Catching up!

Shoo! It's been a really long time since i blogged. I don't know if anyone really missed them, but maybe someone will read this anyway!

So, school. So far this semester i've been really busy, especially with marching band. Which, unfortunately, i'm beginning to dread. Just cause my director gets on my nerves so so so bad. But i love game days, so I stay in it. Our first game is Sunday! (kinda sad it's sunday. and on a long weekend, too...) Go pirates!!!! Arrrrgh!!!!

This semester i made orchestra which is really exciting! and wind ensemble, which is a lot of fun cause, unlike marching band, our conductor for wind ensemble is one of my favorite professors. he's really entertaining - i need to start keeping track of all his "Carterisms" as one of my friends called them. (He's Dr. Carter and he says lots of interesting things, aka, carterisms). The other day he was getting on some people about being late to rehearsal and he said "Don't ever walk in late. If you walk in late again i'm gonna gouge out your eyeballs, throw them up against the wall and have your classmates throw darts at them." I think that was the most violent carterism i've ever heard. but it got the point across.

Anyway! I really like my new dorm - it's suite-style, which is different from the hall style that i was in last year. my roommate (still meredith!) and i share a short hallway with 3 other rooms of 4 (so there are 8 of us) and we share a bathroom with the room next to us (4 girls to one bathroom) which works out pretty well. I havent really gotten to know all of our suitemates yet, though. i basically only know music majors, but luckily a majority of the 4th floor (my floor) consists of music majors, except for our suitemates - something got messed up and our suite is one of like, 3 or 4 that isnt completely music majors.

So, yeah, i'm sorry this is so long, congratulations for making it to the end! i hope all of you are have a great year so far, and i'm sure it'll get better if you're not! Happy long weekend!!!

summer's almost over...

so wow. it's been a while since i've written, and now summer's almost over. i still havent decided if that's good or bad; it kinda depends what mood i'm in. but i've had a good summer!

i just got back from 2 weeks out of town. it was a long time, but it was fun. i went to washington with my college church group on a mission trip; then met my family in rocky mount and went to williamsburg; then raleigh; then met meredith, michael, and josh to go to salem, va; then back to raleigh/cary to pick up meredith's car; then to michael's house in edenton; then back to cary where my dad picked me up at meredith's house; then finally, home! shoo! that was like, 8 changes of direction. and a lot of time in a car or bus. but it was fun. i missed my puppy dog, though, no matter how crazy she is. she was the first person (er, animal) to greet me at the door when i got home!

summer

summer sometimes seems like it goes by too fast, but other times it seems like eternity. i can't decide which one this summer is, because it seems to change depending on how i look at it. i dont know if i want it to end, or if i want it to go on - i guess kind of both, although going to school would give me more to do. a regular schedule. but there are some things i dont want to leave, too. people at home that i may not see for a while once i leave. how long is a while?

but then, there are also people i can't wait to see at school - and i was lucky enough to see a bunch of them this weekend in pinehurst - it was so much fun! we're all music majors so we had a recital to raise money for this thing called "the coalition" which helps people who, well, need help. but just us 7 college students were able to raise around $750! we were playing for a bunch of old people in a church, so... but it was a lot of fun and for a good cause and the rest of the weekend was a lot of fun, too, of course! i got to go in a taxidermy museum... haha

but anyway, after this week, i only have 2 more weeks that i'll be in wilmington before school starts, and i can't believe it. i need to catch up with everyone before i go!!

by the way, i dont think i could possibly express how much i hate cockroaches. ew, ew, ewwww!!!

hmm...

i havent written a blog in a really really long time. i think almost a month, actually. i dont really have anything to say - at least not that i feel like writing down for people to see... i was thinking about going to ecu tomorrow, but i dont think i am anymore - maybe next week? i dont know - it requires more planning and less rain. hmm, i'll write again sometime when i have something interesting to say, i suppose.

best week ever!

so how about this week has been pretty much the best week of the semester! starting last friday. and i hope it will extend to next friday, and then summer!!! well, friday i went to state to surprise ij for her birthday! i also got to see michelle, lauren, kate, kelsey, and paco! (i met other people, too, though!) while ij, lauren, kate, and kelsey were at a party, michelle and i explored campus and took pictures with paco - it was pretty fun - but i still don't know my way around campus! haha, oh well... then michelle and i spent the night in ij and maria's room

k, next day, i came back to my room, which is normally a mess, and meredith's side was much cleaner than it had been! a surprise! but that also meant that it was my turn. so i cleaned my room with a lot of help from michael and moral support from todd! it was sooo weird! it was a little sad, just cause it felt less like home, but it also felt good to get it cleaned up - such an accomplishment! so then we went to 'sup dogs, which is a hot dog place down town. it was me, meredith, joy, michael, todd, and william, who's randomly started hanging out with us a lot lately, but that's ok by me... haha... so, anyway, at 'sup dogs, our waitress seemed like she was drunk or something - first she wiped the wet table off with a wet rag... not much help. then she overfilled meredith's cup and poured it on michael's hand. she sounded drunk, or else not very intelligent... she swayed a lot, too - and winked at michael. we guessed she was a communications major, but todd asked her and she was actually a science ed major. we all decided that we would not let her teach our kids...

