First Day of Classes!!

Dear Friends,

Today is my first day of classes. I've barely had a minute to myself to write much of anything before now due to the crazy orientation stuffs here at CUA, so I thought I'd try to get a few words in before my 9am theory class this morning....

I absolutely adore CUA. It is breathtakingly beautiful (yes, I will post pictures... perhaps a photoshoot with Risa today? Or Laura? That would be fun!), has all the appearances and comforts of living in the country - I've even got those stupid cicadas outside my window - but all the convenience of a major metropolis right in my grasp. DC is a beautiful city too... and I already found a Payless. ;) Most of the buildings are absolutely beautiful. The Basilica takes your breath away... you don't have to be Catholic to revel in the magnificence of the church (although it becomes even more incredible when you understand the significance behind everything). The other main buildings are all super old-world looking, as though we were in eighteenth century London rather than modern DC. They're the typical rough stone, glorious towers and spirals... it's like have class in a bunch of mini castles. The buildings that aren't built like that are mainly the residence halls, which are brick... but that's okay, we forgive them. The other building that isn't stone is the Pryz, which is basically the student lounge/dining hall. The Pryz is incredibly modern, made almost entirely of glass windows on the open sides, which is really amazing.

There are lots of lawns and open areas, a Marian garden that is simple but beautiful, and a huge sports complex (Devante, I thought you might like that piece of information). All in all, CUA is, well, amazing. :D

I have a few people I've made friends with here, mostly musical theatre people. There's Risa, Laura, James... and Anna my roommate, although we really don't hang out, we just kinda live together, lol. So yeah... that's about it for now, I guess. Any questions, post 'em! I'm headed off to class soon. On the schedule for today: Music Theory (fml) at 9, Theatre I at 10, Women's Chorus at noon, and French at 1. After that, I'm actually free today... might go to Tenley for a USB cord at Best Buy, lol.

Tata for now!

Jade

Farewell, Little Town....

Farewell, little town,

I'll miss you dearly.

I may not miss the repugnant smell

Of manure on the hottest days of all,

Or driving behind tractors

Who don't drive but crawl,

But your laughs and smiles,

Your beauty in the fall...

Yes, these I will miss,

For you've served me well.

Farewell, little town,

Not for good,

But for all.

Farewell, sweet town,

I'll not forget you yet.

How could I forget

The sweet smell of the rain,

Or when the stars sparkle

'Through a night and not in vain.

I won't forget a thing,

My homeplace and my birth,

For it was here I became myself

With sorrow and with mirth.

Farewell, little town.

Farewell, my town,

I must now bid you adieu.

I'll return, and surely soon,

But me you'll not be able to woo.

I'm going away,

I'm flying high,

But little town,

You'll always be in the back of my mind.

You hold my heart and my every dream,

My life, my love, my every scream.

You keep my secrets and hold my fears,

But I must go,

And 'through the years

Must grow and find

And new little place,

But you, sweet little town,

I will not disgrace.

I love you all,

My hope and my joys,

My fears, my dreams,

And all destroyed.

My home is here,

And will always be,

But I must flee, little town,

I must go find me.

Farewell, little town. <3

NCIS :)

I hate the Odyssey. I love NCIS. :D

Soo... here we go. I'm still almost completely packed, haha, but refuse to be completely done yet. I still have just a few items to get, but I'm mostly ready. I can't wait! Four days, people! :D

I miss my boy though. I know he's busy and I have to accept that... it's hard because, well, it doesn't matter when I'm talking to him, where, he always has something else to do. He hung up quickly the other because his parents called and he wanted to talk to them instead. He hung up last night for, well, no good reason. I really don't want to be at the bottom of the totem pole. I hate being at the bottom of the totem pole. It sucks. I'd like to be the most important person in his life, I should be.

And this is bitchy of me, I know... is it?

Wow.

Sooo... I'm almost completely packed for college. I have no clue how everything is going to fit into the car! I've got two massive clothing bags, two normal-sized bins, two (possibly three) pretty pink storage cubes, a microwave, carpeting, a suitcase (full of stuff), a shower caddy, another box full of books and such... wow. That's a lot of stuff.

