ear train derailment

Post 79 of 90.

I became obsessed with ear training and never made it to the guitar today. As a diversion, I went back to the beginning level and this time worked on C with a tenor sax sound. C is still what it is and always has been, just dressed up differently, and it fooled me now and then.

Stanley's is apparently not honoring the (unenforceable) smoking ban in Cincinnati, or may be out of jurisdiction--not sure--so the jacket and clothes I wore last night stink, stink, stink!

I looked at the UW link JT sent me, and the cost in tuition for the program is a little over $4K. I'll need to inquire about out-of-state tuition. I fear I may have to live in Washington State for a year to qualify for in-state. Looks like a good program that might be able to get my foot in the door in the technical writing scene, and help me catch a higher income bracket for a relatively small time investment (9 months).

I sometimes think it would have been so much better if I had been required to pay for my own undergraduate tuition. I learned a lot of worthwhile stuff, but I had no concept of the money involved, and I had no ability to consider the future or whether this investment would get me where I wanted to go, even if I had any specific idea of where I wanted to go or what I wanted to do.

In middle school and high school, my main concerns were whether I could avoid getting beaten up or intimidated in the hallway that day, and whether I could ever finally hit puberty and escape my nerdy self-loathing. I could say this sort of stuff didn't matter in the long run, but pre-occupation with day-to-day survival meant I found it hard to think about the future. It seemed like it would go on forever. If the warped little psychopathic subculture of my peer group in school was anything like the real world, it seemed inconceivable that I could make it to 30 years of age without going crazy or blowing my brains out because of the pressure.

"A career?! What the &%$ are you talking about?! I just want to be left alone! Get me out of this madhouse!!"