O folks… my single is now officially released and up on iTunes and various other online retailers. It also happens to be my birthday this Thursday the 11th. So you of course know what would be the perfect birthday gift to me right?!

Even better, you can spread the word to everyone you know about the new song (and maybe write a nice little review?!). It’s a great song to get you pumped during a work out (I’ve tried it out several times… though today I found myself working out to Debussy… explain that one. strange). Here’s a link to my iTunes store page: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/rising/id292299882

Posted below are YouTube videos of the song, including the two remixes.

am currently taking a sociology class at UCLA.  The reading and the class discussions so far are absolutely thrilling (the last class was especially exciting when a student had to be removed from class by campus police, but I digress…).  So just as I was in the middle of doing one of my readings from a book called “Emotional Intelligence” by Daniel Goleman, I heard about the earthquake in Haiti.  At first, I didn’t realize the extent of the impact.  Then I turned on the TV, and the news was showing a before and after shot of the capitol building in Port-au-Prince.  I couldn’t believe it.  The place was completely destroyed.  It made me think about how I would feel if I saw the White House like that.  How disconcerting to see the building which represents the center of your country completely decimated.

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“If you don’t love where you come from, you can’t love where you are going.”

or those of you who follow my tweets (ahem, twitter.com/leahdriscoll or just click on that nifty twitter link in the upper right hand corner of this page!!!), then you may recognize that quote from something I posted earlier this week.  It was the message on my “Throat Comfort” Yogi tea bag.  Yogi tea is also the maker of “Throat Coat” tea which is a MUST for singers, and helpful for anyone suffering from a sore or hoarse throat.  But I digress… I loved this quote!  And it absolutely popped into my mind a couple days ago when I made a trip to West Hollywood for the first time in probably a couple months.

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t is Sunday afternoon and I am giving myself a little break.  It’s chiiiillly here in LA.  Chilly as in 60 degrees.  Isn’t that disgusting?!  I walked outside yesterday and was FREEZING.  I got in my car, checked the temp, saw that it was 62 degrees, and thought to myself, “Leah Driscoll of Maine, what have you become?!”  haha

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