Health has markedly improved since last post! Still a bit sluggish, but I worked out today so that should be a good sign. Spent a lazy Friday mostly in bed, watching Daredevil and soccer, then went out and played drums, played pool, and saw the Columbia Shakespeare company do Much Ado About Nothing at midnight! A fun time running around campus seeing a great version of one of my favorite plays. Anna came too, it was fun to hang out with her. Gemma from my freshman lithum class played Beatrice and was phenomenal. I kind of want to marry her. Not really joking. Ione played Hero and was also great! Now I'm lying in bed again watching Giants highlights (wearing a Giants shirt) and thinking about how tough it would be to play like Charlie Parker, but it would also be fun. I want to have Questlove's life, and ?uestlove works hard, so I need to work hard. Cowards die many times before their deaths, so I must become valiant and let die only my cowardly life. I have to write a Shakespeare paper on Sunday that I'm still not sure what about.
I wrote a 10-page paper on Duke Ellington and his WWII radio broadcasts on Wednesday, his birthday, very proud of that. Monday and Tuesday were fun but flued, so more of a blur. Lots of last classes coming up. Jazz was an amazing semester and Prof. Washburne is an amazing teacher. I love learning, I hope I learn as much at whatever job I get as I am learning now.
More to come later, it's late now. Maybe I'll write a play one day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMuItUv9xZc
Anthropology, by Charlie Parker. Reading along with the transcribed solo, you realize how ridiculously crazily good and difficult this is.
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