Live Life Update

I haven’t posted on my blog in far too long, so I decided I would write something — anything. This blog has been idle for quite some time.

School has been overwhelming.  I have, perhaps, overcommitted myself.  I currently have to get myself ready for a vocal solo for regional contest this Saturday.  I’ve sung solos before, but never before have I been rated on them.  I plan to continue music into my collegiate career.  If I do well this weekend, I will pursue my vocal-music aspirations with confidence, and if I don’t do well, I will probably pursue these aspirations just the same.

I’m doing poorly in every aspect of all academics right now.  My story for newspaper class is late, a forty-point assignment in English class is late, and I’ve got a “C” in my precalculus class.  Newspaper class and English class can be easily overlooked (and, in fact, ignored) with little consequence, but if I do not achieve at least a “B” in my precalculus class, I will have wasted over $500 of my parents’s money.  Taking classes for college credit has its advantages and its high expectations.   At this rate, I’m not in good standing with either.

I do not wish to seem depressing; my life, really, is pretty awesome.  I participated in a worship band last night at The Foundry’s evening worship service.  I played my saxophone while my cousin Daniel led with his vocals and a keyboard.  I haven’t played in a band like that since I went to Taiwan over the summer.  I half-expected my asian uncle Matt to be jumping and dancing in the front row, as is his custom.

To top all of this off, I don’t know where my cell phone is.  I had it last Friday or Saturday, but I have gone the entire work week thus far without it.  I didn’t really miss it until tonight when I thought of some funny things I would have liked to text to my friends.  At that moment, I was taken by the fact that I had not the ability to send said text.

Life sure has an interesting way of shifting.  Unfortunately, I’m not much enjoying the shift I’m in, but I know that experiencing and conquering these times will have been good for me when I am on the other side of this hill.

 

P.S.  This is not an April Fool’s joke.

~ by demo318 on April 1, 2009.