Okay, so it wasn't quite "fail", but our Band Spectacular tonight wasn't near what it should have been.  I mean, the shortness was nice, but old what's his face went and cut stuff that should have been in the show.  Like "NFL".  And "Rock-n-Roll".  And "Hey Baby".  And "Pickles".  And "Hard to be Humble".  And like all of the other fun stand music we play regularly.

Instead we played through our halftime shows, pre-game, and did a little veterans recognition thing.  Which was all okay, but I so wish we would have had more "pep songs".  That's really what the crowd wants to hear, and honestly, if all the unnecessary announcements and talking had been cut out, we would have had plenty of time to do some of those that I listed above.  

We also could have omitted the little part where every instrument of the band was introduced and allowed to play a little snippet of something.  Because either the people in the crowd were already familiar with the instruments, or they didn't really care (or there were very few who did...).  That took up a lot of time that could have been used for stand music.  

Blah.  I'm just sad, because last year we got to play all those fun songs, and dance around and stuff (because those are the ones with dance moves) and this time we just sat for the whole time.  Even the Sousaphones were sitting - which, I'm sure it was nice for them and all, but I just don't think Sousaphones are sit-down type instruments.   

I just hope this guy figures out that that's the kind of music we're supposed to be playing, and will adjust the program accordingly for next time.  

I'm watching it right now.  It's dang freaky.  But at the same time, I can't seem to stop myself from watching.  As much as I'm freaked out, I kind of want to see what's in room 237...

This is like the worst week of the year for me, because it's the week when there are scary movies on all the time, in preparation for Halloween.  And I hate scary movies, but I always want to watch them when they're just on like this.  Then I freak myself out later.  

Also, it's drizzly and cold today.  I hope band gets moved to indoor rehearsal.   

Yes, I seem to have let this journal go a bit... Sorry about that.  Ha, I don't know why I'm apologizing... this is mostly for me.  ;)

Anyway, I'm doing really well right now.  Things are all pretty normal and under control.  I'm busy, but I'm figuring out how to manage my time and so even though I do feel stressed out from time to time, I'm able to get it under control.  

I've started focusing more on my flute studies, and I have improved immensely.  I can now play all my scales (each major and all 3 of it's minors) in under 5 minutes (I've actually been hitting right around 4:20-4:30 lately!  :D)  and I've found a piano accompanist for my two solos that require that.  

And by focusing more on my flute and school in general, I've focused less on guys.  And surprisingly I'm not nearly as worried or concerned about my "boy problems" any more.  It's really great.  

It's starting to feel like fall here too!  And fall's my favorite season, so that is very nice.  

It's just been good lately.  Hopefully it'll stay like that for a while.  :) 

If you haven't yet, you need to check it out.  This is one of the most hilarious things I've ever seen!  

And then you can download the soundtrack.   

Maybe I'm just an extreme Harry Potter geek.  Haha.  

Seriously, it's good.  Check it out.

Here are the icons I made last night.  All Teddy Geiger.  Because he's lovely.  ;)






( I'm Gonna Muster Every Ounce of Confidence I Have, And Cannonball Into the Water... )

So, here are the few icons I promised from earlier.  Nothing really special, but I thought I'd share them anyway...

( Boys and Sci-Fi and stuff.... )

Yes, I'v been out of class since 11:30 this morning and it has been quite a boring day.  Mostly just been sitting around in my room, doing a bit of homework and eating ramen and stuff like that.  No band until 3:30.  So I've still got a bit of waiting time.  

But anyway, I've been considering asking Mister Percussion GA to hang out this weekend.  Like, just get lunch or something, really informal.  I think that could be a good thing.  At the same time though, I've been freaking myself out about it all day long.  Like it makes me really nervous to think about doing that.  But the good thing is that our conversation comes really easily when we talk, so it shouldn't be terribly hard to ask.  

I guess this all depends on if I get a chance to talk to him during band today.  'Cause if I don't, then how can I talk to him at all?  Then again, if I really want to hang out with him and talk, I guess I'd find a way to talk to him.  

We'll see how this goes. 

One more thing:  I probably will be uploading some graphics/icons soon.  I found a bunch of random ones that I never uploaded, so I thought I could go ahead and share them.  Yup.  So look for those, maybe tonight.

Yup, a nice rainy day.  If only I didn't have to go out in it to get to my classes... =P

Anyway, not much going on with me today.  I'm just getting ready to head out for Flute Studio.  Yay for playing scales.  Blah.  But then after those few hours (I think it ends at 4:30ish...) I'm free until 8!  And then I have Wesley, so that should be good.  Don't think I'll be going along for Free Pie tonight though.  I have some homework that I have to take care of.  

