this page is more of a personal blog for anything i deem
fit, so there will be many random things here!
apartment!
after 3 years of living in the dorms i'm honestly kind of fed up with a lot of it. don't get me wrong, the building itself is very nice, but lack of regular access to a kitchen is really starting to annoy me. so i've been thinking about moving into an apartment for my final year of college. through some miracle, i found that some of my closest friends also needed an apartment, and all of us together made 4 people, which was perfect for this one place we were looking at. within a week, we started looking at apartments, toured some, applied, and signed a lease! not to mention, for the location and all the amenities the place has, rent is pretty good! super excited to move in!
keyboard update!
the keycaps are here!!!
i am so pleased with how it turned out! they do feel a little different than the stock keycaps but i think that's a good thing! the colors are really pretty and it feels like my setup is a little more personal now!
keyboard!
hi hi! i got my first ever mechanical keyboard today! the point of this post is treally just for me to give it a whirl and start getting used to it. the switches are really nice, and i'm getting a set of cute keycaps for it at some point! definitely a good investment. will share a picture once i do get the keycaps!
Love Live! School Idol Honor Band
hello everyone! it's been a minute since i've posted anything on here. hope everyone's having a great start to the new year! anyway hopefully i'll be posting here more often now that the music blog is moving over to this site as well! without further ado, the image you see above is the product of divine inspiration, intersecting niche interests, and several hours of wishing i hadn't used google slides as an editing software. it was a really fun process figuring out who goes on which instrument and also getting a good balance of instruments, and i'm both proud and surprised with how well it turned out! i've got the full rationale of everyone's instrument assignments over on my tumblr but i'll add a few of the highlights here!
yuu is the conductor obviously, with her being like the manager/director rather than an idol.
all of the niji girls are on the instruments featured in their SIFAS Marching In Harmony cards.
i put a bunch of pairings together but my favorite is probably tsuzuri and sayaka bc they remind me so much of a bass clarinet and clarinet in my high school band who had a similar dynamic lol.
mari and kanon are on euph because they are so similar to asuka and kumiko from hibike euphonium.
i put a lot of thought in the seating as well, especially with the trumpets and chika being first chair over honoka, kinda to represent Aqours matching and arguably surpassing the shine that µ's had.
i'll hopefully be doing more with this, or at least making more instrument ensembles with the love live girls, because it's really fun being able to bring my band nerdiness to the places that need it :3
GRUNKLE STUNKLE WINS THE FUNKLE BUNKLE
this is a cry for help.
little life update yay!
i need to update this blog more but things have been
pretty crazy. let's work our way backwards; i had my
band concert last night and it was something i very
much needed. it was the first time in what felt like
years since i've felt that hyped to perform and i'm
just glad i got my mojo back. i even had a timpani
solo that i absolutely slayed. afterwards we engaged
in our after concert tradition of going to this
pizza place, and it's always fun to see everyone
hanging out together! i got to reconnect with one of
my friends who i hadn't seen in ages! after dinner,
we ended up heading over to this arabic coffee shop
for a while and they had some really good drinks! by
the time we left it was already midnight, so i
thought i'd drop my friend back at his apartment
since it was so close, but i ended up staying for a
while (read: until nearly 2 in the morning). which
is fine and all but not when you have a class at 9am
the following day. ended up getting back to my dorm
at like 2:30. i was already exhausted from this week
so i made the executive decision to skip class this
morning and i've been chilling since.
today's been pretty chill too; listened to
Coldplay's new album "MOON MUSiC" and i enjoyed it.
it wasn't as good as "Music of the Spheres", which i
think is their best album, but they had some bangers
on there. i'll give it another listen once the CD i
preordered comes in ^-^. speaking of CDs, i ordered
a used Sony Walkman off of ebay that came in the
mail yesterday. got some batteries earlier today so
i'm listening to "Clancy" while i write this. but of
course you know i had to inaugurate it with
"Starlight Prologue" :3
to recap the rest of the month, my band director
ended up not being able to print enough parts to
read through my arrangement during rehearsal, but he
did give me a lot of good advice on how to approach
arranging for an ensemble. unfortunately this
entails deviating further from the original song but
i'll do my best to keep the spirit of it alive :D
i also met up with some friends from my study abroad
for sushi a few weeks back! after lunch we headed
over to one of their apartments where we rewatched
the two short films we made together and also a
little bit of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure! was a super
fun day!
