bone in sub

yesterday’s post immediately hit the first page of google, so now i’m responsible for 40 percent of the “tyler kerr” internet presence. woop

i got kind of shafted in percussion ensemble. every single year it’s scheduled for 11am-3pm, which is a huge amount of time for one class, but there are always a bunch of pieces with different groups of performers so nobody ever has to be there for the entire time. in previous years people have had classes from 11-noon or 2-3, and they just get scheduled around, no problem. when i got the assignment email last week i was really happy – out of six pieces, i play in four of them, and it looked like the best four pieces too. i was surprised to see we had rehearsal on the 16th; i had been explicitly told no rehearsal until the 23rd. i emailed the director and let her know about my film lecture from 2 to 3 and she just removed me from two of the four pieces.

i’ll just have to make my own percussion ensemble entertainment. i might reform sonance if we find a good fourth, but i don’t know one right now.

i had a dream about using a semicolon last night. i was on the computer writing in this blog while someone from school was watching. i was trying to join two sentences, and i had already overused parentheses, hyphens, and commas, and ‘and’ or ‘but’ wouldn’t work, so i put in a semicolon and it worked perfectly so we both cheered a little, and the dream ended. weird. also i feel really, really awkward writing about punctuation! it’s like talking about someone when you know they can hear you.

my oldest friend from richmond, derek, is coming up to toronto for a few days next month. that’s going to be cool, i see him about once a year. he visited for a while before, but i lived in such a small place, was so busy with school, and had so little money it seemed like we barely got to do anything. this is going to be quite different…

i’m supposed to be in film class right now, but wednesdays are always just screenings. i’m just downloading the movie and i’ll watch it at dinner tonight!