Band Banquet and more

Tonight was the band banquet. I decided that me and Brenna should meet up at 6:30pm at her room to head over to the hotel. So I get to her door and no one is there. I think to my self, maybe she is at Bruce looking for me there, so I ask the guy working the counter where the phones are. He says are you looking for Brenna, I say yes, and he says her mom called and said for him to tell me that she would be a little late getting back. So I wait in the lobby watching MTV untill 6:45pm and she shows up. Man did she look good! I think we made a good couple. There was no kiss at the end or anything like that, but it was still a great time and I hope to do it again.

Afterwards, I hung out in the lobby playing pictionary then I went down stairs and tried to watch Far and Away, but I fell alseep. Can you blame me? Its a dumb chick flick. Now I think I will go to bed because I am tired. Good night.

Tired

Well, I had all of one hour of sleep in the past 2 days. Needless to say, Im very tired now. The only problem is that Bruce Jam is going on right now. Bruce Jam is where we turn the lobby into a 12 hour concert of several different bands. It was fun for a while, but now they have a jazz band on and even though they are very good, I dont like long drawn out solos. I like more big band stuff. I was sitting in the front row and found my self falling asleep, so I decided to try to wake my self up a little.

I bought the Daft Punk cd today. The first third of the cd is amazing, the most outstanding techno I've ever heard. The next thrid is ok, and the last third is just boring. Im still really glad I got it though.

I cant wait till the banquet tomorrow with Brenna. It should be awesome. A good few hours with a girl I can actualy stand to be around with. I guess I'll get back to the concert now.

Happy Birthday Fran

Tonight was a cool night in more ways than one. First, it was freezing. There was ice everywhere on the groud and our cars are starting to look like ice cubes. Second, I went with Brenna to Wal-Mart on the spur of the moment. After I picked up a CD she said that she would pay for it. I told her that she didn't need to and that I wanted to pay for it, but she insisted. She said, "think of it as an early christmas/late birthday present." It was a cd that has a bunch of famous artists singing patriotic songs.

Then I came back for Frans birthday party. My friends sent her on a scavenger hunt over the dorm and at each point, she would get a new clue on what to do and where to go. I was in the Red Room (the tv room) and she had to convince everyone in there to change the channel before I could give her the clue. Well, she failed in convencing anyone to change the channel, but I gave it to her anyway. This all ended up in Sarah's room where about 20 people waited to yell Surprise and sing happy birthday for her. It was really cool and Im glad that there are good people left in this world.

Everyone here is praying that the roads will freeze over and there wont be school tomorrow. I have to present my english paper tomorrow if they aren't canceld so everyone pray!!

God its so cold!!

I just thought I'd tell you that it is ass freazzing cold now. I walked out to go to private lessons and it was sleeting again. By the time I got out there were white paches all over the ground. Its so cool!! I love it!!

Cold, very cold

A huge cold front came through today droping the temperature down so low is started to sleet. For Texans, anything besids rain falling from the sky is a big deal. We all went and stood out side for a while, but it got old so we went back in and watched from a distance. I hope it ices over tonight so that we wont have school tomorrow. That would be so cool, that means no private lessons, YEAH!!!

I called Brenna today to talk and she had a guy over. She didn't tell me who, but as long as she is still going with me on friday I dont care. After the semester break, I dont see us staying in touch anymore. I mean, she lives in Maple and Im in Bruce and the only thing that reall kept us close was Whitney who is gone now. Oh well, next sememster is like a new year, so I'll get to meet some new people and hopefully find a cute chick of my own. Untill then, heres hoping.

Ouija Board

Tonight, I saw my first ouija board. The whole thing is kinda iffy for me, but I think that sometimes with certain people and certain places, that sometimes things might happen, so I refrained from playing. One of the RAs, Andrea, is doing a research project on it so she decided to play. Two guys played and one other video taped it. Everyone else left the room and waited in the hall. After about 15min, the door opend and they said that they asked the board if it wanted Andrea to come and play and it moved to yes. So Andrea came in and played for about 20 more minutes. I asked her how it went and she said it was pretty cool how it moved and answerd questions. One of the guys, Stephen, said that this was the most it had moved before with him playing.

All and all, it was an interesting experience to see. I do belive that there are things out there that we cant explain and I believe that demons and angels can cause things to happen. Now, can we contact them directly...who knows. All I know is that I will never play because these things scare the crap out of me.

No chords, alot of work, and a phone call

I got back to my room at about 9:30 last night and to my surprise my room had a peice of paper taped to my door. This paper said that a saftey check had been done and they found 2 etention chords in my room which are illegal so they were confistaited. Now, I had to plug in my clock, stereo, answering machine, and lamp into the surge protector which is now across from my desk. So I have a long line of black cords strung along my floor which is even more un safe than it was before. Good job staff.

