On Wednesday, I turned 24, twice as old as I was when I was 12! It’s like I’ve lived to be 12 years old twice. So I now enter my 25th year of life, and this website enters it’s 7th year of existence, if I’m doing that math right.
During my 24th year of life, I completed 9 pieces of music, opuses 46 through 54. That’s not too bad, is it? Opus 53 and 54 I just wrote in the past week, and they are pretty short pieces. One is called “Awaken” and is only 1’30”, the other is called “I Will Not Go Home Again” and is only 2’12”. I’m not sure yet whether or not I’ll put them on the album.
And I’ve already finished opus 55 yesterday, on Thanksgiving. It’s a 4 minute lullaby I call “The Secret Lullaby.” Why I call it a “secret” lullaby is a secret, I’m afraid, because it is a secret, and thus, a “secret” lullaby. It is a very big secret, though, and you can’t handle the truth! I think I will definitely put it on the album. I cannot stop listening to it; I have severe “pleased composer syndrome” with it.
We haven’t celebrated my birthday yet, so I can’t tell you what presents I got. Is 24 too old to be getting presents? Of course not, you should get presents forever!
Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. We went out to eat, and I didn’t eat much, but I was stuffed. My appetite is about a third of what it was during high school. Of course, my backwards sleeping schedule could also be partly to blame; at the time of eating my body wanted to sleep, not digest.
Now it’s early Friday morning (about 2 AM). I do hope to get some cheap blu-rays or something on sale today, but I’m not going anywhere early to stand in lines. If they run out of the good stuff, so be it.