Remember That Time I Was Going to be a Musician?

Remember the days when your parents told you you could do anything you set your mind to? They forgot to distinguish "anything" from "everything." 

I went to a music-oriented high school. I took four years (and a summer) of Musicianship, learned species counterpoint--tutored species counterpoint. I played the violin, the piano, the recorder, and was an active songwriter. At one point, my friend Tara and I co-wrote an entire album of songs in one night (under the guise of the band name "Oceans Gray," which we also decided that night). I was definitely on the fast track to a career in music. 

Coughcoughhackhackchortlenotreally.

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