Hard Head

It's spring!  Well almost... and the real way to tell that is to watch the roads and sidewalks.  When the scooters, skateboards, bikes and motorcycles start coming out it means snow is going byeby.  I finally dug my bike out from under my bed and put it together.  After wrestling with it for a half hour or so I got the wheel back on and pumped back up.  It's a Giant Sedna with black and teal colors.  (If you don't know that's actually a pretty good bike)  I got it because I begged my father to buy me a bike for campus.  My campus is HUGE!  If I didn't have a bike I'd be late to every single class.  But with my bike- I'm on time. :)

And the bike club is starting back up- I had to miss the Girls Only ride that was yesterday because I was at the game... WHICH WE LOST! :(  Awww.... and in the last 2 seconds too.  The ref gave us a bad call and gave the other team 2 free-throws so there was no way to win unless we made that last half-court shot that tends to end every game.  But we were killing BU!! Seriously, we were ahead the entire time and our band and fans were the most fun to watch.  Or at least that's what I heard from people who had family watching the game.  Which after such a long day- wake up at 3, walk across campus 4:00, get on bus 4:30, leave 5:00, arrive 10:00, game, leave 3:00, home 9:30- was quite encouraging.  Especially since BU had a band there too- ours was better. The band won. So there.

But back to the bikes!  No one wears helmets!  And no one gets out of the way!  It's sooo frustrating trying to ride to class on the bike paths and having to go slow because people refuse to move over.  It's not like they have to stay like that forever... and my bike can't go through the fence to go around.  About the helmets- is it really that hard to wear one?  My brother had a terrible crash on his bike, and it wasn't because someone ran into him or because he ran into somebody- we don't know what it was (we think the sidewalk crack might have caught the wheel wrong) but that helmet was the only reason he had a concussion and not a coffin.  I wear one because it's a better idea to- and I wish everyone else would do the same.  It's sad that the bike club has to ask if people have helmets to bring on the rides off campus because most people don't have one.  >.< you see this is why people get hurt!  It's hard enough to weave in and out of people moving in different directions and speeds without having to worry that if you do wipeout you'll kill your head.  Just wear a helmet- it's not that bad.  Or if you're not going to do that- please stop giving me dirty looks for wearing one.  I'd rather be that dork with the helmet than a cool dead person.

Wish me luck for Tuesday and Friday this week!  I'm leading a rehearsal for the ensemble on Tuesday, first time ever that the rehearsal is all mine.... nervous!! And Friday I'm at the museum for the day then I have to head back in time to attend the Belly Dance Performance at 8.  So I gotta get to the subway, to the train station and back to the Union in time!  I hope the city doesn't ruin my chance to get there.

That's it for now.  Until later peeps!  Wear your helmets!

Looooong weekends and Sloooow mondays

Oh man this weekend has been soooo long! I don't even know what happened.  I think I forgot I had a blog and now it's been forever since I posted. :P  Sorry peeps but I've been doing SO MUCH STUFF!  First of all, I finally finished the RA process to apply to be a Resident Assistant next semester.  I had a resume, cover letter, interview, group process and setting up a new email account just to get through the application process.  Talk about intense.... I've never even done an interview before- so I had no idea what to expect.
We ended up talking about the trombone and how I'm an Irish Viking.  I'm not sure what that means but they wrote it at the top of the papers. Here's hoping! **crosses fingers*

I also started a pottery class- wheel throwing.  You know- making pottery on the wheel thing?  I'm terrible but it's so much fun! :D  I need to get a shirt that I don't care about so I can wear it in case I get clay on it.  Thankfully I haven't ruined anything yet.  I've made a little creamer type pot and I'm trying to make a candle holder- just a cylinder with a lid to hold a tea light with stars and designs cut out in it.  We learned how to make lids last Saturday but I'm not sure how well mine turned out.  I'll give you an update after it dries.

Let's see what else have I been up to?  I found this really interesting movie called "Boys don't cry".  I haven't made it all the way through yet but its really good so far.  It's about a transgender guy(girl) and their life- it's really cool.  Or at least it is halfway through.

Oh!  Something really awesome is happening at school!  There's a student group that is getting the musical "Once Upon a Mattress" put on this semester.  We've already learned most of the songs and are getting the choreography down.  We're going to sing our opening number in a couple weeks to raise awareness of the show and if I can I'll get the video posted.  It's really fun- everyone wants to be there and we sound good!  (which anyone who's been in a musical can relate to good singers make it better)  I've never been in "Once Upon a Mattress" but we rewrote the script a little bit so we don't have to pay that incredible amount of money for it.  I'm going to see if I can get music and do a parody of the musical "Oliver!"  I'm so excited about it!

I also had all my midterms last week.  >.<  Ugh I'm soooo glad they're over!  Now I just have to some homework for the week... but it should be pretty easy and relaxing after last week.  I'm in the musical and staged readings (it's basically like a normal play run except it's 5 short scenes done in a quicker period).  The rehearsals are keeping me really busy.  But theatre is my passion- I LOVE IT!  The challenge of keeping everything in order just makes it so much more rewarding when you finally perform and its awesome!

Until later peeps- I gotta go to math