I'm Noxica, which arguably is fairly obvious.


I'm 24 (but only just! I don't feel it yet), recently started learning violin again after getting burnt out at the grand old age of 9, and having great fun doing so. Only problem is I don't have anyone to talk to about this marvellous stuff other than my teacher and, lovely as she undoubtedly is (not to mention probably on here somewhere), it'd be nice to have other people to talk to as well


Most things you might want to know can be found in my newly-filled-out profile, so let's cut right to the chase:


Hi!

Hi Noxica, and welcome to the forums.

I see that you've already started exploring and posting, so you'll see that there's a fair few of us violin learners about

I started violin at the grand old age of 38 and have thoroughly enjoyed it so far

Yeah, I've been lurking for a couple of weeks now, found a load of stuff I wanted to reply to last night so I registered...then my account didn't get validated til this morning. Bah humbug!


Still I'm here now, and look forward to causing merry chaos in the relevant forums (and maybe some not-so-relevant ones)

Excellent, merry chaos is what we're about

Well I'm a longstanding mod on another forum, where I've been described as:

An 'experience'
Strangely akin to a whack on the head
A remarkably sparkly piece of the furniture
Incapable of being serious for more than 2 consecutive posts


Can't think why I'm getting the impression i'm going to fit right in here...

Welcome!

Hi Noxica!

Seeing as you posted on my hello thread saying you're in a pretty similar situation to me, thought I'd post on yours too!

Funny coincidence though, not only are we in pretty similar situations musically, but I think I must be almost exactly the same age as you (turned 24 very, very recently, erm, a few days ago actually...)

Whoa....it wasn't the 21st was it?


Because if it is, then we're clearly twins and were fated to meet on here.


Oh yes, I smell fate around here...or it might just be my IKEA scented candle. That's a scented candle from IKEA not smelling of IKEA, although the latter could be interesting as well, and would probably smell nicer.

Sorry, no, the 15th (less than two weeks is still "a few days" isn't it?!)

Yeah, ok...I'll give you that. It's close enough. We can be nearlytwins instead



Just made my first completely serious post on here in another thread... I think I need my vital signs checking

You're forum twins (joined on same day) - aw, bless

Art thou patronising me ye scurvy cur?


*waves cutlass about*


Oh sod it, I'm going to have to get used to being patronised playing a 3/4 aren't I?


All together now... "Aww! It's so tiny!"


(I get much the same response to my hands, which are roughly the same size as the average 8 year old's, going by my size in gloves.)

Have mercy, kind sir, I'm but an innocent young maid

These forums become less and less credible as the days pass....

Yeah, me too!












See? I'm not even convinced when I say it!

And increasingly dangerous with all these pirates, hijackers and persons of uncertain identity

Just because you don't know who I am, doesnae mean I don't


I'm perfectly wellknown to myself, even if my hair has escaped my understanding for 24 years.

Hello and welcome

I'm Claudia and I'm a few months younger than you. I started playing flute about two years ago and viola 6 months ago. I like scales too

You have a lolcat as your profile picture

to the forums, sounds like you're already getting into the swing of things!

I do indeed have a rather awesome lolcat as my profile picture - the only one of my favourites that makes a decent avatar/profile picture etc. Apart from 'I iz a cornflake. Honest.', but that's not as funny as an avatar.




Well, it seems like my kinda place!

Needs more sparkles and shiny though.

*sidles off shiftily with glitter spray*



Don't mind me...

whatever gives you that idea, Barry ???

(ha - maybe it was the lolcat!)

and no, you can't has a cheeseburger

I made you a cookie, but I eated it...

I not wantz cheezburger!




I can haz tea insted plz?

welcome pal

I had no idea katyjay was 38 +


x

okay if u woshez up ur bowl

Shoe size? IQ? Current state of recorder collection?

Ohkai!


*noms*


Katyjay, 38+ is clearly the number of newbies you've led astray recently!

Who, me?

Do you know you're Top Poster within your first day, Noxica




( no but if you hum it, I'll play it )

Y'know I'm sure I've got the sheet music for that somewhere...



Yeah....I guess I have posted a lot. In a nutshell, I quit violin aged 9 after being pushed too far too fast, to a chorus of wailing and protests, and thought that was it. Then towards the end of my teens, it started niggling...

I know I was good. A lot of people who knew what they were talking about knew I was good. I was told by one of the most famous teachers in the country that I could go to the top, and it bothered me. It bothered me for years and years and years. Then I got into a band called Turisas, who have a violinist called Olli who, in technical terms, is off the scale. I saw them live in March 2008, and spent most of the set standing at the front looking slightly simple, completely shaken to the core by the sheer speed he was playing at. Although I now (thanks to their forum) know he's a slightly strange, occasionally whiny little git, he started something.

It took me nearly a year, but in November I finally walked into Turner's (Birmingham), bought me a violin, then a few days later went to my first lesson in nearly 15 years.

My feet honestly haven't touched the ground since. I still high on it - it's like being that supersupercrazily enthusiastic 4 year old starting out again every time I think about it. It's magical to me, and given that apart from my teacher (and occasional mild interaction with The Olli) I don't know any violinists, finding a place that a) has friendly violinists about b) has adult learners about and c) shares my sense of humour is, well, rather exciting.


But fear ye not! This 'ere lolcat be 'ere t'stay!

*noms more tea*

Yeh that's all very well but do you like stickers and stars

Have you been here before? Only a few members seem to know you rather well.

I do!

Although I may move onto tshirts now. I want one that says 'I can play without looking at my fingers', purely because I always lost the stickers I got with that on.





Y'know, I honestly haven't. I've just posted an insane amount since my account was validated this morning and seem to have erm...captured ze zeitgeist?

You like tea, and you like stickers. This makes you a good egg



I think 38 refers to the number of boxes of sheet music katyjay owns

Now that you're a fully fledged member of the I Love Scales Club and the I Love Theory Club, you might like to know that there's a list of clubs pinned at the top of the Cafe forum. I can recommend the Fingerless Gloves Appreciation Society and something tells me you'd fit very easily into the Old Ladies Traditional Values Association (although you'd need a suitable alter ego - I'm Lavinia aka Lavvy, I got blown up in a gas explosion by two old crows so now I go back and haunt them )

I think it's time to start a new club, we haven't had one for a while...

I'm very good at alteregos - I have one on most of the forums I'm active on


I could be Freya, the grouchy old Viking lady descended from Thor and prone unleashing the Valkyries on anyone who crosses me? I am, after all, directly descended from the Vikings, although we're still looking into the Thor connection.


As for new clubs...we should have a Music Geeks Club. I'm up for being a founding member of that! Or maybe, given that we love theory and scales, we could start the Teachers Pets Club?

You start it, I'll join it

Started!


Now for the Teachers Pets Club when I've satisfied my G major cravings

Very pleased to see you merrily throwing yourself into forum life Noxica!

Don't know if you'd be interested, but if you get a chance, have a look at the forum events area (and particularly the 2009 calendar), and see if there's an event near you that you might be interesting in participating in. You'd be made very welcome!

I am interested, but there's nothing near me

Oh raspberries.

You have mail.

Why has no-one yet thought of organising a concert or playday in the mangle-munching forest of the G major scale?

Honestly. It's only G Major. Not B Major or something horrid

Well you see BB2, if you hold a concert there, it means that the alto saxes would be stuck in the even more mangle-munching forest of E major, and they would hate the organiser for that

But E Major is ok

*looks in pads for York to ensure there's some E major for BB2 to enjoy*

*takes out the E major from the York pads*

Sorry I'm still having nightmares from my G4 sightreading which was in A major

Fair enough!