Prelude to my life.
Hello!
I am Millie.
I am a college student.
Very small college.
Private.
About 1,000 students.
I live in a co-ed dorm.
On the 4th floor.
Blech.
I don't know if you know this.
But the 4th floor of any building without an elevator?
It sucks.
Like.
Sucks.
Anyhow.
I'm a music composition major.
It's really, really fun.
Uhm…
I'm a sophomore this year.
It's pretty laid back for me.
Easy classes for the fall semester.
Oh!
And I'm a band geek.
Yupp.
Full on, raging dork.
I bet you're wondering what I play, yes?
Well.
I play all of the woodwind instruments.
That's right.
All of them.
And I dabble in piano and guitar.
It's pretty cool.
But my main instrument, my baby?
That's the bari sax.
Yupp.
A baritone saxophone.
The 15+ pound, 4 foot long beast of a sax.
Rather fun for a small girl to play.
Ohh, yes.
Me, in all my 5'3" glory.
I haul around that monster.
Danglin' from my neck.
And I love it.
I participate in a few bands.
Wind ensemble, jazz…
I didn't do marching band last year.
I'd had enough of it in high school.
But alas, I've been convinced to join.
However.
They wish for me to play trumpet.
Which, if you don't know, is not a woodwind.
Nor is it a piano or guitar.
No, I do not know how to play the trumpet.
So why did I agree to this?
…
I might be mentally challenged.
So, I start school in a couple weeks.
Tomorrow I'll be moving into my dorm early for band camp.
Ahh, band camp…
I didn't miss that horrible hell-week.
But at least the trumpet weighs a lot less than my sax.
Oh!
I believe I'm missing the section telling you what I look like.
I'm 18, turning 19 in a month.
As I said, I'm 5'3" tall.
I have rather strange eyes.
One is green.
One is purple.
I've never been given an answer as to why.
I also have slightly cat-like irises.
Not full on creepy cat eyes.
They just kind of point up and down a little.
If that makes sense.
I have light blonde hair.
Very long, in tight waves.
And there are purple highlights on the bottom layer and a few in the top.
I'm sort of tan.
Sort of not.
I do wear glasses.
But I switched to contacts a few years back.
So that's me!
If you're wondering why I write like this, lemme explain.
I'm sort of spazzy.
And a little twitchy.
(Okay, so that's a lie.)
But I am a spazz.
Writing this way helps me keep my focus.
Because I can see the sentences individually.
Instead of all lumped together.
And it follows my weird train of thought.
I know it's a little dry now.
But it'll get better.
[cross my heart.]
See?
Promise.
You'll also feel uber-smart for reading it so fast.
;D