And believe it or not, I actually packed a lot less than what I've got. It's weird, packing up half of my life to take someplace completely different. I'm soo excited, I can't wait to be in the city! But it will be quite odd... the next time any of this stuff comes out of hiding will be in a teeny little college dorm room, just waiting to be used when I finally get ten seconds to breathe (and unpack!) I have the funny feeling it's gonna remain packed away for a goodly amount of time... at least a day or two, anyway.

How does one decide what to take, what to leave? You don't want to take anything incredibly valuable, just in case something happens... but neither do you want to leave everything you love at home. I packed up my scarf from Bells Are Ringing, but left my pearls in my dresser drawer for now. The question is, will I need them when it comes time for the military balls? Eh, perhaps, perhaps not. I suppose I could have Mom and Dad mail them to me.

Music, I packed my music today. I put every cd I own on my laptop so I'd have the music with me, but sheet music was a little harder. Out of my ginormous library in my bedroom I managed to narrow down the books to my favorites. It's funny, you can tell practically everything about me from the books (and music) I'm taking:

- Two binders full of sheet music

- A smaller binder with the songs I've written in it

- Three B'way compilation books

- Phantom

- Les Mis

- "Essential Keyboard Repertoire"

- Edith Piaf

- Bad Girls of the Bible

- Really Bad Girls of the Bible (if Jenn ever gives it back to me :\)

- After the Storm (romance)

- Safe Haven (romance)

- The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

- La Sante Bible

- Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews

- Princess in Pink by Meg Cabot

- The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

- The Complex Infrastrucure of the Female Mind by Reliant K

- Isabel, Crown Jewel of Castilla

- Elizabeth I, Red Rose of the House of Tudor

- Marie Antoinette, Princess of Versailles

- Lilith by George MacDonald

- Tresors du Temps (a French textbook)

- Dictionary of French Deceptive Cognates

- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

- Two Catholic Bibles

There might be a few more undiscovered treasures that I simply must take, but I do believe that is the majority of them. So yeah... all of that packed into one little Walmart Cube. It's almost like I'm getting married, all the stuff I'm packing up... except that I'm not. :\ Lol, oh well. Eventually....

So that's about it for today. I'm still struggling through Homer... somebody should've killed this guy before he got the chance to write the bloody Odyssey. End of story. :P

Tonight... feeling a li'l bit scared about, well, everything. Mainly school. I'm excited and all, don't get me wrong... but all the typical stuff seems to be multiplying. I graduated from a teeny tiny little school in the middle of nowhere. What if everyone else is better than me? Pathetic, I know. What if I can't keep up? I couldn't even master AP Bio, I mean, c'mon! Urg... I guess I'm not really in much of a writing mood tonight. :\

A good thing: I've discovered that I actually adore the show Good Luck Charlie. It's so cute! I want to hold a baby now though....

I Is A Sleepy Girl....

Well, today was my senior recital and graduation party! It was absolutely phenomenal. :D

The recital came first. I sang quite the variety of music, from the "heart-wrenching" Send In the Clowns to the ever-popular... well... "Popular!" It was a great success, I almost wish I could do it again. But it was fun while it lasted, and I learned a lot. It was also great to get to spend the last bit of time when I'm home with so many special people.

After the recital we had the party. Mrs. Gillott came, Mrs. Wagner and Mrs. Rapson, and most of my family. It was absolutely wonderful! I will definitely upload pictures and video when I get them.

Now, however, I am so exhausted, so I am going to eat my cake and icecream and fall asleep watching The Nanny. :)

G'night all!

Sooo...

So, that resolve to post every day? Totally forgot about it until now... not that there's much to say, lol. I've been watching too much NCIS... if someone wanted to kill me, they could totally go through this page, haha.

But yeah... Sunday is my senior recital and graduation party. I'm stoked, but kinda sorta scared senseless, lol. I've never given a recital and had to perform all by myself before. But yeah.

I'll try to start this up after that... I'm far too exhausted to bother anymore right now though. :P