Thirteen kids showed up at the first PS rehearsal, which was awesome. I wasn't prepared enough though. All the hymn sheets were in this big, chaotic, 4-inch tall stack, and after I had passed it all out, some of the parts were missing. This was solved by the next practice though; my mom gave me a bunch of folders the kids could use, and I was able to sort in the rest of the songs and figure out which parts I didn't have. Phew. After fixing some of the other mistakes I'd made the first time, like the just-plain-bad sitting arrangement, I was feeling a lot more comfortable and was able to really start listening to what the kids were playing — pretty important if you actually want to rehearse a song, rather than just get it played though a bunch of times.

So, hopefully, it'll get better from here ^^;;. There are like, half a million more improvements that I still need to make to the whole thing, like actually reading through/explaining the hymns, creating different mixes for the different verses, doing some arranging, copying more music, and, oh yeah, figuring out performance dates. On the optimistic side, I'm pretty excited about the blend I'll be getting — five violins, four violas, three cellos, two clarinets, and two flutes. Perfect for a small ensemble, if only a bit bottom-heavy... but who could complain about a group like this being one-fourth VIOLA!? ^___^

Btw, remember when I was saying that I was hoping to submit something to the COD comics page? Yep, you guessed right, it somehow didn't happen. HOWEVER. XD. Now that someone's starting a COD comics anthology, with a deadline and all, I'll be doing everything I can, for real this time, to turn something in. I decided that I'd just based it off the story of BattleSong, since the characters and plot are there already. And I think it would be a good homage to my old dream. I guess we shall see...

Work has been exciting as always. The other day, they let me make a little flash clip to introduce the Daily Success program — you can see it here. Man, I'm so glad I took that one "useless" multimedia course at COD! You never know what you'll need again.

David, lol yeah, Pictionary doesn't require much artistic skill; it's all in a quick sense of visual interpretation which is why it's so cool.
PJ my dear... that's just how it is for crazy highschoolers who decide to take 5 college-level classes and 2 part-time jobs at a time, gah!
Weien, those were some pretty deep comments about art... I luff joo xD!!

And thanks for your gbook entries, Suz and Kd5KiJ!! So encouraging ^^.

Oh joy, spring break. And partying at Tara's/Kari's! This is gonna rock...

=]... I feel much better, having finally made the decision to continue working in Web dev at IBLP. It would have been easier if these last few weeks weren't so random and overloaded, with so many bad events and equally good events happening to me. That's life I guess. Can't complain though, because God is faithful, and there are so many awesome people holding me up!

And, good things are happening... my department moved offices a little while ago. I'll have to say that this just upped my life satisfaction by like 50% — it's huge, new, and I have a window right by my desk ^^. I catch every sunset from now on! Another thing, I'm working on a really neat project called Daily Success, a program that will help people with Scripture meditation... through EMAIL =D. It's rare that the Web department gets this kind of action. I just wish I wasn't missing out on all the Ruby programming that my coworkers are doing *sniff*. As long as I'm sticking around here, I am SO gonna learn more Ruby...

Oh yeah, remind me to buy Pictionary, the coolest game ever (besides Risk, which I'll also have to get). It was so insanely fun at David's grad party the other night. =P I just love a good challenge, especially a good, timed challenge, related to art, against people who think they can beat me. XD

Thanks for your words, David, PJ, Weien, and Shiowei. Man, first Praise Symphony rehearsal this weekend. I am TERRIFIED (and pumped up =). God's will be done!!!