"What we play is life."

So I dropped Chemistry 101 and signed up for Honors Anthropology instead. This is an okay change because I'm still fulfilling requirements and checking things off my DARS report, but the longer I put off chemistry the less motivation I'll have to take it. Gah. But it would be so much freaking work... pre labs and post labs and pop quizzes and online homework points and huge exams... if chem was my only hard class, it would be fine. But Experimental Methods is going to be really hard too... research proposals and research papers and more statistics and a teacher who doesn't like to give "A"s... I don't want to wear myself out to get good grades in both these classes, plus two other psych/soc classes AND a 400 level honors class.

But taking into account the fact that I might not ever be able to list chem as my only hard class and put in the amount of effort that it requires, I might cave in and take geology instead. That would be an easy A, but a boring one. So I'll either take chemistry during a semester in which it's my only hard class, or take geology in a semester in which it's my only boring class. We'll see.

Tomorrow:
walk to Streit-Perham and get my keys before class.
11 am Social Deviance
12 pm get lunch or something
1 pm Big Band (my chops are going to suck)
2 pm UH 440
3 pm back to apartment, get uniform, walk to work
4-close work.

Whoo.

Well, I am about 75% moved into my new room! Very exciting. Now I am just sitting here with a sore back, wondering what I'm going to do for dinner. Hopefully the groceries I bought yesterday will last me till the weekend. And hopefully on the weekend Steph will go back to the grocery store with me.

Tomato soup? Maybe. Comfort food sounds good right now.

I also want to commandeer (Renee's?) season four of Friends, which is sitting tantalizingly in the living room. But if I do that I'll spend all night watching it. And won't have time to watch more tomorrow, which would be painful. But it's only 5 and all I have to do for the rest of the day is clear the stuff off my bed so I can go to sleep. What else am I going to do with these five hours or so? Certainly not anything productive. Hmm... tomato soup and Friends... this sounds fantastic.

I am going to be so pissed if I miss an A in my stats class by FOUR POINTS.

I got my grade from the second exam back, and even though I was sure I didn't do very well on it, I got a solid A. 19/20 on the multiple choice, and 14/15 on the essay. Wtf? I mean, that's completely fine with me. My midterm grade is now an 88.6%. But my teacher for this class won't give + or - grades, just letters, so even though I'm like two points (two points!) away from an A, my midterm grade is a B.

That's fine--but what if, judging by how I'm doing now, my final grade is a B even though I'm FOUR points away from an A? I would be so pissed. Four points. All it would take to get those four points is perfect grades on the rest of my homework assignments.

Which leads me to my conclusion: I should probably put in the effort to make appointments with my teacher and ask him to help me out with my homework. Because he takes points off for the most ridiculous things in the homework assignments. So I should just suck it up and ask him to spend ten minutes with me going over my homework assignment and pointing out what I'm doing wrong.

Because if that's all it takes to get an A in statistics, that is damn well what I'm going to do!

Even with everything that's been going on lately in my life, there's not really much I can write about here.

I had a wind symphony concert today. I'm really sad, because I'm afraid I won't be able to audition back into it next semester. Elizabeth will be in it, obviously. Probably both Nina and I will try out again. And there are four new flute players come in, one of which is a grad student. So potentially there are seven people trying out, and only five spots. That means I have to be better than at least two people. Gah. This sucks.

I registered for classes for next semester. As of now, this will be my schedule:

Music 251 MWF 8:00 (music theory)
Music 252 TTh 8:00 (sight-singing)
Psych 311 MWF 12:00 (stats in psych)
Psych 230 TTh 1:25-2:40 (human sexuality, whoo)
Philosophy 198 MWF 11:00 (honors philosophy)
Women's Studies 200 MWF 10:00 (gender and power)
Flute 314 T 11:00 and a half-hour lesson (flute lessons)
CMB MTWTh 5:45-7:00 (marching band, whoo)
Big Band II MWF 1:00 (love that jazz)
Wind Symphony TTh 3:00-5:00 (hopefully)

That's 22 credits. I'd have to audit four of them, since you're only allowed to sign up for 18 credits and then you have to start paying extra. However, although I like my schedule to be a bit busy like this, I'll probably end up dropping one class. As it is, I have music theory, sightsinging, stats, sexuality, philosophy, AND women's studies. That's six purely academic classes with lots of homework. Then I have lessons and two (hopefully) ensembles, which require practice hours. Plus I'll have marching band, which takes up a lot of time on weekdays and most of my Saturdays. AND I need to have at least a part-time job. Not looking so feasible.

