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Nyaaah. <Yawn>. Tired. But what's to be expected at three-thirty in the morning?

School's been good. I really think it'll be a good semester. I found out I had lunch with one of my best friends, Christina. biggrin Needless to say, I was really happy.

Vocal and piano lessons restarted. My teacher, Ms. Lilly, took a break over Christmas. I didn't practice at all during those two weeks, oops! But when I went there on Thursday and sang my music for NATS [Which is like national association for teachers of singing or something like that], she said that I had improved a lot since last time. o.O. I have to learn to trill my voice for one of my songs, and it's hard. D: Trilling is moving back and forth between two notes really quickly.

But yeah. I went there and she was like "You sound really good today, you have such a beautiful voice!" Apparently, my voice is like newfound talent. I'd always been in my brother's shadow, because he likes to show off and I'm not that egotistical. D: But Ms. Lilly won't stop telling me how I "might actually be better" than my brother. I'm not sure if I should take that as an insult or not. I've been singing since elementary school, my voice is not newfound! D:

Piano will be more of a problem. I'm thinking about just dropping it altogether, because I don't really have time to practice, and our piano is out of tune. I know she'd rather me drop piano than for me to drop singing, since I "have so much raw potential." She makes it sound like I've never done any singing before, so I have no training whatsoever. ;o;.

So for NATS, I had this awesome piano player named Ms. Gunlock, who I loved to death, who WAS going to work for Ms. Lilly and would have been the sole purpose I kept up piano. But she randomly quit last week saying "Jesus told me to leave here," so now I don't have her for a NATS pianist OR a teacher. sad I loved her. She was so nice, and very young. I have a new pianist now, she's nice, but not like Ms. Gunlock. And she plays the pieces wierder. I guess compared to Ms. Gunlock, ANY pianist, good or bad, only sounded like they were banging on the piano. I absolutely adored Ms. Gunlock's piano playing; she composed an entire song out of one line of music that was in unison [not divided into parts, just a single melody], including split melodies in the right and left hands. I'm so envious of her!

But oh, how Ms. Lilly will adore my piano skills, or lack thereof, thanks to Christmas. I've actually forgotten, over Christmas break, a piece that I had memorized nearly perfectly. D:

So tomorrow morning we get more lessons, during which we have to teach me how to trill, she has to scold me over my piano, we'll probably run over my NATS music one or two times, and then we look over my all-state music.

Oh, All-State.

The music this year is HARD. The All-State-ers in the Senior Women's Choir, the choir I'm in, have this one song called Aglepta; my choir director didn't even know how to read it. For those who read music even a little--the five lines in the treble cleff actually begin to scramble around in one measure. At first, I thought it was just because the first time I read it was REALLY late at night, and I was REALLY tired. But when I looked at it in the morning, there it was, a knot of tangled up lines where the treble cleff lines should be. Instead of EFGABCDEF, it was more like FIWHEOITQFNFOBJWQKCVPOQWDWNMVH. biggrin

So I feel like I'm gonna have a tough time with All-State this year. Not that I really wanted to go. I don't think I can miss Calculus, and we'll be way into Limits and Derivatives by the time we audition/go to Savannah to practice in the choir. But my choir director practically begged me to try out, because it was "a once in a lifetime opportunity"...that I've made consecutively since eighth grade. Three once in a lifetime opportunities is enough to make it boring now. :

Anyway, I'm done with today's rant, and I'm hungry, so I'll sign out here and grab a bite to eat before going to bed like a sensible person would. Ciao~.