Music, Books, and More (I'm Not Dead!)

So...um...what have I been doing lately? Aside from only being able to be on the computer about 15 minutes a day...

Music

• Harmony and Voice Leading
  
• Counterpoint in Composition
  
• Listen and Sing
  
• EarMaster -- computer ear training program
  
• Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Barber -- preparing audition material

Marie-gets-sidetracked-in-the-300-section-of-the-library Books

• Sociology (John C. Macionis) -- actually, I have something like the 1st edition. :-/
  
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
  
• Amish Society
  
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
  
• Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News
  
• The Great Divide: Retro vs. Metro (well -- this was the one I was TRYING to find at the library, but found out that they didn't have. I screamed something about black and white us-good/them-evil we-righteous/they-bad steryotyping after seeing advertisements for this thing last semester. Then got my head back together and decided I'd read the thing).
  

Books that sidetracked me from the checked out books:

• Galileo's Daughter (Dava Sobel) -- haven't gotten this one either, but it's what we have to read for the retreat next semester
  
• A Knight of the White Cross (GA Henty) -- umm...this book had so many problems style-wise I hardly noticed the plot. Usually Henty is at least passable.
  
• Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra -- doh! These make sense now! Maybe I'll make it through the third one this time! Knowing a bit about Medieval cosmology, Augustine's take on evil, and Lewis's general word-pictures of things REALLY helps. Two years ago these books were just plain weird. Now they're pretty cool.
  Secondly and more importantly -- WHY has no one done a comparison between His Dark Materials and The Space Trilogy? It would make a hell of a lot more sense than comparing them to Narnia. Eldil = Dark Matter, for one thing...
  
  
• "The Most Pitiful and Pathetic Story in the World" -- umm...21 single-spaced 12pt font pages of...something...that two of my little sisters and their friend cooked up, and read to me over dinner in a dramatic interpretation. I gave them an authoritative quote to stick on the front of it: "...a disturbingly fascinating sociological exercise in community-building." Or "James Joyce, as a kid, on drugs, after reading Lord of the Rings."

Stuff I'm hoping to get entries up on sometime:

• The Most Pitiful and Pathetic Story in the World
  
• Star Wars (um...yes. Still have the rough draft of this lying around).
  
• Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
  
• GA Henty -- what to watch out for, what to read, what to avoid
  
• Fanfiction
  
• The Credo