tenorprincess

Girl Facts:

When a girl is quiet,
millions of things are running through her
mind.

When you break a girls heart.
she still feels it when
you run into eachother 3 years later

When a girl is not arguing,
she is thinking deeply.

When a girl looks at you with eyes full of
questions,
she is wondering how long you will be
around.

When a girl answers, "I'm fine, " after a
few
seconds,
she is not at all fine.

When a girl stares at you,
she is wondering why you are so
wonderful.

When a girl lays her head on your chest,
she is wishing for you to be hers forever.

When a girl says that she can't live
without you,
she has made up her mind that you are
her future.

When a girl says, "I miss you, "
no one in this world can miss you more
than that

When a girl is mean to you after a breakup
she wants you back, but she's
scared she'll get hurt and knows
your gone forever




Guy Facts:

When a guy calls you
he wants to be with you

When a guy is quiet,
He's listening to you...

When a guy is not arguing,
He realizes he's wrong

When a guy says, "I'm fine, " after a few
minutes,
he means it

When a guy stares at you,
he wishes you would care about him and
wonders
if you do?

When you're laying your head on a guy's
chest
he has the world

When a guy calls you everyday
he is in love

When a (good) guy tells you he loves you
he means it

When a guy says he can't live without you
he's with you till your done

When a guy says, "I miss you, "
he misses you more than you could have
ever missed him or anything else

Picardy thirds make me frisky as a puppy whose tail is on fire.


Music Theory Ice Cream:

Tone Cluster Crunch
Preludes ‘n’ Cream
Chocolate Chip Fixed Do
Ludwig’s Lemon Ice
von Bingen Cherry
Brahms-berry Sorbet
French Augmented Vanilla
Orange Schubert
Chocolate con sordino
DiMint-ished Chip
Rach-y Road
SolFudge-io
Neapolitan

SYMS was fabulous, of course. It was one of those life changing experiences, not just because of the people I met but because it cemented in that yes, music is what I'm doing with my life, I can't imagine it any other way. As for stories...I don't know, somehow I can't bring myself to type out everything I could say about SYMS. As if, it was too special - and anyone who was there knows the stories, and anyone who wasn't probably doesn't care. Or can just ask in person.

Music theory and voice. At the moment, the two loves of my life.
Did I mention I'm almost prepared to record my college audition CD? It's going to have 5 songs on it, not necessarily in this order:
Caro Mio Ben (Italian)
Alma Del Core (Italian, and this year's All-State audition song)
Heidenroslein (German)
And The Shepard Shall Tend His Flock, or whatever it's called (English)
Someone To Watch Over Me (the only musical theater/jazz piece)
OH and if the DVD from SYMS gets here in time, I might include Make Someone Happy, which was me and the 3 other section leaders from my honors jazz choir. Maybe the recording is horrible, but maybe just maybe it kicks butt?

Oh man SYMS is incredible beyond words. I don't have much time now but I will post some topics I've got stories on to whet your interest (and help me remember to tell them lol):

My incredible family of seven amazing friends here!
Kempster
theory class
jazz is amazing
DRAMA!!! note: that post will for sure be friends only

Missing you all but you have to believe that two weeks of only music is THE BEST THING EVER!! If only you all were here. And my barbershop friends. Yes barbershop is missing and it makes me sad. There's one quartet here actually but they were, dare I say it, really bad. So yeah we've got to go off to dinner and then there's a student recital tonight which should be fun. Stargazing again tonight?

Love Sam

**You're nobody 'til somebody loves you
You're nobody 'til somebody cares
You may be king, you may possess the world and its gold
But gold won't bring you happiness when you're growin' old

The world still is the same, you'll never change it
As sure as the stars shine above
You're nobody 'til somebody loves you
So find yourself somebody to love**

Why are so many people so determined that you need to have a relationship, you need to be in love, to enjoy life?

To all my friends in St Louis....stay safe!!

