one more week!

only one more week till spring break!!! yay!! oh, i just realized... we have to figure out what to do with gus (our fish). i guess maybe meredith can take him... sorry, thinking out loud, but not really out loud - just through my typing. ok. start over.

one week till spring break!!! yayy!!!!! i have a math test tomorrow that i need to study for, but i think i'll do that when i'm doing laundry later tonight after steel pan practice. other than that, nothing too big this week as far as i know - much better than last week! which was horribly busy. and it was the new music festival, so i had to play for two masterclasses in front of two amazing clarinetists - surprisingly i wasnt really that nervous, and it was definitely a good experience.

i also got to go to some awesome concerts!!! imani winds were.... whoa. i really want to do that sometime - they're a woodwind quintet, which consists of a clarinet, flute, oboe, bassoon, and, strangely enough, french horn (which seems like a brass instrument, but since their tamber is so mellow they get to be in a woodwind quintet - no saxophone, though). but yeah, i've been thinking about it, and i have some really amazing musicians at my disposal and i was like, why can't we do that? i've already got it planned out and asked everybody else about it, too - i'll play clarinet (duh... not like i could play anything else!), meredith will play flute, tucker - basson, elvis - oboe, and, if she isn't "too busy," alex will play horn! we'll start practicing next semester, and maybe we can actually go somewhere with it. three of us are performance majors, so. we need some sort of job, right? i'm a little worried about alex, though - i know you don't know her or anything, but i don't know if she'll be really into it. she's amazing, though, so i wish she would be.

i wonder what next year will be like. if my classes will be hard, if i'll hang out with the same group of people, who my other roommates will be and if they'll drive me insane or if i'll get lucky two years in a row, if i'll ever see the people moving into apartments, if my tone will improve, if i'll make it into orchestra by second semester, if there are any threats in the rising freshman class, what it'll be like without grymes first semester, if i'll miss people, if i'll keep up with things i promised i'd keep up with, if i'll still talk to all my old high school friends (we better!)....

at least i have 3 more years to figure out what's next (probably 2 more years of school, actually...). but then what? doctorate? or will i be able to actually do something with my degree(s) by then? i guess i'll figure out eventually. as long as the world doesnt end before then - all these earthquakes...