So I'll stay signed up for all of these classes, and I'll probably end up dropping one of the academic classes. It'll probably be sexuality--as much fun as that class would be, I don't really want much during my Tuesdays and Thursdays. It depends on which class I end up liking better--human sexuality or women's studies. I really need all the other ones.

Big band concert tomorrow. Yay. I'm thinking about skipping my classes. We don't have the sound check till 2, no big band at 1. Piano at 12 is cancelled. And in Women in Music we're only doing more presentations. I think I want to stay up late tonight working on stuff and then just sleep in for a really long time. Yeah. Sounds good to me.

But that means I have to actually start working on stuff. Hmm.

I'm so proud... this weekend has turned out to be rather more productive than I thought it would be. I've written all of my sociology paper, revised half of my English manuscript, caught up on all of my sociology readings for the semester, and start brainstorming for my final English paper. Go me, ha.

I have such high hopes for my future... I hope that I can fulfill at least some of them.

Right, so this weekend is also think-deep-thoughts weekend for me. And it's nice and warm outside! I know that I'm going to hate the summer as soon as it gets unbearably hot, but right now, the warmth is nice.

So Christian sent me a printer. Thanks! I'll mail you the check back in return asap. I need to get a fan before it starts getting too hot... I'll be here for part of the summer, and I really don't want to live in a perpetual state of overheating. Hmm.

I went to see the opera on Friday. It was really good. I went with Christina and Rian, and Rian kept talking about marching band. I am SO excited to get back into the swing of forward marching and horn angles. Does that make me a dork? Oh yeah. :)

Three weeks of the semester left! Talk about crazy. This week especially is going to be crazy-busy. Soc exam, doc appt, and wind symphony concert all on Thursday. Big band concert on Friday. Then it's dead week. Then it's finals week! And I signed up to play in the band at commencement, which means a rehearsal on Friday the 2nd, and three performances on Saturday the 3rd. And for all that, they pay $100. Whoo!

But oy, so much homework to do before then. I guess it's time to stop procrastinating and keep working, pff. :)

This is noooooooot cool.

Homework needing to be done this week:
Read through chapter two of Nickel and Dimed (30 more pages) due tomorrow
Read through the end of N and D (100 more pages) by Thursday
Study for psych exam before tomorrow
Catch up on my old Women in Music readings
Read Women in Music text for Wednesday
Read all ten psych articles and write that 13-15 page paper by April 10th or whatever
Brainstorm for and write sociology paper by April 10th or whatever
Brainstorm for and write Women in Music paper by next Monday
Find an jazz musician, research that musician, and create presentation on that musician by April 16th or whatever
FILE TAXES BEFORE APRIL
Read the rest of my novel for English (200 some pages) due Wednesday
Edit my seven page manuscript by the end of the semester
Practice before I play at con on April 8th

Okay, this is ridiculously overwhelming. I've been doing reading assignments ALL DAY and I'm not getting very far at all on this list. I still have to make advising appointments so I can register for classes. I have to call a doctor in Pullman and get my insurance switched so I can get my wrist looked at so I can hopefully stave off carpal tunnel for a few more years. I have to practice my Mozart like no other so I can actually play the damn thing. I have to try to find a sub for Keith in big band this week because he's going to be gone again, and that leaves no room for me to miss big band so I have to talk to Christina and tell her I can't play for her accompanying class until next week. I left Ann a message about switching my lesson time from tomorrow to Thursday so that both Christina and I can be there, but the only time that works for all three of us happens to be in Ann's lunch hour, so I really don't want to be chastised for that tomorrow. Fuckity fuck fuck. Shoot me now.

I had very good intentions this week of going on a detox plan, but I just can't do it. I tried. I stuck with it for most of today. But in order to flush out all the processed sugars and whatnot, you're not allowed to eat anything but lean meats, vegetables, cheese, and nuts. I thought, that won't be so bad. Trust me, it is that bad. I was fine all day until I got back here. I did homework, took a nap (yeah, I'm cool like that), did more homework, and realized that my stomach was trying to eat itself. I was starving, but nothing that I was allowed to eat was appetizing. I could not do that for two weeks. I just couldn't. So hopefully tonight after I finish a reading assignment or two I'll make my own detox plan which includes things like milk and fruit. Weird, right?

