Yay! I'm so excited! I went to the VIP concert tonight and it was so much fun! Bethany and Jessica H. were there, so we got to sit together and reminisce about our show choir days. They were so good even though the dresses for the competition show were really ugly. After the concert, I went around and talked to every still in VIPs. Everyone ran and hugged me and said how great I looked because I'd lost so much weight and how much they missed all the seniors from last year. Haha, now I smell like a mixture of all sorts of different perfumes and colognes from hugging so many different people. My protege, Jessica C. came over and hugged me. She said she still had the stuffed whale, that she aptly named Alto, that I willed her last year. Yay, I feel so proud to have given the altos a fun mascot for years to come since she can will it to someone when she is a senior. I miss her, especially after the really touching letter she wrote and read about me at the VIP senior banquet last year. It's times like those that I really miss show choir. We really were like a family, we spent so much time together, practiced like mad together, laughed together, cried together, won together, lost together, and had so much fun doing all of it. No wonder everyone thought we were a cult. It was like a VIP class of 2003 reunion with us three girls and Ryan and Brian, who is recording a CD with some people. I swear he'll be a famous singer someday, then I can go on one of those shows where they talk about knowing people before they were famous and be like "Yeah, I was in choir with him!". Anyway, it was so awesome seeing everyone and having them so happy to see me. Oh show choir, how I love and hate you at the same time! I think I'm loving it more now :)

And there's more fabulous news! Clay Aiken is coming to Charleston for a concert in July, but tickets go on sale Saturday. I just remembered that Jessica H. was also a crazy Clay fan with me, so we are definitely going to the concert! Yay!!!! I hope I get good tickets! I'm so glad I found someone else to go, it'll be great!!!!! I'm so glad that my friends haven't forgotten about me and that they want to hang out this summer. We're already working on making plans to get together. Except Lisa :( I think she dropped off the face of the earth. No one has talked to her in nearly half a year. We'll have to track her down!

Poor Jessica H.! I think her college is more in the middle of nowhere than Denison. She goes to Berea College in Kentucky, but she said they call it Ber-hella because there's absolutely nothing there except a Walmart a mile and a half away. But it's worse because they aren't allowed to have cars unless they live more than 8 hours from home, have a physical disability, or are a senior. That's so horrible! They don't even have sororities or fraternities, so she says all they do is walk to Walmart and hang out. That would really suck.

And did I mention how weird it is to be back at high school, especially the theater and fine arts area where I pretty much lived every moment last year when I wasn't in class and until 4:30 or 5:00 every evening. Brings back lots of memories (tear)! I definitely don't miss the flickering lights and annoying buzzing noise in the cafeteria. I had to crack up when I walked through the it and saw the big red electronic sign that says "Capital High School - Where everybody is somebody!" I think that's still hilarious. I really think I should have been more social and talked more to more people in high school. I could've made it fun if I'd tried. I was just too mopey, whiny, and worried about everything. I'm sure glad I'm over that! Oh well, I still need to go back and pick up my yearbook from last year. I guess I should do that next week, or else I may never get it.

Yay! I'm so happy that this summer will be fun after all! :)