All you can do is love them with all your heart, and hope that they love you back.

Sometimes you meet people and fall in love with them, but then they go away. Wizard of Oz at the Scera just ended and, as much as I wanted a break from sticking mic tape on people, I almost feel like weeping because this cast that I have fallen hopelessly in love with has dissipated and many I may literally never see again. Here's a little tribute to some of the people that made it all worth it.

Jessica Sundwall, Mark Gordan, Travis Hancock, Phillip Varney, Shoni Winkel, Lauren Anderson, Emily Hill, Rob Holcombe, Whitney Call, Melisa Daley, Acelynn Fulton, Suzannah Osmond, And most of all, the two little punks who made my life infinitely better every time I saw them, Austen Bigelow and Sarah Osmond.

I'll not be forgettin' you any time soon you lovely, lovely, people. Thank you so much for your perfect kindness and joy.

Gradumacationation.

In memory of my Graduation today, I shall share a short story:

When my mother was in high school she was a straight A student. One day, she was feeling frustrated that some students got paid by their parents to keep their grades even at a B level, and she didn't get paid for straight A's! So, she explained the situation to my grandma and stated that she should get paid to keep her grades up. My grandmother simply responded, "Okay, you can have a dollar for every B that you get." 

Needless to say, my mom got no money because she liked her 4.0 GPA. Good story, eh?

Anyway, I graduated. I got a cute little piece of paper with ink on it and a yellow rope and a funny hat with a fuzzy thing hanging off of it. I even got to play dress up and wear a blue sheet and walk across a red carpet while old people whom I don't know shook my hand, and then I got a picture with my hero, the high school principal. It was extra special because everybody else did it too! 

That last paragraph was really sardonic, but I don't actually feel that negatively about it, I just wanted to write a sardonic paragraph about graduation because that's fun. Truth be told, graduation was a big moment, and pretty exciting! It symbolizes the transition between blah and blah, and I really like rubber duckies, and MC's speech was pretty funny. I don't feel like writing anything super in depth right now, but let's just say that high school was great. Oh, also playing in the orchestra at graduation was really fun. And I love the people who graduated with me, because they just make my life a joy. Thank you to everybody who has helped me to make it this far; I love you all a lot. 

So... It Has Come To This

The End.

For truly. I just performed in my very last Percussion concert ever. With Timpview, anyway.
And it was fun, because I somehow managed to weasel my way into playing in nearly every song!

First I played in Bien Sobroso, which was a party, and then I played a happy little solo (I wasn't aware that I was supposed to play a solo until today, so I hadn't practiced it in quite a while, and didn't really do very well, but that's okay. I had fun.) After that I played in Slavonic Dance, which I got the music for 2 days ago, and I still managed to play pretty well. I'm proud of myself. Then I played in the Bells, and then Why Not, which I've had the music for for four forevers, so they were easy, but still really fun. Then everybody got to play in Mo Java, which basically means we had a grand old time.

Oh, life is grand when all you have to do is wander around and hit stuff.