Well its 1am

Whell I’m exhausted. I just finished writing a 700 word English essay in less than 1 hour. Go me! Haha, god do I need to stop procrastinating. :p Anyways, I suppose I’m in a writing mood.
Two positive things:
ONE – BETA ZETA/BIGS fun weekend at my cabin this weekend. I know everyone is so excited! It’s going to be an interesting dynamic, but hey! We’re all there for the fun. Yay tacos.
TWO – I got family letters from my brothers and they’re amazing! I’ve worn my sweatshirt the past two days only taking it off to shower and sleep! Lol. I need to wash it sometime……. Heh.

Let’s see. I’m starting to go to the gym pretty regularly. It’s really nice. You always read about the benefits of exercise, it’s like a yeah, yeah, I know, I know. But really, it’s true. Two days this week so far… two more! Too bad I have to wake up in 5+ hours and go. Eh. I can sleep eventually. I’m really looking forewords to a slow relaxing weekend. Won’t be seeing Jonathan much, but at least ill get rest in that I haven’t lately. Anyways I better get to spell checking my paper and head off to bed. Damn. Forgot about geology test tomorrow. Not going to do well, I’ll have time to study after the gym. Stupid procrastination again, lol. Nite all!

Blogging Assignment #2

One aspect of college life: Tau Beta Sigma.

Five days before my freshman year of college started I started band camp. I’ve was in marching band all of high school, and in band for a total of nine years. Coming to NAU I didn’t even hesitate doing marching band up here, I never thought I would join a fraternity let alone a sorority. Three days into band camp I could say I was successfully recruited for Tau Beta Sigma, the national honorary band sorority. Over the course of the first semester I went through the process of becoming an active member. Being a member of an organization that is so close-knit has been a life changing experience. I can’t really write out what TBS means to me. It is having a group of people that is always there for you no matter what. It is providing service to the bands of NAU for the purpose of selfless service. It is working together for a greater good. It is having such a deep connection with people that you never could image. Every week I find out more about my sisters. I find out how much we take on each other’s traits. You can go your whole life believing that you are an individual, but after joining a sorority or fraternity, you realize that there are so many people just like you. It wasn’t until recently I realized how much my sisters mean to me. Over the past six months I have been planning on participating in the Walt Disney World College Internship, and only two weeks ago it hit me. I was going to be leaving my sisters. I never expected I would TBS so much. I was OK with not being home for Christmas, but being gone from my sisters for five months (and three for summer!) seems like too much. I never would have expected to be so involved with college, but I was twice as involved in high school so I guess it figures. College has been a great experience so far, and I would not change any of it for the world.

(Note: My great-grand-big/ma suggested contacting a close school in Florida and still being involved in TBS. Good news. I researched all the active chapters of TBS in Florida; map quested them from Walt Disney World, and found one only fifty minutes away! I even emailed someone from the chapter already and feel one hundred times better about going.)

Real update soon

Promise. Not that there are more than 3 of you reading this anyways.
RECENT NEWS: I'm starting to go to the gym, its only the 2nd day, so we'll see what my opion is about it this weekend. I have a big english essay due tomorrow, and of course I haven't started yet. Lab is canceled tonight :)
FUTURE NEWS: I'll do a real update this weekend. I have another blog post due for my ENG 105 class on Monday, so I will work on a new post and then post is later next week probably. I'm getting tired of these mini-posts, I'm sure you are too.
The rest of the week is going to be crazy. Wednesday I'm hosting the reception for the symphonic band concert, then we're setting up for Jazz Fest. Thursday I have a midterm for my PL 201 class, and I'm working at Jazz Fest from 5-8:30pm, through LOST :( but I suppose thats what VRC's are for. Friday I work 7:45am-10am and 2-5pm. After that... I'm going home!
I also am trying this new layout, mostly because my ENG 105 class blog had almost the same layout, this is pretty.... BLUE ...but let me know what you think!
(ONE WEEKEND TILL THE BETA ZETA AND BIGS FUN WEEKEND!!!)

