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March 29, 2006
Resurrection
This image is a warning. First there was only one. Now there are two. Plus Leslie has one -- endearingly named Frostbite (not Snowbutt as Emily called him).
The moral of this story is: bunnies will be bunnies.
Which gets me, in a roundabout sort of way, to the point: blogs will be blogs, and DRs....well, I'll be me, too. There's been sort of an explosion in Harvard-related blogs this spring, with a mostly amusing Undergraduate Council race and the usual potpourri of campus issues. With the recently-minted Campus Tap aspiring to be the Facebook.com of the blogosphere, the number of voices out here in cyberspace is growing like, well, a population of bunnies, and my usual jokes about the "SymphonicMan.com Media Network" seem even staler than usual. Thanks to thesis-inspired oblivion, this blog has been silent for over two months, and thus the question: what's to come of all of this? Whither SM.com?
An answer: I suppose it will have to grow and change as I do. I started this blog because I enjoyed the sound of my own voice shouting into the perceived chaos of my life. My life is less chaotic now, and I'm inclined to be somewhat more soft-spoken, though I still enjoy my own voice (and some would say too much so). If I am one thing, I think, it is passionate, even if this passion is sometimes indeterminate and often unfocused. I am easily distracted, which only really means easily engrossed.
Rise from the ashes, SymphonicMan.com. Rise up with an update on the status of my life: I am not going to graduate school next fall, because I did not get in, although to be truthful I only wound up auditioning at one school. My thesis is done and I am proud of it, more or less, though there are holes in the scholarship and many, many, so many unanswered questions. I still want to be a bassoonist more than ever, but even more than that I want to be a musician. The dream begins now, because I want it to: and no, it is not exciting, it is terrifying and worrying and anxiety-provoking and every other reason one could give for not jumping off a cliff named desire. So what? As I proved to myself one hot August afternoon in Aspen: once I begin the countdown, I intend to jump, even if it takes me five millennia to scare up -- as it were -- the will.
Posted by David Richmond at March 29, 2006 8:47 PM EST
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Welcome back! We missed you, SM.com.
Posted by: Jeff at April 3, 2006 11:43 PM