I don’t know how she did it, but Linh somehow seduced me into taking Ballroom Dancing this semester. So, every Monday night we have class for a couple hours and every Wednesday night we go out dancing to this club by ASU. Tonight though, I messed up big time. For those of you who don’t know Linh, she’s about a foot and three inches shorter than me. This means that her legs are shorter than mine. This means that when we’re waltzing and I’m not leading her very well, I step on her toes. Tonight was bad. There wasn’t any blood or anything but I did make her cry :-(. Thank god none of the other girls saw or else I would’ve been screwed…… I’m sorry honey!

So that was the tragedy of the night. In other cool news, I found out that Confetti is scheduled for four new performances throughout the 2006 season. Three of those performances will be for different school districts on the other side of town. The hour long theatrical production will more than likely also be a candidate for the AriZoni awards in the fall which could be totally cool. I’ll actually be rewriting one of the weaker tunes, Sun Song, to make it shorter and more interesting before rehearsals start this weekend. I might redo the finale as well but that’s a maybe. Should be cool. Come check out the Theater Works production if you can!
I’m almost finished with the marching show. Hopefully, I should be done by the end of this weekend (though I should have been done this past weekend). I just finished the second movement and I think I might be finally getting a hang of this marching band stuff. The first attempt I do at any new genre that I’ve never written for is usually something short of a failure so hopefully it won’t be too awful. The second show should be tons better (if I ever have to do another one…). I hope Joe’s got some good ideas for the percussion. His percussion scoring is what is going to make the show kick-ass! My wind/brass book is nothing without it.

Also, if for some crazy reason you’re in Florida on April 10th, go check out the band concert at University High School. Yes, these are the same guys that performed joyRiDE back in October except this time, they will tackle Shadow Rituals. Also on the concert is John Mackey’s Redline Tango. John and I will be flying in to attend the concert. Should be a GREAT time (too bad I’m not 21)! I fly home that Tuesday and John drives over to the University of Florida where he will be the composer in residence for some time. This is a draft of the concert poster they’ve sent me. Who’s that cute guy on there?? Oh wait… that’s Mackey…. not me…In random puppy news, Tiki (I didn’t name her) was a little disturbed by the zoom/focus noise my camera was making and decided to attack it. This is the inside of her mouth in mid-bite. Cool huh?