response 25 of 411:

Mar 23 05:17 UTC 2002

phew! spring has arrived! <brrrrr .. except in here>
  
1/4 of the way to 100!!

response 27 of 411:

Mar 23 06:26 UTC 2002

how do I enter a conf room like books?

response 29 of 411:

Mar 23 14:00 UTC 2002

In Picospan, type "join books" at the OK: Prompt.

In Backtalk, click on the "entrance" button to return to the entrance,
and then either type "books" in the "goto conference" box or click the
"Conf List" button and select "books" off that list.

In either case, you might eventually want to put all your favorite 
conferences on your "hotlist" (Backtalk) or in your ".cflist" file 
(Picospan).  Then you can go through all your favorite conferences in 
order without having to do it manually, using the "next" command 
(Picospan) or "Next Conf" button (Backtalk).

response 31 of 411:

Mar 24 10:35 UTC 2002

yep, land of Washington apples and Squirt soda (it was invented here).

I'm Jonathan, Julie's husband, and a very excited father-to-be.

I am virtually a nobody when it comes to work.  I do maintenance for 
our local Toys R Us, and help guests on the side.  I went through 
Central Washington University's education department as a Elementary 
Education/Music Education double major, but stalled out on the latter 
first, and the former next as they eventually kicked me out of student 
teaching.  Hit a lot of political snafus and such.

Music is still a great love.  Julie will always be my main lady, but 
then there's my guitar.  I took up classical studies when I 
transferred to CWU.  Don't let remmers fool you-- he's quite the 
ragtime musician on the side, and worked with some material I composed 
when I came to visit.  (Sadly, it never got written down.)  Anyway, I 
hope to continue with my guitar studies, although I have training in 
brass, keyboard instruments, strings, and a little bit of percussion 
(as a music student, of course).

I suppose, really, that I am someone of many hidden talents, and I'm 
figuring out how best to serve the community with them.

response 33 of 411:

Mar 25 04:30 UTC 2002

Is there only one kind of personality who can be a choral music teacher? 
And is that the only reason to go to music school and study voice?  Sheesh.

response 35 of 411:

Mar 25 17:59 UTC 2002

re 32 and 33:  I should add that the music ed faculty here has been
tremendously supportive of me, having endless discussions in office hours
about everything from career direction to teacher certification to subject
area tests to Gordon certification to loaning me copies of their student's
dissertations and discussing them with me.

I also currently teach in an outreach program for the early childhood music
program at MSU's Community Music School, and clearly that could never have
happened without Dr. Taggart's support.

response 37 of 411:

Mar 26 01:47 UTC 2002

resp:32  but it was political snafus in the *education* dept., not the 
music department.  It is shameful, because Central Washington 
University bills itself as a teaching school, and yet, the Education 
department is fraught with problems.  Many opt to get certification at 
Heritage College instead.

When I got alumni material, I wanted to scream.  I cannot be proud of 
that sickeningly sub-standard school that caters to bored rich kids 
whose mummies and daddies sent them there instead of a Seattle 
university, whose business department is better than their education 
department, whose professors are paid comparatively the lowest in 
Washington State, who cannot spend wisely, whose music department is 
of high quality but has to fill an aged building to twice its capacity 
because the university and state can't approve plans for a new one, 
etc., etc., etc.

response 39 of 411:

Mar 26 07:50 UTC 2002

I've always thought Carrie was a wonderful name.  Maybe if Julie and I 
have more than one girl (first one is going to be Sarah Lynn), the 
next will be Carrie Ann or something like that.

response 41 of 411:

Mar 26 14:11 UTC 2002

I have always liked the name Carrie too, actually. 

re#39 You should slap an 'e' on that Lynn and then your kid can be an 
S. Lynne *snort* 

response 43 of 411:

Mar 26 15:07 UTC 2002

re #39- and if you're going to use Anne don't forget the e. ;)

response 45 of 411:

Mar 26 16:39 UTC 2002

if I had liked the name carrie, I wouldn't be a Lynne!  :)

response 47 of 411:

Mar 26 17:31 UTC 2002

Re 32:
I can very much sympathize with your first-year experience in music school!
I'm a freshman horn major at U-M and have been having lung problems since
November.  I had a spontaneus pneumothorax (collapsed lung) last November
which put me in the hospital for a week and left me unable to play for two
weeks.  Then at the end of January my lung collapsed again (though not as
severely -- no hospitalization), so it was recommended to me to have lung
surgery to fix the problem.  So I had the surgery and couldn't play the entire
month of February and the first week of March...  Add to that that I had my
wisdom teeth out last summer and got an infection which kept me from playing
for a few more weeks, and I guess you could say it's been a rough year for
horn playing.  But things seem under control now... I'm playing a solo in our
studio recital this week.  I may be getting the surgery again for the other
lung as a preventative measure, but I have some serious doctor consultation
to do before that.

Oh, by the way, I'm Jeffrey.  I'm a native Ann Arborite who now attends the
University of Michigan in music (horn performance) and engineering
(atmospheric, oceanic, and space sciences) -- though both majors are subject
to change at any moment.  I love to read, and in my spare time (yeah right)
I play in a Javanese gamelan ensemble and host a freeform radio show on WCBN.
I've been an off-and-on Grexer since 7th grade, the "off" parts being due to
low levels of available time rather than a lack of interest.

response 49 of 411:

Mar 26 18:44 UTC 2002

Whoa, buddy, freshman horn major at UM from Ann Arbor!  So spiff!  Which high
school did you go to?  I went to PiHi.  Who was your high school horn teacher?
Is Louis Stout still alive?  Who is the horn prof at UM right now?