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It has been quite a while, the last time I've posted anything saying, "Hey I'm not dead" was on September 11th. Three months later, school is over and now I'm sitting at home bored out of my skull.
I haven't really written anything about the school year, so here is a quick recap on the semester...
- I auditioned and got to be the 1st chair alto this year. I've kinda wanted it since last year, and after playing the lead chair for a while I didn't like it at all. It has really grown on me though and this is definitely a spot I wanna take. With Rogers on the way out, this kinda sets me in position to be the next top player in what may be Doc's last studio. Very exciting times :-) We had band tour this year, and being lead alto I got to play a couple solos, including for Ms. Walters from my junior high days when we stopped at Pendleton. The tour itself was very very successful, and I'm glad that it was good since it very well might be my last band tour. We ended the year with a concert in, of all places, the West Center. The acoustics were bad and I'm sure it sounded bad. They're currently working on our main auditorium, Byrnes, to get repaired and the organ put back in and all, so we can't play there. So the gym it is ha ha... reminds me of high school.
-Staying with music, I got selected to the collegiate honor band! It's held in January and I was selected on Bari, so hopefully it'll be a fun time. All I've heard is that it is way lame and that the ensemble is overbalanced and bad and there is never enough time to get anything done. But it'll still be nice to have it on my resume, and maybe I will get return trips in future years. No telling though...
- Last real music thing, my recital date has been decided, and it is March 5th. That's a wednesday, at 7:30 pm. I don't think anyone should come. If you really wanna hear it, I can burn you a CD afterwards. All I'm saying is that there will not be any facebook events created. I'll be playing four pieces: A baroque transcription of a Handel Sonata, A 20th century rag piece, a celtic sax quartet and my closer is a spanish dance. Should be fun stuff.
- Now for non-real music, the new Guitar Hero lasted me like, six days of playing it before I had everything 5*-ed. No problem, and there are more tough songs coming through the internet and such. It was a good buy, even though it is way easy. But just so everyone knows, I kick that games ass up and down no problem.
- As far as school is concerned, I had 18 hours this week, which kicked my ass. There was the normal bevy of music classes, along with biology which was way lame. I really enjoyed one professor in particular this semester, Dr. Parks, and his 20th century music history class (introduced me to Glassworks, which is awesome!) and am actually taking an elective class of his next semester on Wednesday nights. Our science classes are broken up into a lecture and a lab class. The lab was great, I had an awesome teacher and I don't forsee anything going wrong in that class. The lecture was an entirely different matter, and I'll feel really fortunate if I pull outta there with a C at least... Everything else should be fine though.
- Next semester I have like... 13 hours? Something way hella easy, because I've got a ton of crap going down next semester. I'm the FEO for Phi Mu Alpha, which means I'm going to be running our rush and recruiting pretty much the entire next semester. It's going to be a huge endeavor to make it all work out, so good thing little hours... on top of that is my recital, as well as the musical the school is putting on that I'm playing in as well as working at the West Center and getting through school. I'll be doing summer school as well to help make up a couple more hours and get my dreaded foreign language credits out of the way. So busy times next semester.
- as I mentioned earlier, I'm still working at the West Center, which is the campus health and wellness center. It's an easy gig: I sit at a desk, do my homework, avoid falling asleep, do minimal real work and make a paycheck every two weeks. Awesome. The latest challenge here was that I decided to take the early shift, meaning I had to be at campus at 5:45 every morning... and that sucked. I eventually got in the groove with it though, but it didn't matter in the end because later in the semester, due to budget cuts and such, the hours at the West Center got cut, so it started opening at 7 as opposed to 6, and I wound up losing six hours a week. But hey, making up the sleep was good, and I certainly needed it at exam time.
- One more real music thing that I have forgotten is that I am now playing a lot of clarinet as well as sax. I had to learn to play clarinet for the jazz band CD last year, and I've decided to keep working at it. I can't take lessons because, due to more budget cuts, secondary lessons have been cut. But I am a part of the clarinet choir here on campus, and I really like to play! It's cool because doubling like this is exactly what I wanna do for my career, and it's nice to be able to play one horn just as well as the other. Not that I can play clarinet just as well as sax, but it is definitely coming along. The hardest part is the reading, but honestly that's coming fast so I'm hoping that by the time I get outta here I will be considered proficient enough on clarinet to actually get clarinet gigs :-)
- Speaking of the jazz band CD, it came out and sounds great! If I wasn't so sick of the songs then I probably would have listened to it a lot more than I did. But at any rate, it sounds terrific, and I'm proud to have my name and picture in and on that thing. Very very proud of our work :-)
- I voted for Obama and he won. Woot.
- I'm living in Rock Hill this semester, and it has been interesting. It's a small house about fifteen minutes from campus, and it's all cool. Except that Justin moved out and the other people I live with I have no interest in spending anything beyond the minimal amount of time possible. So I feel kinda like a recluse at home, which is lame. The good thing is that I don't always have to stay there so I get to get away from it sometimes.
- I'm very much looking forward to drinking again. I did the math a few days ago and I have a little more than 90 days left. It's been over 400 days total. The party is going to be at my house on the 28th of March, and I really really can't wait :-) I will be celebrating on my own in Rock Hill on the 26th and 27th... I just can't wait :-)
- I'm finally done with goddamn piano! Fuck that class in its big piano ass.
- The only other thing I can think of that really went on was the I've been dating Diana for three months a couple days ago. She makes me happy :-)
So there's a little catch up for anyone who missed it. I'm gonna go and set my butt down in front of the tv with apple juice and white cheddar cheez-its and continue to enjoy my christmas break!
