things that have happened today so far

I drove Shawna up to LAX this morning, which was an adventure for me as I had never been there. It was pretty easy. I made super good time getting back-only an hour and a half! That's ridiculously good for LA, but probably the time of day had something to do with it. A radio station was playing Strauss's Don Juan, and then I FINALLY found KROQ. I always forget what channel it's on. 106.7. Must remember for future reference. I was momentarily sad when they played one of those little snippets with the famous person saying hi, and the famous person was Bradley Nowell. He died far too early, what beautiful music could he have made today? LA always makes me think of Sublime anyway, what with driving through Long Beach and all, and being naturally required to sing "I took that trip to Garden Grove" whenever I see the sign. Sigh.

I haven't got much to say about Hussien's capture, except that I agree with Jerry and Margaret Cho. Y'all know I disagreed with us being in Iraq in the first place, but once we started it had to be played through. There's a lot of work to be done in Iraq and it needs to start now. There needs to be a plan for human rights as well as building contracts, and how dare the US exclude members of the United Nations from having a say? Oh wait, we're assholes. Okay, that makes more sense.

It's only a month until my recital. Eep! And I've been bad about practicing during Shawna's visit. I'm a mix of worry and anticipation: I'm scared stiff that I won't be good enough, having prepared almost entirely on my own and without feedback, but I can wait to travel and do the auditions and see the schools. February is going to be fun, or stressful, depending. I'm planning on being gone all month, driving out to my ASU audition Feb 6th and then flying to the Midwest for DePaul and UM, staying in Madison for as much time as possible, and flying up to McGill and going home from there. So it looks like this:
ASU Feb 6
DePaul Feb 14 or 28
UM Feb 13 or 20
McGill Feb 21-28

I'm stoked to go to Montreal. Although I would love to go to any of those schools, in my dreams I see myself rocking McGill, getting a full ride, and hanging out with Canadians and speaking French. Word.

If I plan to rock my auditions, then I must go and practice.