This is a guest post by Ira from Forging Onward. You can learn more about the author at the bottom of the post, or read Shawna’s original posts that started this series: How to Tell if Your Friend is an English Major (or Spends Too Much Time Around One) and If You Think Your Friend May Be An English Major.
You Know You’re a Music Major When:
- Your skin starts to pale from too many hours in the practice room.
- You get excited when you hear that the orchestra will be sitting in the correct formation for a Beethoven symphony.
- You hear the Up soundtrack and suddenly realize that the main theme is based on a Major 13 chord.
- You get depressed because you completely forgot that yesterday was Palestrina’s birthday.
- The only way to get that song out of your head is to go and listen to the whole piece.
- You spend more than ten hours a week on a single-credit class.
- You have to transcribe your ring tone when your phone rings in class.
- Your closet is full of black clothing.
- You sit around comparing your conducting batons and whether or not yours has the best balance-point.
- You realize that the high violins in the background of that film scene totally just made you sad.
- You stand in a grocery store and suddenly exclaim: “That was a third-relation progression!” …and only then do you realize that no one around you actually cares.
- You make sure that your bow has enough rosin but you forgot to shampoo your hair that morning.
- You have more friends with perfect pitch than friends who can understand a basketball game.
- A day at the recording studio is absolute heaven.
- You can imitate the voice of any pop singer just by listening to them once.
Photo Credit: jrossol – licensed under Creative Commons.
If you’re a regular visitor of Eruantale, you might notice that the website looks quite a bit different. Yesterday afternoon I took it down for an hour or two while I switched over to version 4.0. I’m very excited about this new design. It’s the first one I have made for this site since 2008, and it was desperately in need of an overhaul.
New Features
First and foremost, Eruantale is now on Facebook! If you like the site, head over and like it on Facebook as well. I have also made it easier for readers to share posts on Facebook and other social bookmarking websites. At the bottom of each post, you’ll find links to various social networking sites—as well as a link to subscribe to future posts.
Just below that is a blurb about the author of the post. I have a few guest posts planned in the future, so this should make it easy to find out more about who is writing the post. Finally, I have switched out the Lifestream plugin for a simple Twitter feed for now. Continue reading Version 4.0…
What could be nicer after a long, hard day at work or school than to log on to Facebook and find twelve notifications from your loving friends? Okay, sure, there are nicer things in the world, but you get a good feeling when you see that little chat bubble light up to inform you that you have a notification. You click on the bubble, hopeful that someone commented on your latest note, and then… you sigh.
“Ashley sent me twelve blueberry pies in Run Your Own Totally Unrealistic Restaurant Without All the Stress?”
Oh well. You ignore all of the requests and check your news feed instead, but, if you happen to have any of the other four types of people who abuse your Facebook feed* on your friends list, things only get worse from there.
The Gamer:
Ashley, of course, is the Gamer. Although they are logged onto Facebook quite frequently, the Gamer seems oddly unsociable to those of us who rarely use Facebook applications. The Gamer does not post many status updates, photos, or comments. Instead, they spend the majority of their time on Facebook playing one particular game constantly or they will divide their time between a wide variety of random games. Either way, they often bombard you with invitations to join their latest favorite because nearly every game compels players to add friends in order to advance. Once you’ve added Watch Your Virtual Aquarium Do Nothing, they will start to send you fish food and sea monkeys daily until you finally block the entire application. Continue reading The 4 Types of People Who Abuse Facebook Feeds…
Now that you know how to diagnose a potential English major (or someone who is spending too much time with an English major), you may be wondering what you can do about their condition. Although it is unlikely that they will change majors, there are still ways to help your friend. Here are some tips, both for your benefit and for their own:
- Confiscate their debit card before walking into Powell’s (the City of Books in Portland, Oregon) or any other bookstore, for that matter.
- Remind them that everything will be okay when the new edition of MLA format comes out.
- Encourage them to take one day a week off from novel writing in November. Tell them it’ll still only be 1,852 words per day.
- Read more than just the popular fiction of the month—read books with longevity.
- Remember: Espresso drinks may be considered currency if you wish to purchase proofreading services from your friend.
- Reading the SparkNotes is not the same as reading the book, so don’t make the suggestion if they mention the massive amount to be done this weekend.
- Bring a paper bag in which they can breathe when you see the movie version of their favorite book and be prepared to hear all about how “The Scouring of the Shire” was an integral chapter and should not have been left out of the movie.
- Never say, “to be, or not to be,” while pretending to hold a skull in your hand. Those are two different soliloquies.
- Make sure you get settled in before they get up to read their essay in class. You could be there a while.
- Above all else: be careful. You may end up in their novel someday.
Photo Credit: Todd Mecklem – licensed under Creative Commons.
Recently, Facebook changed the way they handle interests on your profile. You may have noticed upon logging in or accessing your profile page a request to approve linking your interests to pages. Ultimately, this is just one more of the many ways privacy on Facebook has changed over the years and especially in recent months. Most of these changes have been either stealthy or utterly confusing—and it has got to the point that Wired’s Ryan Singel is calling for an open alternative to the social networking site.
Facebook is now such a huge part of how I communicate with others that I hardly consider getting rid of my account an option. Although the controversy surrounding these changes does interest me, my primary concern is how to ensure that my Facebook account is private. Even though I have changed settings so that my entire profile was private several times before, it seems that those changes didn’t stick when they modified their system. So, if you want your profile to be private, here is what you need to do: Continue reading Hiding Private Information on Facebook…
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