I haven't posted in over a month!!!

Wow...

I got my last hour of observing my cooperating teacher today. I got a chance to talk to her about when I start student teaching and get the gist of what I"m going to be doing while there. I'm excited... she's going to start me right away with a class of my own! Don't know which grade yet, it's going to be elementary, and she's going to have me do warmups in the high school.

And we are for sure having TWO guys next semester!!! And hopefully more, she's trying desperately to get more. It'll be good working with the guys in sectionals though, I can get more of a feel of their voice. Problem is, she's having them sing tenor, but the one guy's voice is still changing right now and he can't get that high sometimes. And the other guy's voice I guess is higher, and she doesn't want one guy on a part... that's why I'm hoping there are a few more guys, so one of them can sing bass and fill out this ensemble at least a little bit.

I can't wait until I start, this is the final test on what I'm going to do for the rest of my life... that's actually kind of scary

Copying Misty

Misty is all excited because she signed up for 5 classes. Here is MY class schedule next semester:

Supervised Teaching, Elementary: TBA
Supervised Teaching, Secondary: TBA

The end. 2 classes, 12 credits, and that's all she wrote. How about that? Granted, I'll be gone every day, so much of my money is going to be getting gas. The miles are gonna rack up on my car. I'm just about to hit 80,000 miles on my car, by the time student teaching is done I wouldn't be surprised I would have driven up to 85,000 or even 90,000.

OK the end.

I am stupid

How is that for a subject heading?

But I am. I skipped practicum today, and this time was becuase I forgot. Not because I went out the night before, like last week. I COMPLETELY forgot, I have no idea how. Forbes wasn't too happy with me... that's all I'll say about that.

I went to Moweaqua on Tuesday for a LONG time. Like all day almost. And observed. I finally got to observe the high school, so that was cool.

OK that's all I'll write for now, I have work in a bit and I ahve to get ready.... my room is such a mess right now, I need to do laundry....... asdfgjlasdjfgalksdgjlkasdjglkasdjglkjsdalgf life is hard

All righty

So Monday and Friday we had practicum in Maroa. I taught on Monday, and it was seriously not my best day. It has taken me this long to get back on my sleep schedule after Fall break, i'm just now back on it, but then I wasn't. I hadn't prepared at all. And it isn't all my fault, because we hadn't been there so long I had no idea how far they were, so I didn't know what to work on or how much to. It was kind of awkward doing so. But, what can you do. Friday I didn't teach so it didn't matter that much. Monday we get new music since their concert is on Tuesday! So I'm excited for that. Finally new music.

Tuesday I was going to go to observe my cooperating teacher. But I didn't. I woke up early, and I just was like "I can't do this today". I gave the excuse that I overslept my alarm, and I did to an extent; I woke up at 6:30, and then was like "No I can't do this, I have a sinus headache again, and I'm just so tired" so I went back to bed and woke up at like 9. It won't happen again, and I can afford a day's rest.

That's it for this week. Tune in next week for more!

Finally, and update.

Well, not really... I'll be updating tomorrow after I get back from observing my cooperating teacher.

Ahhh

I'm finding more and more lately that I just want to get out of here and start student teaching. I mean, I'm sick of going to classes. The only classes I really enjoy this semester are Choir (duh), Tudor Voices (duh again), Practicum (which is like pre-student teaching), and Form and Analysis (because I'm a theory geek). I don't want to do the ethno project, exceptional child is at NIGHT for 2 1/2 hours... ah well. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel... me getting a good job with good pay and great benefits.

And a wife.

Millikin has done it to me again...

So yeah. I have 39 observation hours recorded in the school of education. I should have like 89. We need 100 to student teach. I have 20 coming for observation for student teaching, and more from practicum, but it still would be nice to have those other hours on there... grrr.....

My latest rounds with the kids

So yeah I haven't posted since last week and for that I apologize.

Last Friday I taught the kids. I started and did warmups. And then I taught de gospel train. It went OK. Dr. Forbes said my warmups were better than my teaching, because all I taught were dynamics. And I'm thinking "woah... i didn't even realize I was doing that. I didn't want to do that!" But the warm ups went really well. I'm glad I did them, because now they like me. :) It's sort of funny, because one of Leslie's kids (Leslie teaches Sunday School at church and she's awesome) is in the choir, and she came up to me after church on Sunday and said "Good job Friday." i'm thinking she meant the Concertino, which is where all Millikin Choirs except UChoir sing. And I'm like, "Thank you, but I didn't sing." and she meant teaching. So that was cool.

So on Monday, I taught again, this time with Loch Lomond. Last time I heard them sing it, the tenor part was completely wrong, so I tried to get them to sing the right part. Turns out this time they knew their part pretty well. So I tried to bring thru emotion and teach them proper diction... Dr. Forbes liked my passion. The kids liked it too. But I had to focus a bit more... everything Forbes wrote about me was negative except for the passion thing, so that kinda sucked. But the postive thing was positive! That's one more positive thing I usually get... I used to get 0. Now I usually get 1 or maybe 2. So I'm climbing up there in the teaching ladder.

I don't teach until probably next Friday, although I think I am going to Moweaqua sometime next week as well. So I'll post sometime next week.

Two down, One to go

So here are my teaching experiences for the last two days.

MONDAY
Second time practicum went to Maroa-Forsyth. And it was interesting. The four of us (Cory, Molly, Wendy, and myself; Jarvs and Forbes didn't get there until a bit later) got there before the actual choir period, we got there for one of his other sessions where people not in the actual choir period work on choir music... don't ask, it's really stupid in my opinion, I figure if you have 105 people in a choir and 30 or so can't be in the choir because of class time conflicts, create a second choir. So we did that until that period got over and the choir came in. And we taught. It was Cory, Wendy, then Molly. And I tried helping the tenors... the one next to me kept asking "why is she doing that warm up?" and other stuff... and then one of them said they couldn't read bass clef. I don't care if you are a tenor or a bass or a soprano but everyone in music should be able to read bass clef. I teach on Friday when we go again. But now I got more of a sense of me knowing what I have to deal with and how to get these kids engaged... because they definately were not.

TUESDAY
I had my clock set for me to wake up at 6:15 this morning. Went to bed around midnight, thought ok I should be fine. Not the case. I slept thru my alarm and thank God my internal clock woke me up around 7:05... problem was I had to be at Moweaqua by 7:45. So I didn't even shower I just quick got dressed. I got there around 7:50. I went as fast as I could without going so fast the cops would pull me over. But I got there. And for the next 3 hours I proceeded to observe and interact with 5th, 4th, 2nd, and 1st graders. So that was interesting, yet fun. I'll be doing that a few more times. Moment of the day: the kid sitting next to me in the circle said "My brother is 13 and he's as tall as you!" Yeah. Fun. He then proceeded to tell me his cousin was 13 and was shorter than him... anyways, the teacher told me a bit about the high school choir and get this... they have all girls except for ONE GUY. One guy in the choir. Whoo. I guess 2nd semester they are getting one more... She also wants me to accompany. So my piano skills will be worked to the bone. I better start practicing again.

I don't know, I work really well with elementary children. Because I sure interacted with them today. It was fun. But at this point I still want to conduct high school or something. Conducting is my favorite part. You can't do that with elementary children. I also love complex high school music. But I still don't know yet. I've said always, student teaching will decide what grade I teach. That decision is inching ever closer...

Here we go....

So in order for me to student teach, I have to have 20 hours of observation at the location where I student teach. So I called music teacher at Moweaqua, where I am student teaching. She wants me there on Tuesday at 7:45 AM. Takes me 20 minutes to get there so I'm going to leave at 7:15 at the latest, more likely earlier in case I get lost or take a wrong turn or something which probably won't happen but still I'd rather leave a little window of time just in case. Which means I have to get up at like 6:30 or earlier. Probably more like 6.

Guess I better get used to it.

Branching off of that, she wantys me to look older than the kids, so she wants me to wear a tie and stuff. It probaly won't mattert too much with the elementary kids, but when I student teach high school... that's the whole thing with the goatee. So, I'm considering waiting until I get back here from Christmas.... Let it grow over Christmas vacation and take it from there, instead of waiting a week. These things take time and these things don't look good after a week.

In other news, I got the job at Blockbuster! So I got some extra income to pay off next semester and stuff. Very happy am I.

To keep or not to keep?

I'm putting this in my professional journal because I want to know now if I should have a goatee for when I am student teaching. Just give me your honest opinion by voting below.

Goatee... last shaved Saturday Sept. 11


If for some reason the poll doesn't show up go to my website.

Spreading too thin?

I may be spreading myself too thin now. On top of my classes and stuff, now starting soon i'll have early Mondays in Maroa, and probably early Tuesdays and/or Thursdays in Moweaqua observing for student teaching. Plus I have a huge major research paper I need to do in Ethno, and other homework. That on top of the fact that I am in UChoir, am already largely involved with InterVarsity, and may be getting a job. It kind of sucks, but I'm thinking I have to quit MVOP and if that isn't enough I'll have to quit church choir. But I need time to spend doing homework, to gather myself, and to be with God. Man.

Oh, well, I guess I better get used to it.

First day of Practicum was today

We are going to be dealing with a 70+ voice choir with 4 tenors. More on this later; right now I'm off to an interview... not for a teaching job of course but a job at Blockbuster. Wish me luck, the details of that interview will probably be in my LJ.

Test

I changed the name of my blog and now it is taking forever to publish, it stays on 0% for like 3 minutes... so I'm going to post this to see if it will help it any... I doubt it...

I have decided...

