Well, I've been back in school for a week now, and we already get a long weekend, with it being Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday. I thought this semester was going to be easier... Well, I was wrong about that. It seems that I have more going on this semester than I ever have. I don't have much time off, which concerns me in that I have to prepare for a recital for the end of April.

Concert band auditions were on Monday, and I clinched my first chair spot back after a year of hiatus. Christopher of course has the first spot for the trombones, Kirsten for the horns, Emily Hunt for the euphonium, and Sara Egge for tuba. It seems to me that this year we have more brassy pieces than we have had in previous years. I told Dan that and he got a little upset about that! Jenny Thompson is playing the student solo this year. She is an excellent flute player, and I can't wait to hear her piece.

There isn't much going on this weekend. Andrew is in Montevideo for this birthday. There is pep band tonight, but I don't think I'm going to go. I don't think I'll be able to go out tonight if the Union does not open up so I can cash my check! gr........

So when I got into town on Sunday afternoon, the first thing I did was go to Media Play and I bought Eddie Izzard's "Glorious" and "Definite Article". I shouldn't have bought both of them, but they were there, and I was like "what the hell!" I have been watching them all week, and I still can't get enough!!! To any of you that still have not seen Eddie Izzard, you do not know what you are missing...........