sunday! meredith, michael, joy, william and i went to church - it was a really good service with a guest speaker and everything! there was this contraption on the stage and we were trying to guess what it was - it was a table with a camera above it and lights in it and a guy poured sand on the lighted part and drew in it and it showed up on the screen - pretty cool!

monday was my last day of classes ever as a freshman. this year has just flown by! wow. it was my last lesson and my last practice with my accompanist before juries, too (which are tomorrow! ahhh!) that night joy, william, and i went to play hide and seek in the music building at 11:30 - it was so much fun! there were over 20 people playing, and we were there till about 1 - i was so tired after that! it was an intense game of hide and seek!

hmm, tuesday! well, i slept in, but other than that, i completely forgot what i did in the day. i practiced, i think... that night we had a picnic, though! i keep listing the names of people you don't know, but it was me, meredith, michael, brenton, todd, cera, and brooke this time. we had hibachi and went to the park and ran around and threw ice and flew and skipped and it was so much fun - i'm gonna miss my college friends so much this summer! but we're gonna visit each other! then later that night joy and i went to william's suite and watched the return of the king - a 4 hour movie! it was finally over at 1:30.

wednesday night was free breakfast at midnight! that was fun, too - and then some friends previously mentioned came back to our room and ate truffles which i had made before with us.

today i had a linear algebra exam which i think went well and then i practiced and we ate dinner and... well, it was fun even if it doesnt sound very exciting! haha

to be continued....

almost the weekend!

Man, i'm always living for the weekend. Tomorrow's friday!! Yay! Only two classes then i'm done! Then it's the weekend! woohoo! My sunday is going to be full of music! I'm going to a clarinet recital at 1, then the brahm's requiem performance at 3 (it's gonna be amazing!!!), then a saxophone recital at 7, and i thought there was one at 5, but i might be lying. Either way, that's a lot of music!

I went to barefoot on the mall today - it's this celebration type thing in the middle of campus - the place we call "the mall" for some reason. It's kinda like the brickyard at state, except it's grass instead of bricks. Jason Deruli-something was there. The one that added words to Hide and Seek. I can't ever remember his name... I didn't really pay that much attention to him, though. Also Carolina Liar - I actually recognized one of their songs, but I don't know why. I still don't know if they're even famous... There were about 7,584,623 dogs there! Of all shapes and sizes. One was so tiny it looked like it's legs would break with every step it took, and another looked to be about the size of a small grizzly bear. I got a free shirt!

Juries are coming up soon... ahh! If you don't know, that's when we play for some of the school of music faculty; it's kind of like a final exam for our lessons. Usually there's 3-5 people that you play for, but I think I may have accidently signed up for a time when there's only going to be one - my teacher. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing, though - he'll be my toughest judge, so it might be a bad thing... i may need to change that...

11 days of classes!

last night meredith and i went to wilmington to see the goo goo dolls! they were really good, and i recognized most of the songs although i didnt know all the words and stuff... she went to see my favorite band with me, so i had to go see her favorite band with her - it was fun, though. the opening act was collective soul, and i actually knew several of their songs, too - which i wasnt expecting. their drummer had really strange hair and he liked to shake his head around all the time - even in the slow songs. and the bass player with the goo goo dolls was really creepy. i didnt like his voice - speaking and singing. it was very cartoonish, and kind of evil sounding. not very goo goo doll-like. creepy man. he was barefoot. and really liked to slap his strings. i dont really know what that does. but his creepiness was entertaining, i must admit! it was a good concert.

the night before last was pretty interesting, too. i was just about to go to sleep and all the sudden i hear this tiny beep in the hall and i was like, "oh shoot - is that the fire alarm?" and meredith was like, "what?" and then it started getting louder and soon it was blaring in the hallway. ughhhh. 12:00. so we went outside. it was chilly.... and eventually we came back in and someone said the bathroom ceiling was leaking so we went to look and sure enough, it was. but not just any leak - it was pouring! and i live on the 3rd floor out of 4, so we wondered what the 4th floor looked like... haha.

well, we went up to the fourth floor (where all the football players live) and sure enough, a pipe had burst (we learned later that a guy was trying to do pullups on it... dumb jocks) and water was shooting out of it all the way to the back wall - like a fire hydrant or something! there was about 3 or 4 inches of water on the floor of the bathroom. one guy was like, "well, i'll go get my towel and we'll clean this up..." haha.

but yeah, that was what set off the alarm - it was hot water. all the firemen and police were up on the fourth floor, too - idk how they got rid of the water, but whatever they did, the alarm went off again at 1:45, and this time i was asleep. so we get out in the hall and the RA was like, no go back in your rooms - we're not evacuating this time - unless you want to. so we kept going cause it was really loud... but then we got outside and they told us to go back in our rooms. we did. it was realllly loud. still. in our rooms. how were we supposed to sleep in our rooms with this alarm going off? but it stopped in a couple minutes, luckily. and that was the end of our adventure.

oh, by the way, the ceiling is still leaking a little. there are wet spots all over the bathroom floor...