How long?

Wow, has it really been this long since I posted? I really intended to give you one right after my birthday, but I kept getting distracted. I was going to gripe about government offices randomly being closed on Mondays and share about Alice the lunchlady who chatted with me while we waited to renew our licences. I would also have described how the waiters at Guadalahara sang to me in Spanish. We might have even pondered the meaning behind birthday cake signs. You know, I think we're going to do this one even though it's old. We all know what it means if one or more candles remain lit after blowing them out. But what about blowing a piece off the cake? could that portend something even more disastrous? Or maybe I just have a good, strong set of lungs.

LifeLight was absolutely amazing. I was front row for Audio Adrenaline's last major festival performance ever and was actually involved in the show. And we met some cool new bands, like Leeland. If you want more stories, ask me in person. There's just no way to do it justice here. Plus, I'm too lazy today to type that much.

We've had a great time since campus filled up with people again. I met Dianna's friend Shane at LifeLight (the three of us went to Perkins Sunday night, where I learned he's a head-patter). And hanging out in Adam's room we had the most amazing conversation with friends newly made and reunited. I now know a real, bona-fide cowboy named Sam. He's really good at lazer tag--he creamed us all at Gigglebee's last night.

Classes look to be good this semester. I'll keep busy with plenty of reading, but I think I'm going to enjoy it. My schedule is so spread out that I don't know yet how to organize my days and make sense of it all. My open mornings are going to be great for getting some writing and things done once I get used to the idea and can focus properly.

The music department has certainly changed, and I am now convinced that it is for the better. We're getting new choir dresses, and in band we're going to have just a dress code, no uniform. Tomorrow we audition for chairs, which still leaves me nervous, but we'll just see how things go. Jeff (the new director) seems like a good guy, and he's been very understanding of the complicatedness of me so far. It probably helps that I sought him out to talk about what was going to happen with the program this year and have volunteered to be on the band council. Now we just have to find the brass players hiding among our classmates and conscript them to play with us.

Oh, and tonight we're going to a free concert of Seventh Day Slumber and Last Tuesday. Woot!

-Kim