It is so good to see the sunshine out again today! I can't wait until summer because I am so tired of all of this snow and cold ( Read more... )

KU, the city of Lawrence, and the Department of Fine Arts, have all helped to start a campaign to Feather the Flock in order to buy new uniforms for teh University of Kansas Marching Jayhawks. The uniforms worn by the band now were new in 1978, and there are even some people in the band now that wear the same uniforms that their parents wore in the ( Read more... )

I am Nothing!


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I am very excited as to how well my second semester has begun. Last night I went to a CMENC meeting (Collegiate Music Educators National Conference) at KU, and I decided that I am going to join next year. I am already going to the KMEA (Kansas Music Educators Association) conference at the end of this month, but I will be in the Kansas ( Read more... )

It has been so cold this whole week here in Lawrence, Kansas. I can't even make it across the KU campus without stopping in a random building to thaw my frozen flesh. And the good news...it is supposed to snow about 8" on Sunday night so there is a chance that school would be cancelled. Ku does not cancel school that often...they had to one time ( Read more... )

nor have I really had the time. My Winter break was packed with about a million things. On a good note, my GPA for my first semester at college was 3.73. Yea, go me! And it is really freakin' cold outside...I think it is 2 degrees now, and the high is only supposed to be 20 today. And I have to walk to class up hill both ways in the snow in this ( Read more... )

There is a black void ahead of me. It makes me angry, but I have a strange sense that I want to touch it. So I do. It feels like heavy velvet hanging on a flimsy curtain rod, and when I touch it, the velvety mass falls on top of me. It is crushing my ribs and my screams. Only then do I realize that I am actually enveloped by a gigantic black ( Read more... )

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Sometimes the little things in life really are the best. Something like hitting six green lights in a row, hearing your favorite song on the radio, eating lunch with someone special, and even seeing your odometer get to 111,111 miles. Little things like this have made my day special today. When I was out shopping, people in general seemed rushed, ( Read more... )

Yes, that is right...I said too much candy. I came home yesterday and this is what I found:
*candied cashews
*peanut clusters
*peanut brittle
*candied Pecans
*peanut butter fudge
*ribbon candy
*white divinity
*candied walnuts
*milk chocolate fudge
*Christmas Hershey kisses
*Mint Hershey kisses
*candy canes

I think that I should go brush my teeth