To change this blog to my professional journal. This blog will record all of my teaching experiences, emotions, and thoughts about my present academic journey and my future in the field of education.

Starting now.

Today I was sitting at the Nina Thiel table in PMC and was talking to Tony about my teaching. I said I don't know where to teach yet. And he said, "Try Colorado." Now this is like the third or fourth time someone has immediately suggested or said something about the Coloradian music education system for me. I remember Mrs. Bartel talking about how they reinstated 70 or so art and music education programs in the Denver School System. Maybe this is God trying to tell me something...

Dream again

I had a dream last night that Kenai got mangled and his snout was cut off so he had no nose and his coat was really bad.

Random

kerjiwsf? adfginrdfganf309 98fy23b0 fd90sh ~~1!!!!!!

Cool I just saw a commerical for Annette's church on TV and I was seeing if I could see her but I didn't... next time I look I'll look for Tamara I'm sure she's in the choir

Dream

I had a dream that the Packers won their final preseason game 91-7, and that the punter missed a kick but then grabbed it off the ground and kicked it again; it was like a replay on the news and the announcer said "This shouldn't happen" and stuff like that.

I can't wait for the regular season to start! Sept. 13. Plenty of time for us to get ready.

Aw right

I'm back at school! I am really excited. Classes start tomorrow and I don't have classes until 12:30 on Tuesdays and Thursdays and that is only if I get into UChoir! Which I hope I do! Callbacks went really well today so it seems very promising.

Well, ok

I've been getting harassed about not posting in this thing, so here I go.

I just want to say that our new dog is awesome. His name is Kenai and he is a husky, I believe a purebred. He has one blue and one brown eye. And he is so sweet. I'll have pictures up as soon as they are available.

I can't wait to go back to school. 5 days! And I hope I get that job down there, I just called to see if they recieved my resume, and they did and they are going through resumes right now so I hope I get that job. It isn't the video store I thought it was, it's at another one farther away, but hey, I don't care at all, it's money! Everyone please pray I get that or another job nights and weekends this year!

Ok that's it.

2 weeks

And now I update.  Wonderful.  I get so caught up in the lj thingy I forget about this.  Oh well.  When I start school, I'll use this one for every day stuff and the other for teaching.  Or maybe the other way around.  Who knows.

New Discovery

Decided to hold off on buying KUA until this comes out...

http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php?masterid=113340901

Yeah

Mom and I after our talk and arguement a few nights ago haven't been at each other's throats for the first time in a few weeks. Which I really like... she's easier to stand right now, at least. I haven't had a drink since two nights ago when we got in that huge arguement. Which is good. I'm thinking more and more it's me being 21 and the drinking thing that has caused those arguements.

Oh dang they are playing stupid ZZ Top on the radio right now...

Yep

I'm up at Grandma's now, staining the shop. So that's fun. And I'm getting paid good money to do it... and then I'm probalby mowing Grandpa's lawn tomorrow. So yeah! I'm up in door country working. And maybe I"ll get that other job so I can do that too and work up here. Ya know?

Babysitting

I'm at the Sprangers' babysitting right now, and the kids are in bed so I'm just waiting for Julie to get home, and LJ isn't working at the moment, so I'm using this.

To let you know, I got sunburnt yesterday at the beer belly two, and I'm feeling it. Face, back of neck, and back of legs. But I ran two miles in 18 minutes, which isn't bad for someone who doesn't run much.

Yep.

If you still read this blog

Leave me messages.

Idea

I was thinking of putting a record together of Tolkien themed music...

The House of Tom Bombadil by Nickel Creek
Rivendell by Rush
Lothlorien by Enya

Any others out there?

So yeah.

I STILL can't update my profile. I want to add my picture. Hopefully it will be fixed soon or not be janky soon, or I'm going to send them a quesiton thingy that will never be answered.

Boredom.

I'm bored, and no one that I feel like talking to is online so I'm going to write a real entry in this for once. Amazing, huh. I may as well.

Anyways. I worked for about 10 hours today. 10-5 at the shop, 5-8 babysitting for Julie. It's no biggie, I made about $50, so that's just fine with me. I know, I know, it's not a real job, but I can't get a real job for only a month and a half. I'm in the unique situation where I have a separate job (which I LOVE, I may add) in August. So I can't really commit to a job here unless I can only do it mid-May - July. Well, many people don't like that. So I usually find myself doing odd jobs, which isn't a big deal, except for the fact I usually hate it. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy babysitting. I babysit both for my aunt and for Julie, who both have kids old enough not to usually get into trouble, plus I know them well enough that I can have fun with them, instead of just watching them. The shop can be nervewracking, as it was today because I couldn't really price anything because we ran out of really small hangers. I priced what I could and left it at that. And mowing lawns. I guess I'm a good lawnboy because everyone loves having me mow lawns and do lawn work. But I HATE IT IMMENSELY. At least I'm doing more other stuff this summer (wow how is that for good grammar). I'm going to be painting the fence here and possibly do painting up at grandpa's. Now this is only if it decides to stop raining here anytime soon... it's been raining about 6 out of 7 days for the last 2-3 weeks. At least it's warming up. Upper 70s! Shorts and sandals!

Hmm

For some reason it's not letting me update my profile... don't know why. I'll check back tomorrow.

That is...

Tell me what you think NOW, since I have comments enabled. There are a couple others I'm thinking of, I"ll post those in a few days.

Here we go

Tell me what you think?

Hello.

Here I am again. I think I'm going to change my template.

Geez it's been a while

I've been posting in my LJ and neglecting this. I leave for Chapter Focus Week tomorrow so be kind and leave lots of comments for me to read... they will be like letters to me. And leave like TONS. I"m so excited. OK bye

I think I twisted my ankle

It hurts when I put a lot of weight on it or have it a certain way... anyways my ankle hurts. I have NO IDEA how it happened, unless it is from playing volleyball at the picnic yesterday... but wouldn't it have started hurting much sooner than now?

Chapter 6

I got their album today!!! And all I can say is WOW. The album is BY FAR their best! It is SOOOOOO good! This is one album I will definately enjoy listening to over and over again. OH WOW. The Canada song is funny, the 7th wheel is DEFINATELY funny (especially since I heard it live so I just imagine what went on stage) and everything. These guys are SO talented. God has blessed them with an amazing gift.

The only thing missing from it is a hidden track, but that's something most CD's don't have so I'll let is slide by.

This time.

Yeah

Tracy called me last night. So that was cool. It's not as bad as I thought it would be. I mean talking to someone that you have never met before physically. What's weird is that we talked like we knew each other personally for years. So I'm not that afraid anymore of people I meet online calling me, as long as I am ok with it!!!!

WHOA it changed.

For the second time since I've been here, some part of Blogger has changed. This was more major though, as the website iself has changed. Not too shabby, Blogger.

I am in the midst of writing a Rush composition. It's called Rush Emulsified. You can hear what I have done so far on my website... I may work on it a little more tomorrow.

Tomorrow is a busy day. I have class early (we are showing the middle schoolers the music building and campus a little bit), then I meet about my composistion with Prof. Morton at 10:30, voice lesson at 11:30, class from 12:30 until 1:45, then Voice Area even though I DO NOT want to go... it's gonna be long because everyone does the last one... but I think Steph is performing and I'm sure other people that I know are too so it won't be TOO bad. Then last Tudor Voices meeting at 4:30, then right after that final Chamber Love dinner meet in front of PMC at 5:30, headed to Cheddar's for a 6:00 reservation, then back here after that for Dustin's organized meeting... THAT'S gonna be cool, Christians from all over campus gathering together. That is gonna be AWESOME. Then after that, home. And I can stay up as late as I want and sleep until whenever I want (or at least until 1) because Wednesday is Dead Day (or Study Day as the officals at millikin want to call it... I guess dead is too gory for them or soemthing :-P). But yeah I'm excited... I can see the light at the end of the tunnel getting ever closer and closer to closing my Junior year.

Wow. I can't believe it's been three years already. Been thru good times and bad... Watch for a post of reflection within the next few days.

Procrastination

I"m procrastinating on doing an ad for a newspaper for ed psych... which I don't want to do at all... but I must... and the thing is the ad won't take that long and I think that's what i"m thinking in the back of my mind while I go do other things... which sucks majorly, but what can you do. Ah, well, I'll get it done. I'm doing it on Prozac, as is Vanessa's suggestion.

Vanessa is a woman.

So speaking of women, (Yeah I had to do that so I could say "Speaking of women..."), it is now officially Mother's Day. I'm going to have to call mom early in the morning and tell her that... although when I call her she will probably already be up for about 4 hours... sometimes I don't know how she manages to get up at 6 every morning without an alarm clock. She is a machine! But a human machine with blood and nerves and stuff and (gasp) she's the terminator! Oh that movie has so many paralells! (Yes, I was intending on paralelling this part with the Smelly Cat episode of Friends... the one that my sister doesn't want me to watch because that's like the only friends episode I watch... I fast forward thru the rest of the episode just to see the smelly cat parts. ANYWAYS...)

So yeah I'm starting to get ready for home... I'm in the midst of doing my final load of laundry, one that will get me to the end. I can see the light!

Oh yeah!

Today is Cinco de Mayo, and I definately wouldn't mind a margarita today.

3 hours sleep...

That's all I got last night. I worked on my health topics magazine in my room and in the computer lab last night, since the internet in my room was acting stupid (on and off). I ended up getting a good chunk done but I went to bed around 3ish. I woke up at like 6, without my alarm, and then worked on my magazine until I finished at 8:30. I went to the class and of course the class was gone since that class seriously only lasts sometimes for 15 minutes. So I just left it outside his door and went to teach. More on that in my lj.

