Comments on: Sunday afternoon roundup http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:35:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jack http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/comment-page-2/#comment-30267 Tue, 02 Jan 2007 18:53:28 +0000 http://vivianpaige.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/#comment-30267 It is fascinating stuff, but there’s definitely no money in it!

]]> By: A Moderate Voice » Blog Archive » My Five Things http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/comment-page-2/#comment-30239 Tue, 02 Jan 2007 17:05:28 +0000 http://vivianpaige.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/#comment-30239 [...] My Five Things   Taking a cue from Waldo, Vivian Page and other bloggers in Virginia, I thought I would share five things you don’t know about me.   1. I love old musicals, I mean the really old ones like “West Side Story”, “The Music Man”,  “The King and I” and “Oklahoma”.  I can sing all the  songs word for word (but you would not want me to: )   2. Unlike my mother and Viv Paige, I prefer the term    African American over black. African American    denotes a heritage, black is just a color.   3. I don’t have a superstitious bone in my body and I    don’t believe in luck. I believe in fate and blessings.   4. I’ve always wondered what it would be like to    be a Radio City Music Hall Rockett.   5. My husband still takes my breath away every time    he walks in a room.   So I guess were not tagging fellow bloggers however, I really like to know five things abut my friend Joe over at NoVA Town Hall and  my buddy Jonathan at Equality Loudoun.     [...]

]]> By: Waldo Jaquith http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/comment-page-2/#comment-30235 Tue, 02 Jan 2007 16:49:17 +0000 http://vivianpaige.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/#comment-30235 Wow, Computational Astrophysics — that’s some pretty heavy stuff. I know only enough about that to know that it’s way, way out of my league, and forever will be. It’s certainly a fascinating field, though.

]]> By: Jack http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/comment-page-2/#comment-30169 Tue, 02 Jan 2007 12:52:36 +0000 http://vivianpaige.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/#comment-30169 My mother was also a Music Education major (back when ODU was W&M), and she taught me. I do play the piano occasionally, but I usually lose.

As for working and getting a Ph.D., you’re right on. I’m trying to get a Ph.D. in Computational Astrophysics from GMU, and it’s killing me. (I’m still not sure whether I passed Quantum last semester — I have to pay my parking ticket and library fines first!) I may stop at an M.S., and go into Economics — I want to take classes with Walter Williams!

Happy New Year!

]]> By: Bryan Scrafford http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/comment-page-2/#comment-30042 Tue, 02 Jan 2007 00:59:10 +0000 http://vivianpaige.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/#comment-30042 Darth Vader March on an Irish tin whistle, now that’s an interesting combination.

For those of you who have been in the blogosphere for awhile, I think Virginia Centrist was also a musician — a bluesly/rock singer.

]]> By: vjp http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/comment-page-2/#comment-30011 Mon, 01 Jan 2007 23:07:08 +0000 http://vivianpaige.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/#comment-30011 Now you’ve named an instrument that I don’t play (and mentioned 2 songs I’m not familiar with :( ) but that’s OK – I’m sure we can find some music that we can use an Irish tin whistle on :)

]]> By: Kevin http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/comment-page-2/#comment-29922 Mon, 01 Jan 2007 17:28:50 +0000 http://vivianpaige.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/#comment-29922 I play the Irish tin whistle Vivian. I can really get going on “Hey Ya” by Outkast and I’m proficient on the “Darth Vader March”.

]]> By: vjp http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/comment-page-2/#comment-29887 Mon, 01 Jan 2007 15:22:49 +0000 http://vivianpaige.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/#comment-29887 Well, I used to be a 2nd soprano but now I’m definitely an alto. And my voice is certainly more smokey now :) As for the notes, just keep practicing. Your voice will follow.

I have a Knabe baby grand but it doesn’t compare to a Steinway – wow! That’s a very nice piano. Get going on those lessons!

