I know it's been awhile since I've posted, but senior year has been so RIDICULOUSLY busy! haha.

I love senior year so far. Classes are pretty easy. I made all A's and B's this six weeks. =]

Band's going alright. It's more frustrating then usual this year, but that's alright.

We had our first contest yesterday. What a hectic day that was. I was originally going to wake up at 6 o'clock, because I had to go take my SAT's before, but woke up at 5 and couldn't go back to sleep. Too many nerves. We played at 2:45, and I got out of my SAT (which I took in Commerce) at 1:20. So we drove 75 the whole way from Commerce to Mesquite, with me freaking out in the back seat the entire time. We pulled up in the parking lot, I leaped out of the car, mom zipped up my jacket, I threw together my horn, and ran down the hill to the shoot, where the pit (and luckily, my vibraphone) was waiting. There was one band playing, another band about to go on, and then it was us, so I just barely made it. Unfortunately for me, though, not only to my reed crack in the car on the way over, but I didn't have time to warm up. So when my solo came around, it was dry, quiet, and squeaky. A.K.A: AWFUL. Lucky for me, the microphone wasn't turned up, so I don't think the judges heard me, because despite my icky solo, we still made ones, which I was ecstatic about. We got to the stadium at 2:20, and were back out by 3:30, on the road home again.

I finally joined the Twilight band-wagon. And I must say, I can really understand what the fuss is about. Though I'm not a huge fan of vampires, this book...is amazing. It's so detailed, and so written. Now I just have to wait for the movie to come out. I'm hoping that my best friend (who let me read her copy of Twilight) will bring me New Moon tomorrow. I read the sneak-peek in the first book and now I'm SO excited to see what happens.

School. It has begun. It has been SO long since I've updated, and so many things have happened. I have my license, though I'm pretty sure I did in my last post as well. I had my first "wreck," though it wasn't really a wreck, just a small fender bender...with my best friend. :)
School started this past week. And honestly, other than after school band practice, I LOVE school this year. Senior year is amazing. Physics is fun so far, though we do have our first quiz on wednesday over unit prefixes. But it's okay, cuz I studied, see Mom?
Atto, Femto, Pico, Nano, Micro, Milli, Centi, Deci, Deka, Kilo, Mega, Giga, Peta, and Exa. :)
Government, French and English are all very entertaining. We have our first Government test on Tuesday. Fun stuff. French is a lot easier than I suspected. After taking a year off, I didn't think I would remember much. But I did, which was great. English is amazing. We have a test over Frankenstein on Tuesday, and we began reading Beowulf on Friday. Pretty interesting so far, especially with my classmates adding sound effects. Gotta love it. Yearbook is great, kind of eager to get started and get in last year's yearbook. We're having our kick-off party on September 10th, and I'm kind of nervous because Mrs. LaRue is making the editors do something silly at the party, and of course she just had to tell my mom to torture me. Haha.

Friday night was our first football game. What a disaster that night was. We were supposed to be playing Liberty Eylau, we made it through the first half, Liberty Eylau's marching band performed, and just before we were about to roll our instruments on to the field, the lightning detection went off. We had to run everything back to the truck and loaded it in four minutes flat. Amazing feat for the pit. We were then stuck in the hot, sweaty indoor facility for an hour, hour and a half before heading back to the high school. The weather never really got bad. Just some lightning and wind, though the wind felt great because everyone was SO hot. Once we got back to the bandhall, we unloaded everything and had our first band dance of the year. Great way get rid of the stress of the evening. Despite the fact that we hadn't marched, EVERYONE was starving. Good thing that we had a large amount of good food there for us. It was the best band dance I had been to so far. We had a disco light, disco ball, police light, strobe light, and some AWESOME music and people there. As soon as I put my pictures on the computer, I'll add some to the blog. It was great.

Yesterday was a wonderful today. To celebrate one of my best friend's, Shelby's, birthday, her mother took me, her, and two of our other good friends to Frisco for the day, meeting up with Shelby's Aunt Tilly while we were there. We went to the Stone Briar Mall, Sam Moon (where I got an absolutely ADORABLE suitcase. :]), ate lunch at Olive Garden (at 4!), and then when back to Stone Briar, ending with day with Cheesecake Factory, the most evil of all the restaurants. I got Peanut Butter Cup Fudge Ripple Cheesecake. It was delicious, but it was just way too sweet for me. My favorite was the Fresh Strawberry Cheesecake. All it was was original cheesecake with some strawberries on top. That's my kind of cheesecake. Over all, it was such a fun day. I haven't had a girl's day out like that in a LONG time.

