piano music

internet radio is a great thing. i recently discovered a site that plays piano music and have been listening to it while i'm at work. i love it. a couple of my housemates are in a turkish band and are having their fall concert (bereket--the ut middle eastern ensemble). i've been told they're quite good and that there's also supposed to be some good piano music as well. a bunch of my other housemates and i are going to attend. i'm pretty excited about it.

i think its getting to be that season or point in the semester again where everyone starts to get sick. i think i may be on the verge. i went to bed at 9p last night and slept for 9 hours straight. apparently i was tired. i think one thing i keep learning (or re-realizing) about this summer was just how exhausted and run down i was the whole time. i can see myself getting a bit tired at the moment from work and training--i'm taking a full course load and running 60-65 miles a week--but its not nearly to the same degree.

i apologize for continuing to bring up this summer on my blog. its a general point of frustration with me everytime i think about it, so i generally try not too. every once and awhile though i notice something and it reminds me of something that happened or sheds some light on something else. there were definitely points this summer, at the top of one particularly large mountain in colorado, for example, where i can honestly say i felt like myself. in those moments or hours, i think my soul soared. then again, that's why i have the lifestyle i do and why i can't say i was too disappointed about my summer. the ride is the kind of thing i do. any frustrations are simply part of the experience (though in the short term they're not exactly pleasant). in the end, i hope that these moments of clarity about who i am and what i enjoy will be the memories about this summer that survive.