Andrew Collie is Awesome

Andrew Collie comes over with his guitar every now and then to play some of Usher.  He came over last Wednesday, and within about ten seconds of his playing I had to stop him so that I could write down the things that he were playing that were not in the music.  Small ornaments here and there in a piece make me very happy.

I also have my committee for my honors thesis defense.  They are:

Sophia Serghi- Adviser since Freshman year and composition instructor.

Greg Bowers- A fellow musical-writer who has actually had his own off-broadway show.

Nancy Schoenberger- An English professor currently working on a fictional work about Poe (Think "The Da Vinci Code" but with a raven instead of a last supper.)

I'm very excited about these three on my committee- I know they'll be tough on me since at least one of their lifelong passions is represented in "The Fall of the House of Usher," but I'm also hoping that they will appreciate it more than other professors might.