Finals & First Friday! (Day 137)

Today is the day: Part 1.

FINALS DUE!!!!

wow I'm so freaked and so relieved at the same time that today has finally arrived. I got to class early to put the finishing touches on my songs and burned my discs, turned my listening journal in and was out of there!

Well not exactly right away...I spent some time talking to CJ, Thom and Alex discussing summer pans and all that good stuff. Hopefuly I'll be seeing them during break! especially CJ since I got so used to coming over to record almost everyday for a month! We'll see though, sometimes people lose touch over break, but I hope that doesn't happen with us cause I enjoy spending time with him.

Did I just say that?

Anyway, speaking of spending time, he asked for the night off work to come to my First Friday performance tonight! I thought that was really sweet since I know he can't afford to be missing work, but it was good for him to take a little break at least, though I know he wanted to go to the event anyway.

So I got home and immediately started getting ready for the night, which i was way stoked for since I'd never been!

I brought the drum I held onto since wednesday and when we got there (my mom and viki went haha my biggest fans :D) we bumped into Ruben! he was on his way to go DJ at a coffee shop down the street and so we all walked together. We found where the rest of the ensemble was at and our set was fun! we played our "greatest hits" as Doug calls them and the audience enjoyed the music. CJ found us and he stood with my mom, viki, ruben and rubens friend (his set got cancelled).

After we finished up, my fam and cj walked with me down roosevelt to 1st street where I found Mike and Carissa setting up for the acoustic Boys & Frogs performance I said I'd help with. Turns out, they forgot the generator for the PA system so it ended up being totally acoustic haha. I played the african drum along with a guy named Gabriel who I just met tonight and we had a nice set! I was a bit woried at first because to be honest I'm not very familiar with their music other than what I've heard in the studio at school, but I was pretty good at improvising. Glad I could join them tonight! I can officially I've played in a band before haha.

I would've stayed for the few final songs, but I had to go because tomorrow's marias graduation!!

Still, I walked around for about a half hour and we saw the fireworks coming from the Diamondbacks stadium. I kept thinking of the Lizzie McGuire movie at that point when Lizzie and the Italian boy are watching the fireworks then hold hands, which would've been kind of cute if it were just us two but it was still a cool experience nonetheless, glad my mom and viki went to support :)

By 10pm we were ready to go, but CJ asked if I wanted to check out some studio that was giving tours tonight, and said we could drop my mom and viki off at home then he'd pick me up at my house to go. 0.0 LOL uh....

I wasn't entirey sure what to say at that point becuase Maria's graduation would be 12 hours from now and I woudn't want to be falling asleep at the ceremony, but I also didn't want to cancel on him.

My mom said it was okay as long as I asn't out toooo late so I told him yes. He'd never been to my house though and I had to give him directions. When he got here I suddenly got nervous because I'd never really hung out with him outside of school, or at night since he works, but I figured all would be well :)

We headed back toward FF, and when we were almost there, CJ realized we didn't invite ashley. haha wow that was out of nowhere! Anywho I gave her a call and she was about to shower but we told her to cut it short bc we were on our way already haha, she was like okay, and we picked her up then headed back downtown.

Wellll by the time we got there it was almost midnight, and basically everything was over with, and the shuttes to the studio were gone for the night. Oh well. We ended up eating at Denny's and called it a night. Still had fun though.

Graduation tomorrow!