With Jazz History cancelled and sunny skies, Kathy, Mike, and I went down to Marsh Sands beach for the afternoon. Of course, the clouds rolled in about an hour after we got there, but it was a fun jaunt nonetheless. There was the normal assortment of wildlife, including several mating horseshoe crabs and some dead fat-ass jellyfish. I took a few pictures of the beach and Mike's dog, but probably won't get around to putting them up until the weekend.

My trumpet playing has steadily improved since I went back to "twice a day" after break, so hopefully Badinage will go well in three weeks time. I still hear the Hummel guy practicing the same trumpet measures as s/he was a few months ago without improvement. Also, the practice rooms were scrubbed and cleaned by Tau Beta Sigma last weekend. It's nice to see a music organization do something -- at Tech, TBS just sat around gossiping and acting bitchy.

I finished off the last of the sonata forms for my pedagogy analysis this evening, so now I just have to do the rondo forms before the test on Friday. Luckily, I remember several of the outlines from my sophomore level HAMS class, so I can quickly refamiliarize myself with them, even though I no longer have my original marked up anthology.

Man drives into Florida mosque: It happened not two miles from here, and yet I don't hear about it until it's on the national news...