Dream a Little Dream

Wow. So it took a few days, but this semester is finally off to an amazing start! I'm finally in Cynthia Hoffmann's studio, which I wanted originally, and I've realized that this really makes all the difference. You have to know that you're in the right place and on the right track, or nothing else matters. Something was just off last semester (slash the entirety of last year), but I am incredibly excited to get it back on! Start of a new year! I'm already so much happier to go to school every day, and little things that seemed so tedious before now seem perfectly fine! And I've been so much more productive this week! I finally got a locker at school so I don't have to carry my coat around all day. That is quite nice.

Ok, I just breaked to watch The Office. Nothing really happened this week. . . but I LOVE the show now! hahah!! Thanks to Corey, I'm completely caught up and obsessed.

So any other news? Oh! I saw Benjamin today! We got coffee, and it was amazing. We'd seen each other twice randomly in the city, but today we finally met and caught up! It was so wonderful. It's been four summers since our beautiful summer in Italy, so I am quite proud that we have stayed in touch! He started his own theater company, so I'll be going to see them perform at some point next month. How exciting for him!!!

Oh, and Olivia, thank goodness, is ready to buy New Moon, meaning she has become at least a little bit hooked on Twilight!!! Which really couldn't make me happier. It is perfection in a bottle. Except it's not actually in a bottle.

I'm still reading Pride and Prejudice, and really need to finish so I can watch the movie. It's been a while since I've actually read any of it. . . .woops. But now I can put a picture of Colin Firth on here, as he is quite gorgeous.
DREAMY!!!!

Back in the Saddle

So it is the start of another semester. I'm sitting in bed, listening to Franki Valli and the Four Seasons, and staring at my computer screen.
Today was my first day back at school. After the end of the last semester, I really needed to recharge, refresh, and "re-positize" myself. Going home is really the cure for this every year. After being home with my family for a few weeks, I'm grounded and happy and ready to take on the world! This time, however, when getting back to school, something was still off. I really can't put my finger on it. I'm still positive and happy, and making all efforts to do things to make my life full and exciting, but something is missing. I'm still in the process of adjusting a few things in regards to school, so perhaps this is what's subconciously affecting things. I'm hoping this is the case. I bought a beautiful new planner today to help with the excitement of a new year! It's 2009! We're growing up so fast, I can't handle it!
Jake came up with me this weekend to help because I had far too much stuff to bring up on my own. It was nice, though, because he hadn't been to visit yet! (Insanity, I know.) We got off later than we'd planned, of course, but we toured Broadway, ate at the very New York-ish "Chipotle," and saw The Curious Case of Benjamin Button at Lincoln Center, which was so beautiful. I loved it. Amazing story, not to mention Brad Pitt looked quite lovely. Then on Sunday we ate at Tom's Diner, went to Target to get some school supplies, and walked around the city some more. We were tired. Haha

Also, I am going home tomorrow night to be there when my mom has her surgery on Wednesday. I hope it goes well and she gets all better. Prayers are appreciated. :)
I realized today that being reminded why we're doing what we're doing and how much we love what we do is really the key to the world. No matter what hardships are occuring, or how boring school may be, or whatever the case, we need to remind ourselves how much we love what we do, and that we were given these gifts for a reason. Music is amazing.
"Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies." ~Edward George Bulwer-Lytton