The Best Summer Muse
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For the last couple of weeks I have been depressed, and I haven't been able to figure out why. I think some of this gloominess has to do with missing MusicX (I confirmed this with another Cincinnati composer who was also feeling a bit down; to liven our spirits we were fondly recalling "Philip Your Glass" at a musicology party), and some of this has to do with the god-awful humidity that consumes my brain and forces me to stay in my bedroom all day. Normally dressed in a tank top and ugly running shorts that I normally do not wear in public, I would sit and pathetically mope while aimlessly flipping through my Google Reader. Repeatedly.
But the humidity had not been so crippling lately, which meant I could bake PIE.
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