Dave Mentions Sea Lions For the First Time in a Long While

It's been a while since I've updated you, the current citizens of planet Earth, on what I'm really doing here at Illinois Wesleyan. So tonight's post is to assure you that your all your tax dollars that go towards public education are going to good use. I will show you this via two reasons:

1. I do not go to a Public university
2. I am wasting 15 minutes of my Thursday night to write this blog post.

For starters, let's talk about my major. Music Education is going fantastic. I am currently enrolled in Percussion techniques where the point of the class is to demonstrate to each student how annoying snare drum pads can sound when played badly at 9:00 in the morning. When played right, on the other hand, it is a different story. Yesterday, after missing my alarm for the 2nd time this semester yet thankfully waking 15 minutes before class, I rushed to Percussion class to take the first test of the semester. It went quasi-well; I get it back on Monday so we'll see.

Still on the music topic, I'm taking viola lessons this semester for the first time since Senior year of high school. My teacher, Dr. Hall, is a great viola instructor and I'm slowly starting to get my old form back. However, on Tuesday we had "technical exams" which, to in layman's terms, means "playing extremely difficult musical passages on the viola." I had to play scales, arpeggios, double stops, and octaves. For those who don't know, playing octaves on a viola, unless you have superb technique, normally sounds about as beautiful as a sea lion attempting to sing opera. Unfortunately, on Tuesday, I had yet to acquire superb technique. Yeah, enough said on that subject.

In areas outside of music and school, I'm still slowly and surely rehabbing my knee. I am having surgery on December 17, so I'm just biding my time getting my quad stronger until that day. Hopefully this surgery takes care of things and I will be able to run next fall.

Also, I am still involved in DRL. With it being Thursday, we met tonight in the Main Lounge on campus, and we had a great time. Our fearless leader Mike opened up the night with this hilarious video:

He went on to talk about God's moral will and we all have a choice to follow it or not, just like those guys in the video had a choice whether or not to dig a big hole in the middle of the path and fill it with water. It was good stuff.

Now, I need to study for Music History cause we have 2 tests on Monday and Wednesday next week. I hope you all are doing peachy, and hopefully I will have a chance to see you soon, if that's possible.