Life is good

"Oh, what a beautiful morning.
Oh, what a beautiful day!"

If anyone can name what those lines are from (without googling it-you cheaters!) you win 17 gold stars (see this post for further info in gold stars).

But anyways, it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, and I just wanted write something happy. I could probably even continue the chorus...

"I've got a beautiful feeling,
Everything's going my way!"

School isn't so busy for me this semester, which is way nice. I'm only taking 13 credits, and most of my classes don't require a ton of time outside of class to do homework and stuff. I'm working about 12 hours a week and playing in two orchestras and a couple intramural sports, and I still don't really feel too stressed or pressed for time. It's a feeling I haven't had for months, and it's a nice relief.

One thing that's really gone my way recently is my viola playing. I never practice as much as I should, but somehow I ended up getting 5th chair in the Philharmonic. I think I was 11th before chair auditions last week, and I expected to stay in about the same spot. Of course I practiced and was prepared for my audition, and I felt like it went well, but I had no idea it apparently went that well. The only people in front of me are the 4 seniors. I'm not even a music major, and I know there are several people sitting behind me that practice a ton and are overall better players than me. But, on this one audition for Mahler's 5th symphony, everything seemed to go my way. I haven't sat so close to the conductor since high school! It's pretty sweet.

Well I was going to write about so many more happy things in life - my awesome ward and friends and so forth - but my laptop battery is dying and I forgot my cord.

Apparently not everything is going my way.

But overall, life is good.