Saw Orion tonight coming home from school (around 11:30PM). That's not particular exciting. Actually, that just isn't exciting at all. It's more sad, really. People don't look up enough. I find myself looking into the distance a lot more here in SB than in Providence. Part of that is because the weather is just nicer here and I can enjoy the stars at night, despite the light pollution, and enjoy the blue skies during the day. And perhaps another poetic part of it is I still am not sure what's going to be happening in my life in the future. I'm supposed to be studying for Ph.D. so I guess that's what I'm doing. But right now, it still seems not entirely purposeful enough. It sounds almost arrogant to say that I'm just doing a Ph.D. cause it's something I can and should do but that's how I feel sometimes. Why am I doing this? Is there a point in just burying myself in all this work? What's the point of studying music theory? And then I get back to the whole "I should just be a doctor" moral dilemma again, which I've resolved many times before but it always comes back...In terms of personal happiness, Music Theory isn't everything, but it's a step in the right direction...in terms of service to society, well, no contest there...

In other news, it's late and I need to go to sleep.

Good thing is I'll have the T40 in class tomorrow. Mmm...electronic notes from now on. Going to test Microsoft OneNote at some point and see how that works out for me. I've always wanted to have all my notes searchable/digital and OneNote might be a step in that direction (there I go with the stepping again) though initial reviews of it are not an orgy of ecstatic praise. We'll see...