Chilling downstairs waiting for Bleach to start and watching American Dad while I wait. This is such a weird episode! "Bullocks to Stan" So dirty! Stan's boss and daughter hook up (over 40 year difference) and freely talk about their sex life.. AACKK! Waaaayyyy too much information!!

Anyways, I don't get internet connection down here so I'm gonna blog onto Notepad and copy and paste later. Buuuutttt so life..

Chilling downstairs waiting for Bleach to start and watching American Dad while I wait. This is such a weird episode! "Bullocks to Stan" So dirty! Stan's boss and daughter hook up (over 40 year difference) and freely talk about their sex life.. AACKK! Waaaayyyy too much information!!

Anyways, I don't get internet connection down here so I'm gonna blog onto Notepad and copy and paste later. Buuuutttt so life..

Life has been crazy! I don't even know the last time I posted. I think it said August (hahaha I suck at keeping up with it), but here's another go!

So I've decided to go to Sacramento State for Music Education for elementary school (or maybe middle, dunno!). I've taken a tour of the school, talked to the Saxophone professor there (who was totally awesome and ridiculously helpful) and I'm super psyched to go! I can see me going there and I just can't wait!

I'm scared out of my wits (well better than I was before I talked to the Sax prof) about auditioning to go to school. I've never had anything of the sort and I've been practicing at least 20x more than I've ever practiced before (which means I'm actually practicing lol). The thing that is a constant annoyance is that I can actually see me getting better and I keep beating myself up over the fact that I could have been practicing for all these years... I could only just imagine.

Anyways, I digress. I really should move on and stop stressing over stupid stuff like that. lol

*Bleach is on! Seester told me to wake her up to watch, but lazy bum refuses to get up. She ended up yelling at me to stop poking her with the pillow (least abusive way to bother her lol). So she shall sleep and I shall watch!*

Back from Tangent: So I'm practicing a bunch. I need to seriously memorize my M and m scales and memorize my arpeggios and apply that to my Theory studies as well as my Jazz Improve lessons.

I really enjoy putting this much effort into getting better. I think it's mostly because I see the progress that I'm making and I keep wanting to practice more and more. I even checked out an Alto Sax so I can practice at home and not bother the neighborhood lol

*Distraction of Bleach occurring... So many Japanese words!! Nuuu! Ew he just bit his sword! I hate when any show incorporates a creepy Hyde-like creature.. It's just gross.. I dunno what I'd do if I saw anything like that in RL.. Ew he just took another bite.. and now he morphs into something even more disgusting.. **I'll write something more "non-Bleach" related at commercial..** Ooo back to the quincy! He's easily one of my favorites.. I never understand why they all introduce themselves... Why the formality? I guess it's a Japanese thing.. lol Why do they just stand and chat? Oh noes... Fog! Combined with a sort of House of Mirrors! Aww he got an owie... Bad guy keeps cackling.. Eek slash in the back.. COMMERCIAL!*

Ok, what was I saying? Alto Sax.. right.. So yeah, I practiced a little last night when I got home. I just air played, but I feel much more confident with the piece I was working with.

I've also been trying to refocus on classwork.. I get a sort of long-term ADD when it comes to classes.. I usually start getting bored and lazy in classes around 4 or 5 weeks into classes. Then I don't make the effort to do the homework or readings, so then I get discouraged and convince myself there's no point of going to classes since I'm not prepared so then I decide it's best to just withdraw from the class. Regular semester classes are 15 weeks and Summer is for 5 weeks.

So I hit that point a couple weeks ago and I realized it and now I'm doing extra work to get myself into keeping up with the work..

*Bleach is back! Uh oh, big boobed girl is running.. lol Yay now it's Chad! lol He's trying to reason with the bad guy.. I have a bad feeling about this.. And he's cackling.. Yup, now they fight.. Now bad guy is showing off. Lame.. Aww he's hitting Chad.. Haha Chad has the upper hand now! Woah! His arm thingy morphed! I didn't know he could do that.. Ok.. enough with the amping up grunt.. It started getting awkward and borderline twss... Ahh! That was a dirty shot! Sneak up from behind Chad, rude! Go Chad!! I believe in you!!!! Haha bad guy is pooped out.. But so is Chad.. Ok so this is the third time he's shown off his "true power".. Dumbass Oh noes.. Dudeguy ninja'd! Nuuuuu!!! Blood!


WTF?? THAT'S THE END OF THE EPISODE??? Grrrr!! Hmm well now I have a half an hour before South Park.. ACE OF CAKES! WIN!*

Okay and I was saying....... Keeping up with GE classes.. So, for example, I stopped doing the "suggestive" assignments for Theory and keeping up decently when doing the assignments. So, on Thursday night (after we got the assignment) I actually did the assignment and had it prepared to have my Theory teacher look over it on Friday. I did good. I checked and double-checked my work. I missed one part (which he gave me a dirty look for and I felt very stupid about), but overall, I did good. I'm GOING to do my Anthropology reading tomorrow. Do some serious catch-up. I'm deciding to not study for my Piano midterm seeing how it's going to be on basic music fundamentals... lol

-I'm so sleepy... lol I want to go to sleep, but I'm gonna wait for South Park first..-

So that's pretty much all that's going on in my life for academics and performing/practicing.. Umm hmm where to next. Work!

So I haven't worked for Gallo since January. It's been pretty hard to survive. I've been working for the Band still. Stopped in May since I was off to Washington for (what I believed was) the summer. If I didn't go, I'd have worked over the summer and taken a class or two and probably seriously look for work. But I didn't and there was a very good chance I wasn't going to get the school job again in the Fall. I mean, it is just 5 hours a week, but that's a whole lot better than nothing..

But I dunno if I got lucky or if the Dean changed his mind, but I did get the job again (yay) and have been keeping very busy. So about 3 weeks into the semester, the orchestra director asks me to work for her too. First thing I can think of is that she never has a student worker lasts for 1 or 2 semesters.. BUT I seriously need the money! So I've been working for her since. She's okay.. Just very.... Well she has her way of running things... lol :)

Still kinda looking for work.. I'm really busy at school and keeping up with school and I honestly don't want to get an actual PT job.. But I desperately need one to have money saved up for moving to Sacramento. lol It's looking more and more like I'm going to fully depend on loans.. I'm gonna have to look at work out there to see if it'll be possible to get a job out there.

Ok, I'm way too distracted now.. And too tired.. Here's my list of what I'm going to go over in my next post...

• Work (school) (projects)
• Process of transfer application
• Frat
• Friends
• Family (+ kitty)
• And just random TV I watch! lol