I'm sorry Virginia.

So even though I'm not a huge fan of everything Virginia offers... I was very sad to say goodbye to my VA driver's license. I guess the true sadness went with the pnkrtn license plates. I was just bombarded when I got plates here and didn't get to sign up for the "SWT TEA" ones I had dreamed of. Alas. A few pennies saved I suppose...

Other than the increasing ocean withdrawal I feel, things are great here. Classes started yesterday, and I had a lesson last Friday. Over the weekend... well two weekends ago now... my parents drove all my crap... actually not my crap. THEIR crap. And my Grandparents' crap out here. Of course, Elise and I love crap so it was much welcomed. We now have two coffee makes, a panini grill and a George Foreman, a few thousand pieces of serving ware and coffee cups... and oh the list goes on.

This weekend Elise and I did a little painting. I will post apartment pictures soon, including the one piece of furniture we worked up the energy to pain. Just know we were going for subtlety...

The schedule of graduate student sans assistantship so far is pretty nice. Of course ensembles and lessons haven't been scheduled yet so all this could change. I'm able to bike to and from all the classes, after a very expensive but necessary trip to deck out the bike. Now fully equipped with lights, reflectors, racks, helmet, etc. Eventually I'll probably stay on campus more, brown bag it to save on time. Especially once there's snow on the ground and my warm-bloodedness has begun to fade. I'm just worried about practice rooms. Maybe it's not so bad here, but I don't want to spend the day waiting for a room instead of playing.

Tonight we did a yoga class at CREC (goodbye UREC). I miss UREC already, because classes were free. And you can use the facilities in the summer even if you don't take classes. But oh no. Those luxuries have passed. This week is all free classes at CREC, so it seemed best to check it out before dropping the money for a semester Yoga pass. The good thing though is they have pretty regular discounts on masssages. It looks like I'll be able to get at least one a month at 20% off. After not having one the whole time I was in England, and not as regular senior year with the student teaching and recital giving my body is in desperate need of the rejuvenation.

Well, time to hit the books. Classical music history... it's totally going to kick my ass.

love,
lindsay