I have spent the last day or so trying desperately to learn a new song on the piano. My student let me borrow the sheet music, since she has given up trying to use youtube tutorials to learn it. Some of you may recognize the title River Flows in You. If you don't recognize the title, then maybe you'll recognize the tune. It's a very pretty song, and I really hope I can learn it correctly soon. I want to learn to play it as it's played in the youtube video I am going to share with you all.

My entire life is a series of cycles, I've come to realize. When I pulled my game cube out of the closet and bought Animal Crossing, I played it almost nonstop for months. And then I was given Super Smash Bros. Melee for my birthday, and that was what I spent my time on, until I got tired of it. After a while I moved on to watching the television series Bones, and now I'm spending a lot of time playing Pokemon Fire Red. I can almost guarantee that eventually I'll be tired of at least one of those pass times, maybe both, and I'll move on to something else. I'm already considering playing Animal Crossing again.

But what I've also realized, is that my interests aren't the only cycle I live my life under. My emotions also have a cycle they follow. It's a rather vicious spiral. I go through a period of extreme conceit (however imaginary) and high self-esteem, and then all of a sudden my emotions plummet, and I suffer low self-esteem, the strange paranoia that maybe my friends aren't really my friends at all. It's really weird.

Anyway, I think I'm done with my little self-examination. I have a head ache, and my clothes are probably ready to be put in the dryer. So, please enjoy the video I shared!

- Aimee

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOqUFqF_ZwM