Guess that's it.  I haven't been creeping much lately (haha).  I did have a nice little conversation with Mister Percussion GA after class today though.  So that's good progress.  =)   

For You I Will (Confidence) by Teddy Geiger.  It's been played 93 times (which isn't really a lot, but take into consideration that I recently cleared my ipod and synced it with my new computer).  Second most-played song has only been played 57 times (So Close by Jon McLaughlin).

In other news, I'm getting ready to go off to band practice.  Yay!

 Yes, I'm still a creeper.  But I am okay with that.  

Today I was in a funky mood.  I had gone home for the Sunday and Monday (since classes were cancelled for Labor Day) but I just didn't want to be at home.  I was ready to go back to my dorm and just get away from my family, which was weird, because I generally like going home.  At least, last year I wanted to spend more time at home than and the dorm.  This year it's the other way around.  Maybe that's just part of growing up?  

Anyway, I'm also in the weird "I'm-A-Loser-Because-I-Don't-Have-A-Boyfriend" mood tonight.  I hate that mood.  It's so stupid.  I mean, I'm perfectly okay without a boyfriend.  But then there's that part of me that's like "C'mon, you're a college sophomore!  What's the problem?", and so then I get in the mood.  The bad mood.  It's stupid.  Boo.

Also, today I was looking at my "tags cloud" in the sidebar, and I realized that the tag "boys" was the biggest one.  So that means I've used this to talk mostly about boys.  The sad part is, I'm going to have to use that again today.  Boo on that too.

The good news is, I don't have history tomorrow.  Yay-ish...

I'm going to go creep on people and see if that makes me feel any better now...  =P

Feeling a lot better today.  I've been feeling pretty good lately, in general actually.  So yay!  =) 

The big good thing in my life is that I've finally found a campus ministry that I can be a part of (Wesley Foundation, the United Methodist group, incase you're wondering...).  It feels so good to be a part of a group like that.  Even though it's really small, I'm enjoying it quite a lot, because I've felt very welcomed by everyone and have already made some good friends.  It's so awesome.  We meet every Wednesday at 8 and have a worship service with communion, and generally when that's over, some of us go to the local Village Inn restaurant and take part in their "Free Pie Wednesdays".  You get a free slice of pie if you buy a drink or something.  So that's a pretty sweet deal.  And it was fun to hang out with this new group of people some more (Tonight was only the second gathering of the year).  I love it.  =)

Doing pretty good in the boy department, at the moment.  I'm not worrying about it (well, not too much...) and everything's going pretty well.  At the very least, I'll end up being pretty good friends with mister percussion graduate student.  So that's good.  He seems like a nice guy.  

First game of the year on Saturday!  That'll be fun, I think.  Although we are having a bit of trouble with some of our halftime show still.  But that should be fixed tomorrow.  At least, I hope it is.  Tomorrow's our last practice before the game!  

I've been at my band's Early Week for about a day and 3/4ths now, and I am so happy!  I'm finally back with all my friends; it's so much fun.  

It's also so much work though!  We had our first marching rehearsal today.  Yay for nearly 3 hours of fundamental block.  =P  And I'm getting ready to go out for another 2 hours tonight.  It's all good though - I can't get enough of it.  Well, except for our new director.  I've had enough of him already.  And maybe I was just way attached to our old director (even though I only had him for a year), but this guy is just so much more intimidating and not nearly as friendly.  And he changed the way we stand for attention.  Instead of our heels and toes together, we stand with our heels together and our toes out at an angle.  It's so hard to adapt to!  I've done the heel/toe together thing since I started marching band in 8th grade - this new stuff is throwing me off.  Yeah... maybe he'll grow on me, but as of now, I don't care too much for him.  

Then later tonight we're having a little piccolo party.  Sort of to get to know all the new freshmen and just have a good time hanging out.  Piccolo parties are the best - board games and movies and food and friends.  

Anyway, still nothing between me and mister drum major.  I hate to keep talking about him on here, because I'm sure everyone's sick of it.  But I haven't written in my real journal lately, and that's where I'd normally put it.  Oh well... Anyway, (and I still hate that I'm even writing about it...) I think that I possibly have two girls as "competition" for his attention.  Not totally sure or anything, and I'm being way stupid by even worrying about that, but yeah.   *is a loser*

I guess that's it.  I have to go in 15 minutes, so I should probably finish getting ready.  I need an ibuprofen...

 So the pep rally yesterday was so much fun!!!!!


Okay, so it was actually quite a bit boring at parts, but overall it was a good time.  There were only 18 people in the band.  I think about half of them were trumpets.  But lucky for me, one of my piccolo friends showed up, so I wasn't the only piccolo, which was nice - that is, until we played the high F on "Swing March".  =P  It was fun though.  The boring part was when we had to sit and eat a somewhat icky (but free!) lunch and listen to the football coach speak, and the six team captains speak.  That was a bit long.  I'm so ready to start Early Week tomorrow though!  