Anyways after I got home I tried taking a quick nap. I semi-slept for an hour and couldn't sleep. So I got lunch and then went to class. After class I came home and crashed. I slept for another 3 hours, so i'm fine now. And nothing huge is due until monday! YEAH!

My allergies were SO BAD this week... but they are finally starting to settle down. I'm still a little congested and when I wake up I have sinus pressure. I take a Tylenol sinus allergy and I"m fine except my mouth and throat get so dry! I got some Luden's to help counteract that side effect, along with drinking lots of liquids.

Now that the discipline plan and the magazine are finished, a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders, because nothing is due until monday, and that's piano for teachers so that's a breeze for me. I have to practice it though. I know what I am capable of at the piano and the last few times I haven't been really showing that since I've been sight reading everything. But it should go well.

This weekend... I start to pack! I may be going home on Saturday because Dr. Hoffman (or Crazy Darlene as Vanessa likes to call her) has given us an option for taking a take home final! Which would mean no monday final at 8am! NO FINALS DURING FINALS WEEK. It seems like this semester every teacher has been rescheduling their scheduled final time. Which I don't mind. Only thing I have to do during finals week is my composition presentation, and that's Friday night. I don't mind staying for that because I like listening to other people's compositions, but I HATE presenting my own. I hope next year composition has a little less parameters surrounding it... I want to write choral music.

I bought crazy taxi for $1.99 at game stop only to have it not be compatilbe with my computer because I don't have enough Ram or something. But I'll keep the game because I plan on getting a new computer within the next year or two.

In other news, Dustin has been singing praises a lot today.

I may have mentioned or at least seen this before...

But the ad above? The ever changing ad above? Yeah, it now states "Discount Rush tickets" and "Cheap Rush tickets" because I am talking about Rush. Intellesting.

I just want the year to be over!!!!!!!!!!

I'm tired of all the things I have to do!!!!!!! It seems like everyone is demanding more and more and more of me as the years' end looms closer. And frankly, I'm tired of it, but there is nothing I can do. GAH! I bet lots of you feel the same way.

(side note: Misty, this post was for you, since I'm not going to be posting this in my LJ :-p)

New idea!

With the Rush concert coming up in about 40 days, I'm going to have a Rush song of the day. It's going to be in my LJ too.

Rush song of the day:
The Big Money

From "Power Windows"

I found that I am obsessed with a different Rush song every day. So I thought this would be kind of cool.

Synesthesia

I'm looking up website about how different people relate different colors, especially those with perfect pitch like me. I'm just wondering because usually I don't associate color with pitch, and in high school someone interviewed me with what colors I see. What spurred my mind is I am listening to subdivisions by Rush, which starts off in F# major. And I close my eyes and I almost see an infrared room and someone like running. Or something. Anyways, I see a purplish pinkish magentaish color with that. With the song Big Money, I see blues and whites. With closer to the heart, I see blues and sandy browns. With Spirit of Radio, i see Reds and Yellows. With Leave That Thing Alone, I see Blues and Yellows (but that may just be from the album cover). As with Tom Sawyer. I see Reds and Blacks. Fly By Night, I see blue. Grand Designs I see Purples, Yellows, and Blues. Anthem I see greens and blues. Working Man I see pink (probably from the Rush logo on the first album). Some of those colors I see because of the album cover.

Which led me to wonder. What colors do I think of when I hear certain pitches? So I tried it. I looked it up and everyone else see different colors than I do (which proves that that "Buy Perfect Pitch for only $100" crap is crap). So here is my list.

C - yellow w/ hint of orange
Db - a really really dark and deep blue with a hint of purple
D - purple (anytime I hear baroque music in this key I think purple)
Eb - a rusty yellow
E - orange
F - darker red
F# - infrared magenta
G - blue
G# - greenish
A - brighter red
Bb - dark brown
B - light brown

Maybe someone can use this for a research paper.

No seriously

It has been a good week... My recital went SOOOOOOOO well!!!!! I played Ultimate Frisbee!!!!!! I cut my lip!!!!! It is scabbed and bugging me now!!! Yeah! SCHOOL IS ALMOST OVER!!! AW RIGHT!!! YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!

I wanna go home.

Updating because Misty wants me to...

Here you go Misty. I updated it. hahaha

I'm 21 now

Yeah Livejournal is definately becoming my primary blog. I like it better. I like how you can make this your own, but I like livejournal because no ads and I love the friends features and the commenting. Here is the link to it:

http://www.livejournal.com/~splent

I may continue posting here, or start up posting here again. I'm not sure. Like I said, we shall have to see.

My birthday was great. It was fun times. Thanks to all who wished me happy birthday. I bought alcohol for the first time, that was fun except I couldn't decide what to buy. I would have much rather gone out but we got to Bennigans and they were closed so what can you do. Oh well. I got hard raspberry lemonade and it is sooo good.

I always forget to write in this one

My livejournal is slowly but surely taking the place of this one.... I feel bad for neglecting this one. But what can you do. It was a good Easter. Lots of fun times. I sang a couple of songs to my family but then int eh middle of one dad started laughing at Uncle Todd and then mom saw him and hit him and said "how dare you laugh while your son is singing" or soemthign to that effect... but he apologized today so that's ok. I'm exhausted now though... no chances to sleep in over the weekend because I worked friday and saturday, sunday we went to the early church service, and today I woke up a little later but I had to get everything ready. I made good time though, less than 6 hours. Ok I'm going to sleep.

I"m tired

I woke up really early yesterday to go on the egg hunt, and I was majorly disapointed that I didn't get any fruits for my labors... at least one of us did (Amanda) but she didn't wake up early so that doesn't count. So yeah I'm a little mad but now I"m up waiting for middle level methods at stephen decatur. So peace.

I'm slowly turning to livejoruanl...

Livejournal is slowly becoming my primary weblog. I don't know if it will happen yet, but it's kind of hard to abandon the journal you've used for almost 2 years. So I'll probaly still use this.

schtuff

I can't think of anything.

WTF?

OK so I'm driving home from Kroger, and I see a pedidal (for those who don't know that's a car with only one headlight working). And i'm like "that's so ghetto lol" so I turn in to the parking lot, and in the reflection of the truck in front of me I discover one of MY headlights is out! WTF! I'm so mad! It's kind of ironic, though, but still I'm a little upset because now I have to have it fixed. Which I can't afford to do.

...sigh...

RIP Lefty
2000-2004

FANTA!!!

THEY HAVE APPLE AND CITRUS FANTA NOW!!!!!!!! PLUS A COUPLE OTHERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I HAVE TO CHECK GAS STATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Back at school...

Bleh. Oh, well, only a week and ahalf until Easter, plus advising day is next Tues. So yea.

I just came back from my recital hearing and I passed so I'm happy!

I got another journal on livejournal... I think I"m going to use it for teaching stuff or maybe just to have two I don't know. But yeah.

OK bye.

Calvin and Hobbes...

Man lately I've been thinking about how much I miss that comic strip... I mean I've talked to some people and they said the never heard of it and that just blows my mind... how could you NOT hear of Calvin and Hobbes? Best comic ever. Sometimes I wish Bill Watterson would come out of retirement and start making it again, but I know he won't. In a way, I am like why would you retire something so awesome and successful? But at the same time he didn't want others to pervert the true nature of the comic by copyrighting and trademarking and stuff like that... kind of like how Garfield is now, and Garfield isn't nearly as funny as it used to be and I kind of think it is because of that. There are the illegal trademarks (i.e. Calvin peeing on a car logo, etc.) but that's bad too.

I related to Calvin a lot. Because I feel like I was Calvin at that age, having a huge imagination, my add getting the best of me. That's why I loved it. Calvin's undying imagination. My mom was saying how she didn't like Finding Nemo because she couldn't imaging a fish being stuck in a fish tank and going in the ocean to find his dad. Um mom. Obviously you don't like any children's animated feature then. It's stupid. She's lost her imagination. Something I hope never to do.

Why is it already Tuesday night? Where has this week gone!?!?

El Breako de Primavera

What a break so far. After some weird driving mishaps I got home safe and sound Thursday night and we had lasagna and it was soooooo good. Then Friday we did pretty much nothing... I worked that was it.

Saturday was a good day. I called Ashley and we went to Kavarna and caught up with what was going on. It was her last day on spring break as she had to go back to Iowa the next day. A couple of other friends showed up and we played Set. Then Jenny and her boyfriend showed up and we went to see Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. It was really really good. And I put a link in there. I'm like Katie now.

Sunday Grandma came and we went to church and then we went shopping and then me and dad watched the badgers lose in a nailbiter (Stupid Pitt). So my bracket is totally screwed up as is everyone else's I'm sure.

Today I went to the dentist and I learned I brushed too hard.

The end.

Wait! Crap. OK Blog entry part deux

I AM GOING TO SEE RUSH ON JUNE 7TH IN MILWAUKEE BECAUSE IT IS MY 21ST BIRTHDAY PRESENT YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY I AM SO EXCITED AWESOME AWESOME DJGLSKJGLDSLF!!!!!!11

OK now the end

What a difference 24 hours can make

I feel really good today, and I got into Oakland, I'm rooming with Eric Glawe so that's cool plus he's studying abroad so I get the room to myself second semester which I almost need since I student teach

Last bout of procrastination I promise!

