Today is a lovely day. It's raining, grey, cold, and I passed my orchestra audition. I totally went blank in the middle of my piece, but then the conductor was very comforting and told me just to get out my music. I kept on playing, maybe until the 6th page or so... and he stopped me and asked, "Have you ever played principle second before?"


No, I haven't been principle second in MITSO (the MIT Symphony Orchestra) or any major orchestra (unless you count University of Southern Mississippi Music Camp), but that's going to change now. So, yeah, I'm principle second. He might work me in slowly, like put me in first stand, second violin, since it's my first time. The conductor ( his name is Dante Alezoni er. . .spelling? But isn't that a cool name?) told me I have really clear sound and volume and would be easy to follow, but what he doesn't know is that I'm the world's worst sight reader. Arg--- I used to just follow Insoo (last year's principle violinist who is soloing this year and who I swear looks like Chiba Mamoru ^^), but now I will have to be followed--- the 2nd violin section is in for trouble. . .


Oh--- a little goodie for you to download: a Pippin 1024x768 desktop background--- a product of 30 minutes fooling around with brushes in Photoshop. Thanks toV-brush for the brushes.