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So tomorrow is the first day of school.
Tomorrow being in about 18 hours. i.e. Not some indefinite time in the future, or after next year's auditions... after the sun sets and I (in theory) sleep and then wake up and groggily take the 15 Cambie and then the 99 Beeline up to campus and meet my MUG leader at the Music Building. As in not fictional.
First Day being "ImagineUBC", i.e. frosh activities and meeting new people and having my ensemble placement audition. First day of classes is Wednesday.
School being what I've been fantasizing about since I was in gr. 11 or so. i.e. The only really definite thing I was able to foresee for myself after getting out of high school and wanting to be a professional musician.
So I'm pretty excited. I have a pretty good idea of what to expect, although I'm not sure whether it will be completely redefined come next week. I've been applying to a variety of jobs both on and off campus and I think this time around I'm going to do a better job with my savings. I just hope that having a job and studying music at the same time don't cause me to have a stress-related nervous breakdown.
Right now I'm just filling out various informational forms that need to be submitted in the next couple of weeks and also procrastinating from practicing. I'm pretty frustrated about this piccolo business, I think I've said that before. I'm just looking forward to having some instruction on the little banshee and I also wish that they would have given an easier piece for the audition (Borodin's Polovetsian dances = super, super fast and, as previously mentioned, super high/deafening).
Yesterday I really slacked for practicing so today I have to be uber productive. Wish me luck.