RE: The Dumbest Generation? Don’t Be Dumb.

So I was reading this article in Newsweek the other day. The general idea of the article was that kids (Generation-Y people) don't know much nowadays, but we know how to find the information.

LIES! How dare that article call me stupid! Grr...

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Okay, I can't argue with that. Jay is stupid, but Jay is a pro Googler. Yea. I'll leave it at that.

Wicked (Continued) and NEWS!

Okay...almost a month later and I haven't edited that post... So I decided to put all the stuff that happened in the past month and the Wicked stuff all in one post.

Wicked...
So randomly during/before spring break, I decided I'd splurge on good Wicked tickets. I asked a few friends that I knew were going to be around at the time if they wanted to come with, and Aaron and Henry decided they'd come see it. With my not so amazing organizational skills, we didn't have tickets the day we planned on seeing the show, but luckily they had some orchestra level seats left. The seats were limited viewing, meaning we missed out on a corner of the stage, but they were still worth the $72 that we each spent. Anyways, the pit was awesome (even though it was half keyboards...), the story was awesome, the acting was awesome (still laughing about GA-Linda with a Ga...). It was pretty much everything I thought it'd be.

So, the news...
I'm going to take a year off from college 1. to kind of smack myself for not taking this year as seriously as I should have and 2. to practice and prepare for auditions. That's right... Auditions. Jay's going to be a mooooooooosic major. After being in the UIC orchestra for almost 2 months, it finally hit me that music is what keeps me going. I mean, I knew that music was a large part of my life (as you guys read in my first post), but I guess I thought I would be able to give up a part of that for the extra money in the business world. So...yea... Back to practicing 4 hours a day. Don't think I've done that in 5 years. This should be fun.

Wicked

I'll probably end up editing this, but I absolutely HAD to come online and post that it was FREAKING AMAZING. Totally worth the $72 for ORCHESTRA LEVEL tickets.

The "L" Word - A Tribute to February

It's still February right? Guess I'll talk about the "L" word...

This is just something that's been on my mind ever since I broke up with my last girlfriend. Love songs actually have meaning and do make sense.

You know, when you're a kid and you're listening to Disney love songs like...A Whole New World, it's like, "Okay, Aladdin wants to show Jasmine what's outside her palace." Now that I've been in a serious relationship and gone through all that fun stuff, when I listen to the song (Shut up. It's a good song, okay?), it has much more meaning.

I was going to go on and make up a story about a theoretical relationship and give examples of songs that have specific meaning for each part of a relationship, but now that I think about it, it doesn't seem to interesting, so I'm going to leave that part at that...

Random. Some people say relationships are built on a foundation of lies. I don't believe that. I want to see the world through an optimistic perspective and believe that you don't ever have to lie to make a relationship work.

Another random thing. Erm... This one's a bit harder to explain, so I'll give my example from my own life and hope my ex doesn't read this. To be completely honest, I didn't like my ex when I asked her out. The idea to ask her out was kind of a spontaneous/impulsive decision. But through the time that we were together, I grew to not only like her, but to love her. So from that, I learned that you can grow to love someone.

Enough on that. Just going to talk about what's happened with me recently.

11 years of violin lessons haven't been wasted. A professor from the music department at UIC called me/emailed me recently about playing in a newly created string program. And as an incentive for me to join, he offered a $1500 scholarship. Small beans compared to the 18 grand tuition, but when you're paying for your own education, money is money.

School is still school. Need i say more?

The owner of the restaurant I work at decided to open a new restaurant in a nearby suburb, so I might be promoted and given a raise to manage the 2nd location. It's supposed to be a semi-fast pan-Asian restaurant. Think...Noodle's & Company, just...Asian... Can't wait to see how it turns out.

I've found a new hobby. Watching video blogs on Youtube. Nerimon has some great videos. The iPhone one is, as the British say, ace. From there, you can probably find most of the Youtube vloggers.

British people have the greatest accents. Scottish, English, Irish, Welsh... All fun to listen to. I haven't heard a Welsh accent in a while though. Maybe if I save up enough money I can take a trip back to Cardiff with some GSO buds (Andy you up for this?).

Why is Heroes still not being aired? I need my weekly dose of crazy super-human powers. Why do people think I look like Hiro?

And now I think I've lived up to my blogs subtitle (scatterbrained and bored). And I'm kind of sick of typing, so... Buhbai!