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Is it a bad sign when you're staring at a Word document and going, "End, damn you, end already!"

Yes.

In other words, work proceeds apiece on what is not going to be called "Till Human Voices Wake Us," but is still titled that on my computer.

Also, it is so hot.

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I registered for classes today. I've got:

AERO 101: Foundations of USAF, and Foundations of USAF Lab
PHYS 131: General Physics, and General Physics Lab
MATH 122: Calculus II
ENGL 263: Introduction to British Literature I
ASTJ 101: Beginning Japanese I
TIDE (um, something): Invisible Cities in NOLA

One thing I don't have is band, and this is kind of a big shock for me. This is the first time in nine years -- nine years -- I won't have a band class, and for a lot of those nine years, I've had more than one. Symphonic Band, Wind Ensemble, Jazz Band, Orchestra, Pep and Marching Band...if you can name it, I've probably done it. But not this upcoming semester. I can't make it to Tulane's band camp because I have the NOLA Experience program at the same time, and if I'd known, I wouldn't have applied for NOLA, but I did and I got in, so that's where I'm going. I can't do concert band, either, because Tulane doesn't run their concert and marching bands concurrently. I'll definitely do concert band next semester -- on bari if I can rent one from the school, on alto or flute if I can't. I could probably audition for Tulane's jazz band on bari or alto, but...I'm not a jazz musician. I've played jazz for the past three years, but I don't love it the way I do concert.

This is deathly ironic because one of the reasons I chose Tulane over Wellesley was because Tulane had a band and Wellesley didn't. Hell, of my four final schools, Tulane was the only one with a band. Wellesley doesn't have one, Embry-Riddle doesn't have one, and Oxford College at Emory University doesn't have one. Vanderbilt, my waitlist school, does -- but why wait on a waitlist when I'm already into four schools? Christ, Tulane is one of the few schools out there that does march baris; I've been looking at colleges based on their marching bands since eighth grade. I'm bitter.