Hwæt!
Tomorrow's the last day of class. Mmm. :) I've been rather stressed these past few days but now I feel pretty good. That confuses me, because I still have stuff due. Oh well, I'll enjoy it while I can. :)
In my Old English class today we finished reading "The Dream of the Rood" (a poem about Christ's cross). We've also read the Caedmon story and "Sermo ad Lupi" by Wulfstan and a few others. Fun stuff. I think I'll tackle Beowulf next semester. A week or two ago we read some neo-Anglo-Saxon written by Tolkien about Middle Earth (Silmarillion stuff). And so I've started reading Lord of the Rings again. It's even better than I remembered. :)
Speaking of books, I also began reading Thomas Martin's Reading the Classics with C.S. Lewis this afternoon while I cooked my linguine for dinner. Now, lately I haven't been reading as much as I used to, because of school and work and programming and stuff like that. But reading the first chapter of this book got me soooooooo excited to start reading the classics again -- Milton's Paradise Lost and Areopagitica, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, and plenty more. One bit that really interested me was a mention of his reading of Grimm in German. I must find a used copy of that somewhere (and then learn German :)). There's something terrifically goosebumpy about reading good old books in the original. As far as translations go, though, one of my friends at work gave me the Spanish translation of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe today. It'll be an easier read than La Dama del Alba.
Finally, I spent five hours this evening helping a mission friend record a CD for her dad. (I played the piano.) We practiced for over an hour, then went up to the recording studio. There was a recital hall lined with pianos around all the edges and a glass window which connected with the computer room, which was then connected to the small sound booth where the microphones were for the vocals. So I sat in the recital hall with headphones on while the two vocalists were in the sound booth (which I couldn't see) and the technician was in the computer room (which I could see through the glass window). We'd originally thought that it would only take 45 minutes or so to record nine or ten songs, but boy did we underestimate -- it took around two hours. :) We went through one song at a time, and when we inevitably messed up, he'd re-record us from a few seconds before and try to splice it in. Difficult but it worked in most cases. I don't think we had to record any complete song more than two or three times (but then again we didn't have much time, as it was $45/hour and funds were limited). Once we finished recording, we went into the computer room and watched the tech mix it all together. He used Pro Tools on a PowerMac G4, and it was beautiful. :) (I was sooooo glad it was a Mac and not a PC.) After an hour of mixing and burning, we were done! Quite an enlightening experience.
Wow, lately I've been writing in this blog every day and some of the entries are getting pretty lengthy. Cause? No clue. Oh well. :)
In my Old English class today we finished reading "The Dream of the Rood" (a poem about Christ's cross). We've also read the Caedmon story and "Sermo ad Lupi" by Wulfstan and a few others. Fun stuff. I think I'll tackle Beowulf next semester. A week or two ago we read some neo-Anglo-Saxon written by Tolkien about Middle Earth (Silmarillion stuff). And so I've started reading Lord of the Rings again. It's even better than I remembered. :)
Speaking of books, I also began reading Thomas Martin's Reading the Classics with C.S. Lewis this afternoon while I cooked my linguine for dinner. Now, lately I haven't been reading as much as I used to, because of school and work and programming and stuff like that. But reading the first chapter of this book got me soooooooo excited to start reading the classics again -- Milton's Paradise Lost and Areopagitica, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, and plenty more. One bit that really interested me was a mention of his reading of Grimm in German. I must find a used copy of that somewhere (and then learn German :)). There's something terrifically goosebumpy about reading good old books in the original. As far as translations go, though, one of my friends at work gave me the Spanish translation of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe today. It'll be an easier read than La Dama del Alba.
Finally, I spent five hours this evening helping a mission friend record a CD for her dad. (I played the piano.) We practiced for over an hour, then went up to the recording studio. There was a recital hall lined with pianos around all the edges and a glass window which connected with the computer room, which was then connected to the small sound booth where the microphones were for the vocals. So I sat in the recital hall with headphones on while the two vocalists were in the sound booth (which I couldn't see) and the technician was in the computer room (which I could see through the glass window). We'd originally thought that it would only take 45 minutes or so to record nine or ten songs, but boy did we underestimate -- it took around two hours. :) We went through one song at a time, and when we inevitably messed up, he'd re-record us from a few seconds before and try to splice it in. Difficult but it worked in most cases. I don't think we had to record any complete song more than two or three times (but then again we didn't have much time, as it was $45/hour and funds were limited). Once we finished recording, we went into the computer room and watched the tech mix it all together. He used Pro Tools on a PowerMac G4, and it was beautiful. :) (I was sooooo glad it was a Mac and not a PC.) After an hour of mixing and burning, we were done! Quite an enlightening experience.
Wow, lately I've been writing in this blog every day and some of the entries are getting pretty lengthy. Cause? No clue. Oh well. :)
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