It is a beautiful early spring day here in the armpit of Texas (actually, no, Houston is the armpit of Texas, San Marcos is just the left nostril of Texas), and I am packing a suitcase with sweaters, wool socks, and gloves, because I'm going to New York! I leave tomorrow morning and come back Monday night. I'll be staying with my friend Lana, in ( Read more... )

So I'm in the middle of my Month o' Auditions right now, and I've gotta say, it kinda sucks. I'm taking 16 hours this semester, I have 2 jobs, and I have to write essays and fill out applications and go to various cities every weekend (each of my 5 auditions? different city), along with rehearsing for two different instruments now (voice is ( Read more... )

I just had my first audition, of 5. This one was in Houston, for Northwestern, which is in Chicago. It went fairly well, though I did have my usual audition time quickened breathing and heartbeat, but, eh. It wasn't a great performance, but it was far from a bad performance, so there you go. I still have an interview with their Music Ed department ( Read more... )

Second day of classes, and I've now been to all but two of my 9 classes. I was supposed to go to one yesterday, but I had the substitute teacher orientation. (Sidenote: they told me what to do if two kids get into a fight. "1. Check for deadly weapons." Dude, if *San Marcos* kids have deadly weapons, I'm so out of there. There will be no breaking ( Read more... )

Quick Alumni Day recap:

It was interesting.

( Less quick Alumni Day recap: )

It's 1:30 am, and I have to get up at 7 am to get to WW in time for Alumni Day festivities. Why am I still awake? I knew it was a bad idea to keep Dr. Pepper in the apartment. Maybe I should just not sleep tonight, I spent enough time in bed today. (I'm lazy like that. If I don't have to stand upright or wear clothes, I won't ( Read more... )

It's been forever since I updated this thing, hasn't it? Hmm. Brief recap: I am not going to die of tuberculosis (that's where I left off, isn't it?), the semester is over and I couldn't be happier about that, Christmas was lovely, New Year's was a lot of fun, and I'll be at Alumni Day on Friday, so if anyone else is going, let me know ( Read more... )

Well, I've had an interesting couple of days here. I'm going to be a substitute teacher, and the school district requires all their employees to be tested for tuberculosis, so on Tuesday I went and got stuff injected into my skin, and then yesterday I went back and they looked at the spot and told me I was infected with tuberculosis. Well, isn't ( Read more... )

I voted yesterday. I voted for Kerry. Guess who else voted for Kerry? No one in TX ( Read more... )

Midterms are (mostly) over. I still have to do my singing test for Aural, but that's not til next week so I'm not going to think about it yet ( Read more... )