Start 2 Live Again

Almost a freakin year since I last posted!

2006-10-20T10:55:00.000-04:00

So... I can't believe it's been this long. I just randomly visited my own blog

Addiction

2005-12-16T15:35:00.000-05:00

So I am now like totally addicted to my web site! I change it all the time! I think about changing it when I'm away from my computer. Every other website I go to I think I wish mine would look that kewl. But I remember that it's mine and that it can be however I wish it, and that as long as it is a honest and accurate representation of me it will be fine :)

My DMA visit and audition at UT Austin is approaching - I need to make money so I can actually pay to make it down there!!!

Ok... that's enough for now...

my own domain

2005-12-11T02:30:00.000-05:00

forget about all that umich dot this dot that slash tilde crap!

www.williamwiegard.com

i rock - check it out!

My New Web Site!

2005-12-02T14:04:00.000-05:00

I have a website now!!! It's still in construction stages, but it still rocks!

http://www.umich.edu/~wwiegard

check it out!

more to come!

It's only been 2 weeks, back off!

2005-11-27T15:53:00.000-05:00

Two weeks eh? That was a quick two weeks. All these decisions that need to be made soon... when am I gonna make them?

I just need to finish my statement of purpose for UT Austin and then somehow pay UM a thousand dollars so that they'll release my transcripts - those bastards. I'm close to writing letters to random rich people asking for assistance. I believe my three letters of reccomendation are all sent out also... I need to check in on those.

I also need to find time and money to get down to Austin to meet with my potential new horn teacher and check the school out, etc etc.

Oh and let's not forget about rent, car payment, insurance, cell phone, electric and gas, cable.

Good news though - I'm up for renewal for car insurance - it's 30 bucks cheaper each month!
(i don't think they know about my speeding ticket in a construction zone from over the summer yet - shhh!)

peace

2005-11-13T16:41:00.000-05:00

Sadly, today saw the end of my streak as a recorder soloist with the opera. No more Coronation of Poppea. No more overweight opera singers groping breasts, fondling love handles, or stroking inner thighs... ewwwww.

Also, on a much sadder note... no more cute guy who sang Ottone on Thursday and Sataurday nights. Alas, ours was a non-mutual, non-existent love affair. I'll never forget you!

ha ha ha - I'm such a dork.

But! I am a much happier, more optimistic dork at least :)

Whoa... what have I done?

2005-11-13T11:15:00.000-05:00

So yeah... this week I started applying to University of Texas at Austin for the DMA program in horn performance. cRaZY eh?

I realize I have been in a hovering pattern around Ann Arbor - just waiting for something to make me land. I need to make something happen, and so - the DMA pursuit. It's a lot of hard work, but I was smart at one time. I was so many things at one time actually...

Smart
Skinny
Athletic
Happy
Optimistic
Nice
Disciplined
oh and did I skinny...

So yeah...I am very excited about the possibilities this will bring. This will be great for me.

Please - let something come along and save me.

2005-10-26T16:55:00.000-04:00

I'm getting plenty of nice comments and good feedback about the job I am doing in the information office here at the School of Music. Feels nice after the assholes at Applebee's get done with me each night I work there. I'm not saying everybody there is an asshole, but we all have our moments I guess... self included.
Zach is really the biggest douche bag there... currently. Aside from Tara, who apparently only has crushes on (in my humble, usually correct, opinion) grotesquely ugly slobs. She's now buddy-buddy with Zach - he fits the bill... oh the humanity!

I need to keep my lips up to speed, things are starting to go well lip-wise. I have a gig this weekend in Detroit and another next week in Flint. It'll be nice to play on a regular basis again :) I am starting to get ideas about another year of study in London, Berlin, etc - or perhaps Yale would be great too.

I just have to post this here - Phil of the Future is now like my favorite show ever. The Disney channel truly rocks, I love it! Cheesy? Of course! But who cares!

Fuck off Applebee's

2005-10-24T21:39:00.000-04:00

So I had thought I had requested tonight off for the orchestra concert I was playing in. I guess not. To add to it, I couldn't find anybody to cover my shift for me. I couldn't exactly skip the concert I was playing in, now could I? I ended up getting written up... woo hoo!

