I found this new year's questionnaire on "the new is the true"

1. Looking back on 2008, what might the theme have been?
-Change, Loss, and Growing Up

2. If 2008 was a movie, who would play you?
-Scarlett Johansson

3. What was your greatest gift of 2008?
-My boyfriend

4. What is your New Year Resolution, or, what are you committing to this year?
-I plan to eliminate procrastination, chubbiness, and immaturity.

5. If January could be represented by one song, what would it be?
-The Way You Look Tonight

6. What do you wish for your body in 2009?
-Health and beautiful clothes

7. Name one new thing you would love to try in the New Year.
-Maybe a short fast or a new exercise program

8. What do you long for 2009 to bring?
-More of the happiness and love that it has given me already.

9. If that happened, how would you feel?
-Wonderful!

10. Where would you love to vacation in 2009 if money were no object?
-Maybe California or New York (why go overseas when i haven't seen all of my country?)

11. What would you like the theme of 2009 to be?
-Happiness

12. If 2009 was a book, and the title was 5 words or less, what might the title be?
-No Other Love

More beautiful words from Pablo Neruda:

I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day
I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.

I hunger for your sleek laugh,
your hands the color of a savage harvest,
hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,
I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.

I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body,
the sovereign nose of your arrogant face,
I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes,

and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight,
hunting for you, for your hot heart,
like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.

Pablo Neruda

photo courtesy of weheartit.com

2009

What a wonderful new year! I had a wonderful Christmas Break and an awesome start to the Spring '09 semester. My parents gave me a camera for Christmas! I have been taking pictures of EVERYTHING






This is a picture of my boyfriend, Frank, at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens.





Unbelievable house we found in Mountain Brook!





The Bamboo Garden.


These are just a few of the hundreds of pictures I have taken! I am so excited to be able to document my experiences of 2009!

Chaminade

Christmas break is now one step closer. I performed my jury earlier today. The Chaminade Concertino... It went well considering my lack of preparation. The piece is not difficult but it is really flashy (like most French pieces). I'll have a chance to redeem myself when I play the same piece for the Mary Karen Clardy masterclass in January.

Best Poem EVER

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

than this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

-Pablo Neruda

Memorial

"Students and teachers made a human chain inside the premises of their school to pay homage to the victims of Mumbai's recent attacks, in the northern Indian city of Lucknow. Fresh evidence unearthed by investigators in India indicated that the Mumbai attacks were managed from at least two Pakistani cities by top leaders of the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba." - The New York Times

Home Alone...

I am home alone. I need things to keep myself entertained... Things that do not involve studying or practicing.  So, I decided to add to my blog. I have found inspiration in other blogs; therefore, I will dedicate this to all things I find interesting... clothing, poetry, music, animals etc. 

Last night I was stranded in Brookwood Village for a few hours. I ended up in Books-a-Million when the other stores began to close. I found myself reading this issue of Vanity Fair. How cute is Tina Fey?!