It's freaky how much the storms over there remind me of the flooding here in NH a few months ago. Though I'm guessing very few if anybody around here has heard about the situation in St Louis. Anyone? Severe winds from severe storms are causing loads of people to lose power - it's really dangerous when it's over 100 degrees out and your air conditioning has no power. Stay safe everyone, and cool.

Love Sam

I just got a call from Jaclyn, who says, "Have you checked your mail today?" Of course I hadn't but 20 seconds later I was opening the letter from College Board.
I did better than I expected!! A 2 out of 5 in Calc B/C (Calculus 2). I knew I'd get around that because I had to learn the calc B/C stuff in like 2 weeks. During that week of studying like crazy and crying myself to sleep, I had decided not to worry about the Calc B/C material and just focus on my A/B subscore. I plan to retake calc 2 anyway. Sooooo....my A/B subscore? 4!!!! :-D

Jaclyn of course is not human. She got a 5 on her Prob and Stats AP test.

Beach on Friday......what a splendid time! Went out to lunch with Tracy and Xtie on Saturday......haha we went to Panera Bread and when I bought a side of French baguette to go with my soup, they gave me a WHOLE baguette!! We're STILL trying to finish it off! Then ballroom dancing that night, which was AWESOME as usual. The class was waltz...I really enjoyed it but not as much as rumba. I think. It was a large group, it was great...me and Nicole and Jess and Glenn and Sam and Cassie. And we hung out with Tom and Steve and Steve's brother (his name is Matt?) and that other girl who was really good but I misrember her name. It was unusual that there was such a social aspect to the dance, usually we're the only teenagers there. I slept over Abby's house with Tracy last night, it was just like old times! Except there was lots of talk of the future, colleges and that sort of thing. We've all changed so much since last year. The only other thing of note was, my declaration of early decision is in the mailbox now. It'll be in St Louis within a couple of days. I feel confident that I'm making the right decision...it's still a big step to send that off, it makes this whole college thing a reality.

You know, getting out of the house is kind of an essential first step to actually making something of your summer. That's what I thought going in to these couple of weeks I had at home, anyway. Now I'm not so sure. I DEARLY need to get out and hang out with people - thank goodness for plans for Friday and Saturday! But even though yes I've been doing a lot of lazy bumming in front of my TV, I can look back and be like, yes I have in fact accomplished some stuff I wouldn't have otherwise. For example, I spent hours the other day weeding. Since when am I a weeding type?? But now our flower beds (well actually they're bush beds but who says that?) are free of weeds. I put a tag into Finale, my music program which I hate because it's not Sibelius therefore I don't know how to use it. But I put the tag in and was very proud that I have the musical knowledge to hear a CD and copy rhythms and notes right! It's called diction. A skill I will need if I'm ever going to graduate with a degree in music theory.

For all that my parents think IM is a waste of my time, without it I would never be able to keep up with friendships long distance. I am extremely grateful for the opportunity to meet people from across the country through barbershop, and I am even more grateful that through technology, we can stay in touch and grow even closer until the next time we meet in person. Now all we need is the ability to harmonize over the internet...

"Sah ein Knab ein Roslein stehn, Roslein auf der Heiden, war so jung und morgenschon, lief er schnell, es nah zu sehn, sah's mit vielen Freuden. Roslein, Roslein, Roslein rot, Roslein auf der Heiden."

The first verse of my new German piece. The melody is cute, and for all that I complain a lot about singing in German it isn't as bad as I thought it would be. I can't wait to be able to put words and notes together. If I hadn't decided to go into theory, and started voice lessons so I could pass college auditions, would I ever have had the opportunity to sing this sort of classical music? SYMS auditions are in a week and a half. I'm doing the second half of my Italian aria (Caro Mio Ben) and I'm learning My Funny Valentine (jazz all-state audition piece from two years ago).

Hmm let's see...beach on Friday. Coldstone and ballroom Saturday! Sweet deal. Plans for next week?

