end of summer....

Well, the summer started off busy, with the ITEC in AZ, and never really significantly slowed down!

Demondrae Thurman and I presented the Miraphone Academy here at UNCG in late June, we had our annual UNCG Summer Music Camp in July, and now it's time to crank back up for school.  I must admit, though, I feel like more time was spent NOT thinking about the busy-ness but more on family things, friend visits, trips to visit family and friends some of whom I hadn't seen in a long time--this is important, more important than I tend to make time for, normally.  As a result, I got less "work" done, I think, but feel much better about life, less stressed out, etc. and I still have plenty of time to get done what needs to be done for school.  hmmmm--maybe this needs to become more common in my summers!

We also added the extra activity of following drum corps much more closely, since Alex is marching with Spirit this year.  He seems to have had a wonderful experience, overall, thus far.  We only got to see two shows, but will be heading to championships next week in IN, and bringing him home with us.  I'll have much more to talk about regarding that as time goes on, as I want to better collect my thoughts on his/our experience and DCI as a whole.

anyhow--off to practice, well, since, I have a recital in a month and all............