Ugh. It's only Monday and I already feel like sleeping all week is a viable alternative to going to classes.

I had a lame-o day.

Actually, I kind of feel shitty right now.

My friend just bailed on me. I have to go research and write an ENTIRE sociology paper tonight so I can turn it in tomorrow. Then I have even more homework.

This week was crappy. It was long and busy and crappy. On Tuesday, I went from 8 am to 6 pm with one hour-long break. Then from 6 pm to midnight, no joke, I did homework. Yesterday, I went from 11 am to 9 pm, with a one-hour break. I was so wiped out I didn't start my homework until 11:30, which was bad because my roommate kept talking to me and I was trying to read 100 pages that were due today, so I didn't end up reading all of it until this morning, which I got up early to do. Today I went from 10 am to 5 pm straight, got milk and bread at the market, called my friend Leah to (ironically) go to the rec center, and she bailed on me. Ugh. Now I have to walk all the way to the library in the freezing cold, write stuff about ten books, come back here, and literally write what will probably be a five page paper.

I'm trying so hard to get good grades this semester, and it's so hard because I have so freaking much homework. I haven't practiced my flute since Tuesday's lesson. I barely passed my weekly scales test in piano yesterday, and after this week, if I don't do them perfectly I'm going to fail them. Psych chapters are huge, and I have to read and take notes on one a week now. I have my first psych exam on Tuesday, and it's worth one quarter of my grade in the class. I have a soc exam on Thursday. Next week I have to turn in my AmeriCorps paperwork, and then I have to somehow fit eight hours of volunteering a week into my schedule. I also have turn in my honors college scholarship application next week, which means I have to write the essay soon. And I have to write at least seven pages of my creative story for English 317, which is doubly difficult to write because it's about GLBTQ issues, which are confusing for me right now for a number of bizarre and varied reasons that are just adding to my stress.

I thought, no big deal, I can handle all this. It's getting the most out of college. But taking even just 17 credits, getting As in all of them to balance out my cumulative GPA the way I want it to balance out, volunteering eight hours a week, AND getting all of my homework done on time is turning out to be a lot harder than it looks. I wanted to get a job this semester too--I might not be able to. God this sucks. I feel like crap right now.

Ugh.

No use bitching about it, I suppose. Sitting here complaining isn't getting my work load any lighter--just my bottled-up stress.

Well, I went back to Penneys today. I did all of my re-hire stuff, gave Mark my license to copy again, read everything I never wanted to know about the dress code, and told two of my buddies who are still working there that I'm back to work. They were excited, which made me feel rather happy. :)

And back to work it is. This whole week I'm working from 10-6. And when I say this whole week, I mean it quite literally. Not a day's break. Interestingly, as Mark happened to mention, after next Monday the holiday frenzy is over. I had somehow managed to forget that Christmas is next Tuesday. Isn't that weird?

Anyway, despite this crazy and quite literal forty hours a week, it's very gratifying to know that next week I'll be putting in my two weeks notice. That also makes me happy. :)

And back to Pullman, for a semester of amazing classes, time spent improving these burgeoning friendships, and hopefully Saturdays volunteering at the Humane Society or some such place. I feel like leaning back in my chair and kicking my feet up on the desk. That is how profoundly satisfied I am today.

It helps that I spent most of it with April. We went to Target--twice, actually, for various reasons. It also helps that I bought a new pair of work shoes--my first pair of ballet flats, and they are incredibly cute. It's nice, working at Penneys--I can express the side of me that is incredibly feminine, the part that likes black work pants and cute shoes and dangly earrings and even, dare I say it, mascara.

I also finished rereading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows today. I am extremely and irreversibly a nerd, because I teared up twice at the end. It's such a sad book, but with the most spectacular ending I could ever have hoped for. I wonder how many people have written to JK Rowling expressing their love of this last and most epic Harry Potter novel? I kind of want to join their number.