Love Sam

Ahoy everybody. Everyone's so terribly busy with trips and vacations, I hope everyone is having a stupendous time and when I get back from the barbershop convention we all must hang out!

I feel very cultured. Lots of hanging out with my grandparents and cousins and aunts and uncles, but also lots of theater. As in, Tuesday night I went to see a Shakespeare. Wednesday night I toured University of WI (which I do not plan to apply to), and then we went to a Concert on the Square: the concert band performed for about an hour on their main square and everyone sat around in lawnchairs and on blankets. Thursday we went to the Fireside, which was a dinner theater. First we had dinner (oh what a surprise) and then we all went into this other room where they had this teeny square stage surrounded on all four sides by the audience. They performed the musical Evita. I couldn't figure out why I didn't like it much - was it the staging, the acting, the music? It somehow seemed rather amateur, even though all the performers were quite talented and had degrees in dance or musical theater. Today we were stripping wallpaper off my great grandfather's bedroom walls. Tonight my mom, dad, and sister join me in WI and we come home Monday!

The Shakespeare had a huge impact on me. It was an awesomely cool theater that was out in the woods, so it had tremendous atmosphere even before beginning. The play was a rather obscure one, called "Measure for Measure". Anyone heard of it, read it, or seen it performed before? Basically, the Duke goes on vacation, leaving Angelo in charge of fixing the corruption in Vienna. Angelo is a very righteous and idealistic man - so much so that he revives a forgotten law. Claudio, who's girlfriend is expecting a child, is sentenced to death because they are not married. So Claudio's sister Isabella, soon to become a nun, goes to Angelo to beg for her brother's life. For the first time, he feels deep emotion for a girl and begins to understand why men might love - the physical act of love - before marriage.

"What dost thou, or what art thou, Angelo?
Dost thou desire her foully for those things
That make her good?" he says to himself after she has left. And then:
"Most dangerous
Is that temptation that doth goad us on
To sin in loving virtue: never could the strumpet,
With all her double vigour, art and nature,
Once stir my temper; but this virtuous maid
Subdues me quite. Even till now,
When men were fond, I smiled and wonder'd how."

When Angelo falls, he falls completely and utterly, offering Isabella a terrifying choice:
"redeem thy brother
By yielding up thy body to my will;
Or else he must not only die the death,
But thy unkindness shall his death draw out
To lingering sufferance."

And thus the stage is set for an intriguing and surprisingly mature Shakespearean comedy. Angelo and his few monologues really made me think. He of course, was the character I grew to care the most about - not that he was my FAVORITE character because he did some terrible things. It didn't hurt that the actor was rather good looking too. ;-) Not that any of you agree with me. I have such straaange ideas of what makes a guy attractive...haha don't comment on that because I know you all have ample reasons to make fun of me in that regard.

Haha thanks for putting up with my nonsense. The short version: I really love Shakespeare! A good start to my "get Sam a life outside of music" campaign. ;-)

My family is completely loopy and I love them!!! Shows you all where I get it, don't it?? ;-)

Mom: "Sam why don't you play a CD in the DVD player?"
I go get my CD case and start listing off the CDs I have so my grandmother can pick: "Let's see, I have a loads of barbershop, Italian arias, the complete Handel's Messiah..."
Mom: "Because that's definitely a normal teenager's CDs..."
Yes. That would be me.

I went to a Lutheran church service this morning. My dad grew up Lutheran so it was pretty cool. I didn't realize how close the Lutheran tradition was to Catholicism. I really enjoyed the service. We never sing hymns at Crossway. Too bad I was the only teenager there - why was it mostly very old people?

Well I'm making plans for the next few days. Looks like I'll go tour University of WI's music department, which should be cool - I'm crossing my fingers that there'll be a music theory class I can go to! :-) There's a local theater so I'm trying to go see a Shakespeare. What a dork I am. Wednesday and Thursday I'm spending with Uncle Jon, Aunt Donna, and my cousins Megan, Christopher, Austin, and Emily. Emily who is sooo modest (not). Emily: "Why are you picking me up?" Me: "Because you're a pretty princess!" Emily: "I know!" But then, she's 5.

