Well, school has started up again. It's going to be tough this year, but I'll get through. Soccer season is in full swing, and our team looks like it's going to be great this year. These past few days have been pretty insane. We took a team retreat to the mountains for the weekend, and I had a great time. Yesterday, I went to see Turtle Island String Quartet in concert playing Coltrane's "A Love Supreme". I was curious to see how they'd pull it off, because Coltrane is Coltrane, and A Love Supreme is sort of untouchable. They did an amazing job of it though. Through the whole thing, I was hoping they'd play Julie-O (which I'm working on now)because it's one of my favorite pieces, and the composer (Mark Summer) is the one of the founders of Turtle Island. Well, they didn't play the piece, but after the show, I hung out for a while, and the woman running the progam said we could go backstage a talk to them and get a poster signed. I had a great chat with David Balakrishnan, one of the violinists, about jazz and classical fusion. He's a really great guy and I enjoyed talking to him. After waiting around a bit, I finally got to talk to Mr. Summer himself, and he was very nice. I told him I was playing his piece, and that I really enjoy all the techniques and stuff for it... yeah. It was an awesome concert.
I guess it was my last hurrah to the best summer ever. I know nobody really reads this, but I feel better writing anyway. This summer was amazing. I did a lot of cool things and I got to hang out with my friends and get a lot closer to them. No, I didn't get through absolutely everything I wanted to do, but that's how it goes. I'm sorry the summer has to be over, but that is the nature of summers, I suppose. Someday, I'll do everything I wanted to do. As T.S Eliot says "There will be time, there will be time."