A lot.

I'm going to start this post off with a generic "this has been one of the craziest weeks of my life". So don't blame me for not blogging. Because if I had blogged, they would have been awful "I did this. I did that. I hate my life. I need sleep" blogs. And I don't wanna write that. And you don't wanna read that. Not that anyone reads my blog anyway. But in any case...
Let's see, I last blogged last Thursday. That was the calm before the storm. We had a math meet and won handily (we went into team round with an 18 point lead and got 12 on team). I did... meh... but Christie and Yongyi got 14s, Kristine got a 12. We decided ahead of time what problems we were doing on team and it worked pretty well so that will continue to be a strategy. Yay for not losing. Or not thinking we lost. Well, whatever.
Friday and Saturday were districts. Honestly, districts was pretty bad this year. We tried to play brass-heavy pieces without good brass players. I think you can figure out how that went. But in any case the bassoons and clarinets spent the entire time completely frozen because we lived under vents that blew cold air the entire time. But the best part was definitely seeing Shreyas so overwhelmingly unhappy. He has committed to not doing districts next year and I don't blame him. Oh, I also won a 300 dollar scholarship. That was pretty cool. MMEA is almost paying me back for all states and districts and all-east. Almost.
But Saturday just got crazier. I went straight from the concert to YPO where apparently Zander trash talked me when I wasn't there: "How can we do Mahler with an unreliable third bassoonist?". I'll answer that... IT'S EASY. LOL. But yes. And then I had gbyso (where I was also late because Zander let us out really late) and apparently Fed threw a conniption because quite a few of us were late. So Saturday I was gone from 7:30 AM to 11 PM and I played bassoon the whole time. In any case I was exhausted. I had gbyso the next day as well. In any case, I was throughly exhausted at the end of the weekend which led to my next big event of the week:
I FELL DOWN THE STAIRS. I know that sounds so anticlimactic, but it was really dramatic actually. I was up at like midnight on Sunday night/Monday morning, was putting my pillowcase in the dryer, my slipper slipped off (who knew that's why they're called slippers), and I tumbled down on my butt for about 4-6 stairs. I slammed my head pretty hard, had an awful headache for about an hour afterwards. Needless to say, it was traumatic. And I stayed home from school the next day. Between sheer exhaustion, pain, and fear, it was a good move. I used the time to study for my math test on Tuesday. Which was sorta... ehh. Mixed bag. And that's what my grade reflected. But in any case. I've been catching up on work all week. It's been not fun, but my bruises are healing up rather quickly. And then last night was amazing. (That's what she said). It was probably one of the most exciting concerts of my life. I've been poo-pooing YPO all year. Now, I'll give credit where credit's due: we gave one hell of a concert. Granted, the string sections are enormous and just about every important wind part is covered by an NEC student or an insane high school student (like have been in YPO for 5 years or so). So it's pretty much a college orchestra with some high school players. But still. We rocked it out. It was incredible. And then I got up today at 1 and did nothing all day. It was so good. I need to go to bed. I'll try to be a better blogger.