This doesn't really piss me off as much as you might think. What pisses me off is how I received no help from the management to find someone to cover the shift. However, she did try like hell to try and get FOUR shifts of some other guy's covered for this week... just happens she has a crush on this guy. Really? Are you kidding me?

I think it's about time to call corporate on this one :)

More school???

2005-10-21T15:56:00.000-04:00

More school? Should I go back for a year or two for a performance diploma someplace? The tuba professor here suggested it would be a good thing for me to get my lips back. That or a $13 lip visualizer :) He suggested conservatories in Europe - hello - yes, thank you, I'll be right over. Maybe London? oh what fun. hmmm - i'm excited now!

Thank God - I knew she was sending me a sign when school started back up this year and even though I'm not a student anymore I get pulled back into things. Concerts, gigs, working in the school's office even has a convincing link. Whew! Maybe my life isn't completely trashed at the age of 26!

Not bad, not bad

2005-10-21T11:56:00.000-04:00

So... I am playing in USO again this semester for a couple concerts. (Michigan's School of Music Orchestra). Once for a Bright Sheng piece and then for the opera production. Opera will be lots of long rehearsals, but it should be fine - I'm just playing recorder!

Marji Gere is coming to Ann Arbor to check the school out! She'll be crashing with me also - what fun! This happens to coincide with opera performance weekend - but it'll work out just fine.

In the Apple world - I find it IS easier to be applebee's if I don't take most anything of what anybody says there to heart. It definitely helps that a good deal of them are community college wanna be's - that helps me look down upon them - which in turn of course helps me to ignore them :)

ok - back to work

hmmm

2005-10-18T23:20:00.000-04:00

Well... work was ok but I got really bummed towards the end. I mean we're talking tears in the eyes kind of bummed. No real reason I guess, cept perhaps I don't really have friends here. I joke about it with some of the people at work and play it off, but if I stop to think about it - it's pretty much true. Tonight as I was waiting for my food after work, I started thinking about it - cause there was nothing else to do - and tears came to my eyes and I was just really quiet while. What a loser. I know I shouldn't be depressed, but that's the thing about being down... it's frustrating cause I can't just snap out of it. We'll see if things start turning around.

Lovin' it

2005-10-18T15:28:00.000-04:00

I'm loving this 8-5 workday followed by a 5-12 worknight!
Except not really :)

I have to work again tonight, woo hoo! Maybe I'll make some good tips :) One thing is for sure... there will be enough stupid people working alongside me that I should have something juicy to post on here later!

If only MTV would do a reality TV show of life inside Applebee's! It would rock! Hardcore!

ciao

Whoa... it's been that long?

2005-10-17T15:28:00.000-04:00

So I just remembered with the help of Heidi, that I do indeed have a livejournal. cRaZy huh?

Anyways, so with in the last like two years (!) since my last posting...
*I got my new horn
*I fell in love with my new horn
*I played a lot at school
*I played too much at school and my lips blew out
*My lips are pretty much back, but I am too busy to use them enough to win a job
*Currently I am a server at applebee's and temping at the School of Music office
*Yes.... that's TWO full time jobs, in addition to random gigs and concerts

I think I might finally catch up on everything like bills, etc etc. Then I can maybe start living?

Some Bon Jovi lyrics that sum me up of late....

I called upon my brother just the
Other day, he said: john I’m gonna
Die if I don’t start to live again
I work each day and night like clockwork
Just trying to make ends meet
I could kick this bad world’s ass
If I could just get on my feet

I’d bang a drum for the dying
Bang a drum for the truth
Bang a drum for the innocence
Lost in our youth
Bang a drum bang it loudly
Or as soft as you need
Bang a drum for you brother
And a drum for me

Ok, I'm done for now, peace
~W

It's almost here!!!

2003-10-28T15:27:00.000-05:00

It's almost here... yes you read the title of this entry correctly!!! It's almost here!!!
What, you might think to yourself, is this boy talking about? Armageddon? The Apocalypse? The Third World War? A Cure for Cancer? The next USA for AFRICA video featuring N'Sync, Backstreet AND 98 degrees?

NO! NO! NO!
You are mistaken and truly crazy my friend.

What is almost here is my NEW HORN! This horn is currently being crafted by the hands of GOD himself high atop a mountain workshop in the Swiss Alps, and after it is declared a Saint by the Pope, and then following a 3-week period during which this magnificent horn will be on display at the Vatican where those afflicted with chronic diseases can be blessed by it and cured instantly... I will have it!!!!