They changed the thing so I'm redoing it. I'll state which I want to go to of non-visited.



create your own personalized map of the USA

Washington, Texas, and Missouri. Maybe Massachusetts and Maine. And Alaska and Hawaii.


create your own personalized map of Canada

Prince Edward Island and British Columbia.



create your personalized map of europe

Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Lichstenstein (however you spell it), Norway, and Greece.



create your own visited country map

Japan, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Brazil, Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Russia

Thanks Vanessa... ;)

15 Random Favorites
1. Aqua Teen Hunger Force
2. Rush
3. Music
4. Friends
5. Family
6. Getting money from relatives in the mail :)
7. Steak n Shake (Frisco melt with no sauce, fries, banana shake)
8. Navel Oranges
9. Progressive Rock
10. Lord of the Rings
11. Great Britain
12. Survivor
13. Retro
14. Q
15. Fanta

14 Favorite Foods
1. Cheese curds!!! (esp. from Dykesville Bowl)
2. Pizza (esp. from Jakes)
3. Perch (esp. from Mariques)
4. Lasagna
5. Manicotti
6. Tacos
7. Doughnuts
8. Cookies and milk (counts as one because I say so)
9. Tea
10. Milkshakes (esp. from Steak n Shake)
11. French Fries (esp from Steak n shake)
12. Chocolate mint anything
13. Mint Mackinac Island Fudge Ice Cream
14. Nachos

13 Most Watched Shows
1. Aqua Teen Hunger Force
2. Survivor
3. The Cosby Show
4. The Price Is Right (Thank God for no 10:00 classes)
5. American Idol
6. Dream Job
7. Trading Spaces (yes I watch that show from time to time thanks Mom)
8. South Park
9. Saturday Night Live
10. Biography (only if I flip to it and it's about someone interesting)
11. The Weather Channel
12. Beevis and Butthead (because I couldn't when it was really on)
13. Boy Meets World (OK who DIDN'T watch this show when they were in Mid-high school?)

12 Good Bands In Your Opinion (I wrote just bands, not individual artists)
1. Rush
2. After Dark
3. Coldplay
4. Liquid Tension Experiment
5. Evanescence
6. Yes
7. FFH
8. DC Talk
9. Styx
10. New Order
11. Dream Theater
12. Junior Senior

11 Memories
1. Getting the notice that my dog was being put to sleep
2. Drinking shots for the first time with my chamber buddies
3. When I got after school detention for saying crap and Ryan saying "crap is stuff that comes out of your butt"
4. Seeing all of London in the London Eye
5. The sunset on the beach in Mexico
6. My butthole teacher saying it was my problem after someone spat in my seat and I sat in it
7. Getting the stomach flu in Toronto before I was to see Phantom for the first time
8. Getting in trouble for having our shirts off in Minneapolis at the baseball game (it's illegal in a dome, I guess)
9. My last concert with the GBBC at St. Giles Cathedral in Edinburogh
10. When I burned my hands on the stove when I was 2 1/2 (earliest memory)
11. Trying pepperoni pizza for the first time after seeing Alice try it on Adventures in Wonderland

10 Close Friends
1. Bobby
2. Kyle
3. Steph
4. Dustin
5. Vanessa
6. Garrett
7. Ashley
8. Chip
9. Cory
10. Aria (ok she's techinically my sister but I've told her things I've told no one else, and I trust her more than anyone except God and maybe my parents)

09 Things You're Looking Forward To
1. Spring Break
2. Having a drink legally when I'm 21
3. Seeing everyone at my recital on April 23 at Kaeuper Hall 6:00 pm
4. Teaching somewhere other than here
5. Working at the PMF again
6. Student Teaching (I also dread it at the same time)
7. Going to Milwaukee this weekend out to the Safe House
8. Going to another country some day... maybe for a festival!
9. Seeing Heaven (but that's not going to be for a VERY VERY long time since I'm living to be older than methuselah)

08 Things You Wear Daily
1. Glasses
2. Watch
3. Underwear
4. Socks
5. Pants
6. Shirt
7. Jacket
8. Backpack

07 Things That Annoy You
1. People calling during Survivor
2. Buzzers
3. When people go just slightly flat
4. When people make fun of me because of my accent (hey, to me, YOU all have accents.)
5. People thinking cheese curds are cottage cheese (these people need exposure)
6. Homework/Papers
7. Vagueness

06 Things You Touch Every Day
1. My Glasses
2. A pencil
3. My computer
4. The Remote
5. The telephone
6. My keys

05 Movies You Could Watch Over and Over
1. The Wizard
2. Misery
3. Rush Hour
4. Rush Hour 2
5. Groundhog Day

04 Of Your Favorite Toys When You Were Little
1. Legos
2. Game Boy
3. Nintendo
4. That little "computer" that I played hangman with

03 people you've shared the most with
1. Kyle
2. Bobby
3. Garrett

02 Of Your Favorite Songs At This Moment
1. "Don't Wanna Fall In Love" by Jane Child
2. "Bizarre Love Triangle" by New Order

01 person you'd Spend the Rest of Your Life With
1. I can't name anyone.... but there are a few out there with potential ;)

I HATE DAYS LIKE THIS

Today was a horrible day. Culminating from yesterday. Every teacher decides to assign a paper or something and chooses the class before the class when it's due to either assign it or explain it in detail. So I have two papers due tomorrow. Plus I had the stupid management plan for ed psych, plus stuff for choral tech, plus the teach STILL hasn't called me back, plus some other stuff... I'm just so stressed out I want to scream.

AHHHHHH!!!

There that's a little better.

Anyway something that made me laugh for the first time in two days was something Vanessa said

Me: I said "shit" and I was like "yes I swore I'm so stressed out I swore"
Me: And someone was like "Even thogh that's not really a swear word"
Vanessa: you know, it's wierd, i wonder who actually decided that those are "bad words"
Vanessa: cause it's not like the bible says "thou shalt not say the word shit"

And then Dr. Forbes told us about how Dr. Holmes left for a festival in Iowa early this morning, and he rented a car because he doesn't like taking his car out of town or something. 15 minutes after he left they called the school and said the festival is cancelled. 5 hour drive. Wow.

OK back to the crapload of homework... I leave in about 41 hours for spring break.

Packer analysis

So Josh Bidwell is leaving the Packers which starts the search for a punter. Now, I wish Kevin Stemke was still a free agent or something, because as a fellow Preble High School grad he has a shot. Problem is, he signed with Washington back in January, but now that they signed Tom Tupa he's most likely going to be let go when the teams start cutting people in preseason. I hope we sign him if that happens that would be awesome for him. That is unless we pick up a quality punter before that.

Fun times.

So Dustin's bible study group (myself included) all went to Jenny and Erik's house for snacks and male (+ 1 female) bonding stuff. We talked for a while, and it was a little uncomforting at first (lots of awkward pauses) but after awhile we were just laughing all the time and stuff. Then we played Mario Kart and Dustin beat everyone except Erik. Then I played pool. I'm getting better. I need to play quite a bit more though.

So hopefully I will get $150 to get to do room draw, and then hopefully I'll get into Oakland, and then hopefully it will either be a single or an open double with Garrett or even if not that sign up to be a roommate with someone else I know. Ah well, just saying things are looking up living-quarters wise.

Rush is going to be in Milwaukee

I want to go.

Been a few days.

Oratorio was at the front of the lifelife for me... it's over now thank goodness. It was a long night.

I can't wait until this year is over. I mean, I'm not looking forward to this 20 hour internship that i have to do... to make it worse, it's during the afternoon. I mean, I gave them my schedule for a reason. my mornings are definately open. and what do they do. Oh, they put me with a teacher who only teaches afternoons. Great. Why does everyone demand so much of me... spring break can NOT come soon enough. Less than two weeks. Thank God.

I signed up to do a pool tournament. It should be fun. I probably won't win, Jamel probably will, if he signs up (he hasn't on the downstairs one). So who knows.

Anyways that's it.

belief o matic

WHAT I BELIEVE:

1. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (100%)
2. Orthodox Quaker (93%)
3. Seventh Day Adventist (78%)
4. Eastern Orthodox (76%)
5. Roman Catholic (76%)
6. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (71%)
7. Islam (69%)
8. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (69%)
9. Orthodox Judaism (69%)
10. Bahá'í Faith (68%)
11. Jehovah's Witness (65%)
12. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (52%)
13. Liberal Quakers (49%)
14. Sikhism (44%)
15. Jainism (39%)
16. Reform Judaism (39%)
17. Mahayana Buddhism (37%)
18. Theravada Buddhism (36%)
19. Unitarian Universalism (36%)
20. Hinduism (29%)
21. Scientology (29%)
22. New Thought (28%)
23. New Age (23%)
24. Neo-Pagan (20%)
25. Nontheist (16%)
26. Secular Humanism (15%)
27. Taoism (11%)

And it is right. If you want, take it at http://www.belief.net/story/76/story _7665_1.html

24/7 AIM Chat!

Hey few and faithful readers!

Come to my AIM chat room "Randomocity"! I'm going to leave it open 24/7, and you can come and go as you please. It's going to be fun! Lots and lots of people there. Even just come and say hi while I am asleep. I dont care! Just have fun.

RELIEF!!!!

So yeah I got all my artifacts, and all the standards to go with the artifacts on my portfolio!!! All I need to do is make my title page, and do my professional growth, and just make sure I reflected on all the artifacts (I know I didn't but that shouldn't be too hard I at least have a start on all of them) and I will be FINISHED!!!! So I hope to finish up tonite. That way tomorrow I will be free!!! YAYYYYYY!!!!!! THANK YOU GOD YOU ARE AWESOME! And thanks Vanessa for helping me!

Portfolios were dreamt up where the sun don't shine.

That is all.

