The only person I ever date is a fictional character. But man he's hot!!!

I am a Sarah split in two. Cleanly and neatly, not the messy way it's sometimes done. It sucks. I wish I could just make up my mind. I really really want to come home but I also really really really really don't want to come home and work. Boo! If I could be up here without school perhaps I would do it. I don't know. I also really want to see my family and friends so there's that. All I really know is I am done with school. Well I want to be, I still have the worst 2 weeks of school left. And my brain is shutting off. It needs a break.

At least all the drama with accompanists is over. I hope. Here's the official crazy story of it. First Morgan said she could do it, but then halfway through the semester she couldn't anymore. Then I asked lady who everyone said could definitely do it, but she couldn't. Then I asked Laura's accompanist and she couldn't. Plus I e-mailed about a billion people who never got back to me. (Cuz I hate calling people. Yes I'm stupid I know) Then one of Carrie's friend said she could do it, and she was legit, like a piano major and all that. But then her uncle died and so she couldn't anymore. And I totally don't blame her. These things happen. So it was a week before juries and I didn't have an accompanist. So I called my Aunt Pam, and she said she could do it, but I feel bad for asking so much of her in just a week. I'll have do something really nice. Sigh. Drama drama. I hate it. And there wasn't even a boy involved.

In other news, its really really snowy outside. Walking to church, it was a little cloudy and really windy, but fine, and when we left it was a freakin' blizzard!!!! Powdery nasty stuff flying everywhere! And we had a dinner with our FHE group which was really fun. We had hawaiian haystacks with african curry. it was really good. Plus one of my FHE brothers made monkey bread and even though I was really really full I still had some. Mmmmmmmmmmmmm

Oh, and yesterday, our band had a West side story party and also a cook-out because we're playing songs from West side story in our concert. So Nyssa and I made fruit pizza. Only I bought pre made sugar cookie dough and they made better cookies than a pie, so we just put some fruit on all of the cookies and make them into a caterpillar named Larry. And he won me a $15 gift certificate to the bookstore. Boo ya!

I was going to go to the Watkins this evening but I din't on account of the freak blizard we had. I'll have to go over there tomorrow. I have to rehearse anyway. But tomorrow is also the closing social for our ward. It's formal or sunday best (Oscar night themed) so I'm going to wear my prom dress (the pink one) and one of my roomies might wear the white one. I'm kinda excited to have an excuse to wear my prom dress! I'm sure I'll tell you all about it later. So, as Emily says, peace and recycle.

Quickie. For my mother.

Hey mostly this is just to put up a picture of me and my trombone after the university band concert. It was really fun although this is probably the nerdiest picture of me in existence. And I love it!!

We'll never survive!....Nonsense, you're only saying that because no one ever has!

Hi. How are you? I'm good. I'm tired. I am tired of school. Tttttiiirrred. I'm getting burnt out. I just want it all to be over with. Siiiigh. I really do. But I'm also going to miss all my friends up here. My roomies, my flute friends, all of them. It's an evil circle. When I'm here I want to go home, when I'm home, I want to be here. Sssssssssssiiiiiiiiiiiiiigggggghhhhhhh.

I still haven't found an accompanist...I've asked like three people but none of them have been very comittal. I'm just gonna have to grit my teeth and get someone. Blah.
In other news Amanda came up on Thursday, it was pretty fun. She came up to get her cap and gown and generally do things that need doing before graduation. But she took me to lunch at Craigos and then to dinner at Taco Bell. Mmm that's healthy living for ya. That evening I had a flute choir concert, we played Petite Suite by Debussy. But there was hardly anyone at the concert. Then that evening I found out my frind Chris got his mission call so we all went over to see him open it. He's going to the Everett Washington leaving at the end of June. I'm so excited for him!

Friday....mmmm....what happened Friday? Uhhhhhh all I remember is Friday evening Nyssa and I watched Iron Man and then did DDR 'til like midnight. It was pretty fun. Oh, and we had a RS enrishment activity that night. It was really good. Since Nyssa's the enrichment conselor she planned and did a lot of work on it. She did real well.

