I've gone to the band hall the last few days to practice. The high school's band practice is starting. It feels so great to walk in and be like a celebrity. When I walked into where the drumline was practicing yesterday, a lot of the guys went, "Katie! Yay!" It was so cool to see how I could light them up.

After they were finished I had another superhero moment. I was in the choir room practicing on a snare drum by myself. I had been playing for about half an hour with very little break. I looked up and there were these kids standing outside the window watching me, and they ran off when I looked up. I'm going to miss being the hot shot at school. It's going to be weird being a freshman again. I'm also used to being in charge of everyone. It'll be weird being bossed around again. I'm going to miss people I don't even know knowing my name and telling me how well I did at the football game Friday night ::sigh::

I let Stephen borrow my trance collection, and as a favor he burnt me a cool CD with Chemical Brothers and Prodigy. I suppose I'll probably miss him. I can't tell you the number of times this year when I'd say during drumline practice, "I wish Stephen was here." As I was walking out of the band hall today, I was having flashbacks of my junior year, both good and bad. I wonder how many people from here I'll ever see again. I know for sure I'll see Holly, Ryan, Andy, and Angela. That's a given. But I can't say for sure there's another person in this town I'll ever cross paths with again.

I'm glad I'm not the painfully shy little girl I used to be. I shouldn't have nearly as hard of a time making new friends. I'm still shy at first, but it takes way less time for me to open up and way less nerve for me to start a conversation. Like at orientation, there were 2 girls there that I had really hung out with a lot, one being my temporary roommate and the other being a girl I knew from visiting in April (Holy crap I remember both of their names, too!! wooo!! Ally and Emily! Schweet! My memory doesn't suck so bad after all!). When I came out of the line at breakfast, I didn't see either one of them, so I had to sit with people I barely knew. The first time that happened in high school, I sat at a table by myself. It was the second day of school. Luckily 2 guys came and sat across from me. Little did I know one of them would end up being my first love... Crazy how things happen like that.

A main difference between this and when I moved is there's a lot of other people in the same boat, rather than just me, the new girl. It's also nice that I won't be terribly worried about impressing the males since I've got Maximus ;-) That way, I can be more concerned with platonic relationships than dates. I wonder how many other girls are on the drumline, and how many of them are attractive. I don't want to get hit on all the friggin time. That's one thing that got kinda old last year.

Okay, I suppose this entry has gotten long enough. I should probably stop talking now. I've been debating whether or not to post my Xanga blog link up here... I guess if anyone is DYING to see it, and they don't know the address, they can ask me.... actually... what the hell.... I actually have 2. One if for thoughts and the other is for scriptures I've found recently that I love. I'll post the scripture one and it's not too hard to find my real one from there... http://www.xanga.com/christsdrummer. Haha! You like that? Christ's Drummer! Wooooo! I rock! lol.

Current music: "Behind Blue Eyes" by Limp Bizkit
Current mood: pretty talkative, so I'll shut up now