I feel grubby

I didn't take a shower yesterday or today... but who cares I'm not going out anyways... actually the real reason is the majority of my clothes currently are in residence of all four washers in Hessler. Because I haven't done laundry in a while. I plan on doing only one more load of wash before I go home though. Then I can get ALL of my clothes washed for free when I go home for spring break.

Well today is the day I get (unrealistically all, more likely most, most likely some) of my ed. portfolio done. I have to get this done, I did only one thing on it yesterday and that was attach my essay, making the official artifact count stand at 8 out of a necessary 12. I'm going to go out of my mind. I learned from Kate yesterday that we need ANOTHER set of standards on there, which are exactly the same as the Millikin Teaching Standards except these are the ILLINOIS Teaching Standards... so if we have MTS 9f on there we need IL-PTS 9f as well since well they are the same. What the heck. It's so stupid. In addition we need the content area standards. I swear the ed department just wants to shove away teachers. Or put a huge strain on their love of teaching.

I just have a ton to deal with today in addition to the porfolio, I have other problems, and I'm a little stressed right now, because I don't know what to do.

Got this from Josh who got it from Odell

Fill in a band/singer for each letter of the alphabet.
a: After Dark
b: Boston
c: Coldplay
d: DC Talk
e: Evanescence
f: FFH
g: David Gray
h: Human League
i: INXS
j: Norah Jones
k: King's Singers
l: Liquid Tension Experiment
m: Rich Mullins
n: Newsboys
o: Orbital
p: Jean-Luc Ponty
q: Queen
r: Rush
s: Rebecca St. James
t: Tangerine Dream
u: U2
v: Steve Vai
w: Weather Report
x: ?????
y: Yes
z: Frank Zappa

...

I don't know where to start... I'd probably be in bed right now but I'm like emotionally drained and I can't sleep... WOW was that movie powerful... I cried like half the time. I mean I am just NUMB right now. I'll tell you one thing it definately puts my faith in perspective. It opened my eyes and had me do a double-take on some of the things I do. Wow my chest just feels HEAVY right now. I still can't explain it... this movie is just too powerful for words. There that explained it. Wow. wowwowwowwowwowwowwow.

As of right now.

Should I switch to livejournal or stay at blogger?
33 % for Stay at Blogger
25 % for I don't care I don't read your journal anyway
25 % for Do both!
16 % for Switch to Livejournal
0 % for Switch to something else

That is with 12 votes.

I'm going to see The Passion with Steph and some other friends (I don't know specifically who she invited them all) in about an hour, so I'm going to write an entry. ha.

IV Spring retreat is this weekend. For some reason, InterVarsity decides to schedule events at the worst possible times in my life, either when I am super busy with something, either performing or projects, or when I am flat out broke. If the thing was two weeks from now, when it was actually closer to spring, I'd totally do it. But this stupid education portfolio has to take precidence right now. Either hang out with people I really enjoy being for a weekend, or work on something that is really important for my future. Yeah the second has to. It sucks but it does.

That quiz I was making before was one I started last year and forgot about. I've added a couple of questions. I'm up to 5. I need pictures and descriptions, though. I hope it works fine. I need to make the pictures smaller. It's one about what character from the wizard are you, and I"m jsut taking pictures with my webcam from my tv. It may be done this weekend.

I'm up to 8 artifacts in my portfolio. I need 4 more! Give them to me!


You are Rerun!


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Quiz time... during my time finishing my essay.

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move on to a place where there is no evil, just
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and classy, an angel like you has wonderful
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I acually was reincarnation first but I took it again.

You are Wario. You put on like you're bad news, but
really, you're a bit confused sometimes.


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Hmmm

Now I'm making a quiz... why am I doing this I have an essay to finish.

Yesterday was awesome

So yesterday she IMs me, and asks me if I like her. And I'm like wait I wanted to ask you that. But anyway, I type yes and that was really hard but it turned out she likes me too! So we both are really happy that that finally is off of our chests. Anyway it isn't like we are gf/bf but we are going to see the Passion tomorrow night so that is awesome.

After I found out that I was so hyper and goofy for the rest of the day. I just wanted to tell everyone. But I didn't because I wasn't sure if she wanted it to be known or not. I just said "the girl I like likes me back." I only told my closest friends specifically. And I was singing the song "I'm so happy/feeling snappy/my life is rosy/I'm feeling comfy cozy" by I forget what band it is but I remember it was all over Q90 FM about 5 years ago.

So yeah I'm going to be happy for a while.

Once again, I'm thinking.

I'm once again considering moving to livejournal. Most of my friends are on it, and I like the thing where you can see your friends posts and stuff. But I like the freedom of changing things around on Blogger. It's just a thing.

I hate assignments and homework and being required to do all this crap and stuff for my major; portfolios, assignments, observations... BLAH. It's a wonder anyone gets out being a teacher successfully because of all they require of you to do. And they say that work is harder out tehre but then again you don't have to do a portfolio or all these assignments for different classes, you can concentrate on ONE THING and that is much easier for me to do. I wish it was more like that for college classes instead of jumping around and then I forget to look at the syllabus and write things down in my assignment book and then I forget we have assignments and then get screwed.

no way!

Spencer Lent was a Masterful Pool Shark in a past life. Discover your past lives @ Quiz Me

I've been playing mad pool lately. Which is why this is so weird.

I'm in the MIDI lab

And class is going to start in 10 minutes and yeah I'm not doing the midi thing anymore I don't think. I have to think about it. And the mac version of this thing SUCKS because it is not nearly as organized as the windows version. And yeah. Fun times.

I keep forgetting

I keep forgetting to write in this thing. Oh well, I"m not like Jacob and write in mine once every 4 months ;) j/k

OK so Thursday I had this weird dream that I was going to the coffee shop and it was in this strip mall and Dr. Hoffman was the head person there and took my order. So I was running late for class so I just took my order and went, but then I checked it and insead of getting a pretzel and nachos like I wanted I got rice and 2 hamburgers, one was just a patty. So I called or went over there (I forgot which) and said my order was wrong, please give me the right thing. So anyway, Molly and Garrett were in my class and for some reason class was in my room, and then the coffee shop delivered my food to my room, and they are like "sorry for the mixup, here I gave you some extra food" They gave me like 20 thin crust pizzas, and a couple of single slices like sbarros, and 2 pretzels and all this crap.

Then last night I stayed up until like 2:30 playing pool with Mike, Jamel, Sean, and Dustin, and playing ping pong with Nicholas. I played pool again today. I am getting better but I have improved quite a bit from what I was two days ago.

Today was weird too because I went back to sleep without knowing it. I went to bed at 2:20 or something, woke up sort of at like 9 and then I really woke up at 11:45. WTF is that? I went to bed without setting my alarm with the intent of knowing I would get up with enough time I'd get to choir on time. Then I quick take a shower because I hadn't for 2 days and my hair was all gross, and I made it for class in the rain.

I taught Dustin, Christina, and Amanda how to play Rook tonight. Dustin got it, but Amanda and Christina are still a little confused, but they got the jist. It's a lot like 500 and they play that alot so it was pretty easy for them to pick up. They want to play again but when they feel like it. The girls really didn't, and both teams got set and my team actually got all 180 points one game so the game took longer than anticipated.

OK taht's all for now I have to go to bed so I can get up tomrrow. Peace.

I feel MUCH better today.

It is SO BEAUTIFUL out. I mean I didn't even wear my coat to class. I stayed up late last night and didn't get up until about 15 mintues before my 8:00 but I took a shower the night before so it was all right, then I slept a little more after I got back. I'm still a little tired so I may nap but who knows.

Tonight would be the first night I could go back to MVOP but I just dont' feel like it this semester. I did it 2 1/2 years and for about the past year I had commitments on church days, and other things, and I just need a break. It's great, I learned a lot, but having missed a month of rehearsals because of opera I feel behind, and I don't think I am able to partake of it at least this semester. Maybe next semester one last time before I student teach or something. But I have so much work to get done this semester, even though I only have I believe 14 or 15 credits, my workload is much higher, plus I have this stupid ed portfolio to get done. It makes me kind of sad but that just has to be. I will go to their concerts and support them wholly.

I was really productive today. I got my copy of my application to student teach in Dr. Forbes' mailbox. I mailed all I needed to mail. I responded to the PMF I am going to work there again this summer. I feel that FINALLY this sememster I am starting to get things organized and done. It usually takes me a little while to get back into the scheme of things, but I feel like I am there now.

Sometimes, I just don't understand student organizations.

Black Student Union decided to celebrate today, the 50th anniversary of the Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education, a milestone in STOPPING segregation, by SEGREGATING CAMPUS. They hung signs that said "Whites only" and "Coloreds only" on Benches, elevators, and doors. What the hell. It pisses me off about that because I belong to the first generation who hasn't really had to deal with all of this crap. I don't judge people by the color of their skin, like some other people in previous generations. So why go back to a time like that, especially on the anniversary of stopping it in schools? It's stupid. I don't see the point they were trying to make. They had signs even in the music building of all places. Thank God most of the signs were ripped down. They didn't even really give us a sign that this was going to happen. Sure they hung signs that said "Be Engaged" but what did that mean? No one knew. Then all of a sudden I wake up this morning to find signs that say "Whites only" on benches? It seems that the people who are trying to facilitate equality on the basis of race are rewinding to create awareness when awareness isn't really needed since many people don't think that way anymore. And it is sad, in my opinion. I don't look at a person of a different race and say "oh they are Asian" "oh they are Black". I say "Oh that's Amanda." "Oh that's Juan." "Oh, that's Taneka." So, I don't think BSU's thing today worked out like they wanted to, because many of my friends have the same feelings that I do.

I am BUTT exhausted.