Saturday I had a make-up flute lesson at nine, then trombone sectionals, then a concert at 3:00. The flute choir played, and then I played Telemann fantasie #3 in b minor. If I can figure it out I'l see if I can put the video of me playing up here. Or down below whatever. :P After that, Carrie Saral Felix and I went to the DI to get ties for our university band concert, then messed around looking at all the ridiculous things they have for sale there. I got BYU mens choir CD for $1.00
it was awesome! After that we ended up picking up Amber and her sister and going to Wingers. It was really yummy but too expensive. Then I came home and did homework like a responsible little girl.

Today is Sunday, we're watching the Princess Bride hence the random quote at the top. Hopefully I get all the Sunday things done I want to get done.
K bye.

So much to say!! And so little time to say it....ha ha actually not really.

So it's been quite awhile since I've updated this, sorry. Man life just seems to be happening around me and I kind of just sit and watch it pass by trying to do as much as a can with what I have. It's kind of frustrating. Uhhhhh ok.

What happened? WELL I don't really remember what happened all last week....bad memory. I know that I tried to find and accompanist all week and failed. That was a bummer. I'm still looking too but I'm hoping I've found someone (lets cross our fingers folks!). Other than that I don't think anything of real importance happened until the weekend.

On Friday Cali and Mckell came up to see me, which I didn't know they were going to do. Ha ha it was really really fun but since they didn't tell me they were coming I didn't have anything planned for us to do like I did last time. So the first hour and a half they were there they hung out in the fishbowl while I practiced my flute. Then we went to dinner at Jack in the Box and went to Opera Scenes which Emily was in. I really enjoyed it (even though it was 2.5 hours long) but I'm thinking Cali wanted to strangle someone by the end. She doesn't sit through things very well. But Emily did really well even though she had to kiss a fat married man. :P

On Saturday I went to the temple with Nyssa at 7 am and Mckell and Cali just slept through it. Cali let me take her car so we didn't have to walk which was nice. Then I went to trombone sectionals, got home by eleven. I didn't do any of the things I wanted to do, homework, practicing etc because Cali and Mckell were up here but that's ok. We did have pi day with my friends (on accoiunt of it WAS pi day 3/14 :P) in the snow elevator which was fun. Lots and lots of pi.....uh pie. Then I made them sit through a trombone masterclass by this really awesome trombone player. He really knew how to play a trombone, it was really cool although I'm not sure my friends liked it. Lots of music talk. After that we just hung out at home, played games ordered pizza and battled vampires on facebook. It was really fun.

Sunday it was stake conference so we had to be there super early. Plus Nyssa and I were in the choir so we had to be there an hour earlier than super early. It was intense. After church we had dinner and then went to the park and took pictures of each other. I'm gonna put some down in here 'cuz they're really funny. Also if you want to see them all, look on facebook they're all there along with the rest of my life practically. It was sad to see them go.

One thing I didn't really convey through the whole weekend was the overwhelming exhaustion I felt the whole time. On Friday I stayed up 'til like two thirty with Cali and Mckell then went to the temple at seven, and I don't operate very well 4.5 hours of sleep. Then Sunday the same thing happened practically. So I was having fun through a haze of exhaustion, which caused me to sleep through a good third of stake conference probably. Oops. But it was totally worth it.

This week has been pretty good although I've been stressing a lot about finding an accompanist. I have a flute choir concert tonight, and another one on Friday along with a studio recital for flute. Our band concert is on Wednesday, (eek!) and scale juries are on Thursday. (double eek!) So it's gonna be busy. But that's the way I like it.

This is Sarah Jensen saying over and out! 'til the next time I get some time to write this!

...............................I like dots..........................

Daylight savings time......are we actually saving daylight? Does it need to be saved? I don't think so. All I know is I get less sleep. And that sucks. 'cuz I'm tired. My life seems to be a never ending cycle of me waking up too early and getting to bed too late. So I'm constantly tired. Or wired. Heh heh heh.

So...................................blah. This week was pretty blah. Umm on Thursday I went to this stupid dance thing for my dance class.....it was dumb. Pretty much there were about twice as many girls as guys there, so they lined us up on the stage like sheep and then the guys just went through the line and asked us to dance so we could work on the skillz we learned in class. But there were so many girls we only danced like half of the time. Plus I really didn't know anyone so I kinda just sat there by myself a lot of the time. Good times, good times.

