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...

blah....

ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

enough said.

summer! get here soon, please!

i can't wait till summer! when i don't have homework or papers or classes. when i can go to the beach and just... hang out. when i can see all my friends from high school! hopefully i'll get a job, though, which will take away some of my summer unfortunately....

i want to go to the beach every day and not get burnt

i want to go to the beach every night and see the sparkly water

i want to hang out with my friendsssss! from high school, church, and college (cause i will see my friends here over break! we're gonna visit everybody's home town - so we say...)

i want it to be warm and stay warm

i don't want to go to classes.

i don't want people to leave

i want so many things. i wish june could come and stay. or may or july. but june would be nice.

busyyyy....

well, i haven't written in a really long time, and i apologize! ah, mondays... only 7 more until i'm home! luckily this one's pretty much over, and it's gone by really fast! spring break is over too, which is sad... last tuesday i went to raleigh and visited state! it was fun! i saw a bajillion people! well, a lot - and some that i knew, too - haha. let's see, i saw ij, kate, victoria, paco, thomas, lauren (avery), john (ryan), kara, sam, and kyle! and meredith, too - i spent the night at her house! but it was neat - it happened to be founders day, or something like that, and i got to hold a baby chick, pet a cow and a snake, and i saw another cow with a hole in its side! holey cow! get it? haha - but it's called a "fistulated cow," and supposedly they use some of the bacteria in its stomach to help other cows when they're sick? i'm not really sure... haha

the weather was perfect! i went to pullen park, where, evidently, my parents used to take me a lot when i was a baby! it looked familiar, and my parents said we had been since then, but i might just be imagining that familiarity. i also fed a squirrel a piece of bread! and... played foosball, and... watched an unveiling of some really neat wolf sculptures, and... oh! there were these cool parabola-shaped cement/clay things that you sat in - there was one on either side of this field - and you could talk to someone on the other side as if you were sitting right next to them rather than fifty feet away! it was really cool. state has a pretty interesting campus, i must admit - i hope my brother goes there in a couple years! (i'm pretty sure he will)

i also went to the beach on saturday! it was fun! and we got cookout and had a picnic on uncw's campus! it was me, rebecca, ij, kate, lauren, and kelsey - it was very nice to see them again! the weather was nice again, but a little bit chilly!

i can't wait till summer. i can't wait till may 8th. i can't wait till.... everyone's out of school and we can hang out! i hope time speeds up, but then pauses for a looong time in mid-may. can we just stay 18 forever? er, 19?

i'm procrastinating.

almost there!

so close to break - gah!!! just one more day of classes, then a basketball game saturday night! ah, yes. and i'm pretty much done with everything important now - except for my lesson tomorrow morning. i'll cross my fingers about that - my reeds have been pretty terrible. ugh.

but i'm excited about break because, on monday, my family and i are going to raleigh to see an eric clapton concert and then tuesday i'm gonna go visit people at state! yay! and then, depending on what i feel like doing, i may or may not spend tuesday night at meredith's house (she lives in cary - really close to state). but i'm definitely excited to see people i havent seen since christmas break!

oh, the only thing about visiting state is i'm not really sure where we'll park... but... we'll figure that out when we get there, i suppose? i hope! haha