Registering for classes is exciting. I'm looking forward to fall semester nearly as much as our trip to CA. Kind of silly.
I went to Winter Park for the 4th. My parents were a pleasure to be around but I found that I was anxious to come home. I feel like I've been moving constantly without a moment to myself...
I have my vocal lessons on Wednesday. Another thing I'm looking forward to. I worked on a song on the keyboard today. Things are coming together quite nicely.
Ireland, although distant and almost dream-like, feels almost like a ghost breathing on the back of my neck. I feel tremendous pressure to make the necessary accommodations. Taking a trip over seas alone is a huge step, at least for me it is. I have no idea what I'm doing. I have the skeleton of a plan: airline ticket, bicycle rental, hostel reservations. Beyond that... I'm lost. Incidentally I feel a sense of ease that I'll figure it out once I get there. I'm at a loss for resources when it comes to advice when visiting there. I only know Baby Kevin and that's entirely too complicated a situation to go bombarding him with questions fueled by selfish motivations.
I purchased the Frames album "For the Birds" on Thursday. I've become particularly attached to one of the songs.
Giving Me Wings
"You're a fool manYou threw it away
You kill her
With your confidence
In the old days
The cause you embraced
The simple things
That people over complicate
Speaking in lines
Known to yourself
You're speaking at length
On all those days
Will you come with me
And we'll be ourselves,
And we'll walk into the light
And you can colour yourself
In golden wings
You're never yourself
Not even with me
Will you come with me
And we'll ask the dust
It's on my way
It's all my concentration
Can hold
But you alienate me
And throw it down
And rip it off
When nothing's feeling right
And I'll show you how
You can sellotape it on
You're giving me wings
So I don't have to jump
And you're giving me will
So I can carry on
Dissimulate and celebrate this
Time we had alone"