Can ya tell I'm excited?

In other news... people can tend to be pricks. Am I surprised... not at all. I'm coming to realize that I haven't really had a good friend since Megan, Marji and Corinne (and Joel too - just in case you happen to read this) back at the University of Iowa. I miss them and the person I used to be.... I never had to worry about if they would make me feel badly or how much they would try and embarass me in public. And we could talk anytime of the day or night if we just needed to talk... even if it was to convince me that I wasn't gonna go to hell afterall. And we didn't hold favors against each other... we helped each other out cause we wanted to. And I was never really stuck at home lonely because I was never asked to do anything.... if one of us was up for something then we all were. These people, and others like them, are the ones I will be grateful for in the long run. Sadly in my 2+ years here I have managed to not make/have a single person I can trust completely and confide in and be proud to consider a best friend. Must remember to always put on my happy face at school, that's what they expect. Good ole cheerful Will, always there to be made fun of and to tease. Heck even when I'm not there, that doesn't stop them.

Well, that was a bummer of a paragraph :) Catch ya later I guess...
~W

Really Will? I know you can type...do it more often!

2003-10-20T15:24:00.000-04:00

It's been a while, my apologies to those very lonesome few who live vicariously through my online journal. :)
Update... Robert is no longer a friend, or even a human, in my eyes anymore. There is nothing that can repair this, and I honestly am A-OK with that. I say.... Bleh! Good Riddens!

In other news... I have a huge ass orchestra concert tonight, at which I am destined to rock it out :) Also tomorrow night is our french horn studio recital, on which I am playing this kewl piece for Jazz horn and drumset... once again a total "rock out" possibility exists there.

In yet still other news... my new horn (see here) is due to be finished by the end of this month!!! This is something I am absolutely ready and looking forward to!!!!

OK... that's all for now. My body feels this overwhelming need to be washed, and I fear I'm the only one around willing to do so. Ahh... the single life, great huh?

Whoa! Long time... no post!

2003-10-02T15:22:00.000-04:00

Wow... I've let some time go by since my last update. Hmmm... let's see...
* Had a UM Symphony Band concert... I played well so I'm happy

*Started some new music in sym band... totally kicked my ass... but not as much as it did some of the others.

* USO concert coming up on Sunday... it's gonna suck... and I'm NOT exaggerating. But I got principal on the big Mahler piece the next concert and 1st horn on the upcoming Puccini operas... I think I can live with that. hahaha

* My wind quintet is 3/5's high maintenance, whiney losers who can't play in time, in tune or with a musical phrase in mind. And they're slackers... not the best combo. At least if they worked hard it would be something easier to put up with. But now they think I see myself as being better than them. If being better means I play in time, in tune and musically... then I don't mind being better than them. It'll get me a job one of these days... and when I walk by them playing in a homeless wind trio on the streets in NYC as I'm on my way to a Carnegie Hall performance... I just MIGHT say hi and toss them each a shiny quarter. This all said... I will do my best to work with them and try to be less "critical" (as they say) and more supportive of their lack of talent and musical awareness. LOL The only bad thing is that they are all kewl people that I consider my friends.

New Blog - Ya think I might use this one?

2003-09-23T15:19:00.000-04:00

Woo woo woo!
Woo woo woo...If ya don't know what it means.... don't bother asking :)
Anyways...Wind Quintet - Blah, I don't think my quintet members like me or think I'm a decent horn player
Contemporary Directions - Nobody looked at their parts before rehearsal cept for me apparently... cause he alluded to it during rehearsal and then flat out accused the group of it. I was the only one really who didn't get singled out for sucking it up today. My question to you is... should I talk to him about it or do ya think he already knows I was prepared since he never singled me out.
So after all my rehearsals today... I went home and my roomie and I watched Dr. Phil and Maury. Just kind of random I know... but funny enough I thought I would mention it here. What I learned from these two shows...

*If you're gonna be fat, be fat. If you're gonna be white trash, be white trash. But for the love of God; don't be both!!! It's just not cool.

I practiced tonight too! It felt good actually... even after the killer marathon concert last night and three hours of rehearsal earlier in the day. Also I missed YET another Wyandotte rehearsal tonight... my kids are gonna think I don't like them. School keeps me too busy :(