FoxyNellie

So. I'm switching accounts. Why? Because I despise the name of this one. That's all. I'm slowly going to upload my photos to my new account. And I'll be putting some prose and poetry in there too.. NEW ACCOUNT: ~Zovi (https://www.deviantart.com/zovi) Oh, by the way.. Don't get distracted with my icon. :P

So. The semester finally ended. Thank God, I don't know how many more tests I could have taken without going insane.. I finished my drawing class. I'll miss it, rather hilarious group of people in there. I'm thinking of posting my sketches, but I don't know. I'd like to post my big project stuff, but I won't get that back till the end of May. I wish I wasn't feeling so artistic right now, it's like, 1 am. What am I gonna do.

Today was our chair placement auditions. We have to perform a solo while standing behind a curtain, and the rest of the band judges our performance by our tone, dynamics, articulation, and correct fingerings. I spent 2 months preparing the piece. Man, I had it memorized. But when my time to perform came, I got really nervous and my hands were shaking, and that's not a good thing if you play clarinet. Once I got to the second line, I realized I wasn't going to be able to play the high E note, so I made some extreme emphasis on dynamics. And it must have paid off, because I got 2nd chair out of 9 chairs. Last year, I was 10th chair out of 11 ch