Fail

So.. My family is on Spring break and yesterday marked the begining of my Easter bread. They came down last night to Myrtle Beach and I had to work but drove to get here this afternoon. I was hoping that some or any of my friends would be able to join me otherwise I would spend the entire vacation with my family. Which would be okay in normal families but my brothers are much younger than me and the only one close to my age has been through major surgury and I can't believe he is out of his hospital bed and swimming in a pool today. He was supposed to be bedridden for six months and he just had the surgury in February. I mean, I'm glad he is healing well and very quickly but at the same time it'd be a really big deal if something ever so slightly did go wrong.
Anyway, I drove down here to spend time with the family and all they have seem to manage is drive each other crazy and make me so frustrated I wish I had a hotel room to myself! And it doesn't help that there are all these hot college guys on break as well just everywhere at the beach or amongst the six hot tubs, two full size pools, two lazy rivers and lounging around. Man oh man. I don't have any of my girlfriends with me because they either went home for break, have family visiting, work, or homework desperatly needing attention. Of course. I finally have a whole like four days off of work and all of a sudden now I'm the one available and everyone else is busy. Back to my point about the guys.. Theres tons of opportunities to flirt and have a good time lounging or chatting in a hot tub but without a girl companion it kindof is odd for a girl to go doing these things by herself. Very odd. And an even odder thing is trying to have your younger brothers as your hang-around companion. Kill me now. Such a frustrating situation.
And for the last few hours, instead of walking the strip and having a good time in the nightlife of Ocean Blvd. I'm stuck in the hotel room watching cartoon network and..in a hotel room for goodness sake.
I can't wait to be back home in good ol Wilmington!
Why are all my out-of-town vacations always such an epic faliure?

Papers..

So I am horrible at writing papers and the like. I do really well with narratives and freewrites because I can just write what I feel and how I percieve the world around me. Our next assignment is an argumentative paper and in order to do my best I've decided to write on the issue of myspace and facebook and internet profiling and all that jazz. This is a subject I feel I have the most emotion, care, decisive standpoint on.
I love being able to go online and make jokes and chat with people when it's inconvenient to be in actual conversation. I greatly prefer to speak with people directly but I can't always be where my other friends are and with as many friends that I have its sad not to be able to stay connected with them. In these ways and others online social networking can be a major benefit to those individuals with a busy schedule and getting in touch with friends.
Other times though online social networking has become so popular that some people are what we call "addicted" to checking facebook status' and posts that the whole idea of it becomes ridiculus.
There has to be undertanding and a knowledge of how much facebook and myspace is enough. When people let it get to extreme points and even stalkerish, it becomes too much. From my point, none of that makes sense because people should have enough sense to moderate and be intelligent with the technology we have been accustomed to. I am not excited about writing another paper in all honesty but at least I think I can do well and get into this topic and argument.

Weekends.. and dead phones

This past weekend has been pretty interesting and filled with lots of accomplishments. I am very proud to say that I had a rough Friday morning but pulled through and even snuck in three full, continuous hours of studying for a history test I had today. Friday night I went to my high schools ensemble Beauty and the Beast musical. I dressed up for the occasion and was blown away by the music, singing, stage, costumes and everything that went into the musical. It was the best production our school has ever put on and it took so much effort from so many people. It was absolutely amazing though and I was completely blown away by how amazing my good friends are!! I loved it so much, despite sitting with my mother and my old calc teacher. I miss being in the band so much and it was so good to see everyone again!
Saturday was interesting as well.. I was in the middle of two hours of studying when I got a call saying I was supposed to be selling girl scout cookies at Foodlion in Carolina Beach. Yes, I'm still a girl scout; 14 years and damn proud! Well, traditionally, after we empty a cardboard case of cookies, I take them and slide into them one by one till I wear them like a dress:)I go out in the parking lot and dance and make up these crazy songs about buying cookies. It makes the time go faster and I have a ton of fun doing it and just being utterly ridiculus, no matter how old I get!
Sunday I ended up with a stomach bug and therefore I slept the entire day.. I tried to call in to work but that phone call didn't go well with the boss lady. She told me to rest up and call her later..but for some reason or another, when I woke up around dinner time, my phone was completely blank and would not turn on. I have been without phone calls and the such for about two days and I kinda would like it back. That was fun, but I have things I was supposed to do and people I needed to meet with. I believe my parents might think I'm dead and we were supposed to be looking at apartments today and now I need to get a new phone... It just sucks. I have a hard time getting in touch with people to begin with and this just doesn't help.

No Football....

