jeezus pleezus. i haven't posted since april 25. i feel like a bum.
since april 25th, i'll write the big events:
may 4: played in my first jazz band concert at witt. and probably last. i was filling in for someone so we could have a full trumpet section... but i didn't enjoy it enough to really want to do it again. w came, which was cool.
may 7: did both my trumpet and piano jury. i really wish i would have done better with trumpet, but i was extremely nervous and didn't do very well. apparently the profs thought better than i did, because i got three passes and one pass with distinction. my piano jury was a piece of cake; in and out of there in 10 minutes.
may 9: met up with w to hang out away from things wittenberg and involving scheduling. he'd been the one who helped me throughout this semester trying to figure classes out and trying to get me out in four years. we went to panera and just talked for almost an hour... it was really nice to be able to say goodbye for the summer and just enjoy being with each other outside of campus. my mom came later that day and helped me move out. so now i'm officially a college junior. scary.
(by the way, the only reason i'm remembering these things is because i have them still in my phone calendar!)
may 15: i went to Hudson with my church's handbell choir and played in this really awesome service. it was a spring 'symposium'. rather than have their boring spring meeting, they decided to do a fun service with lots of music and joy. it was wonderful. i got to see two friends that moved to other churches (one for church education and one who became a minister and got her own church). i also saw this really awesome group of kids from cleveland, probably 5th or 6th graders, who did japanese drumming. these kids were just wailing away on their drums, and doing the yelling and stuff, and they even did a little dance around the perimeter of the sanctuary. it was great! it gave me hope and reassurance that what i'm doing with my life is important.
may 16: i again played bells in church, and i played trumpet with the choir. it went well...not like the song was hard or anything. i got a compliment from a former music teacher within the congregation that i did very well playing in tune with a mute in.
may 19: i went to a scholarship luncheon for a scholarship i received through the lorain county retired teachers association. it was nice. we got a free lunch and i made a tiny speech. i saw a few people i recognized, from my grandma who is a retired teacher.
may 21: this was more over the night into the 22nd, but petty details: i was a chaperone for my church's overnight lock-in. dear god i had forgotten what 15 year olds do when they ingest sugar. we played about 329852 games of dodgeball and 4253 games of hide and seek. that place is the BOMB to play hide n seek in!!
may 22: so i left the lock-in and went directly to alumni band practice... i was so hyper on coffee and no sleep it's a wonder they didn't lock me up. i finally got to see Benford after not talking to him since march. we didn't do much at practice because there there 5 drummers out of 8 people total. so we just b.s.ed for a while. heather took me to get my hair cut (halleluia) and i slept for a few hours. thennnn i went to the stadium for jessica's graduation. for some reason i remember it being a lot longer.
may 23: went to my cousin's for her housewarming party. it's really nice. i feel like i'm going to spend some time there this summer. heather and joe picked me up from there and we met up with the rest of jessica's immediate family at olive garden so her uncle al could celebrate her graduation. after that we watched Shrek 3 so i'm all caught up for the new movie.
may 25: the big thing was alumni band practice. i got to march with quads for the first time in my life. we're playing the fight song and a cadence. not gonna lie, it's a bit complicated to drum and not fall and march at the same time. Benford apparently thought i was doing pretty hot. it was really funny actually. we're playing a cadence that Benford wrote a long time ago, and there's two beats at the end where the quads do a filler before it repeats again. well, being the only quad, i was the only one playing during that. and he was standing next to me when we were playing, and when i did the little thing every time he was like "alright!" or "oh yeah!" or something. haha.
may 27: i played in my first official softball game. well, scrimmage. i'm helping brenda with a softball league in north ridgeville, and they were short the number of players. so i took left field. actually got some action, had to track down two balls and cover for the center fielder. got to hit too, but i got one grounder and two pop-ups. oh well. it was still fun. i'm too old to play officially, but it was still cool.
may 28: today! today was appreciation day for the class of 2010. honestly... honestly i was a little disappointed. not gonna lie. i know i'm biased and forever will be biased. but it just felt like there wasn't really any excitement. they just kind of went up there and did their thing... and left. and a lot of people were being pansies, too...sitting on the steps, not standing at attention, talking, etc. it was really pathetic. i remember being in band, starting the show at 7, and being in half darkness for the last 20 minutes of our show. this year they left before the lights even came on. and they didn't do the senior amazing grace. i spent most of the time with chili. at one point he turned to me and said 'you have a lot of cleaning up to do.' xD amen! when i'm in charge of that band, things will be different. things will be the way they're supposed to be. things will be exciting and people will want to be in band. and people will come to the square and sit 10 or 12 rows deep in the crowd. let's hope the job opens up and i get it.
tomorrow i'm waking up early to go to the high school for a drum practice at 9am. so i should probably go to bed sometime soon, since i've gotten in the terrible habit of going to sleep at 2 and waking up at 2. not good! lol.
so, until next time....
to world enough and time.
