I'm turning 18 in a couple of weeks. It used to sound like a milestone-- a Magic Number. It doesn't really feel like that at all. It's just another year. But, looking at myself and my life thus far, I've come across a problem that I think ought to be addressed before I get to that Number ( Read more... )

Wow. The Season has come to its final close. (In both respects, for those of you who know what I'm actually talking about.) Dean's mantra for his seniors finally hit home really, really hard once I walked off that stage: "Everything you do this year is the last one of whatever it is." Four years … damn. All State gave me my first real ( Read more... )

- I've decided that I'm not going to be sick anymore. And that's that ( Read more... )

I suppose it's kind of ridiculous, though not surprising, how little I've actually written for myself in the past few months. It's mostly because I haven't had the time to do anything of the sort, and even when I do, I can't think of anything to say. Or whatever I have to say isn't exactly uplifting, and I almost feel like a fool for putting my ( Read more... )

There's just something about Christmas that puts me in a good mood. It's probably a combination of friends and family coming home, the resumption of my candy cane and hot chocolate addictions, and the fact that I'm not sick anymore. (At least, for this week, anyway.) Really--I don't even mind that much that about half of my family still can't ( Read more... )

Arturo is AMAZING. Apparently, it only takes a few ridiculous high notes and an air trumpet/bass solo to get me to scream and clap like an 11 year old at a Backstreet Boys concert. There isn't too much more that can be said about it -- you totally had to be there. So I'll just jump straight to the quotes ( Read more... )

You know what's awesome? Finishing college apps. You know what isn't awesome? Scheduling auditions. You know what's even less awesome? Feeling semi-retarded because you realize quite suddenly that you never bothered to learn your minor scales ( Read more... )

It's almost over, according to the following enumeration ( Read more... )

I'm feeling a bit nostalgic and in the mood for a little change, so I started a new journal. I have several hours of schoolwork in addition to college apps and the like that need to be taken care of, but I need a little time to unwind. It's kind of a bad point in time to start this -- at the end of some things, right before other things start, ( Read more... )