Picture it! Texas, 2025: I have a couple of old toothbrushes in a drawer I use for cleaning. Have never been used for mouths. But one of them is electric Me: hand me that toothbrush in the drawer, please? BF: Um.. which one? Me: oh… theeee…acoustic one? BF: hands me the non-electric toothbrush

It literally says in my bio that this is a Leroy Anderson stan account. ‘Tis the best season of the year!

Finding a musician sacked out on a couch underneath her coat in a green room, with high heels splayed on the ground, is peak gig-mas time. I hope it is a blessed nap, queen.

OMG there are so many recordings of Messiah, and so many damned Pub editions. And some of them are numbered. Some of them have titles with cuts, and none of them line up. How the HELL am I supposed to know what chorus this is, if all you give me is numbers? I just want to practice, dangit!

In another, better world, Madame Morrible was played by Cher

I was making reeds, and I watched the new Netflix Christmas-romcom “Ex-mas. It was… stupid… but I was impressed with how Alicia Silverstone and Melissa Joan Hart look like they are 49. They don’t look like they’ve had crazy amounts of work done.

Scott Cantrell is such a little welp. How does anyone pay for the Dallas Morning News just to get this loser’s opinion on literally anything?

Can we at least give Canada a break on the tariffs now?

Ugh. So sad for the Jays. They put up the craziest fight. What a great string of games.

Welp, UNT Wind Studies program and Wind Symphony will never be the same. Crazy how time flies in this world

Wikipedia started displaying a table of contents to the left of their articles when viewing on a computer, and damn… whoever did that is a real one, dawg.

I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.” It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”

It’s because he sings the Star Spangled Banner in 4/4. I swear, that’s what cursed us! *shakes fist at god* IF YOU SING THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER IN 4/4 IT CURSES ANY WHO LISTEN! MAY IT BE SUNG IN 3/4 ONLY! A pox on all your houses 🧙‍♀️

Go Canada 🇨🇦

This took me out 🤣

Ok, athletes have their rituals that they think help them win games. Do any of you classical musicians out there have any talismans or rituals you use for performances or auditions?

BF: hey! I’m almost home from rehearsal, and I know we’re going to dinner later, but…. Have you had a snack since I left? Me *staring at the 4 hyperfixation projects I had today* 🤣 I don’t think I’ve had water since you left. BF: yeah, that’s what I thought. Go have a snack and some water.

I love doing embroidery, because I can enshrine curse words and weird stuff into handmade glory, and I can design my own stuff. But my friend was like, “you should learn to spin and dye your own thread!” I would rather poke all my embroidery needles into my forehead.

Conductor talking about Beethoven 9: “Does anyone in the orchestra know what they are singing about in this moment?” Orchestra: 😐 Me: I only know the Sister Act II translation

I know everybody’s gotta make a living. But I swear to god, this damn ice cream truck… if I have to hear “Do your ears hang low” in a chipper calliope sound one more time, I might just find my 13th reason

Omg climate change is real. STAHP making pleather pants and skirts! It’s too hot.

Look, y’all… I did not like Colin Allred the first time he ran. I still voted for him because Ted can walk to Cancun via the Gulf of Mexico for all I care. But James Talarico entered the race and I whooped like Howard Dean after the Iowa caucus.

Hot tip: going to your vegetarian/vegan friend’s house for dinner and don’t know what to bring? Bring Alcohol. It’s possibly vegan, makes everyone happy, and you don’t have to figure out what bulgur is and where to buy it.

America heartbroken to discover president somehow still alive

Ok, but if the potion Ursula uses to turn into Vanessa is essentially the same as Polyjuice potion… Who is this poor woman, and where is Ursula keeping her to harvest her DNA? JUSTICE FOR VANESSA

My BF just told me that not once, in his Elder Millennial life has he ever seen an episode of The Magic School Bus. I was dumbfounded

I will never make fun of any Millennials’ AIM username, because there is a whole generation of Rappers using what would’ve been their AIM username as their performance name. I will now be performing as JKWunderWoman03 🤣

We got to Switzerland today, and we had no idea it was Switzerland Day, which is akin to our Independence Day. So now Otto Von Hossenfeffer and his family are firing a whole ass cannon down the street from our AirBnB. This has just been the funniest day On the bright side, the view is great

I just found out it’s $7000 to be in DCI for the summer. Kids, you could go study with the top eminent brass players in every European country for 2 weeks for that kind of money. These kids are crazy. That’s a down payment on a car!

