| So, I got home for break yesterday. One of the first things that happened was my car went into the ditch a mile and a half from my house. Then I got out to try to push it back on the road and the doors locked on me. My keys were in the car. I ended up walking. It was not a fun time, but it is all solved now, thank goodness. My dad was able to break into my car after about an hour and haul it out of the ditch and it's back in the driveway.
Otherwise, things are good. I had about an hour of productivity today, practicing vibraphone, and after that I just kind of lazed around the house in my sweatpants. I love my sweatpants.
This break is going to be really good for my morale in general, I think. I'm going to go to church and to see my cousins tomorrow, and maybe do the rest of my Christmas shopping for my family. It's going to be great! The one good thing about being in the middle of nowhere is that when I first come home from school, the peace and quiet is great...
...but then I go crazy with boredom. I hope that the boredom holds off for a long time during this break...at least until Christmas Eve. | comments: Leave a comment   |
| So, auditions could have gone better yesterday. Band results are ok. I'm second chair in the wind symphony. I only missed the wind ensemble by two chairs...next semester, I need to get in there, or I might go crazy. But I didn't make the orchestra. Josh Miller and I both had off days, and we both got cut from orchestra and we are right next to each other in wind symphony chairing. This is the bright spot in all this: I'm in band with people that I'm friends with and that I like to be around. It's not like I wasn't really before, but Rob Rokos moved up into the wind symphony and he's fun, so whatever...
I'm pretty much done with my music history term paper about Scheherazade and orchestration, which is good, because I'm ready to not have to analyze the first movement of the piece anymore, plus my hands are sore from all the typing. I actually like the last movement better, but it would have been more difficult to write a paper on. Plus, after tomorrow, I'm done with exams.
I'm going home on Friday morning, which is good, because I think I need Christmas break more than anyone else in the world right now. If I don't see him, I won't think about him. Plus, I need to be home where I can be around Jen and the rest of my cousins...I miss them. I am extremely excited to see Samantha, because she's my best friend. I have to buy my maid of honor dress for her wedding over break. Then I have to make sure I stay the same size until June when I have to wear it.
All in all, things are looking ok again. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| "Nothing is so good it lasts eternally
Perfect situations must go wrong
But this has never yet prevented me
Wanting far too much for far too long
Looking back I could have played it differently
Won a few more moments, who can tell?
But it took time to understand the man
Now at least I know I know him well."
Well, I talked with him about all the stuff that happened this weekend, and we probably will not be getting together. It was a surreal discussion. Luckily, we're really close friends, and I don't think that this will affect things. It's unfortunate for me that there are two really big reasons that it wouldn't have worked, because who knows? He might have liked me if it wasn't for those. And I guess I agree with him...but I'm still a little bit sad. Not as sad as I was before I talked to him, though. I'm so glad that I met him, because it's obvious from the way this went that we care about each other.
Also, I didn't make orchestra. But I moved up in chairs in band. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| PASIC was amazing. I spent too much money though. I bought five pairs of mallets and a triangle, plus some sheet music and a Lalo CD.
And I MET Lalo, which was amazing! She's pretty much my favorite artist-percussionist.
I also met Michael Burritt, Nebosja Jovan Zivkovic, and LEIGH HOWARD STEVENS! I'm playing "Rhythmic Caprice" right now, and he wrote it. So I asked him some questions about it and he gave me some tips about how to play some of the more difficult parts of it. Oh my gosh, Leigh Howard Stevens gave me a mini lesson!!!! I still can't believe it. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| I have not been on here in forever! Weird. Hopefully I can get back into this LiveJournal thing. I used to like blogging on here.
I'm not with Zach anymore, which shouldn't be so difficult for me to fathom anymore since it's been over a month, but I guess it's just weird that someone who has been so close to me for over three years is suddenly gone. I'm not sad that we're not dating; I'm sad that he's decided to remove himself from anything that has to do with me. I know, I know. It's awkward for him. I know WHY he did it. But I am so sad that he did. We had a good relationship and I am a better person for it. I'm glad that I didn't know beforehand that it would end this way, because I would have missed out by not being with him. I heard a song the other day that moved me because it describes things:
In that moment, all the world was right.
How could I have known you'd ever say goodbye?
