Weirsdo Roundup: Belated Appreciation Department

Diamonelle has been appreciated ever since her arrival on Stuffed Animal Planet.

I have talked about this student here before; she is studying to be a violist at Vanderbilt. Her grandmother sent me this today. This student also once described me as "an acquired taste." It's interesting and gratifying to know I've had an effect.

my friend Caroline is playing the four seasons for her sophomore recital and I am in the small orchestra accompanying her. We had rehearsal last night and it made me recall instantly and vividly the time we played winter in Mrs. Weirsdo's church. I did not care about music then at all, I was not listening, I was not paying attention, I didn't really know there was a soloist, everything was over my head and I did not care. But I remember playing over and over again the viola entrances, and nailed them again all these many years later; I also remember really getting into the stormy bits in the first movement, and how they evoked to me exactly the taste and texture and color of hershey's milk chocolate. Maybe the first time I had an awesome musical experience in an orchestra. Anyway it was cool.