Gangbusters

Well. This has been an interesting few days.

Friday night was the band concert. It was. So. Good. I mean... Dr. J sent an e-mail out afterwards, saying that he hadn't experienced what we did ever before. He calls it 'flow'; where we're all moving, breathing and making music together. Not just notes. I do have to say that I thought it went stellar. There were only a few moments of raised eyebrows: let's-reign-this-back-in-guys. Everyone played beautifully.

Saturday night was the Symphony concert downtown. The cirque de la symphonie came, and it was awesome! They're like a small-scale cirque du soliel (which I had the pleasure of seeing in the CLE) and it was just really neat. At one point they played Ride of the Valkyries, and both of my friends (one of whom being a music major) said, "Oh! Star Wars!" Urrrggghhh. IT. IS. NOT. STAR WARS. Ahem. Anyway.

Sunday afternoon was Dr. K's recital... it was, in a word, AWKWARD. He didn't print any programs as to be 'ecologically friendly', which is totally cool and frankly pretty smart. But - they wrote the program on the chalkboard behind the piano. Like, what?! It was just pretty informal and didn't feel all that professional and I was a little disappointed. Though he did play a Bach cello suite which is so lovely, you know, so yeah that was nice. He said he missed a note at one point because he was thinking about me (uhhmmm... what...) because he wanted me to get up there and show where the accent was on beat two. Who the hell knows what he's talking about most of the time.

Last night I'm pretty sure I aced my percussion playing test... and, considering my state of mind at the time, that's a feat.

Tonight, we had the band/orchestra party down in Founders. It was surprisingly really cool... not too many people showed up so it was chill without being overly obnoxious. Towards the end we just sat around in a big group chatting. It was nice. If we had more time I wish we could do more stuff like that... I love the band but sometimes I don't feel the band family. I know we're in college now blah blah blah but it's just nice to be a part of something you can really identify with.

So I'm still getting those mixed signals. And others are picking up on the ones being sent my direction. Hmm.

Gah. I suddenly got nostalgic and homesick. I can't wait to go home in eight days.