Gonna be lunch soon so I'm going to go. Miss you all. Hope you're having wonderful crazy days even without me!
Love Sam

All is adventures. And keeping busy. And getting terribly emotional whenever I slow down.

The short version of yesterday is, we spent all day at various airports. Thunderstorms in Detroit meant we were delayed, delayed, finally CANCELLED. So our 9:00 flight became a 4:00 flight. Which was delayed. Then a 7:30 flight from Detroit to Madison WI. Which was delayed like 2 hours. After a very long tiring day (I hate airports!!) we finally get to WI only to find that of our 3 pieces of luggage, one missed the connection. Guess which one it was. One of mine. The one with all my toiletries. And my clothes for the funeral. Which happened to be the next day.
So this morning was crazy. Mom and I went to JC Penny's where I managed to find - in half an hour, no less - an entire outfit to wear to the funeral. They're actually decent clothes too, which I will wear again.
The most emotional part of the funeral, besides the realization that life ends and it can be anyone (which is why I've been crying the last few days), was seeing how grief stricken a lot of my relatives were. I barely knew my great-grandmother. But my grandma, for example, had a really hard time dealing with the death of her mom.
So we're moving on now. Tomorrow is Friday, the day I was originally supposed to fly out. I need to accept that this funeral happened but allow myself to not think about it. The next week needs to be about my relationships with my family. Especially because I can't come out for Cousin's Week. This is the only time I will get to see my aunts and uncles and cousins and grandparents for at least a half a year.

Thank goodness for texting. The last two days would have been a lot worse without having that connection to all of you back home. Keep in touch my loves!

Oh and did I mention my suitcase finally got delivered. Oh frabjous day. I can finally take a shower!

G'night all. No idea when I'll get a computer again - I'm borrowing my uncle's laptop.
Sam

Thank you so much everybody, I love you all, you all mean so very much. Have a great next few weeks and I'll see you either in Indy or when I get back!
<3 Sam

Thank the Lord for small blessings. I was able to get through finals and enjoy a pool party at Glenn's before getting the news. My great grandmother died, I'm trying to see it as a blessing because she was old and very ill. We fly out tomorrow morning to go to the funeral. I'll be in WI til the 3rd of July (I leave the next day for Indy), and while I'm there I probably won't have computer access. Please stay in touch....I'll have my cell and texts are very welcome. I love you all....thanks especially Abby and Tracy when I walked in yesterday and just started crying.
Today is packing. And I have a lot to do. And I didn't expect needing clothes for a funeral on top of everything else.

I love how my mom comes home from getting her hair dyed (leaving me as the only one who hasn't gotten my hair highlighted yet) to say that I'm not allowed to because she won't pay for it. I'm really not happy about it - it's really unfair - but I have no money to pay for it myself so it's not my decision. So she takes the opportunity to AGAIN tell me I need a source of income. She already knows my plans, why does she need to constantly bring it up??

Well the party went as expected. Thank goodness Jaclyn was there or it really would have been miserable. But Julia had a great time which was the important thing. Wendy has an adorable new puppy named Bailey and she is soooooo cute!! The fireworks display at the end was incredible, better than a lot of 4th of July fireworks I've seen.

Has anyone ever realized how difficult small girls are??? I was doing childcare again at my church this morning, the 3's and 4's, and it was all girls. At first I thought, oh this will be easy.....but NO! Put a group of girls together and it's all complaining, whining, tattling, and selfishness. I have a newfound respect for my parents raising two girls who were only a year apart.

