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Things You Have To Put Up With Once I Fully Process Our Friendship

• in everyday life i hate physical touch and being in close physical proximity. HOWEVER once you become one of my people and unlock the Cuddle Upgrade, i transform into the clingiest human ever and you will not be able to get me off you.

• i love being used as a pillow or footrest. just casually. stick your head or your feet on me randomly and i will be like yessss. i am chosen. this is my life's greatest calling.

• i am short as heck and angry about it on a biological level. i will need help reaching things. i will not be happy about the fact that i need help reaching things.

• i overthink absolutely everything. if it is possible to worry about something, rest assured. i am worrying about it.

• i am allowed to make fun of you but i will beat up anyone else who messes with you. i know where the line is and i refuse to cross it.

• i love hugs. i could be having the world's worst day and getting a hug from one of my people would make everything better.

• i just randomly. lay on the floor. all the time. i don't believe in chairs. or shoes.

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Working on Franck Violin Sonata rn and it's just reinforcing my opinion that organists should not be allowed to write piano music. Why so many big chords and just straight up octaves. It's so pretty but this is why we can't have nice things, Franck.

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it has reached That Point in the semester where i have So Much Music To Practice but like. negative will to practice. like i would rather do Anything Else than practice and making myself practice is Painful and Awful.

but yes. i love school and i love being back in school. i'm just not a fan of the end of the semester.

also i watched the first lord of the rings movie last night for the first time (while avoiding practicing and responsibilities) and i loved it

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The legacies people leave behind in you.

My handwriting is the same style as the teacher’s who I had when I was nine. I’m now twenty one and he’s been dead eight years but my i’s still curve the same way as his.

I watched the last season of a TV show recently but I started it with my friend in high school. We haven’t spoken in four years.

I make lentil soup through the recipe my gran gave me.

I curl my hair the way my best friend showed me.

I learned to love books because my father loved them first.

How terrifying, how excruciating painful to acknowledge this. That I am a jigsaw puzzle of everyone I have briefly known and loved. I carry them on with me even if I don’t know it. How beautiful.

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Days 7-10 of 100 days of productivity

Day 7/100 dop (August 28th, 2022)

4.5 hour barista shift

drove 45 mins to my family's house

1 hour of practice at home - worked on familiarizing myself even better with one movement of a piece I'm playing with one of my friends for their violin recital

rode in the car and helped drive 4.5 hours to the town my little sister's school is in

got one chapter of reading and notes done for my music lit class in the car

Day 8/100 dop (August 29th, 2022)

another 4.5 hours in the car; listened back to my piano lesson recording and got some of my notes down, plus another half chapter of music lit

spent a lot of time with my family helping to celebrate my great grandma's amazing life. she was so loved and we miss her.

Day 9/100 dop (August 30th, 2022)

funeral in the morning and family lunch, then back on the road.

9 hours in the car, helped drive in the middle - finished out my last half chapter of music lit notes and napped A LOT

Day 10/100 dop (August 31st, 2022)

made it back to my apartment

1 hour practice before my piano lesson - worked pretty in depth on my new concerto! it's such a fun piece. go listen to beethoven's 5th piano concerto (the emperor) if you need a jam

lesson prepped for the piano lessons I'm teaching. put together some cheat sheet handouts for scales and key signatures

ran to the library to print. twice.

made up a piano lesson I was supposed to teach on Tuesday - got my schedule put together for next week

worked a 4-hour barista shift. wednesday night shifts are slow but it was actually a good shift because I really enjoy the people I worked with.

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days 5 and 6 of 100 days of productivity

August 26th, 2022

turned 23! I feel very old, especially because my two youngest sisters just finished their first week of college AND my baby brother will be a teenager in a few months

listened to myself when I couldn't focus or get anything done in practice. made the decision to go home and work on other things rather than beat myself up and try to keep going.

made scones! they turned out beautifully.

emailed all my professors to let them know I'll be out of classes two days next week dt a family funeral

taught all afternoon. it was so much fun to see my students and I'm so grateful I still get to see them once a week this school year.

August 27th, 2022

made it to a 160-day streak on Duolingo! I think that's the longest I've ever made it.

deep-cleaned my apartment

bought some more furniture and decor for my new living space and it's finally starting to feel like home

packed to head out of town tomorrow to be with my extended family and celebrate my great-grandma's amazing life

worked a 3-hour shift at the coffee shop

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Day 4/100 days of productivity

cooked all three meals today (and made my first successful omelet ever. it was a beautiful breakfast.)

5 hours of practice

accompanied day 2 of opera auditions

collaborative piano lesson

finished out semester scheduling

158-day streak on duolingo

counseling appointment

also last official day of being 22 :)

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Day 3/100 days of productivity

got out of bed (REALLY didn't want to this morning)

cleaned my kitchen and took out the trash

had a really excellent piano lesson! recorded everything and made it halfway through afterwards listening and taking my notes. have to finish the other half tomorrow.

picked up music for the choir I'm accompanying!

played for opera auditions. more tomorrow.

did my reading and notes for my music lit/history class tomorrow

made it to 157 days on duolingo! only did one lesson but one is better than none

treated myself to an iced matcha because I was feeling super overwhelmed and stressed out. perks of it being birthday week is free things. only one more full day of being 22!

pulled a 3.5 hour shift at my barista job. we were so incredibly slow and I was tired and bored out of my skull but we got a lot of cleaning done which was very satisfying.

