Snow Day!

today was the first snow day of the season. Yippie! I really needed the day off to get caught up on stuff. did I? Of course not! Every moment of free time I ever have I feel like I am forced to decide whether I work to get caught up on everything or take some time to relax so I don't go insane. That debate, of course, causes me to go insane. I honestly can't wait until I'm done with IB. Right now I think it's doing me more harm than good. Especially since I have no clue when I'm going to start reaping the rewards of all this stress.

The Bio trip yesterday was ok. I was a little more than freaked out by the exhibit. I'm not big into dead bodies and dead body parts. There were other parts of the museum that were cool, and not sitting in classrooms all day was pretty cool. But I think I would have prefered to just skip school.

We're so close to having a band director it's driving me nuts. Everyone knows who it is, even though we're not really supposed to talk about it since nothing's official. Arg. I don't like the fact that it can't just be out in the open.

The concert went really well Monday night. Even though I explained to several people that it was nothing like what I expected my senior year Christmas concert to be like. I thought we'd still have Borsz, be in 2 bands, have a (comparatively) huge jazz band (that I wouldn't be part of), we'd have a "mysterious guest conductor" lead Sleigh Ride, and then cookies afterwards. Instead, I was there an hour early, rehearsing with some small ensembles, rearranging the decorations in my concert dress with Eleanor, leading the jazz band (while doubling on my clarinet on the last second), participated in all the ensembles expect for one, have one large band under Ms. Bergstrom (because we don't have a director), and everyone knew who the guest conductor was about a month before that. The only thing that was the same was that we played Sleigh Ride and had cookies.

The percussion ensemble had another rehearsal on Tuesday. We had 2 more people join the pit (yay!) and Ms. Thomas came in to hel pout with the pit rehearsal. Consequently, we sounded really good. And it was awesome for me to take part in an ensemble where I got to be a student, not a leader and I got to mess up and ask questions. It was AWESOME!!! Dorothy and I have decided we need to make t-shirts for the pit (since we're way more amazing than our drumline counterparts.....: P)

As we discussed in ToK the other day, you have to hit rock bottom before things can start to get better. Maybe that's finally happening for me.