I practiced most of this afternoon for my jury and barreirs that are next week. My marimba is on wensday, my snare is on friday and my school of music audition is also on friday. I have to get 3 letters of recamendation before wensday which shouldn't be to hard. I'll get two teachers here and get Mr. Moen to fill one out too.

I tried to call Morgan to see how auditions for Honor Band went, but to my surprise they aren't untill friday. Her email said monday, but it turns out percussion is going last again so it wont be till friday. Eitherway, I call back then and see how things went.

Im gonna go practice some more later on and write up a paper for english. Yeppie. Wish me luck.

Pimpin'

I went and bought a new suit today for the band banquet on saturday. Its dark blue jacket and pants with a light blue shit and matching tie. I also bought a red tie to go with a white shirt which I also bought. I would have to say that when I tried it on I was very pimp :)

I suppose I should go back to school sometime soon, but I think I'll wait untill after dinner becase the cafetirea wont open up till 7am tomorrow. I wrote a little more on my cadence today. I finaly finished the tenor solo. I think I made it really hard, oops, oh well, It will sound cool if I could ever get anyone to play it. Maybe if I work really hard at turner next semester they will let me come back and work with the Pit during the summer. I would kill to do that. I dont care what people say, I love that school and I'll do anything to work there.

Friends

I heard this song on the radio and it made me think of all my friends back home. I thought I'd put it up and let you guys read them. Its a song called Friends by Micheal W. Smith. Enjoy.

Packing up the dreams God planted
In the fertile soil of you
Can't believe the hopes He's granted
Means a chapter in your life is through
But we'll keep you close as always
It won't even seem you've gone
'Cause our hearts in big and small ways
Will keep the love that keeps us strong

Chorus:
And friends are friends forever
If the Lord's the Lord of them
And a friend will not say "never"
'Cause the welcome will not end
Though it's hard to let you go
In the Father's hands we know
That a lifetime's not too long to live as friends.

With the faith and love God's given
Springing from the hope we know
We will pray the joy you'll live in
Is the strength that now you show

But we'll keep you close as always
It won't even seem you've gone
'Cause our hearts in big and small ways
Will keep the love that keeps us strong

Yea Scotland

Today was another good day off from school. I sat around all day and wrote some more on the drum cadence I'm writing. I finaly titled it, Tearin' It Up. I dont know how good it will go over with my highschool though. As I keep writing more and more, it seems to get harder and harder. Each section has its own solo and I think the tenor solo is gonna be the hardest. But I think that with enough real practice, the line could get it.

I also watched Braveheart today. God I love that movie! My direct ancestors were scotish so I take great pride in my scotish hearitige. I remember on my senior band trip me, morgan, tamara, and ethan all went walking around this little amusment park and when we went into a flag shop I bought a 4X3 foot Scotish flag. Its so awesome! I have it hanging up in my room at school.

I love being home. No pressure of school or friends and I know that people actualy want me here. Unlike up there where you are just a number, not a person. I was thinking about my part time job next semester to teach the symphonic band at my highschool. Sullivan, the band teacher, said that Mr. Moen probably wouldn't mind if I helped out the Honor band too!! I was like, WOOO HOOO!!! Man that would be amazing, I could actualy have something to help them on and it would be all my friends anyway. This cant get any better. If I were to die right now, I would be a really happy man :) Well, I'm off to go watch SNL and write some more.

Oh yea, Morgan, if you read this, you are a pimp with you know who.

Play Off game

We got murderd. Me, my brother, his gf, and my dad went to see my old highschool play in a second round play off game, their first one since '68. The final score ended up at 33-7. On the first drive of the game we drove down the feild and stalled on the 1 yard line. That took away most of our momentum so after that it was all down hill for the other team.

The day wasn't a complete loss because I did get to see Morgan and my other friends. Morgan is doing fine of course, Vickie was mad again, Heidi had a hurt ankle from a soccer game she had this morning, and everyone else was pretty good. The good bye hug was kinda weird with morgan. It felt like everyone was watching, kinda...un-easy, but who the hell cares. I miss her and care for her and I know she does me, so they can think what they want. Well, I gtg watch a movie.

24+ hours

Oh boy where to begin. On tuesday night I had intended to talk on the computer for about 2 hours, practice for my piano quiz, then go to bed. Well instead, i was on the computer for 5 hours, then practiced till 4 and decided to stay up all night because I had a quiz at about 7:45am. So, with two cups of coffee and CNN to keep me company my long night began.

