:::miscievious grin::::

I feel like going crazy today. Those of you that know me probably already think I am crazy, but it is fun saying I want to go crazy. I think I am going to modify my major somewhat-no more piano performance for me! I am almost positive that I am going to become a BA, take French, and be a happier person.
I got gesured at by a rude person on Thursday becuase I didn't pull out into oncoming traffic. I wanted to back into him, but then neither of us could have gone, and the way he was ranting in my rearview mirror made me not want to meet him in person. Sheesh!
Tomorrow is Highlight night. I do not know how I am going to make it through. Highlight night is everything I hate, rude people, lots of noise, crazy lights, lots of people, lots of noise, claustrophobic conditions, and did I mention lots of noise? I hate the noise things like that generate. Not to mention all the people. I am the kind of person who has a largish personal space area, and I get upset when it is violated for long periods of time. Good thing I am not from a no personal space culture!
Highlight night is also a ministry, just a stressful one. At least it only comes once a year.
It is really wierd even doing Highlight night becuase we are in the process of leaving the church. I don't like switching churches, but I have been ready to leave this one for quite some time. I like the tinny church we are looking at, but I am feeling a little torn. I could acompany and get paid at some church somewhere else, or I could go to this little on, be happy, and be thier music person. ARGH!

Ick.

Today is a sticky day. I motion that muggy days in October be banned and made to pay everyone a $100 fine. Ha, ha. I can just see the entry in the student handbook--"Any day in October that fails to comform to the following guidlines will be fined $100..." (Yes, I am poking fun at ETBU)
I had a WONDERFUL practice this morning! I have got the first two pages of that #!&#@ Chopin Prelude mostly memorized! Victory at last! By the way, I really like the piece, but it has been, to quote Elise, "eating my socks." The infuriating thing about Chopin is that he was a pianist, so everything in his fantastically complicated peices is totally doable. Cheater! I really like Chopin, but I am frusterated becuase I have been having the hardest time memorizing it. The Bach fugue on the other hand... : ) I am a hopeless Bach fan. I can't help myself.
I had a Brit. Lit. Test today. The one question that I know for sure I goofed was the one about when Milton wrote Paradise Lost. I said he started writing the year he died. : / That was silly. I must have a stern talk with my gut instinct...
We get to start working on Christmas music in choir today (I think)! I am so excited! I love being in choir, even if we do have to wear the ugliest, most uncomfertalbe, least flattering, most expensive dresses possible. (There is some exageration, but if you had to wear one of these things, you would be singing that tune too.) The concert went really well. My world is (for the moment) peaceful and good. (fingers crossed)

Facinating...

I just realized that I have used an exclimation mark in the title of my blogs for a while. I wonder why. Must be something subcontious! I spent the night at ETBU with Elise and Brandy-this morning I am sort of groggy. I slept on a huge bean bag last night, and surprisingly I am still able to walk. :)
Elise and I watched Ladyhawke last night; I was pretty sure that she would like it. Based on the things she reads and the music she listens to, I was almost 100% sure that she would love the movie. And she did! It is nice having a widescreen laptop! I hope that we can watch movies some other time when there aren't tests looming on the horizon.
I retook the intro to music test; I do not think it is an A, but I am happy becuase anything I got is way better then the F I had. Thank goodness for second chances and wonderful department deans!
The Choir concert is today. I have a black shoe delema. I have some black shoes; I personally think they are leftovers from the Spanish Inquisition. They are some of the most painful things I have ever worn. The problem is, that I can't make up my mind to spend money on some new shoes. I went shopping at Walmart yesterday for two things I knew I hated shopping for, and I discovered a third thing that I do not enjoy shopping for. I hate shopping for jeans, shoes, and make up. I just wanted some simple silver eyes color. Is that to much to ask? Aparently! As if it is not bad enough that there are like seven different brands of makeup to chose from, they can't come out and say, "Silver"! Ack! I ended up giving and up getting something that looks close enough. I came back to school and ate chockolate and mentally huddled up in a hole after that trama. Ick. Oh well. I had better go get some caffine in my system or I might not make it. Yet another day in my crazy life has begun!

ponder and weep!