I am so glad that week is over and I am so glad I never have to sing Dido and Aeneas ever again. It was a long ardouis process but tada it is over. But it took a toll on my body and thank God that vocal festival is today because the majority of my classes are cancelled because they are vocal things. But I still have piano and comp. I hate class. Why do we have to go to class. KLGJSDLKGJSLDKGJLSKDGJ

Hmmm

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It is Friday the 13th

And I'm actually having a good day. I got lots of stuff done, including handing in my application to student teach, and I slept until 10:30 so I'm not tired! So I can stay up late tonite! YAY

Another Survey, this time from Vanessa.

So yeah I added this midi thing to my blog... if it annoys you let me know but I am going to change the music in there every few days to a week. I don't know how often but it is usually going to be one of my compositions. And then when I'm out of those I'll just do a random MIDI I have lying around.

Anyways on to the survey.

[ .:name:. ] Spencer
[ .:nicknames:. ] Spence, Spencepunk, Splent
[ .:feet size:. ] 9 - 9.5
[ .:do you have a crush?:. ] Yes.
[.:age:. ] 20

[ .:age you act:. ] When I'm being myself, around 12ish. When I'm being serious or mature, in a professional setting, I act like 35
[ .:where do you live?:. ] Decatur or Green Bay, usually.
[ .:ever gone skinny dipping?:. ] No, and I probalby never will

[ .:what are you watching?:. ] nothing.
[ .:last person you talked to:. ] In real life, Jacob. Online... I think it was Tracy.
[ .:bedtime:. ] Between 12 and 1 lately, because opera drains me. On weekends when I have nothing going on I can stay up as late as 4.
[ .:most embarrassing moment:. ] That one time I did that thing and everyone laughed. That way everyone remembers.
[ .:stupidest person you know:. ] Probably Mitch, but that's mostly because he likes the Bears and gives me the most crap about that
[ .:craziest person you know:. ] ARIA.

SECTION 2 ? favorites

[ .:favorite salad dressing:. ] EW.
[ .:favorite movie:. ] Misery, The Matrix, The Red Violin, The Wizard, All 3 Lord of the Rings movies, etc etc
[ .:favorite book:. ] The Bible, Stephen King, John Grisham, J.R.R. Tolkien
[ .:favorite type of music:. ] Christian Rock, Progressive Rock, Modern Rock, Jazz Fusion, Smooth Jazz, and LOTS of other stuff
[ .:favorite car:. ] If it is blue I probably like it. But Blue Dodge Neon or VW anything

[ .:favorite saying:. ] Sweet, Tight, Janky, That sucks, awesome, ______ represent!
[ .:favorite fast food:. ] Steak 'n' Shake (though they are like semi-fast food)

[ .:favorite ice cream:. ] Mint Mackinac Island Fudge
[ .:favorite alcoholic drinks:. ] Mikes Hard Lemonade, Hooch, Skyy Blue, Parrot Bay and Bacardi Limon (the only alcoholic drinks I've pretty much ever had, besides beer and wine which are gross)
[ .:favorite holiday:. ] Christmas or Easter. Because on Christmas, Jesus was born, and on Easter Jesus rose from the dead.
[ .:favorite food:. ] PIZZA (except from dominoes... I'm getting really sick of having to order from that place)
[ .:favorite song:. ] This would take all day so I'll just say Subdivisions by Rush to shut you up
[ .:favorite tv show:. ] Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Cosby Show, American Idol, Survivor, Family Guy, Beevis and Butthead, and NFL Football when the Packers are playing
[ .:favorite radio stations:. ] Q90 FM and Mix98 in GB... I don't know here because the radio stations kind of suck down here
[ .:favorite junk food:. ] Home made popcorn with tons of butter
[ .:favorite sappy love song:. ] I'm not a sappy guy, but probalby I Will Be Here by Steven Curtis Chapman.
[ .:favorite color:. ] Blue, Cerulean, Teal, Aqua, Periwinkle, Navy, etc.
[ .:favorite sneakers:. ] No preference, just as long as they fit and are comfy. New Balance and Sketchers work just fine.


SECTION 3 ? the future

[ .:school:. ] I'm going to finish my BA in teaching and teach for a few years before going to grad school

[ .:where you want to live:. ] Someplace suburban in a nice neighborhood but not like a brand new subdivision in the middle of nowhere with no trees
[ .:how many kids you want:. ] 3

[ .:what kind of job you want:. ] High school choir teacher, teaching in a really good and stable music department
[ .:wedding song:. ] I have no idea... the wedding song?
[ .:song in your head:. ] Yeah Vanessa I agree. Why is this under the future. Well I'm sure yes there will be a song in my head in the near future.

SECTION 4 ? have you ever...?

[ .:been in jail:. ] nope
[ .:done drugs:. ] prescription yes. Illegal no.
[ .:run away from home:. ] no
[ .:hit a girl:. ] Yes. I hit my sister tons of times (you know, kids fight). Never anyone non-family though.
[ .:lied:. ] yeah.
[ .:broken a bone:. ] Nope.
[ .:cheated on a test:. ] No
[ .:cheated on a boy/girlfriend:. ] I've never had a girlfriend so how would I cheat
[ .:gotten drunk:. ] Nope but everyone wants me to do it when I turn 21
[ .:been with two guys/girls at once:. ] no
[ .:been in the hospital:. ] not for an extended period of time.
[ .:let a friend cry on your shoulder:. ] not literally, but i've listened to people pouring their heart out and stuff... I'm available anytime ;)
[ .:feel asleep in the shower/bath:. ] No but my mom has...
[ .:Never slept during a night:. ] once or twice
[ .:been to camp:. ] Yep for two years
[ .:sat in a restaurant without ordering:. ] I don't believe so
[ .:seen someone die:. ] No and I really don't want to.... I'm scared about that
[ .:didn't wash your hair for a week:. ] Not for a week. Longest was like 3 days and that was when camping. I have to wash my hair at LEAST every other day because it's oily.
[ .:broken something valuable:. ] Probably... I break lots of things

[.:thought you were in love:. ] Who hasn't.
[ .:screamed at someone for no reason:. ] I try not to. I have been screamed at for no reason but they always apolgize and I totally understand why.
[ .:said I love you and meant it:. ] Yeah

[ .:been hurt by a guy/girl you loved:. ] Not really
[ .:stayed up til 4am on the phone:. ] Nope.



SECTION 5 ? which is better?

[ .:coke/pepsi:. ] Pepsi, but Cherry Coke
[ .:cats/dogs:. ] Dogs. I MISS MY PUPPY.... :'(
[ .:dvd/vhs:. ] DVD

[ .:deaf/blind:. ] BLIND. I need music.

[ .:pool/hot tubs:. ] ooh, this is tough. Hot tub relaxes me more.
[ .:television/radio:. ] TV
[ .:cds/mp3s:. ] another toughie. mp3's on the computer, CDs everywhere else.
[ .:apples/oranges:. ] oranges
[ .:gap/old navy:. ] Old Navy. Gap is too expensive and is basically the same.

SECTION 6 ? when was the last time you...

[ .:took a shower:. ] this morning
[ .:cried:. ] I almost cried recently... it was either when I thought I was going to overdraw or when I thought I couldn't get into a class and I couldn't be a full time student. Last time I really cried was when my dog was put to sleep.
[ .:watched a Disney movie:. ] It's been a while.

[ .:given/gotten a hug:. ] I can't remember that, I give and get hugs quite often.
[ .:been to the movies:. ] Return of the King with Dad and Ari

SECTION 7 ? what is...

[ .:love?:. ] Baby don't hurt me.....

[ .:fondest memory of this year:. ] Tour. Most definately.
[ .:your most prized possession:. ] I don't know. I have many sentimental things... I love my car.?

[ .:the thing that makes you the happiest:. ] Family and friends, and the experiences we have
[ .:your favorite food for breakfast:. ] Belgian waffle.

[ .:your favorite food for dinner:. ] Italian
[ .:your ideal bf/gf:. ] Someone who is a Christian (that is a MUST), who is funny, and upbeat, and also appreciates music like I do.



SECTION 8 ? random questions

[ .:have you ever liked someone too young for you?:. ] No! That would be like me liking a 15 year old right now.

[ .:do you have multiple personalities?:. ] No, but I talk to myself often
[ .:ever walked in on someone changing/showering?:. ] Yeah but they were semi-decent so it wasn't a HUGE deal.
[ .:what's the first thing you say on the phone?:. ] "Hello" usually but something weird every once in a while.
[ .:what are you wearing?:. ] Nothing. I'm naked. No just kidding. What do you think? Clothes.
[ .:what did you do yesterday?:. ] went to class, ate, went to opera rehearsal, bed.
[ .:who was your last crush?:. ] It was Cory but she has a hardcore boyfriend now. And I can say that because she knows I liked her.

OK Now for a real update

Seriously, opera is wearing me out. I swear, I'm never doing another Millikin production ever again, because it takes up so much of my time and I can't get what I need to get done, done. Half the people in Tudor are music ed, so they are as worn out and pissy as I am. Jacob is probably the most. But, thankfully, we are in good spirits with the whole thing so far. It's actually more fun waiting than performing at this point. I think I would enjoy it more if the chorus actually did something besides just stand there. But the production is going for a sense of historical accuracy and alas I feel for the poor opera choruses in Purcell's day.

Speaking of Purcell, I sang "I Love And I Must" in masterclass today and Carberg said I improved so much. Well thank you Terry for helping me. I swear Terry has helped me SO MUCH in just a semester. I'm going to miss having him as a voice teacher next year when I student teach. I don't know if I could ever be a voice teacher though, at least on the individual level, since there are so many things that are presented to you and so many applications on fixing the problem; it requires the teacher to think at the moment and make quick decisions and adapt quickly. Those of you who know me know how hard of a time I have making decisions, let alone QUICK ones.

