oboerific:

Materials:

1. Shot glass (that you probably already use to soak your reeds)
2. Oboe
3. Reed Making Supplies
4. Your choice of alcohol 

Instructions:

1. Begin making reeds 
2. Every time you screw up, take a shot.

If you are still sober after an hour of reedmaking, I tip my hat to you.  

After many long hours and lots of tears and more anger than happiness, I let my parents decide on my future. They have sent in my confirmation to West Virginia University where I will be attending on a full music scholarship this fall. In addition to my full scholarship, I will be going to Paris with the oboe studio this fall and I will hopefully be purchasing an english horn.

Surprisingly enough, I’m not content and I guess that makes me an ungrateful brat, but my dreams were with another school that I worked so hard at lowering the tuition from $37k to $10k, which I did..But my parents just didn’t think that was enough. They didn’t believe me when I told them that when I send in my second round of ACT scores that I’d be getting an extra $3k which would make it about $7k for a whole year-but I guess that’s beside the point. I just worked hard for a goal that I technically achieved, but received no merit for, which in a way is kinda how life works.

Actually, just this past week I was in tech week for a middle school musical (I played in the pit) and I attended this middle school and only had the best of memories there. I love the directors and I love what they’ve been able to do for the past years and working for them was actually the absolute best part. Well today after our final performance, they gave me a check for $100 and a $25 gift card to a nice pizza restaurant downtown. I guess I was surprised by how much they gave me in the end when I already got a lot out of them. I worked hard for this show, but out of my own free will, and I feel like I achieved my own goal of performing to the best of my abilities for these shows..So why give me monetary merit?

I guess that’s the flip side of what I am trying to say, but I guess what I’m trying to really say is that somethings you don’t need to give or pay for, especially when they are great learning experiences.

This year is almost at a closure and there’s still many decisions to make. I mean I’m technically going to WVU in the fall, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t have to take an extended vacation to somewhere far way from WVU and not make it to classes on the first 10 months of school..Maybe I don’t have to play by the rules in the end.

This has been by far one of my most insanely, fantastic, most rewarding, exhilarating, memorable, and fun weekends ever. Between it being the tech week for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat, Tech week for Chorus Festival, and the week of my audition at WVU, I stayed rather busy and restless. 

As much as I hate to say it-I really do miss chorus. Maybe I shouldn’t use the word “hate”, but I just never really liked how chorus was set up and organized. But what I love about chorus is that we are a family there. Considering I hadn’t been to chamber in for many months and I was new to the songs that we took to festival and earned straight 1’s at (HAAAYY YEEEAH)-I would never have thought that all those chorus kids would have still cared about me. I also have to say that those kids are amazing because we all went to fork Dr. V’s yard (a tradition since Abby&Kara) and I got to spend some great quality time with them. I have missed all you fantastic chorusey people and I hope I won’t stray too far!

Anyways, after the forking I went out to a nice evening get together at a friend’s house and managed to get home around 2:15am…But then had to get up at 9am to do chores. I did find another cute prom dress with my sister and bought shoes! Of course I later had to go to round 2 of Joseph, which was a success! Later on, I decided that sleep may be a good idea, so I actually went home and slept for a good 12 hours before going to round 3 of Joseph. Gotta love theater. Now I am onto doing all the homework that I haven’t done due to being absent at an audition on Monday and festival on Friday…and not going to classes because of tech week…