Tuneful Crochet Hooks

Sarah, you wanted to hear this story, so here it is!

Once upon a time, maybe 6-9 months ago, I was crocheting something (ok, actually, when do I ever STOP crocheting? anyways...)

I was making something, and I had a handful of crochet hooks sitting on the floor next to me. I dropped the hook I had been working with, and it clattered against the ones on the floor.

HOLD ON!!!...

Being a music major has its up and down sides...I not sure which this is, but when I heard the clanking, I heard music...in fact, I heard several different pitches.

I grabbed up my hook and started tapping all the others with it. Excellent! They can be tuned!

So I lined them up by pitch and started playing thing like Chopsticks, and the Rugrats theme song.
(Interesting fact, the size D hook is the lowest pitched aluminum hook, and the K was actually the highest...doesn't make sense to me, but whatever)
The pitches aren't exactly in tune. You sort of have to ignore the out-of-tuneness of it, but you can indeed get a major scale out of those bad boys.

Try it. You know you want to!

Things I will never have to do ever again!

As I near the end of my undergraduate college experience, I would like to take a moment to list some of the things I will never do again in my life (if all goes according to plan)...

Math classes
Playing juries in front of several people who have doctorates on their instrument
Give a recital
Non-sequitor gen-ed classes
Observation hours (now I get a chance to teach!)
Percussion method class
Music History class
Music Theory class
Sing atonal tone-rows
Minimum wage jobs (like I said, if all goes according to plan)
Non-sequitor teaching classes that have nothing to offer to music/art/PE teachers
8am classes (now they will be even earlier >.<)
Night classes (music teachers are basically always on call)

As I think of more, I may add them to this list, but for now, I know of some free Italian food waiting for me at church so TSCHUSS!

Do You Believe in Miracles?

Well, you should.

 I swore I would never have a blog.

 LOOK! I have a blog now.

I can't/won't make any promises about the content of my posts, but I can tell you they may in fact pertain to these topics:
teaching
bassoon
church
yarn
BBC
How much I love Goldfish crackers
Mr. Trololo
the color green
plants
(okay, pretty much anything the could ever possibly relate to music, like tuning my crochet hooks, another story for another day)
Richard Armitage
Myst/Uru

K, well, you get it....I'm weird and I'm gunna write about lots of weird things. Over and out!