Melody and harmony

You guys! I know it’s been a few days. Calm down – everything is going to be fine!

I graduated on Friday. It was very surreal. Tony Kushner made a great speech. I moved out of my apartment on the coldest and rainiest day ever. I am crossing my fingers over a really cool job opportunity for DoSomething.org. Tour is imminent. My littlest sister turned 16 yesterday, which is really difficult for me to absorb as factual information yet. Dan Romer XIII has a birthday today, too.

Aaaand here are some pictures from my last night of college. Ever.

Goodbye, bedroom

Filed under: people, pictures, school

Oh cool

I picked up my cap and gown today for a hefty $90 student commencement fee. I was able to find an online course to take during the summer in lieu of Survey I, so graduation is now truly imminent. It really has not hit me yet…

I think the recital is going to be good. Christina and Andrew are going to play on my set at The Tank on Friday as a sort of dress rehearsal, I guess, which is exciting – my first show with a band! Oh oh! You can buy tickets for that show by clicking here! This entry is really dorky. I think that might be because I burned my hand trying to reach for a tempeh and white bean patty from a skillet and decided that it hurt enough to take a Vicodin. This was successful!

Oh my shit, I am going to miss living with Brennan and Jess and Jax. AUGH!

P.S. Goodreads is a pretty cool idea… last.fm for books?

Filed under: books, food, music, people, school, vegan gluttony

Things were better then

Ok so:

- 70º weather happening
- Culture Shock this weekend
- Pre-shock tonight
- Really awesome rehearsals for recital with Christina on drums (!!)
- Back to recording with Dan again
- The Age of Rockets are opening for mc chris tour with me on synth for part of it (!!!!)
- Robin comes home Sunday
- Three weeks left of classes
- COFFEE

Filed under: fun, music, school, travel

Senior recital ideas

Welllll, my senior recital is now scheduled for May 10th. I really want to incorporate all of my pals who are involved in any kind of art. I want to have everyone who does any visual art to pick their favorite pieces from the year to show in the recital room before and after the set, and everyone who does music who wants to play on any songs to get in on it and rehearse. I want to bring in a lot of decorations and messy christmas lights and old lamps and things to help out the shitty lighting that is in there, too. I want my sisters to open with a sister-set of their own, and I want anyone who makes any crafts (this means Marlene) to come sell them, and anyone who doesn’t do any of this stuff to come and just get drunk and eat food and have a fun time. I am so excited!

Filed under: art, fun, music, people, school

So long, scarecrow

Dear Jess Sanchez,

Yesterday I got a speeding ticket, and thought about you for just a moment before becoming a whirling dervish of anger, embarrassment and resentment of both authority and The Transporter (2). I also ate an entire strawberry rhubarb pie, although that may or may not have anything to do with you. One time, Robin ate so much of a Costco cake that she went into a serious sugar-trauma, and got herself tested for diabetes because she was totally convinced that she had it. That doesn’t have anything to do with you either, but it does involve eating too much of something, which I did. Do you think that you can make a cake pie? I mean, a cake within a pie? Let’s talk.

Anyway, I don’t even think you read this, so that ends my letter.

Love, Rachel

PS, though: Where the hell are you?

I can’t stop listening to Sloan’s album Smeared, which is awesome because it is Sloan doing their best My Bloody Valentine impression and it makes me excited to be playing electric and to have a sick delay pedal.

Things worked out, registrar-wise. I am so fucking graduating.

Filed under: music, people, school, ugh

What we know

I seriously, seriously thought that I was the only person who read this. Weird!

It has been a long week, with a lot of early class as usual, commuting to Danbury, driving to upstate NY to record with Meredith but the power being out because it is an ICE WORLD up there, seeing Hema in l’hôpital (she got her own room while we were there and I think she is doing better, and it was so good to see her even though clearly very terrifying at the same time), show at the Heirloom which was not the best but the song I do with Scott went really well…

Then back here, and working out graduation crap again; it is too late to hand in independent study forms, even though the registrar does not have ANY info posted about it anywhere online, so I have to work out a lot of administrative bullshit to be able to graduate in May AGAIN.

I will be in Connecticut tomorrow morning until Sunday night and I am very, very happy about that. Since this has become the place that I associate with stress/work/sleep/frustration, it is so nice being somewhere else that I can call home.

It snowed on Tuesday. This is what my apartment complex looked like when I took a few steps outside:

I miss everyone and everything.

Filed under: pictures, school, ugh

What we made doesn’t make sense

Robin is in London now, and this just happens to be her in front of JFK on Sunday night

Back to work & redid the website with Amanda which you can see at trackside.org. WestConn class starts next week, which is weird, and since I have never taken a class there it will be even weiiiirder…

I think it is a safe bet that I will be moving to New York in the spring or summer which is kind of unreal. I have a lot to work on, though, and it seems to make the most sense. Who knows.

I can’t stop listening to Antics by Interpol and wigging out.

Filed under: people, school, ugh

Put the book back on the shelf

Tomorrow I pack up, throw out our trash, bring Jax to the bus station, drive to my parents’ house, and begin five weeks of re-evaluating my life. Then I come back here for three months, learn some more, and walk out with a Bachelor’s Degree. Weeeeird…

This chapter is closing. I am going to put a bookmark in and take a break before I get into the next one. So long.

And Jess, since you are reading this and I will be back tomorrow, you should think about charging/finding your telephone. What?

Filed under: holiday, music, school, ugh

Film scoring

This is my final Film Scoring I project

I have no idea what the movie actually is, but I think I passed.

Filed under: music, school

Our hell is a good life

I was able to register for a class at WCSU for next semester which will supposedly allow me to graduate in May, which means I can start my “life”, and I am not so sure what that means but I guess I am excited. It is finals-time here at Purchase and I have gotten some things done and panicked and cleaned my room in preparation to move in a week and started realizing that certain people will be in Europe for many months including my sister and one of my favorite non-relative people named Gabel and that fact is added to my list of reasons to panic and keep taking sedatives to reflect without too much emotion and develop an addiction and use horrible run-on sentences.

Dan and I are recording starting next week and continuing for the rest of my life, most likely, and if I don’t succeed with that then it’s off to Oregon and grad school or something drastic. I will give it two years or so. If no musical success by then, well, I tried.

I am persistently lonely but then when I am around people I want to be alone.

Emily Haines is ruining my life.

Filed under: music, school, ugh