Friday was a bit better I guess. I went to the symphony orchestra concert. They did a catholic requiem with the men and women's choir. It was by Durafley (Not sure if it's spelled right) who is pretty 20th century....but it was still really really good. Then they did a voilin concerto and Dvorak's symphony #8. They were both excellent. I've noticed lately that my taste in music has matured somewhat. When I was in High School, or even when I was a freshman here, I would have been bored silly at a concert like that. But now I really enjoyed it. After the concert me and some of my friends had pizza in the snow elevator again but we wer kicked out because they had to move a bunch of things to the basement. So we moved to the fishbowl and stayed there 'til like midnight. Good fun.

Saturday I mostly did homework (yay!!) which mostly consisted of practicing my flute and bassoon and trombone. (on a completely random tangent: bassoon. is there just an oon? not just a bass oon? How about a alto-oon? tenor-oon? I want to learn one of those!!) And also practicing for my ear training test on Tuesday. Oh how I loathe those tests!! I long for the day when I will be free of them forever! And this is my last semester I have to take those classes so that's pretty exciting!!
In the afternoon I went to a senior recital for one of my fellow flute majors. She did a really good job. One of the songs she did was called Zoom Tube by Ian Clarke who is a 20th century composer. (And generally 20th century means weird. :) ) And this was no exception. Parts of it were like beat boxing into the flute, and there was lots of harmonics and singing while playing. It was intense.
After that I went to Great Harvest with my flute friends and then went to Extravadance at 7:30 which is kind of like a dance recital. Compare it to a band concert for dancers. It was really really good though. One of my FHE sisters is a dance major, so that's why I went. But also because I really liked it. If I could do my life over again, I would want to see if I could become a dancer.

So there you have it. Today is Sunday, the one day of the week I can actually relax. And now it's almost over. I went to choir practice again, but I didn't sing any of the screaming high notes this time so I hope I don't get a really sore throat this week like I did last week.

Toodles! DFTBA!

Sarah is guilty of feeding turtle food to sentient musical fish

I really am. It's a sad, sad story. Well actually a rather weird one which I will not share here on account of you thinking I'm weirder than I actually am. But the fish's name is Franklin if you wanted to know, and he's gonna help me pass ear training. :)
So, it's whats today? Monday. It's Monday. Sheesh can't even keep track of the days of the week. It's Monday. What did I do over the weekend?
Well, I went on the date with Brandon on Friday, it was fun! We went to Bajios and then tried to go bowling but it was too busy. Then we tried to go to a movie but nothing was showing. So we went to hollywood video and just rented one and watched it. We had to come to my appt though 'cuz no one was home at his. Silly honor code. Well actually I'm in favor of it, so I completely understood. It was fun though.
Then Saturday I went and saw this play that BYU-I put on called Burdens of Earth. It told the story of Joseph Smith while he was in Liberty Jail. It was really really good, very thought provoking. It makes you realize that Joseph really was human like the rest of us. He went through trials and tribulation just like we do. And look what he acomplished. It seems I can at least do my little lot in life.

SO I wrote that bit on Monday, and now it's Tuesday. And I wrote a rather long end to this blog and then the evil man in the internet ATE IT!!! I swear its true! He came up and said Sarah, if you don't let me eat it I will curse you so your socks never match again! And that would be an abomination so I HAD to do it!! Man....
Anyway, my Sunday and Monday were both real good.
Sunday,
was fast Sunday, but still real good. After church I had some of aforementioned hamburger the size of a plate for dinner. It was excellent. Then I went to a CES fireside and choir practice for steak conference in two weeks. I only mention this cause while I was there apparently I strained my voice attempting to sing really high notes I hadn't tried to in a long time. So now my throat is really sore and you should feel sorry for me.

The only thing really worth mentioning on Monday was for FHE we went to Craigos (pizza pasta place) on account of we got a $50 gift certificate there on account of our mad ice cream eating skillz at the ward party. And yes I know I used on account of twice in that sentence. I like it that way. It was really good. And then Emily, Nyssa and I went to DQ for ice cream to top it off. Good times. Emily and I went to the gym that evening to work of some of the pizza we ate though. It was also fun in a accomplishing sort of way.
K, today was boring. Nothing much worth mentioning I don't think. Tuesdays are my worst days of the week. Looooooong. So I'm done.
'til later folks!!