I'm finally done

Well, I've finally graduated from college. I now have a BA in Music and am ready to move on with my life. For those who are interested here are my grades from this quarter:

Tuba Lessons: A
Senior Recital: A
Symphonic Band/Concert Band: A
Survey of Opera: B
Survey of 20th Century Music: A
Ballroom/Swing Dance: A

Not too shabby. I'm always happy to pull off a 3.8 in a quarter. Here are the grades I give my teachers:

Tuba Lessons/Senior Recital: A-. Although Curtis is great, I wish he was more experienced.
Symphonic Band/ Concert Band: B-. He made the tubas play in both band and consistently let us out late.
Survey of Opera: B+. Although I hated the subject, she did a pretty good job at making it bearable. I think the tests were a bit too hard for the few of us in there that didn't have any opera experience.
Survey of 20th Century Music: A. Great teacher, okay subject, true Sinfonian. 'nough said.
Ballroom/ Swing Dance: F+. Horrible teacher. Had no lesson plans that I could notice. Unorganized. Waste of time. She consistently started late and let out early and she only spent a class and a half on swing while spending nine classes on foxtrot and waltz. Stupid Dumb Bitch.

But at least I'm done. Rena and I are moving up to camp in a week. There is not internet there so I'll be posting about as much as I usually do. I hope everyone had a great spring break.

Towards the end...

I had my senior recital a couple of weeks ago. My program was the following:

Tuba Concerto by Edward Gregson
Adagio from "The Limpid Stream" by Dmitri Shostakovich
The Wonderland Duets by Raymond Luedeke
When We Were Giants by Jonathan Green
From the Shores of the Mighty Pacific by Herbert L. Clarke

The whole recital took just about an hour, which was perfect. I was very pleased with my performance, and I was very happy to have been able to play the Wonderland Duets. I got the music to it nine days before my performance. Me and Chris Mills had to scramble to get our music rehearsed adequately by that time.

So my friends from the west side came over for the weekend which meant lots and lots of Dungeons and Dragons. Rena played with us too and she had a great time. Afterwards, she purchased both of us a D&D t-shirt off the internet. I now have I shirt that says, "Carpe DM: Seize the Dungeon Master." I love it.

The quarter is coming to an end and with it the end of my college career. Just three more days of classes and two finals left. Wow. I have a four-page paper that I have to start today because it is due tomorrow morning at 8:30. Eek! But that's my last assignment and I'll be happy to be done with it.

Rena and I are moving out of Ellensburg the first week of April and moving up to camp. Steve is letting us live in the Big Brown House (a large cabin) for a great price of $50 a month for rent. We are ecstatic about that. The only thing I'm not excited about moving is the actual moving. We're going to rent a storage unit in Monroe to store of our crap for the summer. That's about all; I still can't believe I'll be graduated in a week and a half. I'll post again after that.