Archive for April 17th, 2005
Learning piano
Sunday, April 17th, 2005
Just a little event — I’ve been learning piano, and today I played through a transcription of “Evaporated” (Ben Folds) all the way through. I don’t know what it is about the piano that makes such a beautiful sound, but it has always been one of my favorite instruments, so this little milestone is cool. Even though it is a very easy song, it’s so musical and expressive that it sounds impressive. If you ever catch me next to a piano I can play it if you like.
Life has been school has been life lately; so I’m busy. I’m taking a class on compiler design, and the projects are killer. Very interesting though. With that and algorithms, and a couple humanities classes, there’s no time left to think except late late at night, and all I can think about then is too deep to be useful or interesting. I’m getting weird here I know, so I’ll cut it off there. Let’s just say I’ve been thinking a lot about things that I can’t write about here. But life is good! Never fear. Always, even in the darkest times, something about it breaks through into some beauty or wonder, completely unexplainable and completely true.
I live for thoughts like these at two in the morning; gone by sunrise.