So yeah, really.

I had opera rehearasl tonight. I knew before that we would be standing still for almost an hour, but I was thinking, "Yeah I stood still for choir concerts for most of my life. This shouldn't be so bad." Well I had forgotten that during choir concerts, especailly boy choir concerts, we were eitehr done, or moved after like 3 songs, maybe 4 at the most. This was totally different, and I feel it right now. That was HARD and my legs still kind of hurt. I should go in slippers next time since my tennies made my feet fall half asleep after the second time through it.

This is a week from hell. Sunday was Vespers. Tonight was opera. Tomorrow night is vespers. Wednesday night is opera. Thursday thank God I have nothing going on. Friday MVOP is singing. Saturday nothing, then Sunday, MVOP Church day and Vespers rehearsal.

In all honesty, I am considering taking a break from MVOP for the rest of the semester. I'm not going to be there Wednesday for rehearsal, but I think I'll go on Friday, and if it strains my voice I'll not go on Sunday. I'm trying to conserve my voice, and I can't really do that in MVOP, being gospel music and all. Plus with all of these concerts, not to mention some sort of choir rehersal every week day, I'm exhausted already and it's only been two days. And about 75% of the Vespers tunes we are singing are like right in my break. I hope when the show is put togetherI will like it better, since from what I have seen already I don't think I'm going to be enjoying Vespers as I did the first two years.

Speaking of which, our new piece we got today in chamber SUCKS. It's a butt-easy butt-boring version of I Saw Three Ships. I knew we were going to be singing a version of I Saw Three Ships but come on Dr. Forbes, you should know better! We should be singing something cooler not some really boring traditional version with nothing exciting in it that one woudl expect in a high school Christmas concert. I thought for a split second about arranging my own version of it, one that is cooler, then handing it to Dr. Forbes and say "Sing THIS version instead." We are singing two other really cool pieces but this new one has got to be a joke. I like the carol, I HATE the arrangement. The arrangement would probably be going into the "Throw away" pile if I was doing annotations on it for Secondary Methods. And NO ONE LIKES IT. So why do it? Do a cooler version like UChoir did of Ding Dong Merrily on High last year. Not a stupid version that the freshman choir at Preble could do. I mean, the men aren't even split up! It's BUTT EASY. And not exciting at all. Unless he takes it like really really really fast or soemthing and knowing Dr. Forbes he won't because he's a very passionate conductor who takes things really slow sometimes.

So I'm really exhausted right now. How much more can this little body take? It better be a lot.

I ORDERED IT!!!!

YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY I AM SO EXCITED LOL

I do like this key...

Eb major - you are warm and kind, always there for
your friends, who are in turn there for you.
You are content with your confortable life and
what you are currently achieving; if you keep
in this state you will go far.


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Never again

What a weekend. I went home to see Ari's musical. So, I skip Human Development and leave at 1. I hit Milwaukee rush hour, but luckily it wasn't that bad north as it was south. I get home around 7ish. So I make good time. Then at 9:30 me and dad saw the Matrix and the MOVIE WAS AWESOME but the sound sucked so my dad complained and I probably will have to see it again but the movie was seriously awesome.

Saturday, I worked for 3 hours and then got flowers for ari. Uncle Mike, Angie, Regan, and Matthew came to see Aria as well. And OH MY GOD.

Last night's musical was SO WORTH the drive. It was the BEST MUSICAL I HAVE EVER SEEN AT PREBLE. The orchestra was awesome, the stage was awesome, the cast was INCREDIBLE. And not only Willie and Megan. But WOW ARIA CAN SING! I had no idea she could sing that well. And I mean everyone was just awesome and I wanted to cry. The cast was crying when the show wasn't even over yet (although it was a good spot to cry) and OH MAN I AM SO PROUD OF PREBLE. Even if next year there is virtually no one I know there anymore (these guys were freshmen when I was a senior, so I no noone at preble after they graduate) I am considering going. Probably not, because the musical here will probably be the same week.

The only way I will even CONSIDER doing this again is if I have time, and if I think it would be worth it. Hence, hopefully I will have time to see Cabaret and the play next semester. Because I as well haven't gone the last three years. Unfortunately, I"m sure the play will be the same weekend as finals. And I have two finals on Monday. So yeah. If it is the week after I'd be able to go. Cabaret is usually in March or April but never when I am home. I did get a chance to see sort of cabaret last year since I was doing observations, I got to judge cabaret auditions.

OK I have Vespers rehearsal in a half hour, I have to put stuff away. I drove back in less than 6 hours, like 5 and a half hours or something. So yeah. My car needs rest. My body needs rest.

It's windy

yeah it is. My presentation went well and my conducting went ok. So I'm happy. OK bye.

I HATE THE EAGLES, DONOVAN MCNABB, AND COLD RAIN

Everyone calls McNabb a superstar. You want the truth? He sucks except for like three plays, and those three plays happen to win the game. WHOOPDEEDO. And I am mad at the Packers for giving it away in the secondary. And I hate cold rain EVEN MORE now. If it was not raining the Pack would have won. If it was SNOWY the Pack would have won. But NOOOOO. It had to be rainy and slippery, and Favre's thumb had to be broken so he couldn't hold the ball, and the STUPID REFS had to not dry it enough, except when it was in the Eagles hands. GRRR. Oh well. Even with fumbles Ahman ran well. But STILL. We HAD this game. We HAD it. And then the stupid Eagles had to come back and win. I AM REALLY MAD right now. Leave a message because I don't feel like talking to anyone right now.

