way ...

Why am I blogging:

It's incredibly selfish ... I am blogging for myself... I don't really care if anyone else ever even finds this. I'm not trying to attract traffic or page views or anything. I just want to be able to look back at who I was a year ago, or maybe two, three, four years ago and see myself change over the years. I love that idea and I think it's so cool to be able to do that with a website that I can change and expand on constantly and reflect more of myself. 

Another reason I'm starting to blog is because I LOVE to write and I never really get a chance to. I totally realize that the last sentence doesn't make a ton of sense, because I'm a college student and I'm constantly writing music and reports and papers and blah blah blah, but this is something completely different. Here I can write whatever I want and be creative. I can even blow off steam, which is something that, on occasion, I really need. 

Finally, I live in my favorite city in the US. Before moving to Boston, I had only been here once or twice and only for a day or two, so it was kind of a shock to move here with little info of the area. In my first two months living here it's been rather exciting, and I've fallen in love with this town. Just about 10 days ago the Red Sox won the World Series, and I am lucky enough to live about a block away from Fenway Park. That being said, I am a Yankees fan, so it was kinda bittersweet. But anyway the purpose for this blog is for me to post whatever I want, whenever I want, while living in the coolest city I could ever want to live in. 

So, If you are not me, and you are here, I'm sorry. This is not really meant for you, but I won't really be offended if you read it, I mean it is the internet after all. Also, I probably will write as if I am writing or talking to an audience but that is mainly because that is how I always write! 

This should be interesting.