i’m actually daring to touch this blog today, something i’ve apparently been scared to do, seeing as i haven’t posted in a looonnnnngggg tiiiimmmmme.

my one-month run working at a kid’s art camp is over! yay! only problem: i don’t really have much to do now. it’s wonderful to have free time in which you aren’t completely and utterly exhausted. there were some really difficult kids this year, and a lot of heavy cleaning to do at the end of the day. i also got a cold/flu hybrid on the second day of the camp which stuck around for 2 weeks (and yes, i went to work everyday), and now i’m sick again with another cold! how it’s possible to catch two different colds in the same month, i’m not sure…

it’s unfortunate that this latest experience working in the studio during the camp was so stressful, because it will be my last time to work there in a long time. my class schedule in the fall is like, omg, the worst ever, so there goes any chance of teaching any of the art classes during the semester. but i’m not sure i could find another job that pays that enough without demanding every minute of my free time. so for this upcoming school year, i’m pretty much job- and therefore income-less. i’ll miss being in the studio. it has a certain smell. a certain atmosphere. i’ll probably miss getting paint on my face, too.

other things that have been going on: i saw WALL-E this weekend, and i think it will go on my very-hard-to-get-onto favorites list. yeah, it was that good. and i don’t usually go for the pixar movies all that much. also, i got together with several friend in what was a marathon of hanging out. it was tiring but good to catch up. it included such highlights as getting lost in a park and ride lot, playing 349837483 rounds of catch phrase, hearing pride and prejudice music on classical guitar at panera, and getting lost in the men’s dept. at neiman marcus (and having a conversation about guys who wear deep v-necks and the scary cosmetics ladies that work there with buckets of make-up on their faces).

my head hurts. it started hurting in my 8:00 class during the test. grrr.  (grrr about the headache more than the test, which i think went pretty well.)

i actually wrote a post a few days ago, but just now discovered that i only saved it, not published it. technicalities!

i’ve made a resolution (sort of – as much as i ever really make a resolution. they usually are more idealistic concepts than actual plans of action) not to stress so much this week. when i have a hard school week, i always stress more than i study. it appears as though i’ve worked really hard, studying a lot; however, most of my time is spent stressing over what i have to do and how i’m going to do it than actually studying or learning anything. therefore, i’m going to try to be more relaxed this week and just do my studying. no extra stress if possible. we’ll see how that goes…

time is really flying by. which is good, because that means summer vacation is getting closer and closer. but it also means some things are coming to an end. i won’t have the same roommates next year, which i’m trying not to think about as the weeks race past. my classes will be a lot harder next year – yay. and i have no idea what i’m going to do with myself for most of the summer. why is it so hard to make the present enjoyable and not something that we want to be over and done with? and if we are enjoying it, why can’t we make it go by slower?

hmm. time.

[BTW: i wrote this on monday, even saved the draft, but never posted it. so, basically, this is old information...] 

even if it hasn’t gotten off to the greatest start. theory class in the morning with not much sleep = sarah not being able to spell a diminished seventh chord out loud in class. (there’s some music terms for you!) but, it’s easy to make a mistake in what you say when you’re not playing or writing it…

 anyway, so i had a good weekend. i got my hair cut finally. i got to catch up with a friend i haven’t seen in a while. i got most of my homework done. i got to see adrienne, who was there when i was creeped out by a james mcavoy look-alike (cr-reepy – but funny) who kept standing next to me even though he was sitting 4 or 5 chairs away from me at a “concert” that was more like a really great (seriously, it was) time of worship lead by this guy. i also got to visit adrienne’s church on Sunday, which we have been talking about doing for just about ever. (oh yes, and don’t forget staying up till 3 + the time change!) i also went to my old dance school’s fundraiser, which was a little weird, but it was cool to see some people there who i haven’t seen in some time…