I was talking online with Heidi and Hannah for what turned out to be a long long time. I was going to leave, but I hadn't talked to either of them in a long time, so I figured I'd just stay on. I was in the 24 hour computer lab, so it's not like I was gonna get kicked out or anything. After I finaly left that, I had to go practice for my singing quiz. I checked out a piano key and headed down stairs.

After singing 9 minor melodies for an hour, I just jammed for the next 20min. Once I returned the key it was somewhere around 4am. Seeing this, I decided that if I were to go to sleep, I would be more tired than I would be if I had stayed awake. Not to mention I would of forgotten all of my practicing. So I grabbed more coffee, sat in front of the TV, and watched CNN untill 7am. Nothing really important happend on CNN at that time except for some Talaban guy made a public speach.

I ended up making a 100 on my quiz so it did pay off to stay up eventualy. My private lesson didn't go so well though. I practed for 3 hours strait and he didn't even go over what I practied!!! I hate that man. Then my brother came to get me at 1:30pm. Of course I couldn't find him till 2 then he wanted to go eat. So I got home around 3:30, watched TV all day, and fell sleep at 8. By the time I fell asleep I had been awake for 31 hours. Needless to say, I was pooped.

The next morning, Thanksgiving, started to early for me. At 7:30am I was woken up by my brother screaming out of his room, "would somebody let that dog in!!!!" So of course I did it. So then I fell back asleep for about 2 hours untill the Macy Parade came on. So we watched that, then the Cowboy game. Its a family tradition that we sit and watched the Cowboy game every year, so I did. I am a huge Dallas Cowboy fan anywayz, so it was all good. We lost 26-24. Oh well. Then we watched Smallville, then my mom had bought The Grinch with Jim Carrey on DVD, so we watched that too. Afterward, me, Vickie, Destiny, and the other guy (Paul I think), went out to IHOP. I was the only one who actualy ate a real meal so I felt kinda weird, but I was hungry.

So, there are my last two days. I hope you injoyed reading all that, I know I injoyed typing it.

Long Night

Last night I stayed up untill about 6am this morning. I was busy writing a paper until 2am anyway and Vennasa was trying to do the same in the lobby, so I thought I would at least keep her company. We watched cartoons in the Red Room and then I went to the couch to fall sleep. Some where around 8 Vennesa woke me up to say bye because she is leaving for home. I finaly went to my room after that and slept through English class and was late to Phyc 1000. I suppose that will get me in the end, but oh well, nothing I can do about that now.

I nailed my snare lesson today again. Michael (my teacher) was like, "wow way to go on the solo man. You really improved alot this week." I felt good :) Now I am free for the rest of the day to do whatever. I suppose I will go practice my mallets for my lesson tomorrow and practice my minor melodies for my singing quiz tomorrow too.

I found out the next play off game for Turner is friday at 2:30pm!! I wonder why it's so early. I guess it doesn't really matter though. I'm still going to see it either way with my dad. It will be good to see everyone again even though I just saw them last friday lol. Anywayz, the day is young and I must go make the most of it. TTYL

Stay The Course

I decided since I'm always at the computer everyday that I would start to keep this journal as a way to remember college a little better. Things are going good so far except for my lessons. I just dont seem to have the motivation to do it anymore. We have this thing called Barrier tests were over the semester we work on 3 books and at the end of the semester they call out any exercize, one in each book, and we have to be able to play them perfectly. Its really tuff up here but I know I can make it if I just try harder.

The people up here are great though. Sarah is sweet and cute, a typical Lake Highlands chick. Fran is extreamly talented in art and fun to hang with. Next is Karina, Fran's roommate, who was a drill team member back in highschool. She is probably the most fun to talk to because we connect really well. Marcy is the crazy Houston (Uston) girl who is always singing some song or another. Travis is cool. We hang out sometimes and just chill. We have music fundementals together at 8am MWF so we studied a little for it then just played computer games till 11pm. Landen is the crazy clown, Andrew is the bass player, Brenna is my band banquet date who smokes way to much, Vennesa is the theater singer who is moving to Michagain next year. Sometimes we will sit and sing songs that we know together. I'll never forget the time we went outside at 1am and danced in the water singing old musical songs.

But I still miss my friends from home. I miss Morgan's smile to great me in band each day, Vickie's complaining about being a Jew, Raul's coolness, Evan's stuborness, Ethan's hint of bad ass, Stephen's "im a pimp" vibe, Dustie's crazyness, Casey's sweetness, and just alot of other little things.

I know I can't go back now, but even if I could I probably wouldn't. I know this is were I belong now and no matter how bad I think it gets I know I have to stick with it till the end. The bible says "Stay the course" and I suppose that's my motto for this year. Well, I have to go eat lunch and then practice some more. I'll start to wrtie everyday from now on so I'll write again soon.