Ugh don’t let your local Ace Hardwares and Tru Values go out of business! Where else am I going to buy that one random screw for $.27 when the Evil Depot or Loser Lowe’s would make me buy a whole package of them? Like, that’s just more screws for me to misplace.

Anyone just think about how Ricky Ricardo’s full name was just… Ricardo Ricardo?

How Wimbledon was born… Rich British man a long time ago at a Cricket Club: hey we love making clubs surrounding fiddly little games with messed up rules, and weird scoring that makes no sense, right? Other RBM: YEA!

They asked them to wear patriotic accents and all the guys broke out the Christmas Ties 🤣 I told my boyfriend the horn section looked like a wedding band from 1994

Im at the Dallas Winds 4th of July concert, and the people watching is IMPECCABLE. I mean, who is this DIVA?? Anna Wintour WHO? It is 84° out, but she came in a red sweater dress.

Could we… not? Surely, in a population of over 31 million people, we could find ONE democrat in Texas that hasn’t ran for the same 10 things and LOST every time? Like, this can’t be the best we have?

When Prince John sucks his thumb in Disney’s version of Robinhood, and says “OH MOMMY” I remember that his mother would’ve been Eleanor of Aquitaine, and what a LIONESS she would’ve been 🤣

I swear that weddings, funerals, and airports are where people go to make absolute fools of themselves. The general population just doesn’t go to these enough to know what to do with their brains or something 🤣

Why did I think that the purple section of Connections today would be all the defining parts of Field of Dreams?

I’m glad Pope Frances lived just long enough to give a big FU to the Rump administration before leaving this world. Good for him.

I’ve been on such a Shostakovich kick for the past couple of weeks. Maybe it’s my desire for sarcasm and disdain come back into fashion.

Hey so Jimmy Eat World is a good band.

Me: oh you know who I’m talking about. The famous saxophonist that used to teach at ASU? The one with the quartet. His name is like, Alister Crowley or something 🤷🏻‍♀️ BF:…🤨 Friend: you mean Timothy McAllister? Me: 👉 THATS his name. BF: glad your interpreter is here…

If your bathrooms don’t have themes, are you really living?

Sundance Film festival is moving to Boulder, CO. Boulder doesn’t need another reason to be insufferable 💀

I don’t love Catholicism in general, but I get the fandom. Not so much the religion, but like, in a collect baseball cards, Mardi gras as a party type of way. Like, I get whatever this is 🤣 it’s macabre, it’s camp, it’s funny, but also… catholic? 💀

Hey, so I should be a judge at the National Trumpet Competition Resume 1. I have a doctorate in music 2. I have sat in front of trumpets my whole life. I know a good one when i hear it through my ear plugs 3. I have VERY specific opinions on trumpet playing 4. I’ve dated several tpt players

Cleaning out my parents’ house… The amount of extension cords I have found in different parts of this house is crazy. I seriously have an entire basket of extension cords at this point.

Wow. As if the Republicans weren't enough, here come the Democrats! Damn, who needs enemies!? Appalling yet unsurprising to see Dems fueling right-wing attacks on higher ed. They love abandoning us, man. So beyond unwilling to meet this moment. Shameful. Absolutely shameful.

Selling a home and everything in it, and I had to unplug a lot of the lamps to paint. Living by overhead light alone is really quite dismal.

Everyone talks about Edelweiss being the most beautiful thing Rodgers and Hammerstein ever wrote, and it is very lovely, but damn I love the Morning Hymn and Alleluia from SoM maybe just a little more. It’s SO satisfying to listen to, and not nearly long enough youtu.be/bDK2MaHuJd0?...