The last post of 2009! I guess this is when I talk about New Year’s Resolutions, but the truth is: I just don’t do resolutions. They never work out! Sure, I’d like to be healthier; sure, I’d like to exercise more; sure, I’d be a better musician if I practiced an hour a day…but the truth is, life always gets in the way of these things. SO no resolutions.

As far as comics go: the set coming up (which I have drawn, but since I am at my parents’ house away from my scanner, will not go up until I get back to Waterloo) are about Production Managers–I am branching waaaaay out of this “oboe comics” thing, but I think it is a good thing. The Production Manager at the KWS is basically a superhero, and superheroes belong in comics!

I have been in Maryland since the 26th visiting my mom’s family who play word games! Guys, I love word games so much; I will take on all comers in Scrabble or Boggle or what-have-you–I’m not claiming I’ll win, necessarily, but that I will put up a fight! Words, guys. They’re wonderful.

For Christmas I got mostly books, which is normal, but I also got Musicians’ Dice! (My mom keeps pronouncing the company, Philomuse, like “phyllomouse” and it makes me smile. Pastry-wrapped rodents, delicious!) I’m pretty excited for all the fun improvs and compositions I will make with those dice. Once my grad project is well on its way, and my oboe/viola/piano trio is done, I’m writing a piece involving piano and beatbox for my friend Sarah Whynot (who is crazy and sassy and beatboxy) and flute and vocal solos for two other friends. Writing for flute! There’s something I haven’t done before, or wanted to do before, or will ever want to do again. We shall see how it goes.

This term: workin’ full time! Aaaaaah, it will be crazy. Also writing music and rehearsing-recording-producing my grad project, playing oboe in FIRE and taking lessons with Dick, and taking an English course (“Rest. and 18th C. Literature”–what is “Rest.” I would like to know?), and a Theory course (“Music After 1945″ for which I am excited).
And drawing comics, of course, although they will become increasingly about Music and the Arts-World as a whole as I slip further and further out of the oboeverse.

Finally, you all have to enjoy this with me:

I have one last theory-ish class next term, and I am going to have to start being creative with my notes-on-scores.

All the best to everyone in the new year! Twentyten, it is the best to say.

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