So yeah, the ed department is screwing me over again. They have changed the template of the professional portfolios we are supposed to be working on for our degree, so now I have to transfer stuff to the new template. What is REALLY going to suck is that I have major work to put on it before it is due March 1st. I also have to apply to take the content area exam, and apply for student teaching, and all of this stuff. Why does time go by so fast these days? Can't it just slow down a little so I can get some more done? I guess i have to get less sleep at night... with an 8:00 it's very tough not to go to bed early. I can only imagine what it is going to be like when I have to be at school at 7:00 or earlier. If I end up teaching in Bloomington I may have to ask Aunt Barb to put up with me for a few nights a week, and if I end up in Chicago maybe ask Molly. I would prefer not teaching in Decatur. If I have to I have to.

Well I have opera in 15 minutes so I'm going to stop writing.

Let's see if I can do this.

I want to make something that shows up in tons of blogs that I am the creator of. So, let's try this.

Here is something I came up with:

26 ways to say butt:
Ass (Arse)
Bum
Cheeks
Derriere
End
Fanny
Gasser
Hiney
Iota
Jackass
Kiester
Lumpbottom
Mooner
Nipper
Orafice
Pooper
Questionables
Rump
Sconce
Trasero
Unmentionables
Vessel
Wastedumper
Xterior
Your mom
Zhithole

OK, copy paste this and put the address where you got it... and then you will come back here!!!! AHAHAHAHAhAHAHAHA
Or you can just copy paste but I want credit for it (but me and two other people, one of them TRACY, yes THE tracy who is over there on my friend's links) on one of my HSR chats compiled it i give them credit too)

Grammys

3 best moments of the grammys.

3. 50 Cent coming on stage with Evanescence.
I just thought that was hilarious. I don't like 50 at all but at that point I loved him because that was hilarious.

2. Foo Fighters and Chick Corea.
I love Foo Fighters, and I love Chick Corea. And they made a great combo! I loved their performance and would love a recording of that performance.

1. Coldplay winning!
I was SO happy Coldplay won, because the other 4 nominees were all like rap. I hope rap doesn't take over the music scene because I hate it. Coldplay was the only artist I wanted to win and they did with my favorite Coldplay song!!! Making A Rush Of Blood to the Head an even MORE successful album (it won grammys last year)

I am NOT demented.

Misty just called me demented. Do you think I am demented? Post your thoghts:

Bored

Yep. That's me. To a T. Like Mr. T. Only I'm like just T because I hate formalities like that. But yeah. So anyways, we had opera rehearsal this afternoon, and that was a WEIRD'D OUT experience. Shanti, Christie, and Kristi weren't there, so we had 6 from the start. We got through about a third of the opera, or maybe not even because it was taking a long time because today we were working out logisitics and lighting cues, and then Erinbeth had to leave, so that left us with 5. Then let's see... about midway through the 2nd part Jacob, Scott, and Megan had to leave. So that left me and Mark. 2 chrous members. Well one would think that we could just leave, but Terry wanted us to stay, so we stayed, and it was so weird not having anyone else there. But at least it wasn't just one of us there because that would be even more nervewracking. It was BUTT weird because like normally we listen to the other parts so we could come in. And we really couldn't do that so a lot of the times we messed up. Plus, sometimes we couldn't hear the notes because Dan was using the harpsichord today (which sounds really awesome but it's softer). So yeah at least after the experience was over Terry dubbed us the "2 best chorus members EVER" so that was a little reassuring. But we have to be there at 12 tomorrow for a dress rehearsal. So tomorrow is going to suck.

Random quote of the night: "you know how sometimes your ears need to pop after you blow your nose? that is possibly the most uncomfortable sensation ever."
~Misty

Ciao

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Suicide! (and you know it, so... dont u have
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Another survey.

EXOTIC FOREIGNER ALIAS = Favorite Spice/Herb + Last Foreign Vacation Spot = Oregano Guayabitos

SOCIALITE ALIAS = Silliest Childhood Nickname + Town Where You First Partied = Buddy Decatur

"FLY GIRL" ALIAS (like J. Lo) = First Initial + First Two Or Three Letters Of Your Last Name = S. Le (sounds Chinese)

DIVA ALIAS = Something Sweet Within Sight + Any Liquid In Your Kitchen = Lolly Pop (HAHAHA!!!)

GIRL DETECTIVE ALIAS = Favorite Baby Animal + Your High School = Bunny Preble

BARFLY ALIAS = Last Snack Food You Ate + Your Favorite Drink = Sweettart Fanta

SOAP OPERA ALIAS = Middle Name + Street Where You First Lived = Paul Manitowoc

PORN STAR ALIAS = First Pet's Name + Your Mother's Maiden Name = Taxi Lundquist (Taxi was my fish when I was 4... it was either that or Ice Cream)

ROCK STAR ALIAS = Any Liquid On The Bar + Last Name Of Bad-Ass Celebrity Or Character = Vodka De Niro

Gah

I am just so laid back lately. Maybe I'm getting too much sleep or something, but I never feel like doing anything. I don't feel outgoing or anything. This is so weird.

So many people write poems

Personally I prefer writing music but here goes. I always used to write sonnets but I'm tired and I don't really feel like it so here is a haiku.

Just sitting here bored
staring at a lighted screen
my eyes will close soon'

Very direct isn't it. In the meantime, I'm going to start writing compositions again. I have comp again so I have to, plus I haven't finished a TPI in a while. Maybe this wekend. I don't have anything going on after rehearsal friday night, and Dustin will be at Metamorphosis so I'll have time. If I was feeling like I do right now, I'd rather stay here than go out because I'm tired. I'm going to bed.

Super Bowl was dissapointing

I forgot to say that. Commercials pretty much sucked (except the fart one that was the best one) and the game was pretty bad and the halftime show was the worst concert ever capped off by Justin showing everyone Janet's boob. And Amanda screaming "OH MY GOD!!!" Survivor was better than the super bowl.

Oh and I took two quizzes... one said that loving my country was stupid and had other people loving their country include a KKK member on the picture, and totally bashing the fact that I do like G.W. And the other pissed me off even more, (which enemy of the Christian church are you) was like "You are a christian so you believe in a imaginary bliss called heaven blahblahblahblah"

Liberal idiots. Mind you. Not all liberals are idiots. But ones who don't love the country they live in and totally bash Christians and think Michael Moore is an intellectual are. Dude. I love my country no matter who is running it. I am proud to be an American. If you are ashamed to live in this country, ashamed to be an American, you may as well move to France.

Where I've been.

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Counts states traveled through going to other states



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I want to go to more.

Go Panthers.

The Panthers probably have gained the most fans that they have ever had, if only for one day.

Anyways, IMEA was great, except I spent 30 bucks on my credit card on sheet music. But hey. This is for my future and I can pay off 30 bucks EASILY when I'm a teacher. Ya know? There was this one seminar I regret going to which was boring as hell (assessment- I went to it thinking I could get something out of it. WRONG-O!), but otherwise it was great. UChoir was great in their concert (but the high school choir before them took forever to finish and made UChoir rush and as I understand it, Dr. Holmes was pissed off about the whole thing and not just the fact that the high school teacher did that, but also that they couldn't warm up or anything but that doesn't really matter because they kicked butt anyway and people were talking about them the rest of the weekend). Speaking of which, I want a copy of "There Will Be Rest", one of the songs UChoir sings. Chapter 6 was AMAZING, of course (tame the jealousy, Misty.... HAHA).

OK. So, anyways, I have to tell you a story about....

THE B***H (you fill it in, I'm in too much of a good mood to call her that outright today.)!!!!!

OK so me and Vanessa are sitting next to each other, watching the jazz concerts. We aren't talking that much, and what we are talking about was between songs. It all came to a halt when after one song this woman with a HUGE stick up her butt was like "Are you going to continue this conversation? My kids have worked TOO hard and I have traveled to far for it to be ruined by you talking to your friend here." Jacob made us both feel much better when, after we talked about it to him, he said, "You should have said "Well, we're from Wesleyan, we TALK during concerts!"

Speaking of Vanessa, I got to know her a lot more this weekend. We hung out a lot , which is no big deal. She's a good friend. HOWEVER - Clayton comes up to me at the Millikin reception (where we get to see our professors and their collegues getting drunk and that's the best part) and he's like "So, what's with you and Vanessa? You two have this thing going on?" OK. Everyone thinks we have this thing going on. What is the big deal. People see two people of the opposite sex hang out together and they think that I am like deeply involved with her. It's not like that at all. I mean, if that's the case, they may as well assume that about Cory and Jacob (even though Cory is involved in a relationship already). Vanessa and I are just friends and we just happened to spend a lot of time together this weekend. It's not a big deal. GROW UP.

Next day I skipped the boring music ed meeting and went to a high school concert that reminded me a lot of my high school. Half of their songs I've done. They did Mata Del Anima Sola which was awesome and I'm glad that Cherry and Chad were there because I'm like "This Song is Awesome" and they are ones who are student teaching really soon so they are like marking their music how good their stuff is. I have to do that.

So the weekend finally ended yesterday at the honors concert, and man. Rick Bjella chose some WEIRD music. I mean he picked some good stuff, the men's piece was awesome, as was Chicester Psalms and Ubi Caritas, but the first two were WEIRD. I still like him, though, and think he's awesome.

