College Days

Today I went down to the college and practiced with Miss Rosa’s class. They’re a pretty fun group, and we spent most of the time trying to decide what the teacher wanted. Patrick conducted for us, but not in the traditional sense. He snapped his fingers and counted for us, since he doesn’t play that many pieces on his bass. As we were playing I discovered I was missing some music, as was the other bass player and Patrick was most helpful. Since the bass and cello play the same part, he went and copied out some music for me from his and Ashley’s. He’s a very nice kid, and likes to talk and help people. But Frank, jealous husband that he is, was slightly disgruntled when Patrick and I were trying to work out some bowings, and when the kid said he would run and copy me off some music. Frank wasn’t really upset or anything, but I guess he wanted to hear again how much I love him and only him.

We went to Olive Garden for lunch, and we got the soup, salad and breadstick lunch. Frank can really put food away, especially since neither of us ate a bite until that moment. I ate most of the salad and the breadsticks, and the soup was really good and sorta spicy. The moment of truth came when Frank ordered something breaded that smelled like fish. I had no idea what it was, but I knew it was seafood of some sort. Frank had me try it, and it was really good. Then he told me what it was and I nearly died of shock. It was squid.

While we were eating, they called him from work and asked him to go in tonight. He said he would since it was overtime, and I just feel so bad for him. He worked 5 doubles in a row (from 6:00am – 11:00pm) and he’s really tired. But he said he would, and who am I to stop him? He couldn’t believe he said yes after he got off the phone, but he did. So he went to work shortly after 4:00pm. So sad. But at least I get to spend every night with him.