My posts are posting now. Good! I had a good last few days... we went to the mall of america. It was fun. OK that's all for now... my grandpa and his wife are here and we are going to have dinner and then I don't know what I am going to do for the final 6 hours of 2002. But happy new year! Next post will proabaly be in 2003.

My latest posts aren't showing... but ok. Christmas was great. I GOT WINDOWS XP FOR MY COMPUTER AT SCHOOL!!! I am so excited about that... windows Me sucks. I also got some flannel pants... I love those things. They are so comfortable. And some other stuff. Fun times.

I got the vespers CDs today.... OH MY GOD. They sound SO GOOD!!! So much better than that bootleg copy of last years vespers I got... Lux Arumque gives me shivers every time I hear it. I'm still listening to it right now. I gave Mrs. Mac hers and she was so happy to get it!

OK for some reason my latest post isn't showing up anymore and also my counters are gone (although that could be the work that bravenet, the website who hosts the counters, is doing some maitenence.

Well, I'm home now! I'm so glad to be home. I need to do Christmas shopping though. That's pretty hard to do when you are broke. But I'm getting excited because of the concert tomorrow night and I'm getting mad at classical archives because my compositions aren't up yet and it's been almost a week. I hope they are up soon!

I just found out that my mom has to have a historectomy next month. :( Please pray for her!

Oh yeah, how could I forget? I'm a poster child for Millikin now! I'M ON THE MILLIKIN WEBSITE!!!!!!!!! YEAH BABY! It was during the cookie party. I saw that and I'm like Woah! Awesome!

Well in less than 36 hours I WILL BE HOME!!! YEah.. I can't wait. I have 2 finals tomorrow and I need to pack and I'm all set. Awesome. Talked to Tember online and she said that Grandma loved the movie and that everyone cried when they showed her the scrapbook. I SO WISH I WAS THERE!!! Damn, you Millikin, for scheduling finals after yesterday. OK I'm going to study or pack now...

I want to type a really long post for some reason so here goes:

Why is there no snow in Decatur? I just seems like it never snows here, whereas it snows north of us, or south of us, or west of us ( I don't know about east of us; oh wait that DID happen once) and it just takes a break as it passes over Decatur. Sure we had a few flurries one day and another day it was an icy mix that left the ground semi-dusted with the white stuff. But hey! I'm waiting for the foot of snow that better fall while I am at home. I have been snow deprived. Last year it didn't snow much at all here, and it didn't snow much while I was home. Ironically enough the day I leave back for school last year, we are in Illinois and Molly calls home and they are having a blizzard. That ticked me off. We didn't get our first real snow until like March and it was like 70 degrees in January. Well I hope we get tons of snow this year. I hope that when I get back to Decatur that it will be covered waist high with snow. OK I know that is kind of a high expectation but who cares. I should get it to make up for all the snowless days I went with last year.

Only 4 (or is it 3? I don't know whether to count today or not since it is 1 in teh morning) more days until I go home. I leave on Wednesday morning. I miss Aria's Christmas concert but that's Ok I saw it last year and anyway I'm just glad I'm going home! What's weird is that anytime I'm at home now the time goes by so fast. And a lot at school time drags on. Why can't it be the other way around? I mean pre-college days I couldn't wait to come down here. Now I go home every chance I get. It's weird.

I taught a song to 1st graders yesterday and it was SO MUCH FUN! I had doubts about teaching elementary children but they had so much fun! They loved the song. Everyone says how I'd make a great elementary school teacher. And I probably would love doing it since I get along well with kids (especially younger ones:)) But I want to keep my options open. High school might be great. And I really want to conduct. I mean teaching college choir would be awesome too. Each setting has it's pros and cons. When it comes time to find a job, I probably won't have a hard time finding one (the general consesus is that there is a major shortage of music teachers (hopefully no one will cut music from their school that would be a GRAVE MISTAKE just throwing a random statement in about my beliefs but that's another rant), the hard thing is just CHOOSING what I want to do. I mean take Ms. Kuo. She was a student teacher at Preble when I was a Junior, I believe. Maybe a Senior. But Mrs. Mac says that she is teaching elementary music now and loves it. But she would have made an awesome high school teacher as well. So I want to keep my options open. In time I know that God will guide me in the right direction.

OK That's it for now.

YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!!!!! MY ARCHIVES ARE NOW MONTHLY!!! That is AWESOME! It only took like what, 3 weeks? But hey I am psyched!

It doesn't take much at 12:50 in the morning does it? Oh well, I don't have any finals tomorrow so I am taking advantage of staying up late.

I changed my comment above and listen to it. No one has ever left me a message on the comments. I feel neglected :(