And, I did talk to the my cute drum major friend/crush for a bit so that was good.  Yay  =)

I have to get back to packing now.  Because I also am moving into my dorm tomorrow.  There's still so much I have to do, blah.  

Tomorrow I'm playing in a little pre-school season pep rally!  I'm soooo excited, though I'm also a bit nervous - I'm going to be the only piccolo, one of only two woodwinds, and the on the list of kids going, I only recognized like two or three names.  And I'm not really friends with any of them, except for one guy.  I also have a bit of a crush on that guy, so this could be a good thing for me.  Maybe talk to him a bit?  Blah, I'm hopeless when it comes to boys!  

It should be way fun to do a pep rally though!  I'm ready to start doing more band stuff (practice starts Sunday night!).  =D 

Today was a very long day.  My Mom, two of my sisters and some of our friends drove to a little river about an hour away and took a little 6 mile float trip.  I'd never done anything like that before, but it was so fun!  It was relaxing, and we didn't run into any whitewater or anything, though there was a nice strong current at places.  Just a nice way to spend the day.  I highly recommend going on a float trip, if you ever get the chance.

Anyway, I got home at about 5:15 and had to be at the barn to work at 5:30.  So I did a quick change and went down there to work.  It was kind of sad though, because tonight was my last night to work before school starts up.  And once that happens, I don't know when I'll be able to work at all.  =(  Hopefully I'll be able to work something out though.  

I'm way worn out tonight though.  No staying up past 12 tonight.

 Yeah, watch this video and tell me you can't see it as a really great advertisement for Coke. 


I mean, it just seems like the Coke logo is supposed to pop up at the end or something, haha!

Wow, I spend wayyy to much time on Youtube...

So, I've seen the 6th Harry Potter movie three times now *is a geek* and I've realized how much I can relate to the characters.  Not all the time, and definitely not in any of the other movies really, but this one seemed different.  

Particularly the whole deal with Ron/Lavender/Hermione.  The part when Ron and Lavender first kiss in the common room, and Hermione just leaves because she's so heartbroken... I could so relate to that.  I have been that girl before.  Sure, in my case they were just crushes and never developed into anything more, but at the time it was a big deal.  So I could empathize really well with Hermione.  There were a few other times as well, but nothing so much as that part.  

Then there was all the stuff with Draco.  I could also relate to him, with all the pressure he was under, the fear he was experiencing.  In my case it was never to such a drastic extent, but I have felt that way, and could relate a bit.  I was feeling sorry for the "bad guy" so to speak.  

So yeah, does anyone else do that?  Relate to fictional characters?

Anyway, tonight my Mom rented the movie "All of Me"  starring Steve Martin.  It's a somewhat romantic-comedy (leaning more to the comedy side) about a guy who accidentally shares his body with the soul of a woman who died young.  There's this whole conflict with what was supposed to happen when she died, and of course there's a bit of a moral about living your life the way you want to, because you only live once and stuff, and some parts were kind of funny.  But then there were these parts that were just so... sexual... Gosh, some of the stuff they showed and talked about... it was about as bad as some of the stuff that's on TV nowadays.  =P  I tell you what, I don't know what that movie was rated, but it was quite uncomfortable to be watching some of that stuff with my Mom sitting nearby.  

All in all, I don't recommend it.  I didn't find it terribly funny, and the sexual stuff was just too much for my taste.  And personally I don't much care for Steve Martin as an actor (though I do like him in "The Pink Panther"), so I was a bit biased going in.  But yeah, if it's on TV and you have nothing better to do, maybe check it out (the beginning is the funnier part), but don't go out and pay money to rent it.

Feeling better than last night, so that's good.  I just have to keep myself from thinking about that whole deal, and I should be fine.  Sometimes I can be a bit overly emotional.

Anyway, after church this morning I shopped around with my Mom for a small vacuum to take with me to my dorm for this year.  So far we are unsuccessful.  

Now for some rest and relaxation.

Whew!  I've been working on this pretty much all day, and I'm happy to say that I'm finally finished with my new layout!  Yay!  *Happy dances*  =D

 Hopefully I'll stick with this one for a while.  I think I will.

Anyway, other than working on this, it was a fairly uneventful day.  

Well, this evening, I met up with my best friend and a few other girls to meet my best friend's boyfriend.  They've been dating for about a year now, but it's a long-distance relationship, so we've never met him before.  It was interesting.  He seems like a pretty nice guy, but you can really tell that he's only 17 (my best friend is 19).  He just looks very young.  And he talks kind of funny (just an observation; I don't mean anything by that).  But he seems like a good guy, (although he's not Christian, which would be a problem for me, but I guess my friend's trying to deal with it...) and that's good for her.  She's been through a lot of really bad relationships, and I'm hoping this one doesn't end badly as well.  She doesn't need that.  

I guess that's it.  I've stayed up way later than I meant to, trying to get this layout finished...