Regardless, this break is shaping up to be a lot better than I expected it to be. And tomorrow Caitlin is coming back! I pretty much can't wait. :)

I woke up today with a very sore throat. I hope I'm not getting sick. :(

I happened to be looking over the coursebook yesterday (I was trying to see if English 317 had any prerequisites) when I stumbled on the Women's Studies page. You know, half of those classes are the same as other classes. I mean to say, Women's Studies 324, Psychology of Women, is the same class as Psychology 324, Psych of Women. The minor in W St is only 16 credits, and the funny thing is I was already planning on taking 12 credits worth of classes that transfer over to be W St credits. So what did I do? Reworked my schedule again. I swear, I've done that so many times this semester and I just keep getting happier and happier with my degree. All I had to do was add in three strictly W St classes, two of which are classes on homosexuality, and now I have another minor.

Five years at WSU and this is what I'm getting: Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Bachelor of Arts in Music, Minor in Sociology, Minor in Women's Studies.

The only thing that has not changed once and probably will not change ever is my BS in Psychology.

Hee hee.

But I am absolutely in love with my schedule like this. Next semester is going to be amazing, and almost every semester after that. (Excluding my sight-singing classes, which I am very apprehensive of, and the Bio and Chem that I have to take. But even those won't be so bad.)

Today is so boring. I have barely any studying to do for finals, and without homework I am at a loss. I've been sleeping and listening to Cake all day. Maybe I should clean my dorm room. I'm tempted to pack, but that would still be ridiculous because I still have six days left.

Hmmph.

Isn't it interesting how fast things can change? Sometimes it's for the better. Sometimes it's for the worse. Sometimes it's a thing so small it's almost insignificant. Sometimes it means the world.

I can't find a word to describe my day today. I had my last science lab. I went to lunch with Leah, Janelle, and Lainey and decided that I only really would miss having class with one of the three. I went to my English class, turned in my beautiful 15 page research paper, gave my teacher a very high rating on the class evaluation, and learned that she's teaching another class next semester. I practiced my flute and while putting it away I ran into a guy from my marching band section noted to myself his subtle hotness--if that made sense at all. Came back to my dorm and saw my fifty dollar stipend from hall government sitting on my bed. Came to the computer lab and saw that Kasey got hired to be an RA and realized exactly how much I hate competition (why does this keep happening to me?). Now I'm texting back and forth with a guy I know from swing dancing who wants me to come make margaritas with him on Tuesday, but I don't drink.

Can you think of a word to describe my day? I can't. It is indescribable.

Oh, and I also completely shifted my schedule around. That English class that my teacher is doing next semester is about Gay and Lesbian Literature. I want to take it so badly, and it even counts as a substitute for English 199 which is a required course. So I signed up for it. But the only time it's offered is during my Bio lab. But I figured, if I'm getting a requirement out of the way, I'll just switch the places I had for Bio and English in my schedule and take Biology next year instead. So I dropped that class. But then I had extra credits left over, and I want to make the absolute most of my college experience. So I looked through every other open class that I might be interested in taking, and the only one I could put in my schedule was another English class, Shakespeare Studies. But man, Shakespeare studies! How cool is that?

So now I'm signed up for these classes next semester: Class Piano II, Big Band II, Flute 314 (my flute teacher bumped me up a class level even though I'm still technically a minor), Symphonic Band (but that might change to Wind Symphony :D), Ed Ad 497 (stupid RA class that I'm going to keep taking to stay in the applicant pool), English 317 (Gay and Lesbian Studies), English 306 (Shakespeare Studies), Sociology 198, and Psychology 105.

That is pretty much the most badass schedule ever. Psychology, Sociology, and two English classes all at once? I could probably die of happiness. And even with all this, I still don't have class until 10 on MWF, 11 on Tuesday, and 12 on Thursday.

Yay!

It is extremely bizarre to be at home again.

I miss my dorm room.

I gave in and signed up for Psych 105. I couldn't technically take Psych 470 anyway, since an intro to psych class was required for it. The nice thing about this schedule, though, is that my days are a lot easier than they are this semester. Monday I go from 10 to 3, Tuesday from 11 to 4, Wednesday from 10 to 6, Thursday from 1 to 4, and Friday from 10 to 3. I don't have class on Thursdays until 1:25. I'm pretty excited.

I watched Spiderman 3 today. I'm not sure I liked it. I don't why they had to put religious undertones in it. It was sort of incongruous, you know?

