So about how it's been like 9128473984 years since I posted. And by that I mean nearly two months...but still...I think that's a new record. If it weren't for the fact that I've been communicating with my dad pretty regularly on my BRAND NEW LG enV2 (yup, finally ditched the ancient Nextel i170 or whatever), he would probably think I dropped off the face of the Earth or something. He's my biggest fan and my most avid reader. Today he called me while going through the car wash. Silly guy. I love him.
For some reason, the "enter" key doesn't work in this blog input thing. It works everywhere else, though. Weird...anyway...um, I'm back at school for what was going to be my final semester, and I'll be walking graduation in May with my classmates, but it turns out I'm staying the summer again, and also the fall, because I'm just a few classes away from completing a Communication major, and if I can do that alongside my Musical Theatre B.A., that'll make me a lot more eligible for, well, not living in a cardboard box.
I mean, not that a cardboard box would be so bad--ever see that one episode of Rugrats where Stu is struggling to put together this elaborate playset thing while the babies have the time of their lives playing in the empty box? ("It's a house, Lillian!" "No, it's not, Phillip, it's a cave!")
But anyway. Music? Songwriting? Performing...you know, the reason I'm on MySpace in the first place? Ok, um...this won't mean much to the masses, but I have been writing a LOT lately. The album that I began writing and recording about a year and a half ago has begun to take shape, and every new song brings it in a new direction. During the period of time between Not Otherwise Specified and now, I think I've experienced just about everything on the human spectrum of emotion. College has changed me and kept me the same, wizened me and confused me, made me richer and poorer, more sociable and more guarded, more tentative and more eager. And it's all going to come out on the album...which makes for a variety of themes and, I'd like to think, a musically and lyrically well-rounded collection, even more so than NOS was.
Kinks are still being worked out with my BUSY schedule, which also means money will be an issue (maybe less of one by the time Obama's finally in office), and that means recording time will be an issue, and practice time, and performance time...but you guys will be the first to know everything, and I have PLANS. Amazingly...I do plan things sometimes.
Love, peace, and rich, chocolaty Ovaltine,
<3~ Ashley