And now, I'm glad I didn't know
The way it all would end
The way it all would go.
Our lives are better left to chance.
I could have missed the pain
But I'd have had to miss the dance.
I'm so sorry, Zach. I didn't mean to hurt you, and I wish that things weren't awkward between us now. I guess you can't not risk things when you're dealing with people.
I'm ok, though. I like my roommate situation a lot. I'm getting back into my Christian faith again, which is really good.
I'm loving percussion. I don't know what I would do without the other percussionists around me all the time. I'm in love with vibraphone and marimba, and I'm learning a lot of new stuff for drumset.
This weekend, my roommate Mandy and I are going to her house and we're going to have a "thinking about boys free" weekend. Boys are too stressful. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| I'm so psyched for the apartment next year. I will be living with three of the coolest people ever!
That is all! | | comments: Leave a comment |
| I just realized how Tony thinks, and I UNDERSTOOD the blunt, cutthroatedness of him...
...am I changing...? | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Over the sea and far away
She's waiting like an iceberg
Waiting to change
But she's cold inside
She wants to be like the water
All the muscles tighten in her face
Buries her soul in one embrace
They're one and the same
Just like water
The fire fades away
Most of every day
Is full of tired excuses
But it's too hard to say
I wish it were simple
But we give up easily
You're close enough to see that
You're the other side of the world to me
On comes the panic light
Holding on with fingers and feelings alike
But the time has come
To move along
The fire fades away
Most of every day
Is full of tired excuses
But it's too hard to say
I wish it were simple
But we give up easily
You're close enough to see that
You're the other side of the world
Can you help me?
Can you let me go?
And can you still love me
When you can't see me anymore?
The fire fades away
Most of every day
Is full of tired excuses
But it's too hard to say
I wish it were simple
But we give up easily
You're close enough to see that
You're the other side of the world
The other side of the world
You're the other side of the world to me... | | comments: Leave a comment |
| I thought my clumsiness could not get any worse or embarassing, but I was wrong. Yesterday, I became trapped in the closet of mine and Stephanie's room. I was trying to reattach the inside sliding door which had fallen off and I couldn't put it back on from the outside, so I got into the closet and climbed up onto my laundry hamper. I thought I had the door reattached and let go of it. It fell and knocked me down from the hamper and I got trapped on the floor between the hamper and a suitcase, the door on top of me, with my feet flailing in the air. I am glad that Stephanie hadn't taken her phone call outside like she usually does because of bad service. Although I probably could have freed myself eventually, I was too amused with myself to get up right away.
Yeah, just your typical Liz clumsiness story.
Everything else is good too. I played the Horn Choir gig today, so that's over. I'm pretty excited that things are winding down a little more, because juries are quickly approaching. I'm worried about my rudiments; they're still a little on the slow side. From now on, I will be drum padding non-stop whenever I am in the room (and Stephanie isn't annoyed by it; I'm going to actually try to pad in Zach's room, since I spend a more time just chilling in there anyway). But my rudiments will be flawless by jury time! | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| | So, I saw Wicked on Saturday night in Chicago. It was amazing. I had been waiting for a long time to go and see it. The overture started, and they started to sing "No one mourns the wicked" and I was so excited, I cried. There hasn't been a musical I've seen since West Side Story that has moved me like Wicked does. It was AMAZING. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| I'm going to Chicago tomorrow!!!!!!!! WICKED!!!!!
I still have to get over to the music building and get my mallets and tambourine. And drop off my fish, which Pat said he would feed over break. lol. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| OK, so for the rest of this semester, I am going to practice way more. There will be no exceptions, except during spring break where I will practice for two, because I will not have any keyboard instruments. I am pretty good about practicing most days but there are days when I know I could do better. I am going to change that right now.
I'm going to Chicago on Saturday! I am so so excited. And then, spring break, where I can be in my house and with my family for a week. My mom says that while she's at work, I am going to go around giving out my resume, trying to figure out where I can work this summer. I'm still considering my options, because there are some things I want to do during the summer, and my mom seems to think that means I'm not going to work. Which isn't true. I just haven't decided what I want yet.
In other news, no response from the letter yet. I don't actually think its coming at all, but I tried my hardest, I guess. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Things are good. I don't want to go back to class today, really, but things are still really good. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| I just got back from church, which was a good time. Going to church with Mandy is always a good time, though.
