Summer's Balance

You know those moments when your life takes a turn and you find yourself in a surreal world that can't possibly be your own life?

It's been happening to me a lot lately.

Last night I was driving to town when, about halfway through, I started wondering "why does this feel so wrong? Am I even awake? Where am I? Do I know how to drive?"

Yeah. Not something you want to start wondering when it's pitch-black.

Also, I've been falling down a lot recently. Losing my balance. And the other day I dreamed that Hurley from Lost was explaining economics to me on the island.

A coincidence?

I think not!

Anyways, today I had another of those moments.

A couple weeks ago, I composed a quartet. Since I wrote it for a university audition, I decided to show it to my teacher. After playing through it with only us two violinists, things took a bit of a weird turn. My piece is going to visit some people... many people, in fact.

My teacher decided that she would call up our local composer and musical genius (who, might I add, was something of a hero to me when I was little) and have him help me with it. My piece will also visit a conductor of the youth symphony and a cello teacher, both of whom will be asked to play it with me and my teacher so we can hear the piece in its entirety. Violin I, violin II, viola and cello.

I cannot tell you how huge this is to me.

I've never shown anything I've written to anyone besides family. Only a choice few family members at that. I've never heard it played by anyone other than my computer. I've never known if I would ever hear it played by anyone other than my computer. Then today...

I got to hear the two violins. Live. Together. Outside my computer, outside my head.

It was wonderful.

I still can't really believe it, it's all too huge for my small mind to comprehend. I just thought I'd let you know, since I haven't written anything for a while... so yeah. Good times.

I don't want you to get the wrong idea about this piece... it's not amazing at all. It's really not all that good. It could be adequate, I'm not really sure. Hopefully, it's adequate for an audition. We'll see, I suppose.

Well, I'll try to update more often! I miss you, my lovelies!

Less than three,

~ Summer

p.s. What did the snowman say to the other snowman?

p.p.s. Smells like carrots!

p.p.p.s. When I first heard that joke, it took me about 10 seconds to understand it. I'm a bright one, alright...