The Bobby thing didn't happen this year which is too bad because I liked his mom's lasagna (IT IS JUST AS GOOD AS YOURS MOM, NOT BETTER!!!).

I slept for something like 11 hours today. I feel really good. And I can't wait for the game and then after the game SURVIVOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So yeah. Go Panthers.

My roomie is AWESOME.

My roomie just gave me $10 after telling me this story about how he fought at $50 ticket in court and won and he prayed to God that if he won he'd give the money away and stuff... He is the absolute best. I PRAISE GOD FOR DUSTIN.

Why is this still funny?!?!?!?

I keep watching this guy that was on American Idol, and I think he's so hilarious. He gets so into the music and he's out of tune and then the does this thing with his lips that was so hilarious... he was the guy who sang Somewhere Over The Rainbow.

I got my schedule figured out. But I still need to buy books.

This REALLY sucks.

I didn't get into Ethnomusicology, which puts my full-time status as a student in jeopardy, which in turn puts my scholarship in jeopardy. What I need to do is find a class that's 3 credits and ideally has no books because I'm freakin sick of having no money because of books. So God help me to find a class that's fun and has some pertinance in my future.

Quizzes before class

You are naturally born with a gift, whether it be
poetry, writing or song. You love beauty and
creativity, and usually are highly intelligent.
Others view you as mysterious and dreamy, yet
also bold since you hold firm in your beliefs.


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My inner child is sixteen years old!

Life's not fair! It's never been fair, but while
adults might just accept that, I know
something's gotta change. And it's gonna
change, just as soon as I become an adult and
get some power of my own.


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I hate this state

OK first of all, they have toll roads. Then, bad drivers who don't use their signals. Then, the Bears. Then, no winter (or at least what I would call winter) with 60 degree days in January, and no snow. Finally, their law is different than in Wisconsin regarding prescriptions, because they can't fill prescriptions a week after they were filled. In WI it is two weeks. I can't take it anymore and I'm sick of WalMart.

Ethnomusicology

Taking a break between classes to explain my frustration about not being able to get into Ethnomusicology, as like 6 others had to get into that section, and it was closed. So yeah. I hope she makes a third section because I need that class. OK bye.

Money sucks.

Why does it always seem that my whole family seems to get in financial trouble at the same time? It drives me crazy. I have no money, my parents have no money to help me in times of need... I'm seriously considering getting a weekend job. I can't get a daytime job because I have classes during the day. I could work Fridays as well. But still. A job would REALLY help right now. I think I'm going to update my resume and start sending out applications to people. Shanti said that they needed help for lunches on Tuesdays and Thursdays (I believe) at pastabilities, but I can't do that since I have classes. The only time I can work really is on the weekends, including Friday. I'll work at freakin' Kroger if I can. I'm not going to work at McDonalds. I promised myself that from day one. But still. Credit card bills are enough to drive me mad, imagine when I have other bills to pay. I think this week I'm going to look for jobs in the paper. Oh well. Things can only go up from here.

I hope.

QUIZZES!!!

It's been a while, so here goes.


You are Joe from Digimon. You are almost perfect,
but people think of you as a loser. You have a
lot of friends, and they are all good guys, but
the average person would think that you were
such a loser. You are a nerd, and you had/have
straight As in school. You dont get into
fights, and people you dont like or know would
glance at you, and then continue walking. They
wouldnt say anything to you and would
completely ignore you. All your good friends
would at least say Hi to you. You have a pretty
good, long life. You help a lot of people when
they are passing hard times when they are
feeling sad etc. People appreciate your help,
but they are sill not your good friends anyway.
Thank you for your help, Joe!


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I predicted H before I knew what H meant, so I did pretty well on my prediction.

A Wild Week!!!!

Ok now for the detailed remembrance of the last week.

Sunday, we sang in Farmersville. That was a drive there and drive back kind of thing. But people were already crying after the performances. And at that point we weren't even really close as a choir!

Monday morning, we had to be on the bus at 7. So we were all tired. We were on our way to Quincy, home of Megan's high school. So we sang there. It was the beginning of bus happiness, so we did a section a day. Tenors were first. What bus happiness is is everyone gets a cheap gift or something, and then also people could pass notes to each other and you would have to do what it said on the note. For example, Dan had to say "Don't mess with Texas" every time Lauren went to the front of the bus and speak on the microphone. I didn't get any and I think I was the only one who didn't. Another thing we did was the Chamber Chain, in which all of us got one chain that everyone wrote something on, and then after that you could write a chain for someone who did something significant to you or something nice or something like that.

Monday night, we were at Pekin in a church. I was hoping Aunt Barb would be there but I kind of figured she wouldn't be since she was going to a basketball game. But it was cool. Every church we sang at was cool on the inside. And this was the smallest church we sang at. It was Mary's church. We sang well. And after when we circled up more were crying and Mike is like "People. This is the first day." So that was funny. We saw the beginnings of a close bond form between us that night. Our host family was awesome. She made brownies and we had ice cream and their daughter was so cute and THEIR SON WAS A PACKER FAN! So he was like cool you are from Green Bay. His room was all done in Packer just like mine was at his age.

Tuesday morning we had a long drive ahead of us. It was soprano 1 day. We were on our way to Glenview, to perform at Natalia's high school. Her high school, she reinforced to us, was NOT the one with the hazing incident. That was Glenbrook South, she was at Glenbrook North. So fun stuff. Then after that we drove to Rockford which was Kyle's home church. The cathedral was beautiful, and it reminded me of St. Norbert Abbey. We sang really well. And then after Mike was like "Dude, this is the second night and we are already so close. It's nuts!" And then Kate is like, "Yeah by the end we're going to be doing it." Then me and Stephen went to our host families, and it was the first time they ever hosted somebody but they were the perfect hosts and so I hope they host someone again. And Stephen took a picture of every room he stayed in. He was like so psyched that every family was so awesome.

Wednesday we headed to Gurnee. We went to Gurnee Mills Mall and shopped for a while. I bought myself a shirt for going out in Indy. After that we sang at Tim's high school. It would be our worst performance on tour, but it's not like it wasn't bad. I think it was the mid-week lull lots of people have. Plus the fact we really didn't warm up before. Then we headed to Naperville, to sing at the church there. Another big cathedral. Oh, I forgot to mention that Mike was like so amazed by all the organs he saw in the churches before and he was mad he couldn't play them but they let him play the organ that night after the performance so he was excited. And then our homestay was good too. Like they had this kog that kept nudging if it wasn't petted so it was like Millie reincarnate. So that was that.

Thursday we sang at Naperville North, which was Marcy's high school. That was the worst because it was at 8:30 in the morning. I was SO tired. Then after that, we drove to Indianapolis. When we checked into the hotel, we learned that there was a shuttle that could take us to the mall. Some people took advantage of it, I didn't. I wanted to chill, plus I fully expected people to be back at like 7 to go to dinner. Boy was I wrong. People didn't get back until like 9 or so, and so I didn't get to dinner until like 10. We ate at Champp's. Then, we learned that there was a karaoke contest that night (awesome) with a top prize of $100 (double awesome) but it was 21 and over (you suck Champp's). However, a few of us performed from the group. They awarded prizes for top male, top female, and random drawing. Megan and Jarvs both won so that was awesome. Then I went back. I slept on the floor. It was a little more comfortable than when I was a the Par-A-Dice because I had a pillow, but I didn't want to wake them up to get a blanket, you know? I'm nice like that.

Friday we didn't check out until like 11:30 so we got to sleep in, then we all went downtown to the mall for lunch. That was fun. We walked around downtown a while after the mall, got something from starbucks (I hate coffee so I got tea) and then we headed to Ft. Wayne for our final performance. It was Jason's church, and I'm not sure if it is Emilie's as well but I know she's from there. Once again, Mike had his fun with the organ. Then we sang. And we NAILED it. It was SO AWESOME. We all were crying at circle up. And the tour wasn't even offically over.

Saturday we drove back. It was unusually quiet (except the back of the bus which was always loud) and we watched movies. Then we were in Decatur. Depressing Decatur. Ha. But it was so weird since you would think that we would be sick of each other by now, right? WRONG!! We watched The Count Of Monte Cristo at Liz's apartment. So that was fun. The girl's face looked like Lauren's.

Sunday was the day of our final performance. And our final performance went really well. I was afraid that UChoir wasn't going to be there because I knew their tour ended but I didn't know when they would get back and a group of them showed up a couple of songs into the concert so that was awesome that they would do that. Then after that was a party at Shanti's, which was great. She threw a party because her house got robbed the night before and she needed company. It was funny because Barrett, who was the quietest person on tour, got drunk and was blabbing his mouth away and he totally opened up. The highlight of the evening was most definately when everyone was trying to persuade me to have some shots and I was like "No I'm driving people home" because I've never had shots so how was I supposed to know how it affected me? And then I'm like "OK FINE I'll have a shot" and Megan was like shouting "YAY!!" And then she got everyone else to gather in the kitchen and watch me have my first shot. And surprisingly, I LIKED IT! The chaser helped (it was mountain dew) but it was really really good! And everyone cheered and Shanti even took a picture. I had another shot later. I didn't feel much of anything except in my stomach. It was like a pleasant tingling; I guess that is what a buzz is because I didn't feel anything in my head and I thought that is what a buzz was. So yeah. I mean I was fine. People were asking me if I was OK and I didn't feel anything. So that was kind of weird. But yeah I'd do it again. But 3 months from now, when it's my 21st birthday, Megan said she was going to get me tanked. So let's see what happens!

That was the summary for the best week of my life. Hope you enjoyed it! And hope something like that happens again in my lifetime.