]]> By: Kat http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/comment-page-2/#comment-29669 Mon, 01 Jan 2007 05:34:44 +0000 http://vivianpaige.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/#comment-29669 *sigh* I’m a terribly weak alto… But I love to sing! My ear is very idiosyncratic: I can usually HEAR off notes, but I cannot make my voice obey…

“Trombone”??? How… unexpected! (I’m envious!)

I’ve got to find a good piano teacher, though, because one day (in the FAR future, I pray) I’ll inherit a Steinway baby grand….

Vivian, you are more than welcome… ;-)

– Kat

]]> By: vjp http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/comment-page-2/#comment-29618 Mon, 01 Jan 2007 03:46:08 +0000 http://vivianpaige.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/#comment-29618 Let me make a suggestion: go ahead & get started on that PhD. Forget about working – plenty of time for that later :) Seriously ~ once you start making money you’ll find it extremely difficult to return to school and being poor.That’s why I don’t have a PhD. I was accepted into a PhD program back in 2003 but couldn’t attend because I just couldn’t live on a $9000 a year stipend. It’s impossible to work full-time and also pursue a PhD.

]]> By: Bryan Scrafford http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/comment-page-2/#comment-29604 Mon, 01 Jan 2007 03:36:32 +0000 http://vivianpaige.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/#comment-29604 I would like to become a college professor in the cultural history, but plan on working a few years before beginning a Ph.D. program. Since I will graduate in August, I’m interested in spending the next few years either working in the political field or as a historian’s research assistant.

Hint, hint, for anyone who is looking for someone to do research for them :) :)

]]> By: The Daily WhackJob» Blog Archive » Approximately Five Things… http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-29590 Mon, 01 Jan 2007 03:26:14 +0000 http://vivianpaige.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/#comment-29590 [...] Bowing to the weight of peer pressure and the need to be like everyone else I have decided to do a Five Things You Probably Don’t Know About Me post. Except that wouldn’t be much fun so I am doing one on Greg instead. So here are five things (plus two because I am feeling very indecisive tonight) I didn’t know about Greg until I found them out. [...]

]]> By: vjp http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-29560 Mon, 01 Jan 2007 03:04:49 +0000 http://vivianpaige.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/#comment-29560 The Scots-Irish and American Indian are from my mother’s side, who hails from NC. My father’s side is all black, as far as I know.

Andre – what’s a black accent? :)

SW – you crack me up :lol:

Bryan – trombone, like I said earlier. Oops – guess you were posting at the same time I was:)

Wonder how many musicians are amongst the bloggers? Bet we could have a choir and a band :) Waldo, we’ll let you play the triangle :lol:

(Putting on my grown up hat) What kind of living are you planning to make as a history major?

]]> By: Bryan Scrafford http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-29558 Mon, 01 Jan 2007 03:04:17 +0000 http://vivianpaige.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/#comment-29558 Well, if I had been productive and read through the comment section I would have learned that you were a trombone major. :)

]]> By: Bryan Scrafford http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-29540 Mon, 01 Jan 2007 02:40:50 +0000 http://vivianpaige.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/#comment-29540 Vivian, what was your primary instrument. Like you I was originally a music ed major, but after two years I decided to transfer (I originally attended Longwood University in Farmville) and add a history major (my principal instrument was alto saxophone, but like you I can play anything).

I still play and many of my good friends were from my days in Centreville High School’s Marching Band (back before a new director ruined the band’s reputation).

]]> By: The Squeaky Wheel http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-29538 Mon, 01 Jan 2007 02:39:24 +0000 http://vivianpaige.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/#comment-29538 I agree, I prefer to be refered to as Black as well. Wait, what?

(For those on the far left or from Suffolk, that was what we called “sarcasm”)

Good stuff and happy New Year my friend!

