Where did September go?

Amazing how the time flies when you actually have stuff to fill up your calendar. It seems like the beginning of school was just here. Of course, there were about two weeks where I was twiddling my thumbs, but now that everything has started up, the past two weeks have just flown by.


Like most normal people, Fridays are the days I look forward to the most. For me, Friday night means going out with all of the people I've made friends with at school and having a drink somewhere and generally being social. It's amazing how little I get of that during the week.

Last night, my friend Alexx and I went for a drink right after school and then headed over to my roommate's boyfriend's apartment (did you get that?) for homemade pizzas. Okay, so it wasn't homemade dough, but when you can get a pizza dough that will feed 4 people for 99 cents at Trader Joe's, who would make homemade?? Anyway, they were amazing and good food and good conversation is the best way to spend the end of the week.

I'm loving school more and more. Our orchestra sounds amazing, especially coming from Carolina where there were severe holes in more than one of the sections. It's so great not to worry whether the violins are going to get all the right rhythms or not! I'm so glad that I came from a lesser music program though because one of my friends came from another conservatory and he is such a snob about how our orchestra sounds that if I didn't know any better, he would ruin all of my happiness about finally being in a semi-professional environment. Fortunately, I do know better, so I just smile and nod.

It's frustrating that so much is going on in my life that it's hard to pick and choose what to put in my blog. I have so many thoughts and so many things to share, but they always end up so abbreviated on here.


Let's just say: San Francisco is really cool, I love that I can work in the tourist center and be a native and then the next day get out my windbreaker, fanny pack, and camera and become a tourist looking at all the pretty sights. (Just kidding, I don't have a fanny pack). I love school and I love being around musicians that are just as serious about music as I am, but that are also normal, social, human beings and don't practice for days on end. I love that my school is small and that the atmosphere is so supportive and challenging at the same time. I love working at Williams-Sonoma where I cut down my hours to 15 a week and they still don't care as long as I keep working there. I even love that the weather changes drastically every single day and you don't know whether you're going to get dense fog or bright blue skies and it could change as soon as I enter the city from where I live (closer to the ocean).

So that's life so far in a nutshell.