I don't know. I'm out of it. I feel very weird being here, and I don't like it. My bed is too soft and huge, my room is so empty, this house is so.... weird. I really don't like being here, at all. I'm going to be so happy when Thursday evening rolls around and I get to see Leah and Jeff and all my marching band buddies.

Tomorrow I'm going to see some peeps at the high school and also to Target. Wednesday I will hopefully get to hang out with April. Thursday is Thanksgiving. And then I'll be back in Pullman very early Sunday morning.

Maybe I should try to be an RA over the summer, if I get hired as one in the first place. Then I could stay in Pullman. Plus I could take summer classes--if I did that, I could work toward my double major and still graduate in four years. That would be nice.

Why me? Srsly.

My scheduled time to register for next semester's classes was 4:30 today. I waited impatiently, hoping I would get some cool classes, worrying that they would all be full. 4:30 finally rolls around, I get online and look up Psych 198, and guess what?

Every. Seat. Is. Full.

I can't take Psych 198 next semester.

*tears hair out*

And it gets better. I figured, well, that sucks but I'll take Intro to Personality or something. Oh no. The only next available class that I intended to take for my major is Psych 470 (Motivation). I mean, Motivation sounds cool and all, but for crying out loud this is a 400 level class! It's one step away from being a graduate class!

So now my schedule is this: Biology 102, Ed Ad 497 (my RA class *crosses fingers*), Class Piano II, flute lessons, symphonic band, jazz band, Psychology 470, and Sociology 198. No Sexual and Marital Lifestyles class for me, oh no. No necessary Psych class either. I need to call my psych advisor and make sure me taking this 400 level class is okay.

But right now I need to shower and get ready for the band concert tonight.

Oh yeah! Uh huh! Stanford got their asses handed to them, 33 to 17! What now!

It was a pretty great game. I moved upward in the tunnel to run pregame, so I could run a little slower because of the wet soggy turf and not worry about being late to my spot, which was nice for a change. I didn't mess up once during the entire four-piece-long half-time show, even though we got the music and the drill on Monday. Go me! And then we won.

Heck yes!

And now it's time to get down to business.

I have tomorrow and Monday, which is our Veteran's Day holiday, to do a crapload of homework. Write my rough draft (which I am thankfully about 1/7 of the way done with, and could technically be 1/3 of the way done with if I wanted to be), do my German homework, put up new signs for my swing program on Tuesday, take down the old signs, make my set of door decorations required by the CA program, think about what I'm going to do my billboard on, read an entire short novel on ice in Antarctica and answer a problem set for science, practice my flute like a crazy person (because I'm playing at area con on Tuesday, eek!), and probably another thing or two I can't think of right now.

Ha, time to get cracking!

Today I had my swing dance get together dealio. Jaron gave me his phone number this time, so I called him at exactly four.

It was actually really fun. For all that he "only knows how to country swing dance" (which he showed me how to do--it's really bizarre and strange), he caught on to the east coast and the charleston really quick. And he knows how to do turns, which was good because I wouldn't have known how to do the lead's part on that.

And Jeff and Leah caught on really quick. They gave me some good feedback for when I teach more than just two people. I'm very excited. Especially since I think most of the people who end up coming will be people that I am friends with or people that Leah mentioned it to. Anyway, it'll be great. My two days are set for next Thursday and the one after that. Which is doubly good, because I'll have about an hour after government gets out to set up and stuff like that. Get myself all nervous, that kind of thing. :)

But yeah.

Good stuff.

I feel like spacing out tonight and not doing any homework, but I know that's a bad idea. I'm getting my internet fixed tonight. I'd better set myself a goal to do my internet homework for science and German. That way, tomorrow night when I'm feeling more motivated (hopefully), I can put some serious effort into my research project which is due pretty soon here. Eek!

Ha. It's Halloween and I'm going to go do homework.

Oh, and my processing session for my RA application is Saturday from 9am to 1pm. SCARY! Ha, and I'll miss sectional which is at 11. Too bad. I do feel bad, but this is way more important. And more SCARY! Then my interview is next Thursday. Gah! But I just have to be myself on those, hopefully get my flashdrive back, and then I'm done. They decide whether they want me or not. And hopefully, come December, I'll have a 'job' for next year. *crosses fingers*

And area con in two weeks. Juries after that. Research paper due very soon here. Two exams in science before semester ends. Last big German test. Piano final, which I will probably screw up again. First and then last concerts for big band II of the semester within a few weeks. Last concert of symphonic band for the semester in which we play really lame pieces. Reauditioning at semester in hopes of getting into wind symphony, as per my flute teacher recommendation.

