im sick of having a bunch of friends who never call me - i'd rather have like two friends who actually call me.

god damnit:

no matter how much vitamin c i take, how much water i drink, how much rest i get, i unfailably get grotesquely sick every year at the begininng of school. its fucking annoying.

i give up - im going to sleep

nothing like being sick the day of an audition - a really important one you have been looking forward to for a whole year....

all i have to say is needy man fiddle at egg girl

oh yeah and btw the day of reckoning for all shaker flute players is upon us

wow ben folds is def the shit - i almost cream my pants everytime i hear his song "brick"..... its got a fucking tuba!! how cool is that??

ugh school...

wind ensemble auditions coming up and i am totally pumped. the piece isn't that bad and I actually really like (completely unlike last year's piece). furthermore i am playing a piece I absolutely love for my solo - the chaminade concertino - it is most beautiful am loving every minute of it. its been great, ever since i came back from skidmore i have been so motivated and haven't been able to put my flute down. I also just got my very own copy of taffanel and gaubert's exercise book which is - by the way - the shit.

we just had our first worlds team meeting for dance last night!! im so pumped - a two week vacation in ireland including competing in the world championships with some of my best friends. twill be great. however we need to raise a lot of money so everybody remember this date:

DECEMBER 4TH

on that date at 2:00pm in euclid high school there will be our all important christmas concert fundraiser - we will be performing all the super cool pieces we will be taking to the world championships!! it is our most important event so i need everyone who can to go - tickets will be at most 10$ for a great concert!!! oh yeah and im gonna be plugging candy like crazy so everyone has to buy from me too!!

time to start homework....

Hey Everybody!!!

Skidmore is amazing. I'm having such an amazing time here. We've had two incredibly packed days so far (yesterday there were three masterclasses!!).

I just got out of an ensemble rehearsal which we will be playing at our recital on sunday (11 am if anyone feels like driving out nine hours to hear) and before that was my first master class on the Prokofiev sonata. it went really well. I was actually really nervous at first (like i always am) but as i got further into the piece i started to relax a bit. I think just sitting and hearing such amazing flute playing over the past couple of days has already improved my tone. Everyone here is so good!!

The masterclass was taught by Jan Vinci who also teaches at the college in the flute studio and she is aboslutely amazing. She is really nice and inviting and gives extremely construtive criticism in such a positive way. She has some really intersting methods (yesterday she had one girl follow her around the stage while dacing with the music she was playing). I really look forward to my second masterclass with her - especially because I know the mozart so much better than the prokofiev.

I am also excited to see the master class with jeff kahner. Though i won't be playing in it im anxious to see what he's like.

The other particiipants are great too. There's about an even mix between college and high school students with most high schoolers being sophomores and juniors. There's even a couple adults who come in for the master class. The first day people were just getting to know eachother but by last night we were all (well at least the high schoolers) crammed into one room playing an interesting game of ten fingers (unfortunatly i got out first - who would imagine that??)

well im gonna go off to lunch now!! the food here is great too

hope everyone is doing well and having fun.... AT BAND CAMP WHERE I DON'T HAVE TO BE!!!

peace

SKIDMORE HERE I COME!!

My dad just woke me up and Im gonna leave in like 30 mins for my train! see everybody monday!!

yeah so three days till skidmore..... wow cannot wait. but how many times have i said that in a lj entry?

anyways i was thinking about it and yeah i really wanna improve my playing and really give myself a boost for my upcoming seating auditions but i also really wanna meet some ppl there. i really would be dissappointed if it was just a bunch of spoiled bratty high school girls. (though i do understand that they will probably be the majority) I wanna meet some cool music ppl who aren't like annoying or stuck up - or maybe even some guy flute players who aren't annoying/really really gay. it would be cool to find someone i could keep in touch with - or really click with at the camp.

so im leaving monday morning from my brothers apartment at like 2am to get to the train station by 3. my train leaves at 4. I then will arrive in albany where my cousin and her boyfriend will meet me for lunch (around 12ish - whenever my train gets in). Then they're gonna drive me from albany to saratoga falls - the location of the wonderful skidmore college. Then I can check myself in and by 3 (approximately 12 hours into my journey) i will be fluting.

im actually really excited for the train ride. ive never traveled a long distance on a train before. i just hope i don't get stuck next to some like psychopathic freak who smells. maybe ill be able to finish that fucking mod euro summer reading book.

but anyways after a wonderful seven days of fluting we have a recital/reception for parents sunday afternoon. My mom and Dylan are driving out to see the recital and then take me home that night. I then get one day to collect myself and then school starts. its gonna be crazy

thats all for now

anyone like my new layout - meghana that pic in the background is that song we saw in denison last year. isn't it the shit?

just wanted to stay im still alive out here - just being experiencing the consequences of an incredibly busy summer....

sry if this is annoying braggin but ive fucking earned it:

i just got my report card - all fucking a's!!!! even in history!! im so pumped because every semester i got straight a's!!

and now im done.

thank you.

good night.

just wanted to say that today was like the best day of my entire life...

its been a while but who gives a damn because...

I GOT INTO CYO!!
I GOT INTO CYO!!
I GOT INTO CYO!!

k im done now. in other good news i just got my acceptance packet from skidmore. omg im getting fugging pumped. the schedule is so packed with fun shit like concerts and this guy from yamaha is coming and master classes and ensemble work and dinner (im really excited about the food). i can't fugging wait.

wow definatly cannot sleep at all

so here's why i think regular tv is the best in the world

3: no reception
5: inside edition (tabloid in tv format)
8: who knows - too many commercials
19: pain creme infomercial
23: we want to worship (some dumb religion show that just has pictures of nature)
25: WWII german sub documentary
43: book of natural cures informercial
55: strange movie about a gay man
61: spanish channel (who knows whats on that)

ah nothing like a relaxing saturday of doing nothing to set of an incredibly hectic week

lets see... oh yeah i got a summer job kinda at the cleveland botanical gardens learning garden. i think it will be a good experience. ill be able to pay for skidmore (which i am offically going to btw) with 50 bucks left over. the guy who runs it is a lil weird but he's really nice and totally doin a favor for me by letting me work.

speaking of skidmore i am so god damned pumped for that and its like monthes away.

i went to ihop tonight with me ma and bro - good food and good service. it doesn't get much better than that.

im actually excited about memorial day. i think marching band's fun and i get to wear me new white pants.

omg i joined myspace (the reason for my lil break of entries) and my huge crush as one too!! they don't use it that much but still free pics of them and stuff - and i got their sn - tho i wouldn't ever use it. def made me really happy that i found it.

good night all

today has been great

found out im getting a 93 in math almost a 94 which isnt nearly as good as it could be but better than i thought

had an audition for cyo today - went really well

found out that i didn't make it into coyo but im an alternate which is a helluva a lot better than being flat out rejected (what happened to most ppl) and much more than i expected. now i just have to find someone who got in and kill them in their sleep.......