for Arielle

Well I'm back on the blog real quickly because I've gotten harassed about not posting anything yet since I've arrived... Dealing with money issues (like all 'college kids') and am completely broke until I get some money back from the school from my loans, so I've been eating pastas, soups and cheez-its that I brought with me from home. I started writing my music essay on Sunday and am basically done, which is good since it is due tomorrow. I wasnt feeling well during classes on Wednesday (which for right now I've got classes running from 11am-6pm with one 1 hour break from 2pm-3pm for lunch, then an hour after classes until choral society from 7pm-9pm) and when I went up to my theatre prof to tell her I wasnt feeling great she looked at me and said "wow, you dont look good" and told me to go home. So i did I needed to go home to rest. Feeling better now and soon about to finish off my music paper.

This Christmas break was needed, but certainly didnt happy without sadness and loss. To start on the people side of things, some of you know that my roommate from last year, Arielle, was in a car crash in L.A. on Christmas eve, leaving her with brain damage and in a coma until New Years eve, when she died. This was a shocking blow. Arielle was so sweet. And she and I had had plans this semester to discover the restaurants in the city and look for good food. She was so great and I'm so glad for all the times I got to hang out with her, see her and talk to her. We had some good conversations and I definitely looked forward to continuing that this semester. I'm sorry to see her gone. My last blog of the year happened to feature a picture of me and Arielle at The Marillions concert at The Button Factory. That was a great evening, the two of us getting up and out, since both of us admitted to being more homebodies, and it was good for us to go out and do something different (like watch a British band neither of us knew who mostly had male fans twice our age! haha). And afterwards we went to a diner in Temple Bar that actually had really good wings, to my surprise, and was open late (another shocker)! It was a good evening for us, and had I known it was our last maybe we would have done something else after that, but overall the night was really good, and I am glad to have had such a fun night my last time with her. That is really a blessing to me! And her family has been in my prayers since I found out about her passing. She will definitely be missed!