Lately, I've been thinking about what's going to happen after this year. Andrew and I have talked about it, Victor and I have talked about it. Both of them seem so sure of what's going to happen. They both want to go to grad school for specific things. I want to go to graduate school too, but I don't know what for. Mr. Doemel, the guy that I'm student teaching with, was like, "Do performance for your masters...it's the easy way out, you just give a couple recitals and that's it." Yeah, that's actually what I want to do. I prefer performing over teaching. But I'm not good enough! Will I EVER be good enough?

The RNC is in New York City this year. That's pretty stupid. They're having a party for the people that want to kill anyone that's not white in the most accessible city in the world. Good job, guys...

I went down to Columbus the other day to audition for the Columbus Symphony. I played okay...I was pretty nervous so my bow was extra bouncy and my vibrato was too tight. Lucky for me, all the people who were "judging" were violinists. YAY. The coordinator lady said that those were the only people available for the auditions. If the people who are usually there were available, there would've been like a cellist and a trombonist and a percussionist, but noooo...all violinists, and I HAD to play the most played violin concerto EVER. Oh well.

Anyways, I went right after Daniel (we didn't know that was gonna happen), and afterwards, we went to Houlahans with Marcellino. When our waitress came by, I ordered a Long Island Ice Tea...and THEN she asked me if I wanted a PITCHER for a dollar more. It was only $6!! I was like, "Um...HELL YES...please." Yeah...it was big. I had the whole thing (with Daniel's help), but I didn't feel much.

After that, we went to Walmart to buy some things for Daniel's new apartment. He got some shower stuff, blah, blah, blah...and then we went into the nursery, and he got a plant. When I say plant, I don't mean a little pot of marigolds. I mean, a PLANT, like a fucking palm tree. Actually, I think he said it was a fern. We named it Fanny the Fern (I hope she's still alive).

Yesterday, I went downtown for a meeting for student teaching. After the meeting, we had another mini-meeting with our advisors, and THAT meeting was starting to piss me off a little bit. People were bringing up stuff about how the education program could improve, why teachers have left and how fucked up everything is right now. Yeah, guys...it's really gonna help complaining to the new guys about that. Like they know anything.

I went out to breakfast with Tiffany and Dorothy this morning. We sat at J. Christopher's for like 3 hours...I know our waitress wanted to kill us. I told Tiffany about the Bitch Hikus. She's asked me to demonstrate for her, so here it goes:

::Bitch Hiku for Tiffany::
Bitches eat breakfast,
J. Christophers, bee-otch,
Pancakes, bitch, pancakes

There ya go, Tiff. Enjoy :)

Today is the first day of school for all the little kiddies. Haha. We still have a couple weeks.

Whitney graduated yesterday. YAY for Whitney! I'm so proud of her. As a graduation present, her parents flew Bill in for a couple days. It was a surprise. Her mom invited her out for lunch, and Bill was there. Isn't that sweet? He got her a bracelet as a graduation present. It's really prettiful.

She had a party yesterday. We had BBQ and went swimming. Bill and Andrew ended up playing chess for awhile. They're big nerds :) Whitney says that's what makes them cute.

Andrew and I went to Brevard, NC yesterday to see Andrew's sister, Catherine. The drive up there was soo pretty. It was like 75 degrees in the mountains! If everyday could be 75 degrees down here, I would be a very happy person. The roads were "wavy" as Andrew called it, so it was a little scary driving. Thankfully, Andrew drove both up and down the mountain. I only drove on the highway.

It took forever to get up there because the main road that we were supposed to take was closed due to an accident, so we had to take this road (then we got lost) that took us three times longer to get to our destination. But we got there just in time to see the last bit of Catherine's rehearsal. They were playing some hard music for high schoolers. Oh well.

While Andrew and Catherine were in the rec room playing PingPong, I watched some of the college group's rehearal. I saw Daniel there. Isn't that funny? I wasn't expecting to see him there. We both kinda looked at each other like, "What the hell?", and after rehearsal, we talked a little, and then we went out to dinner. Catherine wanted to go to this place called Twin Dragon. It's this huge Chinese buffet place that looks like a car dealership from the outside (it probably used to be). The food was okay, I guess. None of us really ate that much.

We got back to the camp, and watched a chamber music recital that Daniel was actually playing in. So I guess if we wouldn't've seen each other at the rehearsal, we would've seen each other at the recital. Anyways, they played really well.

We left the recital early because we didn't wanna drive down the mountain in the dark. I'm really glad we left when we did because by the time we got to the bottom of the mountain, it was dark.

During the car ride, Andrew and I had this "discussion" about whether the language spoken in this country (aka English) should be called English or American. It kinda got me upset, but then to make it worse, we had that discussion about discrimination on different levels. Arrrghh...afterwards, he says, "If we got married, we'd have really stubborn kids." Damn straight. Between his Irish genes and my Korean genes, our kids are gonna be REAL hard headed.