I plan on buying a new ipod classic this weekend!
White or Black?!?!!?! Let me know!

ok, this pciture isnt even edited
but i dont care, i love this pic :)

Just pics

original photo by zane. mission santa barbra, santa barbra, california

Valentines

So yesterday was fun. Jonathan and I went to Hunan West, a tiny Chinese restaurant in between the dollar store and planned parenthood. Its good! Then after that it was time for LOST. Which was kinda a boring episode, and stuff happened that I didnt like happening.... hard to explain, lol. After that we went to see Enchanted at Prochnow. That place seriously sucks, but Jonathan and I saw it on opening day and really wanted to go again. It's such a good movie! And if anyone has the soundtrack they should give it to me :) pleeeeeease.
Today I'm filling in for Melissa at the Pep Band game... hopefully be fun! Now im off to have food with my big brother! I have to write a 500 word essay after the game, due at 10pm.... so you'll know whereI'll be, lol. So, some more pictures!
(And thanks to Ryan and Tina for commenting! Made me feel super special :))

Let's see

I had every wish to write about my expierence of the sisterhood ceremony from saturday night on here. (Dont worry, just stuff I realized and everyhing :)) But it seems that this week has been a rollercoaster of emotion. That is something that I dont want to get into however.
So for now I just like to say that I am on a mad search for my dream plant that I had found at home deopt, two days later all three of them were gone :( so now I have made the decision to go to hope depot every two days and search.
Today I bought a gym membership at Anytime Fitness. I'm excited, I've only been to a gym once, literally. So its a chance for me to get in shape and everything. :) Next week is going to be crazy busy! Sunday-Meeting, Monday-Meeting, Tuesday-Lab, Wednesday-Symphonic Band Reception, Thursday-NAU Jazz Fest, Friday-NAU Jazz Fest, Saturday-I NEED TO DISAPPEAR!, Sunday-Meeting, Monday-Meeting, Tuesday-Lab, Wednesday-Reception? ugh. oh well! Its fun :)
So till I get something to actually write about... more pictures!!
(*people should comment on them *hint*hint* ;))

st peters basilica, rome, italy


the breakers (lobby), palm beach, florida

Great weekend

State day was this weekend! For the most part anyone reading this blog was probably there (except you Jenny!) lol. So I'm just going to stick with saying that it was great and thats it! Well, this weekend my friend Hailey came up for the Jazz Mad festival and we had lunch with her dad and had a lot of fun. Sunday I also got to hang out with Kayla and Nick who came up to visit Jenny and we had a ton of fun too! I can't wait till the next state day, and next year... National Convention! So Excited! :)

chisos mountains, big bent national park, texas

original photo by zane. mission santa barbra, santa barbra, california

Empty thoughts

I had some ideas for a post today, but they've seemed to slip away. My car got stuck in it's parking spot today. Which I don't like, but my mom called and said I don't have car insurance for the next day or two because they forgot to pay the past two months, heh. So I shouldn't be driving anyways. However, I really really really REALLY need my haircut, and food. So somehow I'll be venturing to Safeway and the hair cut place, I forgot what they're called, I have their card in my wallet. I'm 1/10th of the way to getting a free haircut! Tomorrow is Wednesday, or now it should be called Meeting Day. For the TBS meeting, and service meeting, and Beta Zeta meeting. Fun-ness. During Lent I'm going to be putting up some of my own pictures from Mission Santa Barbra, Santa Barbra, California. Enjoy~

mcnary dam, umatilla, oregon

original photo by zane ioli. mission santa barbra, santa barbra, california

Blogging Assignment #1

So what are my goals and expectation for the rest of the semester?

I’ll go with the boring part first, school. While it may not be the most exciting, I feel that I can do well in my classes this semester. I do have a lot of other commitments but school is something that I can focus on enough this semester. None of my classes this semester seem like major classes, so I believe that I this is something that I can accomplish.

I’m also looking forward to being to spend more time this semester spending time participating in my sorority. Last semester I rushed Tau Beta Sigma, the honorary band sorority. While I’ve only been active for a few months now, I haven’t been able to give all my time to the sisters. So this semester I have plenty of time to give. I have signed up for the service committee and have spent a great deal of time planning activities for the rest of the year. By the end of the semester I hope to be able to say that I have given my all and can prove it by the amount of funds we’ve raised and service we’ve done.

What is would my number one goal for the semester? Well, if this question is somewhat hard to answer. If this question were asked at the beginning of the semester I would have had said that I wanted to tell those who are close to me, that I am gay. Well that has changed, and if this question were asked just yesterday, I would have said that I wanted to tell my parents I’m gay. Well, today is today and I have no one left to tell! For this I am really happy. It seems that my number one goal for my life has been achieved. So where does this leave me now? Now my hope for my life is that I can achieve a sense of comfort ability with myself and my friends and family. There’s of course a bit more too coming out then what I’ve simply wrote, but it’s enough for now. I know that this will all happen way before the end of the semester, but it’s always nice to have a visual reminder.

I hope you've enjoyed my post, its been interesting having a specific topic to actually write about.    -Zane