ooh i also forgot to mention! earlier i found this
group of musicians based in Numazu that do a lot of
instrumental covers of Love Live! songs, and they
had some CDs available so i ordered myself one of
those as well! it'll hopefully be here soon! in
addition to them i also found a wind ensemble that
performs Love Live! arrangements as well! i saw a
flier for their summer performance while i was in
Numazu, but sadly i was out of Japan by the date of
the performance. still, they upload their
performances to youtube and they're really cool! if
only i could stand on stage with them...
hey y'all, i've just had one of the weekends of all
time. started friday off by healing my middle school
self by finally going to see twenty one pilots in
concert. to be honest, i'm still kinda processing
the fact that i was really there. i absolutely loved
it, and hearing all my favorites performed live
truly fixed a part of me.
i also went to a local con for the other three days,
and it was cool seeing all the cosplays and merch
and whatnot but the true highlight was the karaoke i
did sunday night. karaoke's fun as it is but anime
cons take it to another level because not only do
you have a bunch of people who match your weirdness
(at least to some degree), the level of support you
get from a crowd like that is unmatched. i got to
perform Starlight Prologue and the 8-bit Big Band
version of Five Nights at Freddy's, and both times i
was having so much fun on the stage, and i truly was
feeding off the energy from the crowd. i don't think
i've ever had that much fun doing karaoke. of
course, when i wasn't performing i carried out my
duty and supported each performer by cheering with
my lightblades. my shoulders were absolutely dead by
the end but it was so worth it.
new year new me?
back in the dorms for round 3 of this college thing.
last year wasn't too too hot so i'm hoping to turn
it around this time. i've got a really good feeling
about it tho. my roommates are super chill and we're
already working on our living room entertainment
setup together which is something i haven't been
able to really do yet because i haven't had
roommates like this before. my room's also in a much
more convenient area of the building this time too
so i won't be spending nearly as much time
needlessly walking around.
my classes also seem a lot more interesting than
before. i'm done with most of my gen eds now so i
can actually focus on the fun stuff, like
thermodynamics, which is supposed to be super
difficult, and from my brief encounters with it in
high school, i wouldn't disagree with that
assessment.
but
because i am the way i am, i feel like i'm gonna do
really well. i also seriously lucked out with my
schedule this year. my monday/wednesay classes are
at the same times as my tuesday/thursday classes, so
i can really get into a proper routine. it'll be
great for my sleep schedule too cuz i'll be waking
up at the same time everyday so i won't be as tired.
the only issue i see is that i've got classes that
end at 2:45 and work a little over 10 minutes away
that starts at 3 for mondays and wednesdays, but i
talked to my boss about it and she's chill if i'm a
minute or two late because of it so i should be in
the clear. anyway i'll keep this page updated as the
year goes on. there will be many a story to tell.
baesbal
i went to a baseball game with some of my friends a
few days ago! it was the first time i've gone to a
professional sportsball game with an appreciation
for the sport, so needless to say i had fun! and of
course, who could resist the ballpark hotdogs?
happy birthday setsuna!
august 8th is the birthday of the one and only
setsuna yuki of love live's nijigasaki high school
idol club! it's easy to say that you changed because
of a character or a piece of media, but there are
few things that can change your entire approach to
life. setsuna was a huge inspiration to me in that
aspect, and because of her i try to live each and
every day unapologetically shouting my love for
everyone and everything important to me! setsuna, i
can't thank you enough for making me the person i am
today. i wish you the happiest of birthdays, and
here's to a future of cringe, love, and general
nerdiness!
cool cloud!
saw this rainbow cloud during my trip to Numazu in
Japan. this was the day i was heading to Uchiura to
complete the main part of my Aqours pilgrimage!
new shelf!
finally got myself a bookshelf to keep all of my fun
little trinkets (and books too i guess)
and some closeup photos!
it's funky neso friday!
exclusive behind the scenes photo op with kanon
shibuya during the recording of CatChu!'s first
single, "Distortion"!
