Being home alone has been nice. I like to have people over whenever. To cook whenever. Leave whenever. Not like I really go out. I just like that I cleaned it up and since I'm by myself, it's easy to keep it this way.

German II is fine. The first session was a breeze. Not so much a waste of time, because I picked everything up really fast and a lot of things I wouldn't have remembered before. But just like music theory, I would listen for maybe 10 minutes, then do the rest of the work ahead by myself and zone out. It's how I work more efficiently. Sometimes that makes me antisocial in class because I'm not even working on the same things anymore. The second session has 5 people from the first class, and 5 new people. There's one new girl in the class, who makes sure that everyone can tell she doesn't want to be there. Always texting or writings miscellaneous things in a journal. So our teacher always tells her to put away her phone, or whatever. I feel bad because she probably hates our teacher, but our teacher is not someone that you need to hate. She's not doing anything wrong.

I want to move to Waco. 3 weeks and I'll be done with school and ready to live in Waco. I want to start marching band and a full time schedule.

Whenever I log onto Xanga, it's mostly to read what's going on in everyone else's lives. Then I look and see I haven't written in a long time. Oh well. Nothing interesting goes on that often. I've been working and going to school mostly. I don't bother to go out to see anyone much. Well, I'll try to make plans but they never end up happening.

I'm glad I'm in German right now. I really like that language. And I want to visit Germany more than ever. That would be my ideal trip after graduating. Save up and pay for it all by myself. Hah. I'm saving up all of my tips right now for a euphonium. I was going to wait until TMEA in February, but that's just so far away. 1/2 a year would be gone before I'd have it. So now I get stressed when my manager only puts me on to work for one night a week. Glad I'm appreciated enough to be put on the schedule.

This weekend, I visited Christina in Waco. I was so glad to be back. Everything seemed slightly different. When I drove back on I35, I felt like I was on the wrong road most of the time because it had been so long. I like the apartment. But I keep stressing about what it will be like sharing that small room with Tessa. And to add onto that, I'm pretty sure the room Christina took to herself is somewhat bigger than the one Tessa and I will have... Not positive, but if it is, that will bother me all year. No idea how 2 beds and 2 desks will fit into this small ~11x11 room with one corner and 4 doors.

My parents are going on a 2 week Alaskan cruise this summer for their 35th wedding anniversary. I would be going with them... except I have summer school. Damn. But at least I will have the house to myself for some 17 days. That will be interesting. Probably lonely, but at least I can leave any time without giving my where abouts.

I haven't been practicing my euphonium. At all. I just have no motivation because I have nothing specific to practice. I get by every week during the semester because I am given something to practice and play the next week. But now, that's gone for now. I bought a new guitar a few weeks ago. I've been trying to practice that. Wrong instrument I need to be practicing.

Our Tuba Euphonium studio was invited to play in Washington D.C. at a tuba euphonium conference at the end of January. Probably only because of our professor since we're not that great at playing as an ensemble imo. We might have to pay part of our way though because the Chamber Orchestra is going to Europe and the School of Music is funding a lot of that. What the heck. If a lot of us can't pay if we have to, it will most likely be canceled. Just like our invitation to play at ITEC in Arizona this year.

I've been running with Veronica in the mornings and my dad at night. That's going well. Only one week into the program though. I got a new phone. Finally. I will enjoy not having to delete texts every other day. Or restarting my phone several times a day. Hell yeah.