]]> By: André Kenji http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-29537 Mon, 01 Jan 2007 02:39:18 +0000 http://vivianpaige.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/#comment-29537 If you haven´t such a black accent, I would think that you are white or miscigenated/”mulata”. ; )

]]> By: UVA08 http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-29535 Mon, 01 Jan 2007 02:26:58 +0000 http://vivianpaige.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/#comment-29535 Vivian I am right there with you on #4. I too prefer “Black” when describing myself for the very same reasons you mentioned. Come to think of it there are probably very few “native” Blacks in the US who can’t trace their ancestry back to some European roots. My family is probably a more exaggerated example of this but I think this is more pronounced in Virginia especially. I remember my history professor mentioning that during Reconstruction a much larger than average share of Blacks in Virginia could be considered mulatto.

]]> By: The Virginia Progressive » Five things you never knew about me. http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-29475 Sun, 31 Dec 2006 23:14:07 +0000 http://vivianpaige.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/#comment-29475 [...] Thanks Waldo and Vivian for the Idea! [...]

]]> By: Waldo Jaquith http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-29460 Sun, 31 Dec 2006 22:47:53 +0000 http://vivianpaige.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/#comment-29460 I had a feeling there’d been a mixup. I don’t have a musical bone in my body. :)

]]> By: phriendlyjaime http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-29459 Sun, 31 Dec 2006 22:44:53 +0000 http://vivianpaige.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/#comment-29459 Sorry-I screwed up the “W” names, Waldo and Ward. Ward-what voice part were you? I also stink at the piano, though Thadd is a very accomplished pianist. Theory I was not too good at, but I can still kick solfege’s butt. ;)

Vivian-yes, my oh MY did I get a lecture. I was run through the gamut of “Not all of us are from Africa, you really could be insulting people and should watch your tongue…” And I really wrestled with what “term” to use for a long time. Once I started to read the Free Press, I felt more comfortable, since they use “black” all the time. It’s a touchy topic, I guess. Nice to know I am not the only one confused though. :)

]]> By: vjp http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-29451 Sun, 31 Dec 2006 22:25:02 +0000 http://vivianpaige.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/#comment-29451 Kat – thanks.

James – yep. If there were more job opportunities for band directors, I’d have stuck with it.

Ward – could we have been separated at birth? :D Actually, I loved theory. Being a trombone major, I didn’t learn piano until college. Although far from proficient, I’d say it’s my major instrument now. I have the 88-key version of this in my home studio.

phriendlyjaime – I would love to hear what that Jamaican’s take on AA was. And as for the song – why stop there? We should start a VPB choir :lol: I used to be a choir director, too.

]]> By: phriendlyjaime http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-29447 Sun, 31 Dec 2006 22:09:28 +0000 http://vivianpaige.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/#comment-29447 Vivian, I am so glad to hear that you prefer “black” to African American. I do not have any African American heritage that I know of, but I have always preferred to use the term black as well, especially after I was schooled by a Jamaican on my ignorant use of the words “African American.”

Oh, and to both Waldo and Vivian; I was a voice major in college who switched to musical theatre after 2 years. We should write a song. :)

]]> By: Ward Smythe http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-29445 Sun, 31 Dec 2006 21:59:51 +0000 http://vivianpaige.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/#comment-29445 Vivian, who would have thought we’d have so much in common?

I started as a music major as well. Music Theory II nearly killed me. I was a voice major though. However I do play the piano very badly.

And we share some of the same heritage. Scots-Irish and American Indian. It’s plausible that I’ve got some African heritage in there as well, although I haven’t found it yet.

Happy New Year!
:-)

]]> By: James Martin http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-29444 Sun, 31 Dec 2006 21:53:20 +0000 http://vivianpaige.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/#comment-29444 You mean “VJP-CPA” almost never was! gasp…

I wonder if i have a photo of that somewhere from the blog conferance…

]]> By: Kat http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-29424 Sun, 31 Dec 2006 21:21:29 +0000 http://vivianpaige.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/sunday-afternoon-roundup/#comment-29424 Vivian, #1 doesn’t surprise me at all! At Sorenson, I noted that you have an excellent speaking voice, well modulated and vibrant. If that also transfers to instruments… Well, gee! That’s only logical! LOL

Best blessings for a wonderful, safe, and prosperous New Year!

– Kat
http://www.CatHouseChat.com

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