A 4.0 semester. Good egg!

I am getting more and more excited about the possibility of auditioning at Lynn for grad school. I've always said that I would love to stay in Florida (it's right on the beach!), and Renee Siebert is one of my favorite teachers I've had. And of course, she has experience out the wazoo. And right next to the New World Symphony...subbing, maybe? Or even winning a job after getting a degree? I don't know, all I know now is that it all sounds very exciting. I knew I met Kasia for a reason.

I'm home.
Packing wasn't that fun, buuuut I saw a most radiant rainbow during the drive. I wanted to stare at it instead of the road.

Need to practice, like woah.

Tampa Bay swept Boston?
No complaints here, but...man.

Why is it that every time I say to myself, okay, I am going to go to school and practice now, I instead eat chocolate and check facebook? IS IT BECAUSE YOU KNOW I LOVE COUNT CHOCULA??

I
CAN'T
SLEEP

I hope I get more than 5 hours of sleep before MY graduation.

Also, that it doesn't rain like it did in high school.

I'm 18 credits away from graduation...::shudder::

Only one last night of study, and then I'm finished with the semester. One week off and then it's the beginning of a long summer filled with practice, party, and work, which incidentally, is a lot less "work" than what I do here, because it ends when I leave to go home at 2:30.

Hopefully I'll meet some potential grad school teachers over the summer so someone will give me money to go to grad school next year.

Oh, by the way, I made first alternate in the NFA performer's masterclass competition. Pretty cool stuff.
Jacqui, that was the one recording we did in Lindsey where I kept talking to myself and saying "this is really hard" after messing up. I guess something worked out okay in there.

Getting paid for a musical
Working all summer
Not spending money on a summer fest
Tax Return
"Economic stimulus"
Birthday money
+ Winning a big scholarship
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Time to go shopping

Some of my friends have done this, and now that they've talked about it in speech class, I want to do it too. It's basically tells you what you know and don't know about yourself.

Fill it out! If you write anonomyous (or however you spell that word), I'll never know it was you who voted. I'm not a computer geek who can look up IP or anything like that, I promise.

Johari window
Nohari window

Lats night I had nightmares. The kind that you get when you are a kid, about ghosts and haunted houses. It sounds funny now, but it was really NOT funny in the dream. I forgot how powerful an emotion fear can be. I've had bad dreams in my older years, about things that could actually happen, people chasing me trying to kill me...but those were somehow different. In these nightmares last night, I was scared of something I couldn't see. You don't know exactly what is after you, you don't know what it is capable of, you just know that is has some kind of power over you and your companions and that your destiny is in its hands and not your own.

In other words, it's unknown.

I haven't had real nightmares in about 16 years. But I remember now what it's like to wake up in total paralyzing fear, only to realize that it's just a dream.

I love wind orchestra.

You think I'm crazy, I know. But playing that Maslanka Symphony makes me so incredibly happy. And I don't really care who thinks I'm lame, or who thinks that Maslanka isn't real music, or who thinks that band is inferior to orchestra. I don't really care. I love band, I love Maslanka, and I love wind orchestra. I think we are going to give a knockout concert tonight and I am so excited! It's so wonderful to play with such supportive and talented colleagues in the flute section, and such a solid band all-around. There are no weak spots anywhere. It's great. I've never played with such a good band in my life, and I have to say, it's possible that I have never had so much fun making music before.

Go to the wind orchestra concert. You won't regret it.

My life right now:

I need more hugs.

A life lesson I learned today: if you miss a dress rehearsal, you might miss out on some VITAL information that if you don't hear will cause you to make embarassing mistakes at a concert. Tenor solo in the rest!

However, if you get the choice to sit it out or dance, GO DANCE!!

P.S. Mas N' Steel is too cool for school.

A comment on my paper:

Passive voice is used throughout.
You've used passive voice throughout.

lol

Guys, we as a society are literally killing Brittney Spears. Leave her alone already. Didn't we learn anything from Princess Diana?

"It's that time of the year that when you are awake you're not really awake, and when you're asleep you're not really asleep."

So true.

Craig: I'm thinking about opening my socks.

CMAC is actually pretty cool.

I knew some of the people who came in to give budget presentations. It's a good example of credibility. You never know who is going to be on the committee that decides if your group gets funded or not, so just respect everyone. To grad students: don't write off undergrads like me. We can have an impact, believe it or not.