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Aug. 20th, 2008 02:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frameofmind6Okay, Excel and I are getting along a bit better today. We're still in the early stages of our relationship, but I think we're starting to understand each other a bit better. I want to come up with more projects I can do with it, just for practice -- I learn best that way. I took keyboarding classes dozens of times in middle school and high school, tried all sorts of "teach typing" computer programs, but I never actually managed to learn to type in any practical sense until I started writing. I learn by doing.
(*nods sagely*)
Maybe I'll catalogue my DVD collection -- that could be fun. And it might be nice to have a handy reference guide that listed which discs of various TV series contained which episodes, since some of them don't say right on the disc. I used to have something like that for my Star Trek collection on my old mac -- a big database saying which episodes were on which tapes. It was even more useful there, because they didn't necessarily go in any sort of logical, chronological order. That seriously sounds like fun -- I love doing projects like that...
Oh, I am so tempted... (*grin*)
Oh -- so I finished my big "financial report" project a week or two ago, sorting through all my receipts and reconiling them with my account records. But then yesterday, while I was doing some cleaning and reorganizing around the apartment, I ran across a big cache of receipts stuffed into an old purse and tucked away in a box somewhere (*sigh*). Not planning to start from scratch or anything -- most of the important receipts seemed to be accounted for when I went through them -- but I should at least sort through them and file them away. I'm guessing most of them belong to one of my other accounts, because I don't think there were that many missing when I went through the stack for the big account...
I had a really good voice lesson today with my old teacher -- she's in town just for the week, and since I haven't seen or spoken to her since the whole ordeal of her being let go took place I figured it was a good opportunity to catch up. Plus, I have to sing at this wedding in a couple of days, and the more chances I have to practice (where other people can hear me, that is), the better. Anyway, it was really nice to see her again -- we had a good chat afterwards about what we've both been up to, where things are going for each of us...just sort of a nice "farewell" to the teacher/student scenario. In a weird way, I sort of think we might have a better relationship now that she's not my teacher anymore than we did when she was. Not that we had a bad relationship before or anything -- but between her perfectionism and my tendency to chafe at being told what to do, there was definitely some friction from time to time. Once we got done with the lesson and were just talking, I found myself sort of letting go of the "teacher" label and just seeing her as a person. She had some really nice things to say about me and the way I think and write (and it turns out she has a friend who's some sort of expert in the field of music copyright law -- she offered to introduce me to him when I mentioned I was applying to law school, so that'll be great), and...I don't know. It was just really nice to have that closure to the whole thing. I feel like I can move forward now without feeling guilty or like I've left something unfinished. And honestly, in the long run, I think this change is coming at just the right time for me. I've gotten a lot of great things from my lessons thus far, but I feel like there was a line we sort of couldn't find a way to cross (at least not for more than a moment or two at a time, every once in awhile) -- and my new teacher is really helping me cross it. In the past month or so I've been able to sing pieces I would never have been able to sing six months ago -- and in a way that's both better sounding and easier than I could have imagined (once I get there, that is. Each day you start from the bottom and have to find your way back up again. But the path gets a little more familiar each time...). I really feel great about where things are going, and I think this year (my last year as a music major, before I have to go figure out the rest of my life) is going to be a good one. Anyway, I'm horrible at staying in touch with people, but I'm really going to try this time -- and I think I'll be able to do it.
Well, I have to leave in an hour or so, but I can't resist -- gotta go back and play with Excel some more... (*grin*)
(*nods sagely*)
Maybe I'll catalogue my DVD collection -- that could be fun. And it might be nice to have a handy reference guide that listed which discs of various TV series contained which episodes, since some of them don't say right on the disc. I used to have something like that for my Star Trek collection on my old mac -- a big database saying which episodes were on which tapes. It was even more useful there, because they didn't necessarily go in any sort of logical, chronological order. That seriously sounds like fun -- I love doing projects like that...
Oh, I am so tempted... (*grin*)
Oh -- so I finished my big "financial report" project a week or two ago, sorting through all my receipts and reconiling them with my account records. But then yesterday, while I was doing some cleaning and reorganizing around the apartment, I ran across a big cache of receipts stuffed into an old purse and tucked away in a box somewhere (*sigh*). Not planning to start from scratch or anything -- most of the important receipts seemed to be accounted for when I went through them -- but I should at least sort through them and file them away. I'm guessing most of them belong to one of my other accounts, because I don't think there were that many missing when I went through the stack for the big account...
I had a really good voice lesson today with my old teacher -- she's in town just for the week, and since I haven't seen or spoken to her since the whole ordeal of her being let go took place I figured it was a good opportunity to catch up. Plus, I have to sing at this wedding in a couple of days, and the more chances I have to practice (where other people can hear me, that is), the better. Anyway, it was really nice to see her again -- we had a good chat afterwards about what we've both been up to, where things are going for each of us...just sort of a nice "farewell" to the teacher/student scenario. In a weird way, I sort of think we might have a better relationship now that she's not my teacher anymore than we did when she was. Not that we had a bad relationship before or anything -- but between her perfectionism and my tendency to chafe at being told what to do, there was definitely some friction from time to time. Once we got done with the lesson and were just talking, I found myself sort of letting go of the "teacher" label and just seeing her as a person. She had some really nice things to say about me and the way I think and write (and it turns out she has a friend who's some sort of expert in the field of music copyright law -- she offered to introduce me to him when I mentioned I was applying to law school, so that'll be great), and...I don't know. It was just really nice to have that closure to the whole thing. I feel like I can move forward now without feeling guilty or like I've left something unfinished. And honestly, in the long run, I think this change is coming at just the right time for me. I've gotten a lot of great things from my lessons thus far, but I feel like there was a line we sort of couldn't find a way to cross (at least not for more than a moment or two at a time, every once in awhile) -- and my new teacher is really helping me cross it. In the past month or so I've been able to sing pieces I would never have been able to sing six months ago -- and in a way that's both better sounding and easier than I could have imagined (once I get there, that is. Each day you start from the bottom and have to find your way back up again. But the path gets a little more familiar each time...). I really feel great about where things are going, and I think this year (my last year as a music major, before I have to go figure out the rest of my life) is going to be a good one. Anyway, I'm horrible at staying in touch with people, but I'm really going to try this time -- and I think I'll be able to do it.
Well, I have to leave in an hour or so, but I can't resist -- gotta go back and play with Excel some more... (*grin*)