Basically: very busy and VERY scary stuff going on for the next month or so!

But I'm excited to come back for Thanksgiving break. Get to see my puppies. Go back to high school for a day and visit Mrs. Moore and jazz band II, Mr. Wilson and Wind Ensemble, Frau Essex and AP German, Fox-Bailey and AP English. Good stuff. I'm psyched! And then the APPLE CUP! Talk about kickass. :)

I came to a realization today.

I've been so worried about my grades... after midterms, I have a B in German, B in Science, B+ in piano, and A in the rest (English, flute lessons, trombone lessons, marching band--I'm not technically signed up for jazz band or symphonic band so I don't get grades for them). I was so disappointed in those Bs... in high school, that never would have happened. I've been so worried about my science grade in particular, because I keep getting lower-than-expected gradings on assignments.

Today I realized that this is college. Not high school.

My roommate has a D+ in chemistry 101 and a C in GenEd 110. My roommate had almost a 4.0 in high school.

It made me think about my Bs. They're really not so bad. I mean, obviously I'm going to keep trying really hard to get them up to As, but you know what? Even if my final grades are four or five As and two or three Bs? That's not so bad for my very first college semester, while I'm taking these ridiculous required classes. Science is hard for me to apply myself to.... it's so pointless. I'm never going to need to know that Ediacara fauna came before Burgess Shale fauna in the geologic time scale. That has nothing to do with my major. And German I lost a lot of motivation for after I decided not to minor in it. I'm suffering for it now, but I'm putting more effort into it now, so hopefully that will make a difference in my final grade.

I think when I get to the point that I'm taking two psych classes, a sociology class, wind symphony, flute lessons, and one of the requirement classes, I'll be better off.

I feel.... less pressured. I feel like I can relax a little more. I'm still going to aim for that valedictorian thing... or rather, suma/magna com laude or whatever the heck it is. That would still be fantastic to achieve, but I think I can stop stressing about grades so much.

Read the title.

Whoot!

I went to lessons convocation today. Everyone who is taking private lessons goes to convocation every other Tuesday or something like that. It was cool. I am super excited for lessons to start. Then I had English 298, which was supposed to go from 1:25 to 2:40, but we went over the syllabus and the professor let us out at 1:45. Whoot!

At 3 I went to symphony. No, that's not a trick sentence... I still don't know which band I'm in, but everyone who tried out attended today. I really like the wind symphony director, he seems really cool. Here's hoping that I got in... I'll find out tomorrow morning.

And of course marching band. We did some more marching. It was lovely. I got very very sweaty. Yay. ;)

Tomorrow I have to do a bunch of crap...

I have to drop off my resume for a job at the French Ad building
Figure out what's up with my finances and why I owe 500 bucks more than I thought I did
Remember to attend day one of jazz II
Pick up my photocopied German homework in the morning and do it between Science and Piano

This all on top of classes already.

Ugh.

Anyway...

That was my second day.

How's life for you dudes going?

Classes today!

Very exciting.

My first class was Science 198. It's in the Smith Building, and man are those stairs killer. There's got to be at least ten flights to get all the way up to the third floor, where my class is conveniently located. Anyway... pretty simple, got a syllabus, talked about hypotheses and theories. Your basic high school science class bumped up to college honors level.

I had a one hour break after that. I took my time walking to Kimbrough, wandered around a bit looking for audition results which were lamely not posted then, sat around and read in its entirety my syllabus. Then off to Piano I. I had a hard time finding it because for some reason I thought it was in Kimbrough 110, which actually doesn't exist. It was really in 425 or something.

I did almost get kicked out of the class, due to the fact that a) I'm a music minor b) music majors have priority and c) two music majors showed up wanting to get into the class. Thankfully one of the other music minors had taken 11 years of piano and thus was bumped up to Piano II, and the other music major got squeezed in. So I'm still taking piano, but it was a close call.

