This too shall pass... like a kidney stone...

Today I made a decision that I was hoping I would never have to make. Today, I quit orchestra. It feels like I'm leaving a part of myself behind, 4 years of hard work and long practicing. I made it to the highest group. If the circumstances were different, I might be able to make it work. But alas, they are not. 4 years of working my butt off to reach the coveted title of being in CHAMBER orchestra are gone. I can at least say I made it in I guess.
My mother understood, seeing as I have in equivilence 7 college classes this semester, plus who knows how many more next semester. But everyone else is giving me grief. Yes, I am quitting orchestra, but I plan on returning next year, and I refuse to quit cello after all I've accomplished. Music has and always will be a part of me i can't slough. Everything is music, so I'm not abandoning or wasting my talent. So don't give me grief, don't tell me not to do it, Because it's already done. This is probably my most serious post, and really I just needed to vent. Really, my posts are quite antic.
ANYWAY, on a happier note, my mother borrowed a book from our library. It was called Wizards and Witches. When i returned from my first aid class tonight, i read it to her. here are 3 things i learned from that book:

1. Most characters described in the book ended up getting high at some point, probably from smoking opium, or as my first aid instructor calls them, "recreational drugs of great interest".
2. Druids, followers of nature, were a peaceful people, but they made ritual human sacrafices. Probably sacrificed the extroverts, i think.
3. From what I can tell in the pictures in the book, wizards liked to experiment with cats. So whenever I say "Oh! Look! It's a buttercat! in an odd english accent, i am talking about a white and black spotted tabby with wings all the colors of the rainbow.