Early morning practice...

This morning my alarm went off at 5:30 so I could practice at 6.  This is the first time in my college career (I think) that I've gotten up that early.  This was my thought process:

-"Oh crud!  It's SO EARLY!  Does anyone actually function this early?  I'm soooooo tired...It's so early!  SO EARLY!  What was I thinking?!?  I NEED to get up.  NOW.  Ok.  Go.  Well...maybe in five minutes.  What am I going to wear today?  Oh yeah...I already laid that out.  It's so early!  I need to practice.  GO PRACTICE.  Why the heck would I do that so early?  Eh...I could just lie here...NO.  I have to practice.  GET UP."  

Etc.  Thinking along those same lines happened for approximately the next half hour, until I was finally in the music building by 6:10.  My first hour was extraordinarily unproductive, but once I ate breakfast and woke up a little bit more, the second hour was very nice.  However, I do need to doctor up my reeds, because right now the back pressure makes it feel like I'm killing 2,000 brain cells per one second of playing.  Nevertheless, these things can be fixed.  

I'm planning on trying to get up as early tomorrow, and maybe if I go to bed really early this evening, getting up tomorrow morning won't be quite as difficult.  

Also, I'm now 21.  It doesn't feel any different, and while I always thought that 21 sounded rather grown up, it doesn't really sounds like that any more.  It just sounds like a number.  I went to the Cheesecake Factory for dinner, which was delightful, and when I came back a whole bunch of wonderful people were in my room waiting for me!  When I walked through the door they all starting singing and dancing, and it was a fantastic way to end the day.  So, while I'm pretty sure that none of them read this, thank you all for being the best friends I could ever have! :)

Weekend Plans

I AM GOING TO THE BSO TOMORROW!!!!!!!!! I am so incredibly excited. This will be the first time I that I go to see a real orchestra. I'm so excited that I allowed the previous sentence to start with "this" and to continue without a noun immediately following the "this." Moving on. They are playing some 20th century Berg stuff - not exactly sure what - and then Renee Fleming is singing Strauss, and then they will be performing Mahler 4. MAHLER! And the best part is that it's free! A friend of mine got free tickets somehow - maybe it was miraculous or something - but now we're going to an amazing orchestra concert for free. Tomorrow evening pretty much couldn't get any better.

On a different subject entirely: our school cafeteria is so very odd. If you ask for a few eggs, they give you what cannot possibly be any less than half a dozen, and they look at you strangely if you ask for any less. The same is true for pasta, various entrees, and occasionally stir fry as well. Moreover, the food doesn't really taste good at all, so I am seriously contemplating selling all my meal points and creating a food budget to buy and make my own food. Ok, so that won't actually happen, because I'm probably too lazy to get around to doing it, but it would be pretty fun. But that's enough complaining. It is what it is, and so there's not really anything to complain about.

And finally, a note on the fact that I seem to lack the ability to speak English. Or maybe it's slowly deteriorating. I speak in what could potentially be called Freudian slips, but they're not really Freudian because they don't reveal anything about my inner soul or whatever it was he thought they indicated. I just use the wrong word. For example: "One time I couldn't remember where Detroit was, so I had to ask. Honestly...I couldn't believe I forgot...I mean, I'm not that dumb. Actually, I'm quite good at geometry." Yeah. That was supposed to be geography. I am quite certain I have never seen the person I was talking to laugh that hard ever. Note to self: if ever you give a public speech, make sure to be very, very careful and rehearsed so that you don't make weird word substitutions. If not, at least I'll be laughing along with the audience. :)