I have Kristin Chenoweth's The Girl in 14G stuck in my head: I'm tackling it for Festival this year, along with Darkening (an Emily Brontë poem set to music by Chester Duncan) and a reprise of Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better (Annie Get Your Gun) with 4+x.  Fun.  That's all in March, just before I head off to Montreal for a week on a band/jazz trip (by bus, ack).

end of November: band workshop, jazz radiothon, math/chem tests probably, braces appointment, finish Twelfth Night budget, schedule, sponsors and site plan, Il trovatore at the MB Opera (we'll see)

December: history essay due, Medea at MTC (twice), CBS blood-donor clinic, band and jazz concerts, band gig, carol sing, braces appointment (one-year mark), Twelfth Night reading (at least one), set-making, Christmas-present project, Advent/Christmas, dialogue jeunesse provincial

January: Twelfth Night costumes, practices start, mid-terms, Jitters at MTC, braces appointment

February: The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead at MTC, Candide at the MB Opera, braces appointment, Lent

March: SEMF Musical Theatre/Vocal, Montreal band/jazz trip, braces appointment, Doubt at MTC (will have to switch out for another performance), spring break

April: Easter, Madama Butterfly at the MB Opera, braces appointment

May: The Boys in the Photograph at MTC, a best friend's wedding, Twelfth Night dress rehearsals, IB math exam, braces appointment

June: Twelfth Night performances, exams, provincial math exam, band/jazz concerts, braces appointment, RCM exams (?), youth leader's wedding

July: IMC (musical theatre/drama, we'll see), SERVE 2008, braces appointment, a summer job would be nice (linked to IMC)

August: braces appointment (and let's hope for a job)

September: second year of IB starts, must have decided whether or not Vox viduarum will stage another play, 17th birthday, should have started university application already plus planning audition, braces appointment

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December: braces should come off (whee retainer), band/jazz concerts, carol sing, Advent/Christmas

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May: IB exams (ack)

June: graduation

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September: start at BU, hopefully

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Time passes quickly.

Prayer is entirely necessary.  I feel so often lately like I desperately want a map: where do I go next?  Fifty paces north, take a sharp turn east and head for where you're supposed to be going ... in the dark ... on blind faith ...  I am struggling.  I know I don't need a map when the Almighty is directing my footsteps.  (But how do I know, how can I tell I'm following in His light?  You have to trust!  It's faith!  Stop worrying, He knows what He's doing ... )

It's far past time to take a step back, entrust myself to His arms and relax.