Job hunt update

This hunt is endless. I realized tonight that it doesn't really seem to matter how many dozens of applications I fill out, or resumes I send in, on this side of the state, it's all about connections. Of course, I don't have any of those, so I'm left hunting for every opening on craigslist and major corperation websites like Safeway and Starbucks. Not that I'm really trying to whine about "oh woe is me"...mostly just feeling frustrated about my lack of connections pretty much anywhere. :P So, blogging world, if you feel like being awesome and handing me either a part-time job starting now or a full-time summer job starting in June, I'd appreciate it! Until then, I will rely on what help I can get from friends and family (by this I mean Rachel lol) and keep filling out those applications.

On a slightly separate note, I'm enjoying most of my classes this quarter, and feeling ahead in at least two of them. I find it interesting that I always feel ill-prepared for lessons, but I've heard this phenomenon is totally natural and everyone feels that way. I hope my left wrist stops hurting for tomorrow, but I took some time off typing and didn't go practicing this evening so that it could recover. In my mind, it makes more sense to practice comfortably tomorrow than practice with only half effort because of the pain, wouldn't you agree?

I really hope that I've fixed the comment errors, but if not, I'm very, very sorry! Please feel free to try commenting anyway!

~Allie

And yet another week goes by...

Highlights of this week:
being sudo-principal horn for wind symphony on Friday (with all the solos :D)
watching Thalia Symphony Friday night
Zoo trip yesterday :)
Lots of practicing this week
And being ahead on readings for my classes :)

So, I finally decided that I wanted people to know that my blog exists, and posted the link on facebook, then got notified that I hadn't allowed commenting in my settings. This definitely explains why Sami and Marsh couldn't comment on my posts (if they tried, that is lol). For the rest of my evening, it looks like I will be working on homework, watching movies and hopefully add in a couple hours of practicing tonight :)

I have decided that my hair looks excellent in a half-back, which is a good thing to know now that the weather is improving and I don't necessarily want my hair down all the time. Probably not anything worth stating for everyone reading, but at least it'll be a reminder to me.

I'm currently watching Reign of Fire, which is supposedly a scary movie. I dislike being scared a ton, so I hope it's not as bad as people say it is. Crossing my fingers!

You are number (2) in queue.

Yes, my friends, this is how I'm spending my Easter evening. Waiting for a Dell representative to talk to me (again) to hopefully give me a new AC adapter as mine is fraying and only sporadically charging my poor laptop. But first, of course, I have to overcome the issue of not knowing (or being able to find, apparently) my service tag. I am properly amused by their fill-in-the-blank responses. You know that first part in Up where Russell starts reading to Mr. Fredricksen out of the Wildness Explorer handbook? Yeah, it's something like that.

Well, anyway, Dustin came to give me a hand while talking to the Dell person and finding all the information I needed, so life is considerably better. (This has become a two-day blog post, as I forgot to come back and finish it last night.) I applied for a ton of jobs last night. Craigslist is a very helpful tool, and I finally got around to updating my resume thanks to the incessant need for it. I think I now have over 10 applications put in with businesses around Seattle (most of which either in Fremont/Queen Anne/Ballard or Downtown. I figure that I'd do best looking for jobs that are only one bus ride away with minimal walking.

Mondays are FULL of stuff to do. I had classes from 8 AM to 1:30 PM, then a nice break before Brass Choir at 4:30. I didn't find it too hard to concentrate, though having to get that much homework prepped for the first day of the week kind of sucks, I'll admit. All of my classes went smoothly, and my solo for the April 29th concert is coming along beautifully. I can't wait to work with the accompanist, but I am glad that I'm fixing the last of the kinks with Rodger right now. My fingers are crossed for a great performance!

I'm off to keep working on getting my homework done.
TTFN!
~Allie

One change to the schedule

Well, after hearing about James' sociology class (which has three of my other band-geeky friends in it), I totally transferred into the class, with minutes to spare of it being full. I'm proud of myself, and I'm really excited for the class! Also, thanks to being at a Christian university, I'm having the smoothest transition back to classes ever!

Yesterday because I switched from having a 1:30 class to an 11:00 one, I didn't have either afternoon class, therefore my schedule was simply Theory from 8:00 to 9:20, UCOR from 9:30 to 10:50, then Wind Symphony from 4:30 to 5:45. It was pretty awesome, and my lesson went alright too. Ooh, and while I was switching classes around, I discovered that my GPA was high enough from me to move up to having 20 credits again (after 1st quarter's grades, I couldn't :P). I'm up to a 3.2 for the year, which is way up from the 2.7 (or something sad like that) I had after 1st quarter! I'm hoping to keep pushing my grades up and maybe after this quarter I can get it over a 3.5. That's my goal and I'm putting it in writing here :)

Sami, if you're still reading this, you should leave a comment sometime since I'm comment-less and it feels very sad to simply be talking to myself. And if my family is actually reading this, which I kind of doubt, hi everyone!

I'm going to go do more counterpoint homework for Theory. We're up to 4:1 and have even more rules to learn now...hope I can handle it ;)

~Allie