The Life of a Band Geek: Day 2

I'm excited.
Happy.
Ecstatic.
Nervous.
Anxious.
Pumped.
Joyful.
Fearful.
Confident.
Shy.
All at the same time.

Why though.

One acrynym.

V irginia
M usic
E ducator's
A ssociation

conference is Friday. Yeah the band I'm in is playing there.
Everything is moving so fast.
It's all a blur.
But I remember every detail.

You know?
I realized something today.
My music connects me to so many people.

We were playing a song.
Pageant.
It's like
Page
Ant....
Is that a secret cold I mean code?

Anyways... I just can't help but think.
I am playing a song.
That was composed as a guy had a moment of musical visionary.
I'm am in a way speaking to a dead man.

Lots of other bands of played it concentrating on the same thing I am now.
Clarinets all over the country, world, everywhere, have played, maybe even ARE playing the same I notes I am.
They have worked,are working, will work on the  same things I am.
They just want to make sweet music... So do I.
As I play I think thoughts many before me have thought.
Thoughts on staying in time, tapering, attacks, releases, subdividing, and well, you get it.

Maybe I'm crazy.
Maybe I'm not,
but it sure makes me feel significant.
It makes me feel like I'm a part of something bigger than me.

What about you?

The Life of a Teenage Girl: Day 1

Second post... Fun.


Did you forget me?
With your new friends and boyfriend.
You were my best guy friend...

What am I to you now?

I'm just a bleak small memory
I'm hardly there, right?

Boyfriends...

I'll wait till college.
I don't want to make my friends feel like you make me feel.

Abandon them?
None of that.
Ignore them?
Never shall I.
Make them feel like crap?
Not a chance.

Maybe you'll see how you've changed my life.
For better or worse? Well just see....

~Natalie

The Life of a Band Geek.: Day 1

Woke up today having the utter feeling of dread. I just knew that today would be a bad day. I get to school, and everything is going decent.

Then lunch came. Oh the dreaded lunch in which I mostly sat alone everyday because I know like no one at my new school. Well, that is except for one girl that is incredibly awesome, but we dont' really talk much... At all... I would always glance to the other students in my band class eating wishing I could sit with them, but they all have all their friends. I would feel rude for butting in.

Today, lunch wasn't like that though. No, today a fantastic girl sat with me, and we had a great time! Lunch wasn't so bad today.

After lunch I headed to band. There I faced today's dilemma. :(

Day's Dilemma: Bassoons

Okay, let me give some background on bassoons in my life. I never knew much about the instrument. When my cousin told me she was going to play bassoon, I felt the need to learn about it. I thought it was pretty cool, but it wasn't into this year that I saw one truly.

There sitting in front of me in band in all it's glory is a bassoonist. I mostly just noticed the bassoon though. I couldn't tear my eyes off of it. The sound of the bassoon is fantastical too.

There it is, my dilemma. I can't take my eyes off the bassoon, and now I have trouble paying attention to anything else when one is nearby. I know, that's the most suckish dilemma ever, but it is mine.

Okay, after school we had the fantastic thing called marching band rehearsal. It went incredibly well today! I just felt that things were finally starting to click for this rookie. Of course I still have trouble. Before I was like a drunken duck tripping over myself. Today I was more like a... Graceful swan flailing around.

So, that concludes my day. Well not completely, but I am making pasta now, so I must say bye.

~Natty