I haven't really written anything about the school year, so here is a quick recap on the semester...
- I auditioned and got to be the 1st chair alto this year. I've kinda wanted it since last year, and after playing the lead chair for a while I didn't like it at all. It has really grown on me though and this is definitely a spot I wanna take. With Rogers on the way out, this kinda sets me in position to be the next top player in what may be Doc's last studio. Very exciting times :-) We had band tour this year, and being lead alto I got to play a couple solos, including for Ms. Walters from my junior high days when we stopped at Pendleton. The tour itself was very very successful, and I'm glad that it was good since it very well might be my last band tour. We ended the year with a concert in, of all places, the West Center. The acoustics were bad and I'm sure it sounded bad. They're currently working on our main auditorium, Byrnes, to get repaired and the organ put back in and all, so we can't play there. So the gym it is ha ha... reminds me of high school.
-Staying with music, I got selected to the collegiate honor band! It's held in January and I was selected on Bari, so hopefully it'll be a fun time. All I've heard is that it is way lame and that the ensemble is overbalanced and bad and there is never enough time to get anything done. But it'll still be nice to have it on my resume, and maybe I will get return trips in future years. No telling though...
- Last real music thing, my recital date has been decided, and it is March 5th. That's a wednesday, at 7:30 pm. I don't think anyone should come. If you really wanna hear it, I can burn you a CD afterwards. All I'm saying is that there will not be any facebook events created. I'll be playing four pieces: A baroque transcription of a Handel Sonata, A 20th century rag piece, a celtic sax quartet and my closer is a spanish dance. Should be fun stuff.
- Now for non-real music, the new Guitar Hero lasted me like, six days of playing it before I had everything 5*-ed. No problem, and there are more tough songs coming through the internet and such. It was a good buy, even though it is way easy. But just so everyone knows, I kick that games ass up and down no problem.
- As far as school is concerned, I had 18 hours this week, which kicked my ass. There was the normal bevy of music classes, along with biology which was way lame. I really enjoyed one professor in particular this semester, Dr. Parks, and his 20th century music history class (introduced me to Glassworks, which is awesome!) and am actually taking an elective class of his next semester on Wednesday nights. Our science classes are broken up into a lecture and a lab class. The lab was great, I had an awesome teacher and I don't forsee anything going wrong in that class. The lecture was an entirely different matter, and I'll feel really fortunate if I pull outta there with a C at least... Everything else should be fine though.
- Next semester I have like... 13 hours? Something way hella easy, because I've got a ton of crap going down next semester. I'm the FEO for Phi Mu Alpha, which means I'm going to be running our rush and recruiting pretty much the entire next semester. It's going to be a huge endeavor to make it all work out, so good thing little hours... on top of that is my recital, as well as the musical the school is putting on that I'm playing in as well as working at the West Center and getting through school. I'll be doing summer school as well to help make up a couple more hours and get my dreaded foreign language credits out of the way. So busy times next semester.
- as I mentioned earlier, I'm still working at the West Center, which is the campus health and wellness center. It's an easy gig: I sit at a desk, do my homework, avoid falling asleep, do minimal real work and make a paycheck every two weeks. Awesome. The latest challenge here was that I decided to take the early shift, meaning I had to be at campus at 5:45 every morning... and that sucked. I eventually got in the groove with it though, but it didn't matter in the end because later in the semester, due to budget cuts and such, the hours at the West Center got cut, so it started opening at 7 as opposed to 6, and I wound up losing six hours a week. But hey, making up the sleep was good, and I certainly needed it at exam time.
- One more real music thing that I have forgotten is that I am now playing a lot of clarinet as well as sax. I had to learn to play clarinet for the jazz band CD last year, and I've decided to keep working at it. I can't take lessons because, due to more budget cuts, secondary lessons have been cut. But I am a part of the clarinet choir here on campus, and I really like to play! It's cool because doubling like this is exactly what I wanna do for my career, and it's nice to be able to play one horn just as well as the other. Not that I can play clarinet just as well as sax, but it is definitely coming along. The hardest part is the reading, but honestly that's coming fast so I'm hoping that by the time I get outta here I will be considered proficient enough on clarinet to actually get clarinet gigs :-)
- Speaking of the jazz band CD, it came out and sounds great! If I wasn't so sick of the songs then I probably would have listened to it a lot more than I did. But at any rate, it sounds terrific, and I'm proud to have my name and picture in and on that thing. Very very proud of our work :-)
- I voted for Obama and he won. Woot.
- I'm living in Rock Hill this semester, and it has been interesting. It's a small house about fifteen minutes from campus, and it's all cool. Except that Justin moved out and the other people I live with I have no interest in spending anything beyond the minimal amount of time possible. So I feel kinda like a recluse at home, which is lame. The good thing is that I don't always have to stay there so I get to get away from it sometimes.
- I'm very much looking forward to drinking again. I did the math a few days ago and I have a little more than 90 days left. It's been over 400 days total. The party is going to be at my house on the 28th of March, and I really really can't wait :-) I will be celebrating on my own in Rock Hill on the 26th and 27th... I just can't wait :-)
- I'm finally done with goddamn piano! Fuck that class in its big piano ass.
- The only other thing I can think of that really went on was the I've been dating Diana for three months a couple days ago. She makes me happy :-)
So there's a little catch up for anyone who missed it. I'm gonna go and set my butt down in front of the tv with apple juice and white cheddar cheez-its and continue to enjoy my christmas break!