me.

Hello world.

Because I realized that I have trouble remembering what I did weeks, even days, ago, I decided to start documenting my life. To quote one of my favorite musicals A Tale of Two Cities (oh yeah, and it was a book, too, I guess), being a twentysomething is apparently "the best of times and the worst of times," so I wanted to outline my accomplishments, my struggles, my successes, my failures, my laughter, and my tears during this transitional period to becoming a real grown-up. I feel like I never remember the smallest yet most meaningful aspects of life, and hopefully this blog will help me to document the little things that happen in my life, the things that really make me happy to be alive.

I felt the need for some sunshine and rainbow action.

First thing's first, time for an introduction. My name is Myles. I'm a recent graduate of the University of Virginia (class of '08) where I majored in music and psychology. Music is my life. My whole world revolves around singing, playing, whatever music I can get my hands on. Throughout college and especially over the past few months, I've really begun to recognize how powerful music can be, how unique that power is, and how easy it is to use music to ease troubled minds and hearts, make political points, turn war upside down, cure pessimism with hopeful optimism, even make drastic changes in our sometimes messed-up world. I work as a Project Coordinator of a longitudinal child psychology research study examining high-risk children and their development. In Lehman's terms. I hope to leave this post in a few months and resort to a job more fitting for my background and my true passion: music.

Music makes the world go 'round.

One other thing you must know about me: a lot of people say I look like Christian Siriano.

fierce.

Before I get into anything else, I need to talk about one person in particular that has changed my life forever: my boyfriend of more than three years. DJ. He has transformed my life in ways that even he will never know. His gaze and his smile lift me to heights I have never even imagined before. I am so in love, and I've decided that I must be the luckiest man in the world to be blessed with such an angel. He is truly, in the simplest terms, perfect.

Wine tasting on Valentine's Day 2008.

DJ just found out that he will be working for the Georgetown Learning Center as a tutor in a few months at Georgetown University in DC. Our plans to move to DC together and start our lives are finally starting to come together. I'm trying my damndest to find a music job in DC so we can start apartment hunting...and dog hunting as well! (Wait, but, not like shooting dogs...hunting FOR a dog!) We want a cute little boy Sheltie. We've even already named it. Theodore. Or Theo for short. I can already picture him in my mind, and I get giddy just thinking about this life that I had dreamed about for so long! If only music jobs in DC were easier to find... I've mainly been looking at jobs with theatre companies, but I may eventually have to expand my boundaries, since I haven't gotten job offers from anywhere yet. And it's frustrating because most of the jobs I'd love to have pay next to nothing. So I can either get a job I wouldn't really love doing and get paid 30-40,000. Or I can get a job I know I'd love and get paid 15,000. At the most. Isn't that how it always works out though? Hrr. Anyways though, currently I'm waiting for a reply from Studio Theatre, Signature Theatre, NCTA, APAP, and Atlas Performing Arts Center. Others on my list that I haven't yet applied for: Arena Stage, Wolf Trap, Woolly Mammoth, Imagination Stage (my first choice!), Kennedy Center, WPAS, and Choral Arts. Any assistance or advice is much appreciated. Even though like 2 people will see this blog. Oh well.

I found this and thought it was funny. Kind of relevant. I'm the toilet paper roll.

I also have a best friend named Dory (yes, like the fish in Finding Nemo. no, she can't speak whale. yes, she is as awesome as Ellen DeGeneres). She's currently on a road trip to nowhere right now (and I'm saying that in a good way...trips with no destinations are sometimes the most worthwhile). She's in Lubbock, TX right now. So far she's made it to Charlotte NC, Charleston SC, Savannah GA, Pensacola & Tallahassee FL, Mobile AL, somewhere in Mississippi, New Orleans LA, and Midland TX. She hopes to get to Santa Fe NM eventually but is enjoying her time being the spontaneous girl she is. I wish her the best of luck. LOVE YOU.

Our last hug before she ran away.

Short term plans. I'm going to NEW YORK this weekend to visit one of my best friends ever: Olivia AKA Oface She seriously IS my life, and I don't know what I'd do without her gchats at work every day. I probably would have killed myself by now.

The (female) love of my life.

I'm going up to Fredericksburg on Thursday after work to stay with DJ and his parents (which I'm also really excited about, because most of the trips up there consist of rum & cokes and wii. Best nights ever!) --- and then Friday morning I'm taking the drive up to New York, stopping once in Philly to pick up the sexy, the fun Gulotta (known by her last name...her first name is really Sarah, but there are too many Sarahs to keep track of in my life). Friday plans include seeing a show (hopefully either Billy Elliot or Happiness [a new musical directed by Susan Stroman with music and book written by the same guys that wrote Grey Gardens {my other favorite musical} and starring Joanna Gleason {BAKER'S WIFE!}]) and chilling with wine and beer...and Bananagrams, obvi. Saturday we will shop, go to the Brooklyn Museum and hopefully others, eat at Bon Chon (this really great Korean fried chicken place apparently), and get crunk & go karaoke-ing (more epic Oface & Myles duets!) Sunday I'll be coming home for rehearsal for the musical I'm in, which I'll talk about in a later post (lots to talk about there!)

Happiness the musical. WOO.

Alright, that's enough of a rant for one blog post. I wanted to end this post with an explanation for the title of my blog. I came across a song today called Many the Miles by Sara Bareilles. The first few lines of the song were the spark that ignited this idea to start writing a blog. Ironically, my name is mentioned in the song...and it's misspelled. So I corrected her. I'll leave you guys with this:

There's too many things I haven't done yet.
Too many sunsets I haven't seen.
You can't waste the day wishing it'd slow down.
You would've thought by now I'd learned something.
I made up my mind when I was a young girl:
I've been given this one world, I won't worry it away.
But now and again I lose sight of the good life.
I get stuck in a low light.
But then love comes in...

End. [But, it's only the beginning.]