Maybe I’m more tired than I think. I was messing up trying to explain stuff in my Math 20 class, couldn’t figure out there was a difference between perimeter and area. And I kept calling Jason Jordan. And there was something else too, I know it, but I guess I’m too tired to remember. I’ve got to get some good sleep or I’m going to get killed next week.

Conservatives think the media's incredibly biased to the left. Liberals think conservatives are more worried about big business staying fat and happy than about helping the little guy. I tend to be on the conservative side on most things, but I try my best to be objective.

I was thinking today that one of the things I remember back in my schooldays was my (Social Studies?) PACE glorifying Ronald Reagan and decrying the graduated tax system. They, of course, were proponents of a constant tax rate, because graduating it penalizes hard work and saving money wisely.

I would just point out that this reminds me of Terry Gross (of NPR’s Fresh Air) or liberal professors whose views tend to come out (both intentionally and unintentionally) as they go about their “objective duties.” These two situations just seem a lot the same to me.

Harmony Rule #3: the common tone in two successive chords should be kept in the same voice as much as possible.

This is a great rule, and one that I had completely forgotten about. The classic example which illustrates this is the transition from a I (tonic) to a V (dominant). The tonic is made up of 1-3-5 (do-mi-so), and the dominant 5-7-2 (so-ti-re). The common tone is the fifth, and this rule simply declares that if the tonic’s fifth was in the alto, you should keep the fifth in the alto when you go to the dominant.

It would be interesting to go back and look at some of my arrangements and see how I did on that. If I did it right it was totally due to luck, intuition, or subconsciously remembering. But that one definitely needs to be closer to the front of my mind.

One of the groups for my Production Planning and Control class turned in a term project that had 75 pages. That astounds me. To be fair, 70 or 71 were Appendices that included all of their data. But still…