Excuse me?

Sophie wants you to watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPOmMKw_P00&feature=player_embedded

I ripped my fingernail off tonight...not the whole thing, just half of it, but it still hurt pretty bad. While I was practicing flute. Then Stacia stopped by, and that was the end of that (the practicing part. My fingernail was still gone. But yeah)

So this past week, everyone in the school of music has been frantically running around panicking about juries. If you don't know what a jury is, it's like the final for your lessons on your instrument at the end of the semester. Everyone who takes applied lessons does them, and everyone has to scramble to find an accompanist. Luckily, I found Dr. Guy right away, so there were no problems; some people weren't so lucky. Abbey keeps having issues with scheduling rehearsals with her accompanist, and I feel like that would suck to have to deal with that...but at least it's not like this one trumpet kid we all know, who still doesn't have one and we believe is making no effort to find one. It's like, WTF? You're a music major, shouldn't you care more than that? What a fool.
But anyway, I feel really well prepared. Dr. McCandless seems to think so too, which makes me extra confident in what I'm doing :]]]]]]]

At this point in the semester, I seriously can't wait for it to be over. I want finals to be done.

My lovely roommate, Alex, is moving out :/
She wants to live in Hagemann, the building next to Noehren, where we live. Which is totally fine, Hagemann is a great building; It's cleaner, quieter, and very rarely smells like ass (as opposed to it frequently smelling like ass, and BO, here in our hallway). When she first told me she was leaving, a million thoughts ran through my head..."Holy tits, what did I do?" "Who am I gonna room with now?"
(Actually those were the only 2 thoughts that went through my head, but w/e)
Suddenly, along came a solution - Caitlin McKenney! She's moving in with me at semester, and I'm super stoked. This place is gonna be a party, and we're gonna have the best door sign ever. Wicka what!

This morning, I walked into the bathroom and was greeted by a toilet paper mess all over the floor. The trash was nowhere in sight. I thought what the hell, how drunk were the girls on my floor this time?? As if it isn't bad enough that they drop trash in the hallway and forget about it (even while sober), create large stains on the carpet that look suspiciously like pee, and interrupt my 3AM showers with loud chatter while sitting on the toilet. THE TOILET...aghhh!! So I went to use my favorite toilet stall, the one on the far right, and WHAT did my eyes behold me? Aquafina bottle. Sticking right up out the bowl. Empty bag of Lays Sour Cream and Onion chips on the floor. Apparently people in college get hungry while taking a dump. That, or something far nastier had occurred...I prefer not to know. Bottom line, I was grossed out. I now had to choose between using the stall with the period garbage sticking out of the trash, the one with the hole in the door, or the one that flushes for like 10 minutes straight. Shoot, girl, I'd take the annoyance of a lengthy flush over that other crap any day.
OH and BTW, imagine this whole scene taking place to the tune of Bing Crosby's "White Christmas"...cuz that's what was playing on the radio this whole time. LOL.

I LOVE JAZZ BAND!! (here's why.)
~The people in my jazz band are amazing. We're such a wide range of personalities, and most of us get along well, so it's awesome. And the gigs at The Hub?! Damn!! Those are such a riot! I always feel so in-the-moment...It's the best.
~Dr. Washut. Nothing I can say in a blog post can do justice to such a man. He is THE man, and he makes jazz band a blast. Whether it's a quirky thing he says, a strange analogy of some kind, or any other instance of awesome, we all love Dr. Washut and his shenanigans.
~We play such sweet stuff!! It's so different than what they play in Jazz One, too...it's more classic. Which I like. Too much contemporary all the time can wear a girl down, yo.
~BASS CLARINET. Idk if I've ever said anything about it, but I love bass clarinet. As if I didn't love it enough already before...I heard Chris Potter wail on it at the IA City Jazz Fest 3 years ago, and was hooked. There's just something about it...it calls to me!! So when Dr. Washut handed me the part for a bass clarinet feature...lord. That's all I'll say about that.

Tom update:
We hung out again. He may or may not have held my hand, and given off some signals...ahhhhhh. He's SO hard to read though, and I'm still nervous because, just as before, there's NO WAY for me to be sure of how he feels about me. Or anyone. He's got an air of mystery, that Tom. On the downside, I found out he loves weed. Greeeaattttt *~*

Highlights...

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~I'm going to NYC with Toni over spring break! Heyohhhhhhh!!!
~Katie Hawks dyed her hair green...(why? I'm anxious to find out)
~I got a little less terrible at the flute today
~Watching Stacia try to play the flute...cute shit :P
~Got into all the classes I wanted/needed!!
~Vacuumed the rug in our room

BOHHHH
~The new Facebook profile layout - WTF
~Failed to take out the recycling from our room
~Can't handle mexican food...especially corn salsa from Pablo's