Then I dashed to the Smith Building in the rain with soaked pants and wet flip flopped feet and made it to my German class 2 minutes late. Sigh. But I think I found a shortcut I can take next time. German was awesome... The teacher spoke in fast German the whole time, and speaking in English to classmates is verboten. Whoot! But of course when I went back to the Bookie they still didn't have my German book, and I have homework due Wednesday.

Then I hung out in my dorm for a while. I found the Gannon-Goldsworthy kitchen and made a huge pot of spaghetti. Sadly, I didn't put quite enough water in and some of the noodles are burnt, but what can you do?

Went back to Kimbrough for marching band. We just played our show tunes through five million times, no marching. Tomorrow we're on Grimes Way field, unless it rains like crazy.

And now here I am.

Tomorrow I have millions of years before my first class, English 298 at 1:10. Time to sleep in!

Anyway.

Adios dudes.

So today was interesting. Not.

It was really boring. Rainy, nothing to do but sit around and wonder what classes will be like.

Oh but I did have my jazz audition today.

SCARY.

Seriously. I got to Kimbrough half an hour early, played the audition piece for the first time, went in, and oh my god did I ever suck. But he said "oh, we'll let you know if we can get a spot for you." Yeah right, 'let me know'. Oh course there's a spot. At this rate there'll be two bones in jazz I and two bones in jazz two. One of the four people who auditioned is like me and has schedule conflicts with jazz numero uno. Let me know. Bite me why don't you.

Had a floor meeting today. The RA said a few things, gave us a roommate agreement to fill out, and that was that.

Tomorrow is class! Very nerve-wracking. 9:10 am, Science 198. Eek. But I actually know another girl from both the Honors College (obviously, this is an honors course) who was in my orientation group for Alive and is also in the marching band. Whoot. So I won't be a loner.

One hour break. Then its Class Piano. This first class will be simple... how to sit, how to form your hands, what a middle C is. Etc etc. Maybe I'll get there early and check to see if either of my auditioned bands have put their results up yet.

12:10 is German 203. I still don't have this book. Frick. But then again, this is basically third year German, which I already took. If it's too easy and I switch into German 204 I'll be glad I didn't get the book.

Huge long break. Dinner, roommate, LJ post (probably). This time will be filled (hopefully) by Wind Symphony. I dunno what time Symphonic Band is.... hmm. At any rate, rehearsals start Tuesday for those bands. Then at 5:45 back to Kimbrough for marching band, which I am way excited for now that hell week is over and I know a lot of the dudes in the section.

Tomorrow is English 298 at 1:10. Thursday is the same but with my Science lab from 9:10 to 1:00. Eek.

Huge chunks of time though, man. They'll be filled pretty soon here with a symphony, jazz II, flute lessons, and trombone lessons. Come to think of it, soon I won't have any free time at all.

Ah well.

I heart college.

I'm so excited!

I bought my books today. Heck yes! Amazing. Except my German 203 book, which neither the Bookie nor Crimson and Gray had. I also bought an awesome planner--yay!

Wow, two days of band camp left. Thank god! We did pre-game today, which is what happens after everyone runs out onto the field. You have to high march the whole freaking way though, and let me tell you, high marching plus dressing center plus remembering what to do and when plus actually playing music plus holding it way in the air because you still don't have a lyer equals really freaking hard.

Took the Honors College Writing Diagnostic today. Two essays. First topic was incredibly stupid. Second one was a self evaluation where you basically list your writing experience and what you expect in a college class.

Oh boy.

Tomorrow = more marching practice, playing at the picnic, and some more marching. Maybe auditioning, I still need to sign up. Hopefully getting my freaking dorm room clean.

Saturday = Lentil Parade which we are marching in, one last rehearsal, and that's it for band camp!!!!! General dorm cleaning classes readying stuff, talking to my roomie and debriefing her on some shortcuts perhaps.

Sunday = Free day! Get absolutely ready for class, walk to all my classes and time to make sure I give myself enough of a "passing period". Get all psyched about college. Floor meeting at 8.

Monday = wow classes!

Monday, Wednesday, and Friday are Science 198, Class Piano, and German 103. MTWF is marching band of course. TTh is English 298 and a Science 198 lab on Thursday. Flute and trombone lessons are by arrangment. Symphony is every day but I don't know which one I'm in yet.

I need to sign up for a laundry time.

I need to do laundry.

But now it's time to clean up a little.

I heart y'all.