FIZZBITCH!
So I thought about putting this on LJ, and then changed my mind and decided to put it on facebook. And then I thought about it, and I haven't posted here in months, and I like this layout, it's almost a shame it never gets used. Plus, this is closer to an online-diary in that nobody really reads it, and on facebook I'd only be cluttering up space with nonsense....
Anyway, I've got to go to work around 10:30 so this isn't going to be incredibly long. I just don't have much else to do (except practice for college auditions, clean my room, start sorting things for school, do my laundry, play my guitar...) until then. Actually, I spent yesterday between my room and the spare room sorting what clothes I'm going to bring with me and what I'm going to leave here, and watching Glory on my laptop. I love being able to move the movie around with me when I'm cleaning. I got a fair amount done, too. And then last night I found some guitar tabs for Trois Navires de Ble and got side-tracked for about an hour playing my guitar. There are a bunch of songs I didn't play before because they were too fast and I couldn't move between the chords fast enough, but I can play them now. :D It's awesome. I got some practicing in on my French horn, too. It doesn't sound too bad. My left hand is weaker than it was during the year, though, since I haven't played in so long, and the horn I'm using now takes more force, so my hand gets tired pretty fast. Also, because I haven't practiced really since about a week or two before school ended, it's hard to repeatedly hit high As and things. I'm kind of starting to worry about auditions for ensembles. Hopefully I'll be done before my birthday, which is the second or third of three days of auditions. I don't mind not doing anything special for my birthday, but due to the societal pressure to have a good day on your birthday, I don't like having a really shitty day then. Oh well. Those auditions are apparently like districts, where you go in and there are some professors behind a screen and you play and then leave. I like that more. I have to be very confident in my pieces to be able to play well alone in front of people. I have no idea how they're doing the marching auditions, though, and that kind of worries me. I haven't played my mello in ages, and we don't get the music for another week or two. And since one of my coworkers told me the alternate band is very woodwind heavy, now I'm terrified of ending up in the alternate band and being one of like two or three mellophones. Really, I'm afraid of being worse than everybody else there. Which I guess is very unlikely, but still. Just an extension of my perpetual fear of being the worst.
I also just got back Sunday from Deep River, where I got a bodacious sunburn. So now I'm all peely. Ew. But I did get a slight tan on my legs, so there's that. It was actually a lot more fun that I expected. At least once I got past being sweaty and disgusting all the time. And I met some cute New England boys while I was there. :D Always great.
Blah. Think I'll go grab my guitar. Maybe play through some horn pieces real quick.
Anyway, I've got to go to work around 10:30 so this isn't going to be incredibly long. I just don't have much else to do (except practice for college auditions, clean my room, start sorting things for school, do my laundry, play my guitar...) until then. Actually, I spent yesterday between my room and the spare room sorting what clothes I'm going to bring with me and what I'm going to leave here, and watching Glory on my laptop. I love being able to move the movie around with me when I'm cleaning. I got a fair amount done, too. And then last night I found some guitar tabs for Trois Navires de Ble and got side-tracked for about an hour playing my guitar. There are a bunch of songs I didn't play before because they were too fast and I couldn't move between the chords fast enough, but I can play them now. :D It's awesome. I got some practicing in on my French horn, too. It doesn't sound too bad. My left hand is weaker than it was during the year, though, since I haven't played in so long, and the horn I'm using now takes more force, so my hand gets tired pretty fast. Also, because I haven't practiced really since about a week or two before school ended, it's hard to repeatedly hit high As and things. I'm kind of starting to worry about auditions for ensembles. Hopefully I'll be done before my birthday, which is the second or third of three days of auditions. I don't mind not doing anything special for my birthday, but due to the societal pressure to have a good day on your birthday, I don't like having a really shitty day then. Oh well. Those auditions are apparently like districts, where you go in and there are some professors behind a screen and you play and then leave. I like that more. I have to be very confident in my pieces to be able to play well alone in front of people. I have no idea how they're doing the marching auditions, though, and that kind of worries me. I haven't played my mello in ages, and we don't get the music for another week or two. And since one of my coworkers told me the alternate band is very woodwind heavy, now I'm terrified of ending up in the alternate band and being one of like two or three mellophones. Really, I'm afraid of being worse than everybody else there. Which I guess is very unlikely, but still. Just an extension of my perpetual fear of being the worst.
I also just got back Sunday from Deep River, where I got a bodacious sunburn. So now I'm all peely. Ew. But I did get a slight tan on my legs, so there's that. It was actually a lot more fun that I expected. At least once I got past being sweaty and disgusting all the time. And I met some cute New England boys while I was there. :D Always great.
Blah. Think I'll go grab my guitar. Maybe play through some horn pieces real quick.