The Mediocrity Sought Out By Everyone.

Ahh...it's such a nice song. It's also my profile song on MySpace!

I think I need to step up my game in life. I have to learn to be a fearless leader and be more involved in making a difference! I want to get rid of the mediocrity that has been plaguing me since, well, the start of this year. I guess Dyana's meeting today galvanized and enticed me to want to escape the labyrinth of disorganization I've created for myself. Though, I haven't been doing a very good job today.

All that I've done today was go to my oboe lessons, practice saxophone, tuba, and oboe. I practiced for about an hour and a half, and for some reason my mouth felt like it was going to fall off. Hopefully my saxophone solo sounds slightly better now (I kind of don't hate it now!). I still don't have good tone on tuba, but I'm kind of getting the bassline for the Legend of Zelda Overworld theme. For oboe, I practiced "Into The Light" and the "Rondeau Allegro" from Mozart's Oboe Quartet in F. I'm thinking of doing the "Rondeau Allegro" for Senior Recitals next year. It should be fun once I get those thirty-second note runs down.

I like where my oboe teacher lives. It's on a hill in El Cerrito, and you can see the Golden Gate Bridge through the window. I've also seen deer in her backyard! I was walking up the stone steps, with the wind in my hair, when I heard the sound of animals blend with the gentle murmur of the breeze. There were birds chirping, and I heard a cicada in the wild for the first time. It was just one and it sounded like a chainsaw that was tearing through the tree it was on. There was also a weird "Nyap nyap" sound coming from some strange woodland creature, as if mocking my mediocrity.

My teacher warned me of the El Cerrito oboes that I'll meet tomorrow. They are apparently senior girls, but they don't take lessons from her. To quote my teacher, the oboes' playing will "rattle any fillings" that I have in my teeth. They even turned down the offer to get free lessons! To put it laconically, my teacher says their playing is egregious. I guess they possess some of that mediocrity sought out by everyone.

Glossary:

Galvanize - to stimulate
Entice - to lure
Labyrinth - a maze
Laconically - briefly
Egregious - outstandingly bad