Ok, so, things to check off of my list of things to do this summer vacation...

1)  Going to prom on Tuesday
2)  Going to the Senior All Night Party
3)  Attending a bazillion graduation parties
4)  Attending registration at Xavier
7)  Trying out for the pit orchestra for Summer Music Theater

I still have a few graduation parties to go to before the season is finished, and the pit orchestra...well, I never got a chance to try out because Ferden lied to me. (*mutters evil things about Ferdo*)

Anyways, I neeeeed to fiiiiind a joooob.  While I haven't been looking all that earnestly yet, I've been feeling monstrously useless around the house these days.  I do have a gig next week at St. Mary's, and I need to investigate the offer of a position as counselor for a music theater camp, so I suppose I am doing my part.  But I'm starting to feel bored because there's nothing to do, and almost everyone I know has gone to either Spain or China over the summer.  *whines*

But to get off of the summer....I got registered for my fall classes a few weeks ago.  I'm taking 17 credits.  The minimum number of credits a freshman can take is 15, and the maximum is 18.  The school strongly recommends that freshman do not take 18 credits, so I was obediant and took 17.  My classes are: Theology, English rhetoric, Applied Topics in Mathematics, Concert Choir, Piano Ensemble, private piano lessons, private voice lessons, Music Theory, and Sightreading and Dictations.  Yes, 2/3 of my classes are music classes, which I'm totally cool with. 

Well, I must be off to find something productive to do today.  Valete omnes!

HEY GUYS!!!!!

Just in case you didn't notice that I've finally updated, I thought I'd put that greeting in font size 7.  How ya been?!?!?!?  Guess what!!  I'M FINISHED WITH HIGHSCHOOL FOR FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  *turns cartwheels*  I thought this day would never come!  Just a couple weeks ago, this day was an eternity away, and I had to endure every imaginable torment to reach it.  But I made it!!!  I'm here!!  I'm done with school!  I'm done with AP Chem!!  I may never have to take Chemistry again!!  I'm done with getting to class at 7:35 a.m.!  I'm done with the busy, noisy hallways!  I'm done with highschool!!!!!        

Ahem.  So...yeah.

And now, a speedy summary of my life for the past three months:

A Speedy Summary of My Life for the Past Three Months
  After my last entry, I finished up with my last audition, waited around for several weeks until I got all the news of my acceptances and scholarships, and finally settled on Xavier University in Ohio.  I will be a Musketeer in a few months--how cool is that?  The rest of March was boring, as was most of April until spring break, which is never boring, in which I had my first gig as music minister for the weekday Masses at St. Mary's.  That was sweet.  I am officially the youngest music minister at St. Mary's.  Playing piano and singing at the same time is fun, even if you do have a cold and would rather be at home in bed.  Anyways, after spring break my literary research group and I began panicking when we realized we had perhaps 1 and 1/2 weeks to throw together a monstrous literary research presentation that should take up about 55 minutes and educate and entertain a room full of highschool students.  After researching, rehearsing, watching a good deal of classic Saturday Night Live episodes, decorating the class room as a theater, and dressing up in costumes including, but not limited to, togas, we pulled off our presentation on dramatic comedy.  It was kinda fun. 

  Shortly after that, I became enormously stressed out as APs began pressing in on every side.  My life became chemistry.  I did nothing but go to school, come home, and study chemistry.  I did set after set of chemical reaction predictions.  I reread all my notes.  I highlighted all over my AP chem study book.  When I closed my eyes, I saw the periodic table.  When I woke up in the morning, the first words that came to me were "hydrosulfurous acid".  The night before the test, I attended one last study session, then walked home alone in the dusk with an attitude of both dread and resignation.  The test was over the next morning.  And then it was done.  I couldn't believe it.  But chemistry was not done. 