Today is the orchestra concert. I hope it goes well. I really do.
I miss Zach. He went home this weekend and won't be back until tonight.
In other news, Tiffany put up a message in the living room; we're having a roommate meeting tonight. Last time we had an actual roommate meeting, it was because I had inadvertently invited three people over on a weeknight. I hope I didn't do anything stupid this time. Maybe it's about Tiffany's baby? I don't know why I wonder about things so much...I'm going to find out what it is soon enough.
I need to do laundry today. I have lots to do...I should probably practice, as well, but I have a lot of cleaning my room and laundry to do today. I feel like a slob, since I haven't really taken the time to clean this week. Just when I was doing pretty well, too.
All in all, I'm doing fairly well since I sent that letter. Maybe I just needed to let some feelings out so I didn't explode. I hope I get an answer. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Things are going quite well in orchestra right now. I am excited, because I get to play on the Debussy piece as well as on the Planets.
Percussion Ensemble is going well, too. I'm on this piece called "Ye-Ye" with this big passage where you get a partner and you face each other and play both on your drum and clicking your sticks with theirs to make different patterns. I have a hard time with some of the patterns in that section, but I practiced it by myself for an hour yesterday. Then I ran it with Tony (my "Ye-Ye" buddy), and it went fairly well. You wouldn't know it, but he's actually pretty patient when it comes to working through pieces. I'm glad he's going to be my roommate next year.
Speaking of roomies, I'm excited for Tiffany, too. I am sad that she won't be living with us next year, but I know she's super excited to be a mom, so I can't be too upset about it. She's going to be happy, and that's good.
I've been spending a lot of time over at Zach's lately, which is cool, but I should spend more time in my own room. I am kind of estranging myself from my roommates, I think. That is bad.
It's fun to be me right now, though. I'm enjoying college life again. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| So, SIBS weekend was this past weekend, and it was really fun. I hate that it's over, because it's one of those things I look forward to forever, and then it's over really fast.
This next weekend is The Planets, though. I'm pretty excited about that! | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Step 1: Open up whatever MP3 program you use and add every song in your collection.
Step 2: Put it on random.
Step 3: Post the first line from the first 30 songs that play, no matter how embarassing.
Step 4: Post and let everyone guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 5: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!
1. "Dance your cares away, Worries for another day..."
2. "Sayin' I love you is not the words I want to hear from you..."
3. "Talk about it, talk about it, talk about it, talk about it..."
4. "My Gift is my song, and this one's for you..."
5. "Got my first real six-string, bought it at the five and dime..."
6. "Baby, here I am, I'm the man on the scene..."
7. "Could be...Who knows?..."
8. "When you have no light to guide you..."
9. "Can anybody find me somebody to love..."
10."Masquerade! Paper faces on parade..."
11."Whatever you do, I'll do it too. Show me everything, tell me how..."
12."Think of me, think of me fondly..."
13."Whatcha gonna do with all that junk..."
14. "Raven hair and ruby lips, sparks fly from her fingertips..."
15. "When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me..."
16. "In life, one has to face a huge assortment of nauseating fads and good advice..."
17. "Here's my story, it's sad but true..."
18. "Small town homecoming queen, she's the star in this scene..."
19. "It's funny when you find yourself looking from the outside..."
20. "I come home, in the morning light, my mother says, when you gonna live your life right?'..."
21. "I'm singin' in the rain..."
22. "Why are you telling me? My new philosophy..."
23. "If you said goodbye to me tonight, there would still be music left to write..."
24. "Tonight you're mine completely, you give your love so sweetly..."
25. "When I was younger, just a bad little kid, my mother noticed funny things I did..."
26. "Take out the papers and the trash..."
27. "Well my heart knows me better than I know myself so I'm gonna let it do all the talking..."
28. "In the secret, in the quiet place, in the stillness You are there..."
29. "Alone in this house again tonight, got the TV on..."
30. "There was a time when I was so brokenhearted, love wasn't much of a friend of mine..." | | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment |
| | It's so cold in this room right now...I don't understand how I can be freezing now, but when it gets to be time for sleep, I STILL want the window open. :) | | comments: Leave a comment |
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