I think it’s about time for a new blog entry. Apparently Facebook now has a feature with which it can import whatever posts I have in my blog, so if you’re reading this on Facebook, welcome to my life. You can always stop by blog.mattulrich.com to get the full experience. Anyway, the summer has been busy. I’m officially done at my internship/job, and I’m pretty much done with Paige shows for the summer. There’s one on Thursday, but I’m not able to make it, so there’s only two shows left–a two-day stint in Ohio on September 2 & 3, and another gig on October 7. I can’t make it to this week’s show because I’m doing the family group leader thing for new student orientation here at AU (check out AU’s new website by the way). I might not make the October 7 gig now because I am tenatively the Encore music director, and that day is the first Encore of the year, which also happens to fall on Homecoming weekend, so it’s pretty important that I’m there. We’ll see…

Anywho, I’m gearing up to lead worship for Worship in the Valley on Friday night. It’s a pretty cool part of orientation weekend, so I’m excited and nervous to be helping out in that capacity. Classes start on Monday, and I’m not sure if I’ll be able to handle the load. My class schedule is pretty lop-sided, with four classes on MWF (9,11,12,1) and only one on TR (8:30). Well, technically there’s Jazz Ensemble on MW at 5 as well, and Orangehaus usually falls on some evening. On top of that stuff, I’ll hopefully be playing a lot of music with Paige, Jennifer Stanley, Melissa Sandullo, Chad Meadow’s and my new band, or anyone else who wants to hire me. I’d love to make some more dough playing for weddings. Everyone seems to be engaged or almost engaged, so you’d think I’d have more wedding gigs. Oh well…

I should get back to planning Worship in the Valley. I think you’re up-to-date on me now. Oh yeah…one more thing…I turned 21 this past August 6. Thought you’d want to know.

Bye.

Matty