It's been such a good weekend, and it's only half over, because we're off for Labor Day Weekend. SO happy. :)

Well...had a lot to do today. I went up to the high school and helped with the new freshmen marchers. They've got some work to do, but it's not surprising since they've only been marching for three days. I'm so ready for marching season. Afterwards I went and ate with the girls, then Shelby and I went to Wal-Mart and I got my haircut! I only got four inches cut off, but as curly as it is it looks like I cut off six. So woo for that! Came home for about an hour, then went up to the coffee shop for an yearbook meeting. Got to see the proofs of my pages for the book. They look amazing. Mrs. LaRue gave me some new ideas for the book next year. It's going to be amazing. I can't wait.
So all in all, it was a great day.
And it's not even over yet!!
Tomorrow is the 4th of July city-wide celebration and I have to play in that. But I got a new ligature for my instrument, so it should be playing pretty spiffy now. Yay! Anyways, if I don't post before then, I hope everyone has a wonderful 4th of July!
Thanks for reading, Jessica

Wow....what to say. Haven't been posting in awhile, hadn't really thought about it actually. Umm...well. Summer is great, I'm loving it. I just can't believe it's July already. Whoo. I'm turning seventeen on the twenty sixth. Unbelievable. Man, summer is just flying by. I got my license two weeks ago, got my actual license (not just the piece of paper) in the mail yesterday, and I was kinna surprised by how nice my photo looked, so I was happy. Had senior pictures done 6 days ago for school. I just can't believe how fast high school has flown by, really. It feels like just yesterday I was anticipating my freshman year, ready to be at a new school in the marching band with new responsibilities. Now I see those responsibilities as 'old-hat' stuff, and I'm looking forward to my freshman year of college a year away. It's just...really flown. I'm totally looking forward to marching season, which is a bit odd for me, because I usually hate marching season. But I have a solo, and I'm in pit again, and the music for our show this year is AMAZING. It's called "Celestial Bodies" by Mark Higginbotham. Check it out if you can.
www.myspace.com/markhigginbothamtunes
It's on his music player.
Well...I've been single for...er...roughly two years now. Sometimes I love it. Sometimes I hate it. Right now, I'm kind of at the hating it level. I hate it in some ways and love it in others. I hate not having that feeling that your wanted. Not even so much wanted as needed. But at the same time, I love the freedom I have...nothing tying me down, and I can just go out and have fun. When school starts, I won't have anything straying my focus from schoolwork, and I'll really be able to concentrate on making good grades my senior year.
The year that really counts. I guess I'll just take everything as it comes.
Kinna bummed already. I really wanted my senior year to be 'drama-free,' if a year of high school really can be that. Summer just started, and already someone that graduated started crap. It blew over, and I don't know who all heard the rumor that she was spreading about me, and frankly, I've got to the point that I honestly don't care anymore. If she feels the need to spread lies about me because she's just that petty, let her. I'm not going to stoop to her level and get revenge. I'm just not going to say anything, be the bigger person...and let it slide.
Anyhow...thanks for reading.
-Jess

I thought senior year was supposed to be easy?!
Okay...so it's not gonna be hard...but whatever
happened to not having any classes, not coming in
until lunch, and taking easy-breezy classes?
Hah! That's funny! I have all eight periods filled,
I'm taking 3 AP Classes, Physics, French 3, I'm
going to be a yearbook editor, I've got a solo in our
marching show next year, and they think that senior
year is easy?! BAH! haha.

Hit Me Like a Ton of Bricks

All right...so it did hit me like a ton of bricks.
What hit you, you ask?
Well...the fact that in 1 month and 22 days,
I am going to be a senior.
Today, we went and began the process
of filling out our senior schedules.
Which meant looking at our transcripts.
And...it was great. I found out...
that I am ranked 6th out of a class of 250.
I have a college GPA of 3.4 (weighted on a 4.0 scale)
and I have a high school GPA (a weighted scale depending on classes) of 5 1/2.
So I'm so happy. I never...ever in a million bajillion years thought that I would
be number 6 in my class. So...
yay me!

Just for you, mom.

HERE MOM COMMENT THIS.
:P <33 you.
-Jessiboo