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Day 2/100 days of productivity

4 hrs 50 mins of practice! got a big chunk of my concerto learned, a bit of the beginning memorized, and hacked through one of my longer pieces completely from memory for the first time.

first academic class of the semester!

graduate school informational meeting

got all but two things finalized on my semester schedule

156-day streak on Duolingo for German

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day 1 of 100 days of productivity

first day of school!!! it feels so good to be back on campus as a student.

first organ lesson. didn't get to play at all but went through the instrument and how it works. it was fascinating and i am so excited for the opportunity to learn this instrument.

practiced 3.5 hours. learned more of my collaborative rep and got quite a bit memorized today.

so many emails. and scheduling things. i knew my schedule would fill up quickly and it certainly is.

scheduled one of the three weekly private piano lessons i'm teaching for my assistantship!

made it to a 155 day streak on duolingo

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she’s a 10 but she writes tasks in her bullet journal that she’s already finished so she has the satisfaction of crossing it out

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Brené Brown, Daring Greatly

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POST PLUS IS COMING, WHETHER YOU WANT IT OR NOT!

Despite the fancy survey, changes to the UI and TOS reveal we’re getting the service in the future whether we want it or not. Obviously, Post+ is a terrible idea that is trying to bank revenue on user content. Unlike patreon or onlyfans, tumblr’s primary focus is on FAN content. The legality of this is NOT in the users favor and as the new tumblr TOS states, said users will be entirely liable for whatever legal matters arise.

SO WHAT ARE WE DOING?

Besides filling out the survey, it’s time to show tumblr we mean business and show our displeasure by hitting them where it hurts.

Ad revenue.

We’re proposing a 24 hour log off as phase one of this protest.

WHEN IS THE PROTEST?

AUGUST 6th, 2021        12 am Eastern Time (US)          5 am Greenwich Mean Time          6 am Central European Time          8 am Moscow Standard Time          1 pm Australian Western Time          2 pm Japan Standard Time          3:30 pm Australian Central Time          4 pm Australian Eastern Time

AUGUST 5th, 2021

11 pm Central Time (US)          10 pm Mountain Time (US)            9 pm Pacific Time (US)

THE END TIME IS 24 HOURS FROM START TIME!!!

So no posting, no queues, no likes, and no reblogs!

WHAT IF I CAN’T/WHAT ELSE CAN I DO?

Like this post and share it AS MANY TIMES AS POSSIBLE. Use the hashtags #tumblrlogoff2021 or #postplusprotest on ANY and ALL social media.

WILL THIS WORK?

Maybe, maybe not. It’s an attempt at doing SOMETHING.

BECAUSE I’M A TIRED IDIOT, USE THIS TO DOUBLE CHECK YOUR TIME ZONE!!!!

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[that-piano-violin-girl]

Some days, being a musician is the hardest thing in the world. Sometimes it feels impossible.

When you spend hours and hours alone in a practice room, sometimes playing the same five notes over and over and over again until you think you’ll go insane.

When you hear such beautiful music in your head but you can’t make it come out, no matter how hard you try.

When you’re your own harshest critic, and there’s nothing you can do to make yourself happy, and everything you’re doing is wrong.

And worst, there are those horrible days when your very best is simply not good enough, when all you can so is go back into that practice room and aim for a perfection that’s impossible to attain.

But it’s all worth it. For that one perfect play-through, even if you’re in the practice room and the only person to hear it. For that one passage or harmony that twists your heart just so and reminds you why you’re a musician, sending you right back into that practice room not because you fell short but because a million different opportunities just opened up and you can’t stand not making music right that second. For that utterly complete exhaustion of mind and body, burning hands, that only comes after a performance that took everything you have and a little bit more. For the realization that THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS PERFECT, that ‘right’ is an infinity of possibility, that there’s no such thing as ‘wrong.’

And that is why I keep going back to the practice room day after day, pushing through inconveniences and disappointments. Because I’m addicted to that indescribable feeling of pouring out music and knowing it’s not coming from me, that I’m an instrument myself. My happiest and saddest moments have all been because of music, but music gets me through the sad and makes me so much more than happy. Because I have music in my heart and in my hands, and I can no more keep it inside me than I can stop my heart beating or my lungs breathing.

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Things You Have To Put Up With Once I Fully Process Our Friendship

• in everyday life i hate physical touch and being in close physical proximity. HOWEVER once you become one of my people and unlock the Cuddle Upgrade, i transform into the clingiest human ever and you will not be able to get me off you.

• i love being used as a pillow or footrest. just casually. stick your head or your feet on me randomly and i will be like yessss. i am chosen. this is my life's greatest calling.

• i am short as heck and angry about it on a biological level. i will need help reaching things. i will not be happy about the fact that i need help reaching things.

• i overthink absolutely everything. if it is possible to worry about something, rest assured. i am worrying about it.

• i am allowed to make fun of you but i will beat up anyone else who messes with you. i know where the line is and i refuse to cross it.

• i love hugs. i could be having the world's worst day and getting a hug from one of my people would make everything better.

• i just randomly. lay on the floor. all the time. i don't believe in chairs. or shoes.

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