well alot of stuff has happened since i posted on here last, but seeing as i DO have premature alzheimers disease i probably won't remember the majority of it. but i'll just talk about the most recent events now before i forget them.

Region band auditions where today...got up at 5:25 then mina me katie and felipe drove over to westfield. once there we warmed up then went to our room which was for bass clarinets and misc. woodwinds (contra alto, e flat alto, english horn, piccolo etc.) so the room was packed once everything got sorted out and the bass clarinets got in there (mina auditioned on contra) there turned out to be 35 bass clarinets which more than there have been in a long time. so we get going Katie got letter B so she had to go second. we played the slow etude and chromatic first, she did perfectly on both. then after other people (i was surprised at how much most of them really sucked, it was like a 7th grade audition) i went on chromatic it went fine then once i got up to 3rd octave it jumped down to second (that NEVER happens on my horn) but it didn't slow me down, or screw me up really so i don't think they took off too much. then was the fast etude, and the E scale 3 octaves (our only 3 octave scale) katie went and i have to say that was really the one and only problem that she really had at all, but she kinda rushed the scale, got ahead of herself. her etude was again, flawless. then after some more crap people and a few good ones (including this one tiny kid from the houston school of performing arts who was way to cocky for his own good) i went through the scale fine. and the etude was okay except for some chirping cuz before we went into the room this kid "accidentally bumped" into my horn, and chipped the reed, the other reed i brought with me wasn't nearly as good (i had spent alot of time customizing this read a.k.a. shaving it to the right hardness trimming top and sides to get a good length/width)s then there was the hard etude and the d flat scale. katie went and again a flawless performance, more people and then i went i don't know what went wrong, i KNOW that scale and i KNOW that etude. but on the scale i completely screwed up at the end of the first octave and had to restart the second octave going up, got through the rest fine, then the etude, i don't know i guess the bad scale got me off track cuz i made i big mistake after the next. i think i could have done alot better. now take in mind (not to be cocky or anything) but when i say i did really bad that doesn't even come close to some of the acoustic torture that wreaked havoc upon the ears of the rest of us. i think if i'd of done that etude and scale better i would have made phase 2 but as it ended up i got 3rd alternate. katie got first in phase 1 (congratulations)

after that katie, me, brent, janalyn, stephanie, felipe went to cliff's for lunch we managed to fit 6 people in brents tiny car, on the way there janalyn had to lay across those of us in the back seat on me on the way back. (HONEY BAKED HAM!!! [u had to be there])we got back and mina had finished then phase 2 i would have gone home but my parents just completely blew me off so i had to wait around for a ride. after that katie got first again (HUGE CONGRATULATIONS!!!!) and so did mina although i have to say it was kinda by default seeing as only 2 contras tried out so they both automatically made it to stage 2 and then of course mina was gonna beat that other guy. so it's just a gimme but still i think both you really have a good chance of going all the way to state. seriously.

so then we went home i did nothing then at 7 went over to alex barrera's house and worked on the huge english project. and that was it.

i said earlier i would talk about the other stuff that happened since i posted last.........i lied

  posted by Unknown @ 9:19 ip.