this long day
Nov. 11th, 2001 04:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
guslI have been awake for 21 hours now.
I got up at 7am to take the Computer Science GRE. I did ok, except for the systems & architecture parts, where I got killed. Nothing unexpected, really. I was reluctant to do it... spend all this money on exams which are so flawed (well, at least my general test was), so I took it as a standby.
At around 5:30, I left to a bluegrass festival in Newton. It was awesome: I saw 20-30 people jamming, and I played my fiddle with them. I was totally into it, and got psyched out after an hour or so. I got a little break towards the end, but I screwed it up, as expected. Jam sessions are definitely the way to learn an instrument... teachers are expensive, and all the technique can be too restricting.
I got done at 9:20pm, and left for Dave's goodbye party. Had a good time: learned something about tax avoidance, jammed with Bill S, played crazy ping-pong, and saw Gavin's memorable faces.
I got up at 7am to take the Computer Science GRE. I did ok, except for the systems & architecture parts, where I got killed. Nothing unexpected, really. I was reluctant to do it... spend all this money on exams which are so flawed (well, at least my general test was), so I took it as a standby.
At around 5:30, I left to a bluegrass festival in Newton. It was awesome: I saw 20-30 people jamming, and I played my fiddle with them. I was totally into it, and got psyched out after an hour or so. I got a little break towards the end, but I screwed it up, as expected. Jam sessions are definitely the way to learn an instrument... teachers are expensive, and all the technique can be too restricting.
I got done at 9:20pm, and left for Dave's goodbye party. Had a good time: learned something about tax avoidance, jammed with Bill S, played crazy ping-pong, and saw Gavin's memorable faces.
