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Name: Melissa
Location: Missouri, United States
Interests: Piano, Organ, Singing, photography, Theater, poetry, flowers, The Lord of the Rings, Phantom of the Opera, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen, classical music, rain, teacups, cats, chocolate, movie soundtracks...
Expertise: Piano, Organ, Writing, Eating, Photography, Sleeping, procrastinating, and being either very lazy or very productive...
Occupation: Student
Message: message me
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Member Since:
7/2/2005
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| I thought I should write, considering it's been about 9 months since I last did. Here are some highlights of what I have been up to lately: - I have graduated and am working full time as "Music Ministry Assistant" at St. Paul's Lutheran Church. Things are going well. I am blessed to have a job, and blessed to be able to do what I love.
- Patrick and I have been dating over 2 1/2 years now.
- My family and my kitty cat are fine.
- My room is a mess, and I keep meaning to clean it, but time gets away from me...
- I still crochet, and I will soon be teaching myself how to knit.
- I read my last entry, and it was about the concerto competition. No, I did not win - I got honorable mention out of five people (meaning two of us didn't place). That was okay, though, because I remember being fine with how it went. Didn't want to leave you hanging there, in case you've been checking for the past year to see what happened...lol.
Well, that's really about all for now. Melissa | | |
| I made it to the second round of the concerto competition - and it's tomorrow. I'm glad I made it to the second round, because it gives me opportunity to play in front of an audience (not just a panel of judges). I've put hours and hours of work into this piece. That's one thing I don't like about performing - you can put hours of practice into a piece, but it's one performance. If I put hours of work into a project or paper, it would show, and I would have tangible, lasting proof. I know that, no matter what, all that work was not for nothing. Even if I don't win, the contest was a motivator - it got me to practice (something I would have otherwise only half-heartedly done). It gave me something toward which to work. Also, with all that practicing, I most likely improved my skills in general. On top of all that, it's one more performing experience to have under my belt. Also, the people I'm competing against are my friends (or I at least know them pretty well) - and they're all nice people, so no matter who wins, I'm going to be happy for them (even if I'm a little disappointed). *sigh* Then why am I so nervous? I tried taking a much-needed nap just now before choir rehearsal, and all I did was lay there, playing the concerto over and over in my head. No sleep. I'm wondering how I'm going to sleep tonight. *sigh* I really need peace - I've been praying for peace, and I'm hoping God will give me some (maybe I should allow Him to give me some...eh?) Anyway, gotta go. Melissa  | | |
|  Wow, it's kind of been awhile. Well, there's definately too much to say to fill in everything since I last wrote, but I'll mention a few things.
I'm in my senior year now. Over the summer, I worked as a music assistant at a church. It was a good experience - and I made some money.  Time is flying faster than I expected it to. We're already in our fifth week of school. It seems like it shouldn't be that already, but it is. I actually only thought to write because I tried to go to bed early and just couldn't sleep. I exhausted Facebook and no one was posting anything new and interesting, so I thought of this. This past weekend I went with Patrick to his brother's wedding, in which he was a groomsman. He looked cute in his tux.   I had a nice weekend - it was like a mini vacation. But, I also didn't practice or get some things done that I should have and now I'm feeling a little bit stressed. Not a lot, just a little. I have a paper to finish for Thursday, and I have to play for Communion service Wednesday evening. Not to mention I have other homework due Friday. The concerto competition is coming up again. Pieces don't have to be memorized (which mine could not be in time anyway), but otherwise it's almost ready. Applications have to be in by Friday (today's Monday), and the first round is next Tuesday. I'm really not sure if I'm ready, but then again, this is my last year doing this, and I didn't even enter last year because I wasn't ready, and I like the piece, and I've already put quite a bit of work into it, I figure maybe I should just do it. *sigh* I've also really been struggling with what, exactly, I want to do after college. I had always thought I would just graduate and get a call to some church where I would serve as music director, and also maybe teach piano out of my house. But, now I'm considering other possibilities. I've thought about graduate school, but I'm not really sure where I'd go or what I would do. I don't want to just be going to school to postpone the "real world". I've also thought about maybe trying to get a job in some other music field (I don't know what, maybe like professional accompanist, or some sort of director or something). I really don't know what I want. So, anyway, I'm struggling a bit with that. I don't feel tired yet - I could just keep writing.... Patrick and I have been dating for a year and eight months now  He had a birthday a week or two ago - he's 23 now...what an old man  I really don't have anything else to say...to continue writing would just be rambling, and even then, I don't have much to ramble about. So, goodnight. Love, Melissa | | |
| I don't know why I was so uptight about Kapelle tour - possibly the fear of being gone for 10 days in another state, the fear of flying, the fear of feeling lonely, and the fear of performing. Not to mention the sad feeling of not being able to go home for spring break. But...I had a wonderful time! It was so much fun and so beautiful, and I was actually quite social and made friends.
   
We got to see the sunset on The ocean and mountains We stayed with people We also toured Alcatraz
the beach - it was gorgeous. were breathtaking - pictures one night that had horses!
cannot fully capture them.
Basically, I just had such a good time! We went to Las Vegas and California - Lancaster, Orange, Manhatten Beach, Visalia, Pasa Robles, San Simeon, San Fransisco, and Santa Rosa.
Love,
Melissa
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| "Seems I've imagined Him all of my life
As the wisest of all of mankind
But if God's Holy wisdom is foolish to men
He must have seemed out of His mind
For even His family said He was mad
And the priests said a demon's to blame
But God in the form of this angry young man
Could not have seemed perfectly sane
When we in our foolishness thought we were wise
He played the fool and He opened our eyes
When we in our weakness believed we were strong
He became helpless to show we were wrong
And so we follow God's own fool
For only the foolish can tell-
Believe the unbelievable
And come be a fool as well
So come lose your life for a carpenter's son
For a madman who died for a dream
And you'll have the faith His first followers had
And you'll feel the weight of the beam
So surrender the hunger to say you must know
Have the courage to say I believe
For the power of paradox opens your eyes
And blinds those who say they can see
So we follow God's own Fool
For only the foolish can tell
Believe the unbelievable,
And come be a fool as well"
-Michael Card, "God's Own Fool" from Joy in the Journey
"For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength."
1 Corinthians 1:25
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