Today is the last day of junior year. In 24 hours I will be a high school senior. What a scary thought. All my life I looked up to and admired the high school kids - so old, so independent, so perfect. They were my heroes. For years all I wanted was to be in the high school jazz choir! How ironic! Now I'm going to be that "ruling class". The top of the food chain. And yet life will be so busy that I doubt I'll even feel too much different. Dealing with college apps and scholarship applications. That's what my fall will be. A job, and getting my license. Until then, I have this last free summer to enjoy before next summer when I will need to get a full-time job. I'd better make the most of it. Which shouldn't be too hard considering I'm doing mostly music stuff. If I get to the end of the summer with happy memories with my friends, my barbershop song arranged, and all 6 pieces of music learned, with my Wash U app mostly completed, and am prepared to record my audition CD, I will count it a summer well spent.

Love Sam

Apparently I am a "natural dancer", that's what one of the men who taught me some basic ballroom dance last night told me. ;-) SO much fun, everyone should try it -- and then join in on my clever plan!! Nicole, one word about last night: FOXTROT!!! (Yes there's a story behind that, why not ask her sometime?)

I'm really exhausted now because I was volunteering all morning at Mines Falls, digging trenches and stuff to put wood boards in to prevent trail erosion. Lots of physical labor which I am unaccustomed to...so I think I will treat myself to some ice cream after my lunch is done.

Jaclyn and I are going to Julia's graduation party this afternoon. Hopefully it'll be a great time. We won't know most of the people there so I'm afraid it'll be awkward and I will turn all antisocial. Who knows. The Wheatons might show up from Montreal!! I DOUBT it....but it's a possibility no?

I LOVE the new all-state piece!!!! I never thought I'd say that either, not after the Danza and vittoria disasters!
So I had my voice lesson yesterday and we worked on Alma Del Core. But that's not the only new music to learn!

Embraceable You - jazz all-state......brings back fond memories of jazz choir 2005 and the awesome soprano split that Tracy and I still love to sing because it's so discordant
2 pieces in German - eeek I've never sung in German before!
a solo from Handel's Messiah - at least this one is in English
a Mozart solo from an oratoria - Latin

Good luck everyone on finals today!!

New userpics, folks. I'm not sure I like it, is it too rectangular? It's a photo of my quartet, Ringtones, with Vocal Spectrum, taken a few weekends ago in Montreal. The funny thing is, 6 out of 8 people aren't actually from Canada.
Got LOADS of stories about that trip if anyone is interested and hasn't actually heard them yet. Surprising, but possible. ;-) I still say "eh" a lot....but that's not exactly new. I picked up that Canadian habit a LONG time ago.

I need to remember to call Mark Lawrence TONIGHT to schedule my senior photos or I won't get the discount. I kind of have no clue how these photos work...does anybody who's been through this have some words of wisdom about what to bring and what to wear to the photo shoot?

It was raining. It is no longer raining. Pretty much describes the boredom of a review day.

Love Sam

Thunderstorm yesterday! I was so excited, it was the first rain of the summer that I could actually go outside in! See, rain during school is depressing. Rain while I'm at home with no plans to go anywhere rocks my socks. So I went outside and did a rain dance, of course. A very SHORT rain dance because contrary to appearances, that rain was COLD!!

The song that's been stuck in my head all evening and this morning. Maybe it's applicable to life right now. Maybe not.

**Take the wave now and know that you're free. Turn your back on the land, face the sea. Face the wind now, so wild and so strong. When you think of me, wave to me and send me a song. Don't look back when you reach the new shore. Don't forget what you're leaving me for. Don't forget when you're missing me so: love must never hold, never hold tight but let go. Though the nights will be long when I'm not in your arms, but I'll be in your song that you sing to me, across the sea. Somehow, someday. You will be far away, so far from me. And maybe one day, I will follow you in all you do. Til then, send me a song. When the sun sets the water will fire, when the winds swell the sails ever higher, let the call of a bird on the wing calm your sadness and loneliness and then start to sing to me! I will sing to you...if you promise to send me a song. I walk by the shore and I hear, hear your song come so faint and so clear, and I catch it, a breath on the wind. And I smile and I sing you a song, I will send you a song! I will sing you a song. I will sing to you...if you promise to send me a song.**