Thank you for submitting your 2006-2007 contract for residential living as you are aware this year due to the increasing demand for on-campus housing we were only able to accept a limited amount of returning contracts for the fall 2006 semester. Unfortunately, your contract was received after the initial number was received by our office.

However, as the recipient of one of the ATU room and board scholarships my office is dedicated to working with you to honor that scholarship. Therefore, we are hard at work finding alternative on-campus housing solutions. We are therefore guaranteeing you a space within one of our residential facilities, provided you comply with the timeline given in this correspondence. However at this time we are not able to make a definite assignment for you.

You will need to come to the office of residential life between 8 am and 5pm on either Monday April 24th or Tuesday April 25 to begin the sign-up process for one of these alternative locations. Please do not hesitate to contact our office should you have any questions. Thank you.

I just got back from all-state. The auditions yesterday morning weren't too bad really. There was a really old guy from ASU and two other guys. I went in there and played my two scales and my two sight-reading pieces and had a fairly bad audition. That's not that unreasonable because they asked me for a three octave chromatic scale that goes to the top line of the treble clef staff. (Much higher than the euphonium's practical range.) The sight-reading stayed up there and had D's and Eb's just shy of it too, in an unparallel meter. Anyway, I didn't figure I'd do so well. I was pleasantly surprised to see that I ended up principal.

We rehearsed and worked our assess off essentially until this morning when we were told that our concert of like six pieces was reduced down to just two. We opened with a Sousa march and closed with one of his pieces, which was really fun and pretty challenging. All and all a pretty good couple of days. A related side note: two daiquiris make evening rehearsal a hell of a lot more bearable. All of the concerts happened today, so we could all get out of there before the ice hit.

My car needs new oil and is starting to revolt against me. I'll get to that very soon, actually. Roman and Ben followed me home on highway 7 after a nice lunch at Subway in Hot Springs Village, where we saw Dr. barber on our way out. It was good to see all the directors again and some of my more favorite people. It's kind of scary, though, when your girlfriend's stepfather is walking around in full camo uniform at the same convention. He scares me a little, but he's super nice.