  The pressure was still on for the next few weeks as finals were looming in front of me and teachers kept piling on the homework.  My stresses included, but were not limited to: 1) a final chemistry online homework assignment that would make the difference between life and death for my chemistry grade, 2) a chemistry final that would be made up of 1 out of 15 problems that I was supposed to have done but didn't (which would also be a matter of life or death to my grade), 3) a math final, 4) a math study packet that counted as part of the final grade, and 5) a choir concert in which I would have my first solo and also my guitar debut.  Not to mention there were all the petty details of getting people my senior pictures and getting everyone to sign my senior yearbook (very important, you know).  Before I thought it was physically impossible for me to stay up all night doing schoolwork.  The night after the concert (which went swimmingly), I did just that.  I drank a lot of coffee (yes, I cheated), and worked straight through the chemistry problems and the math packet for 8 hours.  Then, seeing that I looked sufficiently like crap, I dressed myself up all cute and went to the senior breakfast at school.  After that I spent my last two days in school trying to stay awake through my math final and trying not to cry as people hugged me and sobbed as they said good-bye. 

  And now I am on vacation.  I have nothing to do this summer as far as school goes.  Isn't that incredible?  I've spent my days so far touring Oakland University with a class of special ed kids, hanging out with some people from school, chilling with Anna and Anna's boyfriend, who is visiting for Memorial Day Weekend, and doing last minute shopping for prom stuff. 

Now that my summary is finished (fine, maybe it wasn't that speedy, but I know you enjoyed it anyway ), I will clue you in on what I will be doing with my summer:

1)  Going to prom on Tuesday (     )
2)  Going to the Senior All Night Party (XDXDXD)
3)  Attending a bazillion graduation parties
4)  Attending registration at Xavier
5)  Getting my license, finally
6)  Playing for some more weekday Masses at St. Mary's (I want Dan to give me all the Tuesday and Thursdays..*whine*)
7)  Trying out for the pit orchestra for Summer Music Theater (more money, mwahahaha)
8)  Finding a job (yup, I want three jobs this summer, not just one), and
9)  Shopping for stuff for my dorm next year (Eeeeeeee!!!)

I've got a busy summer ahead of me.  I think I'll go take a nap while I have the chance.  Hope you enjoyed my update.  I know you've been waiting anxiously a long time for it.  Till next time, dahlin's!!~~~~

TITLE!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS THING IS COOL!!!! IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN AROUND FOREVER AGO!!!!

Heh, so...can you tell I haven't been on here in eons?  I'm on vacation this week (VACATION!!!!!!!!!!!   ), very exiting, and I managed to get bored enough to get back in front of the computer, which I have a tendency to loathe with every fiber of my being.  The saddest and probably weirdest part of this aversion is that it keeps me from doing things I love, such as keeping all my faithful readers (*cough* *hack* *sputter* *wheeze*) updated on everything new and exciting.  Though, ironically enough, I'm more driven to update when there is absolutely nothing to write about than when anything actually is new and exciting.  When things are new and exciting I have a tendency to just be excited and come to terms with life's novelty.  How boring, eh? 

Soooo....I'm on my second cup of coffee now, which, combined with my cold, is causing an internal pressure sensation in my head.  This feels better than the kind of cramped, external pressure my head was feeling when I first got up this morning.  Now I believe the coffee has brought everything done to a very dull throb.  Do me a favor and save your weird looks for when I start sounding really crazy and be comforted in knowing the reason why in case I don't update again for centuries. 

 But to get out of my head, a veritably frightening place to be, and onto actual news, I am quite busy this vacation.  While I reserve the right to stay up late (almost 1 o'clock every night .....*remembers the days when 4 AM was not an unfamiliar hour..*), and sleep in until 11, and stay in my pajamas, and lounge around the house, and live on vitamin C drops (*&#$%@ cold), I am also busy writing and putting together my Spanish music video for foreign language week.  While FLW is sufficiently gay, it is my goal to make this the best video ever submitted.  It's my senior year, I must go out with a bang!   Maybe I'll put the song on the web so y'all can have a listen, and all you Latin speakers can try to follow along but be mostly confused.  HA!  Since taking Spanish I can now listen/read along in two languages and kinda sorta get the gist of what is being said.  HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!  Ahem.  Sorry.  I just have to submit my superiority every now and then or else I go absolutely crazy--ooh, something shiny.....