Okay, there is a reason for that intersting title. First of all, I have been thinking about some interesting things today. Have you ever wondered what the wings of the dawn looked like? I always sort of thought of them as either rainbows, or tagable, golden light. "If I took the wings of the dawn, still you'd find me..." I also was thinking about being an alumni. What will ETBU be like when I come back as an Alum? Will I see shadows of myself in my youth and will I see ghosts of my friends? Will I be shocked by how things have changed, or will I be amazed at how it stayed the same. Will my memories be full of laughter, sunshine, and joy, or will I wonder how I ever made myself stay for three years on this campus? Wow. Deep thought.
The weep part of my title refers to the grade I made on the intro to music test. Lets just say that it is my scholastic carear low, and leave it there. I flunked, failed, and in other words discraced myself. However, Dr. Webster gives grace to the freshmen! We can retake the test! The one problem is that he is giving us the test at seven AM on Tuesday! Interesting! Argh! It is friday, and I need to practice, and I don't want to go through with the weekend. I am singing at a foot ball game tomorrow. Oh well, I am done.

Beyond the Pale!

About a week ago I went to a Beyond the Pale concert. I haven't stopped singing since. I love celtic music! Being able to play music in the Excort has been AWSOME! I want to get a walkman adaptore pluggy thingie though so I can listen to CD's. I was thinking the other day about how people always had to listen to tapes. CD's were a major sound break through! So, sadly tapes must go the way of the dinosaure. Sniff. No more flipping, no more distorted sound, and no more fun grimly picking the tape out of the machine and wondering if you can a) wind it back up again, and b) is it the tape or a hungry tape player at fault. I feel old! I actually remember activly using tapes! At least I don't activly remember records! Then I would be really old. However, records were cool. You just couldn't play them in your car without taking up most of the room. : )
I had a really bad day until my lesson. I had fun. I get to learn the fugue that goes with my Bach Prelude! Life is cool! Before that I had a Monday. Yuck. I stoped at a light and forgott to shift down into first gear. For some strange reason I had a very hard time getting going again. I though I had broken the Escort. Oops. Then I went to theory and discovered agian that if you are going to be working with Diatonic triads, you have to start counting on scale step 1, not 2. Oops. In Ear training I didn't hear the first intervale in the test, so the first four intervales are off, and I made up an intervale for 5. After that everything is alright. I was distracted becuase I was trying to remember how 6/8 rythem worked. Oops. I had to put gas in the Escort today. That was more fun this time becuase I remembered how to get the gas cap off. I also remembered what side the gas cap was on.
Dispite all that, I am feeling much better. I am learning a Fugue! How can anyone learning a Fugue be unhappy? (Yes, I am strange for all you non music people out there.) I wonder how tomorrow is going to go? Can't wait to find out!

Shift away!

Well, believe it or not, I am now driving a stick shift. Notice that I said nothing about how well I do it, or how many times I stall, but I am driving! The very fact that I am still alive should be encouraging. My first lesson driving stick didn't go well at all. I was in tears at the end. Trying to juggle the clutch, balance the gas (you breath on the peddle and it goes VROOOOOOM!!!), and deal with my Dad going, "Trafic is stacking up, people are blowing thier horns, what are you going to do?" (This as I am stalled in the middle of the road) My respones to the following query was a compleate loss of ability to do anything. I do not do well when I am stressed and someone does something like that to me. However, I am past all that now. I just jerk a little whenever I start from 1st gear, reverse, and ocasionally when I shift into 2nd.
School is going well. I feel like an Alto right now becuase I am working on getting a cold, but other than that I am doing well. Havine a car every day is going to be so cool! I enjoy being in the music building so much; everyone here is so nice and looks out for each other. I love the sense of belonging that I never got at LU. I had a intro to phsyc test today. Can't wait to see how that comes bach. Gotta love it! There is an intro to music test on Friday, and part of an ear training test to do by Friday. I can't wait for Fall break. I wonder what I will do?
I can't think of anything else that might possibly be worth writting. More later!