I am mad

After a good Saturday (the MVOP concert went well) my sunday has sucked because I can't get into like half the classes I need to get into! They either have some stupid prerequisite error or are closed (I NEED to get into Choral Tech; and it's closed. What's with that?) And the problem is, I can't really take anything else. I don't want to be taking Music Ed Practicum until next semester. I HAVE to take Ethno at the closed time because Piano Skills for teaching is at the other section's time. I HAVE to take Ed Psych but stupid prereq error. I want to take composition but stupid prereq error. I HAVE to take Choral Tech but it is already closed; there are only 10 spots open in that class! There are tons of music ed students. I bet I can list them: Cory, Jacob, Clayton, (Chad, Jason, and Rachael if they didn't take it yet), Kate, Breanne, and Wendy. Those are probably them. If the three seniors I listed already have taken it, then it's probably Jarvs, Matt, and Vanessa. So I'm the odd one out. I NEED to take it. Otherwise I won't have enough classes; I only could sign up for 14 credits, and 4 of them are 1 credit classes, so that bills me 12 credits, the lowest you can get to be full time. If I don't get into these classes, I will be considered a part time student, I'll lose my scholarship, and all this other bad stuff will happen. Now, I'm not worried about getting into Choral Tech, I'm sure Dr. Holmes is anticipating on signing a lot of copies of schedules; there are more people who need to get in. I mean there are at least 20 of us in Secondary Methods. Comp is simple. Ethno, if I explain to her my situation, she'll probably sign it. I am a little worried about Ed Psych, though. It says on muonline that I need to take content area exam to get into that and I haven't yet. Although, Cory took that and I don't believe she took that yet. So I think I'll be OK, but I don't know the teacher at all. I HAVE to get all this done tomorrow.

Registering would be a LOT easier if I didn't register at 12:30 like I did, I should have registered at 9 when muonline came back up. 3 1/2 hours and the classes are closed. DGHJSLKDJGLKSDJFLKS

Say hey, it's a good day

Yesterday was a GREAT day. I mean one of the better days of my life. One I won't forget soon.

OK. D woke me up because it was like 20 minutes to my class, and I slept thru my alarm. So thank God for him. I got to class only about 5 minutes late. Secondary methods went well, Chamber Chorale went well (chamber love!), and then the class I dreaded because I had to present: Human development. Surprisingly, our presentation went really well. We had a good response from the rest of the class. Then I went to the store and got some stuff, and they were selling pomegranites at Kroger so I got one. I haven't had a pomegranite in a couple of years but OH THEY ARE SO GOOD.

At 4:30, I met Odell and Natalia and we went to Pastabilities to see Shanti. That was so much fun. We had good food and Shanti talked to us quite a bit at first because it wasn't that busy. We had so many weird conversations and stuff, it was great. I hope we do it again. The food was pretty good too. After that I had an MVOP rehearsal, our last before our fall concert (which is today, I'll talk about that later). After that I headed to IV and it was a good meeting. Nice and deep, lots of worship, a good speaker (the guy from word of life), and a good time.

After that we went bowling. I bowled with Phil, Joe, Jenny, and Erik. It was awesome. We had fun. I was going crazy because I forgot to take my pill but I don't care everyone was acting crazy. I was so bad though because of it. ANYHOO, I bowled a 70 the first time (sucked), then 100 the second time. It was awesome because I wanted to bowl at least 100 and get at least 1 strike. I got that strike the 9th frame, I believe, maybe it was the 8th but I got a spare either right before or after it. It figures I start bowling good right at the end of the last game. It was fun anyways.

Finally a group of us headed to Amanda's apartment, because it was her 21st birthday. so we headed over there, had cake and ice cream, and watched Amanda open her presents. Then we played 500 for a LONG time. It was a lot of fun. I was up until 4:15am and people were going to play ANOTHER game while I was leaving. So D and Caleb are still in here sleeping at 1:30 but they were up until like 6 I'm sure. So I kind of figured.

OK the MVOP concert is at 5, I meet in the arrival court in like an hour. So pray it goes well! This was a GREAT end to a long couple of weeks for me.

My glove compartment is a piece of shit.

I'm so sick of this. OK the lock on my glove compartment doesn't work. So? No big deal right? YES BIG DEAL, as it is stuck in the LOCKED position. So the only way to get to my car stereo, which is locked in there, is to pry it open, which is just a major pain in the ass. I am SO SICK of doing that that I just brought my car stereo inside tonite. I would much rather leave it in the car, because that way I don't risk leaving my stereo behind, and having to go back inside and get it, as often is the case. I just hope it's fixable. problem is, I have to wait a week.

Some previous quotes of the day, including todays:

Nov. 4:
Prof. Carberg: What's the difference between a countertenor and a castrati?
Spencer: One of them has tools.

Dr. Forbes: I told the women in my choir to go get em, and it worked, I had the entire football team in my choir the next year.
Cory: What do you allure them with?... OH the girls!!!

Nov. 6:
Bobby: FUCK me!!! (After dropping his pizza)

Spencer: Yeah, the voice is priceless. You can always buy a new instrument but you can't buy a new voice.
Jessica: Unless you're Ariel.