Alas and alack, I have a blisterlike callusy looking thing on my thumb from strumming on the guitar.  I've taken up guitar now.  I am now bi-instrumental.    Granted, I can only play a handful of chords, I'm still quite good at plucking out individual notes, and I'm forming some very nice calluses.  Strange how pleased one can be with one's calluses...or maybe that's just me.  Anyways, it will still be quite some time before I will be calling myself a "guitar player" or considering myself "good at guitar," but whatever. 

Oh, and speaking of music, I have only one college audition left.  *dance of excessive happiness*  At the University of Michigan, they were mean.  I'm all nice and smily and come and sing my wittle French butterfly song and my oh so cool Italian arietta, and they just sit there and stare with their poker faces, say "Thank you" and dismiss me.  On top of it, at the piano placement thing, they didn't even want to hear any of my pieces (*SOB*).  At Dayton and Xavier they were much nicer, gave me some feedback and all that good stuff.  I'm going to one of those two, I'm pretty sure, depending on who gives me the most money. *g* 

The rest of this post continued later.  I'm off to eat oatmeal and watch Cinderella.....Ahhh....can you hear it?  It's the sound of someone on VACATION!!!!!!  AHAHAHAHAHA!!!  Buh-byes!

Ya know, every once in a while I'll go back into my blog archives, usually to dig up something someone said in a comment once (for exact quotage and all that), and I'll end up reading all my stupid old posts instead and wasting about a half an hour.  Anyway, I can only think right now of all the posts I wrote sophomore year about the woes of studying chemistry.  It is at times like these when I wonder...what the heck am I doing in AP Chemistry?!?!?!?  *takes breath*  It is vile and disgusting, especially the online homework.  I hate it.  With every fiber of my being I despise it.  It deserves to die.  It deserves being dragged out into the street and shot.  It deserves a great many other things which I, being a lady, dare not say in the presence of other people.  But, anyway, in other news...I'm hungry and tired and really want to take a nap, but can't.  Enough about me, how's life treating everybody?

Ok, back to me.  For all of you who were concerned about me, my surgery went very well.  I'm just about all healed, and I got stuffed animals and flowers and candy out of it, so it's all good.

In other news, I've been visiting colleges lately.  It's fun.  I wish I could do it again this weekend...oh wait!  I am!  How cool is that?  I also get to skip school on Monday 'cuz I'll be in Ohio.  Again, very cool.  You know what else would be cool?  Going to school in Chicago would be.  It would be downright awesome.  I've always loved that city.  When I was little I remember telling my parents that I was going to move to Chicago when I grew up (this was after I grew out of my "I'm going to stay home with Mommie all my life and never grow up" phase but still in the middle of my "I'm going to eat a whoooole gallon of ice cream eeevery night when I'm grown up" phase).  After a while I forgot about that dream, but after messing with the idea of going there for college, I'm starting to really want to go there again.  This weekend I'll be visiting Dayton, Ohio and Cincinnati.  Whilst I am down there I'll get to see Anna!!      It was getting to be that time again when you simply have to see Anna again, so yay, I get to see her tomorrow!  *excessive happiness*

  Oh yeah, and speaking of Chicago, I think it's on tonight...or not...I can't remember.  Anyways...

I should probably be going.  I have more work to do before leaving tomorrow, and I have to burn my online chemistry print out.  Talk to y'all latah!

*Edit* Adams won their 3rd playoff game last night.  That leaves us still undefeated.  w00t!

*More Editedness* Also, Notre Dame beat Navy 42 to 21 this afternoon.  GO IRISH!!!

*Getting to be Superfluous Editedness* I just got a letter today from University of Dayton saying I've been accepted.       Loyola will let me know in early December, but  for the others I must wait until April.  *sigh*