man oh man, last week was totally effing crazy.
first of all, i had my first giant paper due for my honors class. it was originally due wednesday, that's why i borrowed w's computer over the weekend, but thankfully Dr. Kazez changed the due date to friday. we also had to do presentations... guess who gets to go first on friday while everyone else gets to wait until monday *raises hand*. i was upset since i was the only one presenting i had to have everything prepared while everyone else got to have the extra weekend. but, honestly, it wasn't as bad as i thought. first presentation - low expectations - and he kind of used me as a guinea pig to show the rest of the class what he wanted out of the presentations. at one point he said i was doing very well so far, so i guess that's a good thing.
friday night, heather and brittany came down to take me home for the weekend. we had so much fun in the car ride, though it took an extra hour because they seriously have the smallest bladders in the history of the world and had to stop to pee so much. at one point brittany actually peed in a cup because we didn't want to stop again but she had to go. and then she threw an entire 16 oz cup of NOT SODA out the window. we got home around 11 and i basically went straight to bed because i was exhausted. saturday morning i was up bright and early because we had alumni band practice. we only practiced for an hour and a half because it was sprinkling on and off and the field was getting too bad to march on. after band we had a drummers practice to polish off sequence for that night. i ended up getting really frustrated with myself because i should have been playing better than i was... but it's hard when you're away from the group so long. after practice, heather, brittany, jessica and i went back to heather's and we got pizza and passed out on the couch LOL. we were going to watch Dogma, but we were all so tired from the night before that we ended up taking a nap. we had to be back up at the school at 4:45, so we got there early to fix and tune drums and have a short band practice again. before the parade of bands started the drummers did their sequence. i have to say that it was incredibly fun - though i ended up faking it through a few of the cadences. got to play the short little solo intro to the big quad solo near the end. i realized that i'm glad i didn't do drums in high school. you have to be so serious when you're in the drum section, but now we can dance around and have fun and act stupid. and play some music while we're at it.
sooo we finished the drum sequence and then went directly over to pass in review - so i played quads for that. then i had to run back, get my trumpet, and get ready to go on field. i played with music (not memorized) for the first time EVER. our show kind of sucked because it was raining so hard and the field was so muddy. but - we had fun, and i guess that's what counts. i'm really happy i got to go home because i saw all my high school friends, plus people like benford and rick.
sunday i went to church hella early. yeah, no sleeping in for me this past weekend... i ended up playing handbells because one person apparently didn't show up so i covered her part. did the usual after-church brunch thing, then i packed up my stuff (including cold weather clothes because it is effing COLD now), stopped to talk to my uncle and then got back on the road to school.
and now it's back to the grind!
apparently i am getting a package from Aaron of some sort. he called savannah recently and asked for our address, and he wouldn't tell me why he needed it. so something's coming in the mail from him?!
it's going to be an exciting few days coming up. we're preparing for our band concert on friday night - and my mom is going to be able to come down and see it! this will be the first college performance she's seen. she's also bringing Judy, a high school friend, since she graduated from here and hasn't been on campus since.
thursday i'm getting milkshakes with w? he randomly brought up milkshakes one day and since i haven't seen/talked to him very much recently besides a quick "hey how are you" we're hanging out thursday afternoon.
since that honors project is over, i feel like i can breathe a little easier. i've still got stuff to do, mainly practice playing trumpet out the wazoo, but i feel more in control of things and i don't feel like i'm drowning. which is a great feeling, let me tell you. for once my head is above water.
anyway, i need to finish a short assignment for my cave ecology class. no distractions need to be around!
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