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  1. How long will your MBA take?

    It’s a dual degree program, MBA and MS, that takes three years. So I’ll graduate April 2013. Ask me anything

    December 31, 2010Categories: generalNo comments

  2. Have you written a song in F yet? You’ve really done all 23 other keys? The well-tempered Vienna …

    The song Paul Freeman & I wrote is in F major! For some reason it’s never been quite the right key for all the other songs. Strange how different a melody feels in E or F#. Ask me anything

    December 31, 2010Categories: generalNo comments

  3. so said here that you were reaching a point where you only ate meat you raised/hunted yourself. Does that mean that you go hunting or raise chickens somewhere? have you ever butchered anything? http://viennateng.com/scrapbook/2010/11/are-you-vegetarian/

    Other than fishing, not yet. Starting to look around Ann Arbor for opportunities…a nearby Amish chicken farm hosted a lesson for some Erb Institute students last year, and there’s a hunting club in the environmental school. Roommate & I are contemplating a chicken coop, if we find time for a non-school project in the warmer [...]

    December 31, 2010Categories: generalNo comments

  5. Do your classmates ask you to sing for them? lol.

    I did actually sing with the faculty band for the SNRE* holiday party. Fun flashback to cover band and high school jazz choir days. I’d forgotten how racy the lyrics are in Moondance. * School of Natural Resources & Environment. We’re called SNREds around here. Ask me anything

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  6. Hi Vienna! Greetings from Dallas. I have written music alone for years and am kind of possessive of my songs. But strangely, I find when I collaborate with the right folks it is amazing. Creative energy sky rockets. Do you ever miss not being in a band?

    Part of me would love to be in a band—greater than the sum of parts, and all that. But I think I’m wired more for the solo thing. Especially since bandmates probably wouldn’t appreciate my suddenly going to grad school… Ask me anything

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  7. I love ‘Stray Italian Greyhound", but… what is it about?

    As usual, many things. Elections, faith, falling in love, safety in cynicism. That’s after-the-fact over-thinking, though. At the time I was writing it, I was mostly playing around with a fast piano part and internal rhymes. Ask me anything

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  8. Complete this sentence. Thank you 2010 for _____________.

    …the open doors, open arms and open minds. Ask me anything

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  9. Describe year 2010 in one sentence.

    I might be starting to get the hang of this. Ask me anything

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