Longhorn Confidential - Renee
Also known as... passionate, musical, thoughtful
Class: Fourth-year
Major: Music Studies
Hometown: El Paso, TX
Introducing...
Hello! My name is Renee, I am a fourth-year music studies major. I am so grateful and excited to blog for the university. Being in my last year, this is truly a remarkable way to remember it.
I am a violinist/violist and I perform with the University Symphony Orchestra. Monday night we performed our first concert of the season.
Works included John Corigliano's Promenade Overture, Shostakovich's String Symphony, and Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. If you have never attended a concert in the music building, you should definitely come.
New Beginnings — January 1, 2008
"Remember that you must not see as the world sees."
I associate the new year with new beginnings, a rebirth. My name, Renee, has Latin and French origins tracing back to the word Renaissance, meaning rebirth. Of course, the minute I stroll into the kitchen and catch sight of the Dansk cookie tins and Twinkies, any kind of resolution related to a rebirth of healthy eating habits vaporizes.
While I have not made resolutions in a while, I think of this as a wonderful time to reflect on all my blessings, which are many. My grandmother home from the hospital, my family, friends, Chico's Tacos, my health, the famous pineapple upside down cake my aunt makes, my home, Godiva chocolates, and much, much more.
The few days before we move back into our college living quarters a little fatter, where we will have to awaken our circadian rhythms from deep hibernation patterns, we still have a little more time to spend with those we love, donate to a local rescue mission, think about our blessings, write down what we want to change in our lives, our goals, aspirations and how we want to change the lives of others.