Choir was pretty weird yesterday. We sang mixed pretty much the entire time after running through a newer piece. We then mixed, I went to the front rown on the other side away from my part. We sang through the Brahms, and then we were going to sing Wagner. Dr. Holmes asks the first tenors to stand and sing their part. The other first tenors pretty much stayed where they were. Well we sang and it seemed like I was the only one singing and then we get done with the first phrase. Dr. Holmes runs over and hugs me. Then he's like "Spencer, good job!" and then he looks over at the other first tenors (that was funny the look on his face) looks back over at me and I'm like "Well, you told us to mix up!" So then he asks everyone to sit down again, and then he says, "Stay standing Spencer" so I had to sing the entire part all my myself. I was really nervous. It was totally put on the spot. And he was like telling me not my part what to do with accents, and the turn, and stuff. I think he was trying to give the hint that the other first tenors weren't doing the job. But then the rest of the rehearsal went normally. So that was fun...

Now I am really getting serious about moving my journal to livejournal.... the site seems to have more options and features than blogger... I wish I could put that on there... Hmmmm

Today is the audition and so I'm going to practice.

OK. I have really been slacking the last few days I think....... Or maybe it was just Monday. But still I feel lagging for some reason.... I don't know why. I'm doing all (well, most ;)) of my homework, I'm not at the computer all of the time (Garrett says I am, but I do my homework while he's gone), and other stuff.

I have this audition for the Alan Held masterclass tomorrow. I hope I can do it well. I practiced earilier and I sounded good from what I heard. I had a breakthrough lesson last night that really helped and I feel that I can be one of the 6 they pick to be one, or at least an alternate. There are 23 of us auditioning, and only 8 (counting hte 2 alternates) spots. So 1 out of 3 people trying out gets to be chosen. So yeah.

OK I was going to say NOOOOO NOT THE STUPID ERROR 503 AGAIN! But then I went to the page and the latest entry loaded so I'm ok.

Unfortunately, this one isn't editing.......

Last night was fun. OK. I went out on a limb and went with Bobby to Champaign with this club. Becky went too. We were meeting about 5 others there too. OK. Bobby's friend from Decatur Park Singers entered this drag queen music pagent, and we went to cheer him on. The club was a gay bar but straight people go there too. It was kind of weird at first but then it was a lot of fun. And Bobby's friend won Miss Teen Champaign but he should have won Miss Teen Illinois because the evening gown competition was stolen from him seriously. But then after the show we went outside and there was like 3 inches of snow on the ground! We didn't get home until almost 3AM. I skipped my history class again (3rd Monday in a row but it's not like we learn anything in that class, he just goes off subject after the first 10 minutes to some subject impacting the world today like the impending war or abortion). I also skipped counterpoint, but that was mainly because I didn't finish my assignment. So yeah. It was fun.

This morning I bagged grocieries at Cub Foods with IV. This Cub is much nicer than the Cub in Green Bay, but it was set up the same way, so even though I haven't been to the Cub food in Green Bay in like forever, I felt like I was back in Green Bay for a split second (when I was going down the aisles)... Kind of weird but you know.

dangdangdangdangdangdangdangdangdangdangdangdangdangdangdangdangdangdang. I tried to donate blood earlier, and I STILL CAN'T GIVE IT UNTIL MARCH 17th. GRRR!!!!!!!! Stupid rules. I DO NOT HAVE MALARIA. IF I DID, I WOULD HAVE BEEN SICK. WHY MUST I WAIT A YEAR TO DONATE BLOOD AFTER GOING TO MEXICO?????? It's stupid!

I officially have two more things that annoy me:

1. The stupid goldfish jingle that probably took 28 seconds to write, and they couldn't sing it, and they play it ALL THE TIME, switching a few words. It's not even creative. It's like

"New goldfish is in colors
It still is made with real cheese
Now ever wonder why they chose this jingle that really sucks.
I've never tried them myself
They probably are gross.
The snack that smiles back goldfish."

2. The Chef Boyardee commercial jingle is almost if not more annoying than the goldfish commercial. Made preseumably by kids. It must be because the voices are SO ANNOYING!!!!! And that "oh boy oh boy oh boy" is just horrible. It sounds like Goofy on crack. And they are advertising this gross pizza ravioli in a can. I have never had a good pasta in a can, mostly because the pasta is always mushy and the sauce is just disgusting.

"New Chef BoyAARDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
(oh boy oh boy oh boy)
New pizza raviOLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
(oh boy oh boy oh boy)
lalalalalalala la la al al alalal ala la LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
(cringe)
CHEF BOYARDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
(oh boy oh boy oh boy)

OK now that I think about it the Chef Boyardee one is worst.

I'm seriously considering moving my journal over to livejournal, because I like the current mood and current music feature. It's also a lot more popular than blogger, because I see almost all my friends have a journal on livejournal. But who knows? Livejournal is so busy it may be down sometimes. But I don't care. It's not important.

I just got back from an observation at Stephen Decatur Middle School. Hoo boy. Jake, Brianne, and I went to observe a math class, and this girl went to sharpen her pencil, and a boy laughed at her, and she said quietly enough so that the teacher wouldn't hear "Fuck you, bitch!" and flipped him off. Wow.

My theory about it being impossible to have a blizzard or a snow storm in decatur has been officially annulled. While this isn't the worst snow storm I have ever seen (That being in 2nd grade when snow was up to my waist; at least 2 ft. of snow), this is up there. Yesterday, we got about 2 inches of rain. In the morning it was freezing rain, and then it was just rain. We got a couple of inches of rain. As night came, it froze, and continuted to rain. It thundered a few times around 2 am (I think). Which is weird because it was about 33 degrees out. This morning, I found it sleeting or something, and there wasn't any snow on the ground, maybe a dusting. It was sleeting. And it was icy. AND WINDY. Now it is snowing, at least 2 or 3 inches have fallen so far (I don't know how much, some areas look like almost none has fallen but that's because it is so windy it is blowing everywhere.). And we are supposed to be getting more. WOW. And to top that off, I had a vocal jazz festival today! THANK GOD I live on campus (which is where I hope to live next year), and didn't have to drive anywhere because I don't want to be caught in the middle of this. Right now, winds are blowing around 15-25 mph, up to 30 or 40 mph at times. that is windy and COLD. