I own a school uniform?!?!
Jill now officially owns a school uniform! Shock horror! Hehe, on Tuesday I went to Oxley College to get my uniform. After a good hour (at least) of trying everything on I finally walked away with my uniform. But I just have to say this - the lady in the uniform shop, whose name I don’t know (isn’t that terrible, I know…), is sooo nice. She really is. She has such a nice, bubbly personality and is extremely friendly. But, oh my goodness - the uniform was sooo expensive, it’s not funny. Seriously. I mean, we had to buy absolutely everything, including a back pack and sports bag and all that too. Not just the uniform. Heh, but I am so glad I’m going into year 11, not year 10 or something like that. The years 7 - 10 uniform is sooo disgusting! It seriously looks like pajamas! Like it’s bad. You’d think that being a private school, it would at least have a decent uniform…hehe. But the senior uniform isn’t too bad. We did look at some second hand stuff from the shop but some of it was just so revolting. Like the second hand backpacks and sports bags looked like they’d been sitting there for the last 20 years. Really. And I looked at second hand skirts…but you know - they had ripped seams, buttons missing etc… So we ended up getting all new stuff. :S
I attended another of those essay writing classes on Monday. It was good. I even like wrote an actual essay! :O hehe. Quite a few people didn’t turn up this week though. So there were only 10 people in the class this week. 15 last week.
Oh, and do you know what’s really cool? I have downloaded Finale Notepad 2008 yesterday! It’s so much better than the previous version because…IT NOW RUNS ON WINDOWS VISTA! 
Because I had Vista installed on my computer last Saturday, I suddenly remembered yesterday, "Noooo….Finale Notepad’s not going to work… :(". But then I visited the website only to discover the new version is out and is Vista compatible! Happy me, happy me. And also, which is really cool, the new version lets you import midi files and export your compositions as midi files. So that’s pretty cool.
Now, I have to tell you this. I installed this new version of Finale. Then I suddenly felt this need to go and work on some of my old compositions. Now, I’m the sort of person who composes heaps and heaps of stuff. But sooo many of my compositions are "unfinished". I get so far with them, then I get sick of thinking of things to add to it…and so they’re left, just sitting there, for months on end without finishing. But on rare occasions I get these urges to go and finish them, or at least do some more work on them. Yesterday was one of these days. O.K, so I have this Canon that I started composing months upon months upon months ago. I decided I would bite the bullet and just finish it. I hardly had anything to finish. Like 20 bars or something. That’s it. But it seriously took me like a year to get around to finishing it. So here I am putting in these last few bars of this piece. I got up to the VERY LAST BAR! And I’d put in the 1st violin note. The second violin last note. The violas last note. And then, oh my goodness - the cellos last note. Finally - finished! Then I was literally a millisecond away from hitting the save button. And. *Drum roll* THE POWER GOES OUT! This is the point in the story when I nearly put a hammer through the computer monitor and nearly threw the computer out the window. However, I refrained from doing such a ludicrous thing. But. The disappointment. It takes me so damn long to get around to finishing it. And when I finally do, I put in the very last stinking note. And the power trips. Hehe, just my luck. So I went away, did a few other things. And came back and re wrote it a few hours later. Hehe. So it is now officially finished.
Well, I think I will end this blog entry on that high note - I have finally finished a composition that was buried under the dust, so to speak…and is now finished. Yippee!!
