birdland

god i suck at posting!!

so let's see... since i last posted... i went home for easter. that's always fun. i was in elyria for literally 48 hours, then had to turn right around and come back to witt. it really annoys me that they don't allow us to have easter monday off. i mean, people have dinners with their families on sunday, and that is cut short because we have to be back in time for class on monday morning. it annoys me.

last week the big event was registering for classes. somehow every semester i get screwed over... i wasn't approved by my advisor to register until two hours after my designated time, which meant that the classes i needed for my gen. ed credits were closed. so now i have to go through the business of talking to professors and convincing them to add me to their class. looks like there's another chat with w in there somewhere.

thursday we observed a middle school and high school band. i was mostly impressed. the teacher, mr. shook, is really awesome. he looks like a football coach if you were to stereotype him. he's so sarcastic and jokes around alot with his students, but i could tell that he held them to very high standards. though i'm really surprised he still has vocal chords - he would just randomly scream when the band screwed up or something. if i have any say in where i student teach, it's gonna be with that guy!

yesterday and today were two senior recitals... one a violinist and one a soprano. they were both really very good. it's making me nervous, though, because the time is coming for me to present my own recital. it's not required to do a recital(yet, though it probably will be by the time i graduate) but i'm thinking about doing a joint junior recital with lauren and rachel. and then my senior recital is me, all by myself. i actually don't mind performing in front of people, i just don't know if i have the endurance to put on a 45 minute or hour recital. especially when my jury piece this semester is frikkin crazy:



i have been working hard on this piece so far, and i feel generally confident about it. it just seems like may 7th is far away when in reality it isn't. and this semester i have to do a piano jury also. oh, and i have four tests this week. oh and i have two projects due in two weeks.

i have to say though... i was thinking about this earlier today - i really can't imagine myself studying anything other than music. i can't see myself being a sociology major or an english major or something like that. so much of my life revolves around music and those classes that i can't even picture myself sitting in an english class writing papers and stuff. it's wierd.

anyway, i've finished boring you for now.
it'll probably be another two weeks by the time you have to read this meaningless blog again! :D