Although I'd really like so see a football team at UNCW I'm required to look into and blog about why we shouldn't have a team. I'm a band geek and would love to get involved in a marching band. The season is so much fun and we become close friends who have an amazing time.
Anywho...
Without a football team at our university there is more funding for academics, research, tuitions, and scholarships. Shouldn't that be where our financial focus should be anyway? Students attend college to gain opportunities and furthur their education. While they are at college they should have all the resources available to them that they need, when they need it and where they need it. Keeping a campus thriving and benificial is enough of a priority to be a financial focus.
Sports are a major part of student life on campus and there are enough club sports around and available to all peoples that there isn't much of a need to fund a major college football team. If a student wants to play football all they need to do is join a flag football club team or find a group of guys that you already know to go out and play a game of football. An official traveling, major competing football team would take much time from the student and, like every sport, it could either make or break a student. Some can balance sports and academics very well, while others struggle through and even hold sports above their academics.
A football team requires financial committment and the time and efforts of many.

violence...

I'm not sure which themes I would like to compare in my upcoming essay. I would like it to be something I care about and something that, to be honest, will provide me with a good grade. Pop culture and the medias influence on this generation has always been an extremely difficult issue for me. I see their influence in children younger than me especially because of my siblings and constant surrounding of younger kids in my life. It frustrates, angers, concerns me and makes me sad to see what is important to them as compared to what was interesting to me and my generation back when we were their age.It differs so much and I feel that the media has brought so many unnecessary aspects of adult and negative life into theirs. I see the effects first-hand and has always been a 'button' for me. Mostly I have problems with the introduction and accessability of violence through popculture and the media to younger ages. It is a very important issue and is portrayed in very different ways through media mediums.
I would like to write my second essay, I think, on the subject of violence through a visual, movies, and text, action books. I've done really small papers before on the topic but I still feel very strongly about the topic and I'm still interested in researching and pursuing for the final product. Eh.. there are so many issues and themes present in pop culture today that its hard to choose just one to compare and contrast. These papers that will be done in for class will vary sooooo much and all will have different points to make and ways of making them. Its kinda exciting in a dorky way.

Friends!

I love friends! It is my ultimate favorite show! All the characters are hilarious and so relate. Sometimes I feel so much like Phoebe. As much as I don't like to go out and say it, but I really do act a lot the same. I am very blonde and have the same oblivious moments.
I feel My group of friends are not like that at all in any way, but we're in a different time of our lives than those on the show. Right now I'm a 17 year old in college, with a small group of friends from the dorms and classes and I'm still in all the relationships I've had my whole life only 30 minutes down the road. My friends at home, that I see on a fairly regular basis, are the friends I love to death and would do anything for. I don't know where everyone will be next fall when they all go off to their colleges and actually leave Wilmington. I know we will always have Carolina Beach though. When we have breaks and holidays we will always get together and have a good time. Who knows. I'll never know for sure but this has been home to us for our entire lives and we've always had each other.
Oh man!!I hate commercials so much! They are annoying, aggrivating,and I would absolutely love them to die!
Anyway, I love friends. Old, new, present, real life or the best tv show. They are people who are there for you and share some of the funnest moments with.

West Highland Sojourne

It is so difficult to choose my favorite song or just one song at that for a matter of fact. I have been a band kid since the beginning of 6th grade and I love just about every genre of music and thousands of songs in between. I love listening, playing, performing, dancing to and singing to music. It is a major part of my life (besides the beach, family and friends) and I'm not sure what I would do or how I would live without it.

I chose the peice West Highland Sojorne, mainly because I love the sound of it and because of its significance in my life. My 8th grade band played this peice for a concert in the spring and because I was sitting and acheived first chair clarinet I happened to have the one major solo in the middle of the second movement. Not only was it nervewracking and terrifying, I had no one else in the entire band playing a single note. When it came time for Ms. Weaver to cue my entrance the band died away behind me and I was the only voice of the whole theatre. I found out years later that my best friend who played the second part in the clarinet section also had a solo at the same time as I but she was a soft player and even more nervous and terrified than I was.

That was the only solo I've ever had in my entire band career. I've been a part of small group ensembles and had a few solo parts that way, but as a whole band there hasn't arose the opportunity to play a solo again. Well, after I got into highschool I met Laura. She is the same year as me but as a freshman she sat as second chair to the drum major, the only reason she wasn't first chair. While I sat in the third row playing third part in the clarinet section. In high school it was different and starting out everyone was older and better than me. I didn't like it but I had lots of room for improvement and I came to realize that Laura was just simply amazing and some sort of clarinet prodigy and no one after that first year was ever going to be better than her at Ashley High School.
West Highland Sojorne is a very spirited peice of music and my favorite peice I've ever played. It was just a fun peice! We performed it in competition that spring and I remember it being the scariest thing in the entire world but I belted it out and actually did really well. I do have one other particular memory about this peice and that was at competition as well. O'Malley, our chimes player in the percussion section had a major solo as well at the end of the third movement. When it came to his solo, the whole band was supposed to be quieter and let the chimes come through over the whole band. Well, right in the middle of his major part, he is clanging away at the chimes and the whole thing falls to the ground in a broken heap of wire and metal chimes! It was crazy and something I will never forget!!