Such things as stuff

Well, I haven't been on my blog in, it seems like decades. Actually, I think it's only been about a week and a half. But, in my defense, I have been monumentally busy busy busy. You see, I have drum major try-outs in, like, two minutes. (It's actually in about a week, but I was over exaggerating for dramatic effect. I believe they call that a hyperbole. Props to my ninth grade English teacher.) So, because of this, I have been searching high and low and left and right and up and down for a piece of music to conduct. We have three computers in our house, and only one of them is fully functional, and that one would happen to be my brothers who is home for the summer from college. (NC State to be exact. GO WOLFPACK!) Anyway, there was many much yelling and contraversy and such things that I shall not go into because, quite frankly, it was a bit scarring, and I would prefer not to revisit it. Finally, though, I was able to find a song, called Firedance, donchya know? (I feel Canadian. Donchya know? EH? EH? EH? Props to George Bush for referring to them as the Canadish people.) Anyhoo, I started my count sheet, which is this long complicated thing full of counting and fancy arm movements that wouldnt interest any of you in the least. So, I shall skip over that and get straight to the point. The point being that, I havent been on in awhile, and the aformentioned conflict happens to be the reason. Darned aformentioned conflict. Actually, its not darned. It's very stressful. But, I am working on rising up to the challenge of that stress, which I can hopefully do. And now I am off. You probably wont hear from me for awhile again. Sorry to leave you all in the dark, but when this messy audition stuff is over, then we can sit down at our computers and have a real cyber heart to heart about the boring things going on in my life. Now doesnt that sound exciting?

PEACE

ROOKIE TRAINING!

Today marks the third momentous day of rookie training, and I can already feel the sense of nastalgia seeping up from the grass from last year. I didn't realize how much I missed it until I got to train the rookies. And then I got in the sun and I realized WHY I hadn't missed it in the first place. It is exciting though. But stressful. Drum Major try-outs are getting nearer and nearer, and I'm as frightened as a swarm of newborn kittens. (And whose to say that newborn kittens dont swarm? They could if they wanted to!!!!!!!!!) I didnt understand how much went into one try-out until I started the process myself. It's difficult, but I hope that I can rise to the challenge. Mr. Underwood gave out the drum major prompts for the essays we have to write on tuesday. The topic is: WHY BAND? Well, if that isnt the most obscure topic in the world. But, that also means that it's wide open for interpretation, which is a good thing for me. Essays have never really been a huge obstacle for me. I'm just worried about the question portion of the audition. I don't like being put on the spot without being overly-prepared. I guess if I want to be drum major then I'll just have to rise to the challenge!

PEACE

IVE BEEN HIT!

Ok, so technically, I havent been hit, but I am a cripple. My dad's calling me gimpy now. Earlier tonight at EYC (Episcopalian Youth Group for all you non-Episcopalians out there. And no, I have no idea what the C stands for) we always have dinner first. Well, we said our lovely superman blessing, and then we went off to eat. That's when it happened. I twisted my ankle, and now I can't walk without crutches. I'm hoping this crutches thing only lasts for today, but one can never know. Rookie Training is tommorow, and if I'm an invalid, how can I teach the rookies what theyre supposed to know? It's a huge dilemma. So, if you go to my school, dont just stand there and watch me hobble, HELP ME! Hopefully I wont have the crutches with me, but my ability to walk hasnt improved in the last two hours. My brother thinks I have a torn ligament, because he said that's what it felt like when he had it, only he could walk, so mine must be worse. Way to make me feel better.

On the up side, Kaitlin did her Save Darfur thing at our church during intergenerational sunday school this morning. We raised about 350 dollars, which was awesome considering most of the games only cost a quarter. And I must give mad props to my english teacher, Mrs. Dunigan, for lending us her gigantic shower curtain map. We had a few people step up and try to hit sudan with their quarters and nickels and dimes. Thank God we had the bean bag toss though. That was the biggest hit for the kids. All in all it was an awesome success, and I hope it turned out the way Kaitlin wanted it to.

I also had my recital today! (Busy day, I know). I sang The Music Of The Night from The Phantom Of The Opera. I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE that song so much. I did better than I thought I would, and I had a lot of fun performing it. I wasnt as nervous as I usually get, probably because there was only like 25 people there. But still, it was fun. The day was pretty succesful, save for me injuring myself!

So, yesterday was solo and ensemble. I really wanted to play for Dr. Marks, considering he IS a clarinet player, and like the strictest, and nicest judge the world over. But, I couldnt wait that long. The man knows how to drone if ya know what I'm sayin. It's all constructing criticism anyway, and he puts people down so nicely! So, I had to go to Mr. Whitfeild, or whatever his name was. Happy to say that I got a 1 (superior). w00t! Afterwards I went with a bunch of friends to go see IRON MAN! It was such an awesome movie! So cool! I wanna go back and see it again! Well, that's all for now!


PEACE