Just got home from playing for the National Honors Society induction for which my quartet played the finale of the Dvorak's American Suite. It went really well...I get this rush from playing in the quartet that I don't get in orchestra or playing solo. I love it and I can't wait to do more quartet playing next year in college. Wiebener seemed to be ( Read more... )

So someone from Augustana called right when I was finally feeling sad and crying about the death of Jazzy (yes, the loveable, fat, furball was put to sleep because of litterbox problems) and she asked me if she wasn't interrupting anything. I really wanted to tell her that yes, I had been sitting alone on my steps weeping and mourning the loss of ( Read more... )

Since last Thursday I think I've had the most frequent and dramatic mood ups and downs in my life ( Read more... )

I was just asked how the new year was treating me and when I thought about it, three things came to mind ( Read more... )

It seems like whenever I want to hang out with people, I'm the one who's always doing the calling. If they say they'll call me, they don't. Either that, or they wait until 4 hours after they were supposed to call me and then wonder why I found someone else to hang out with ( Read more... )

Something to ponder:
Do Finnish vampires have to hibernate in the summertime?

I realized that studying history has been tearing apart my faith in humanity when I was reading about when the Spanish finally made it illegal to enslave the Latin American natives and wondered why they would do a thing like make slavery illegal ( Read more... )

Most awesome weekend ever ( Read more... )

I'm sitting here on a school computer listening to three boys sitting next to me having a discussion, very loudly, about the differences between weights in marijuana and crack. Now one is telling the other that he bought an ounce for $70 and another guy is insisting that it's got to be extremely bad weed. The other guy is insisting that it's not ( Read more... )

Last night Beau and I went out a ways out of town to see if we could see the northern lights. Apparently Sunday night they were incredible...but none were to be seen Monday night. I was rather disappointed because I've never seen northern lights, but I really enjoyed my time with Beau ( Read more... )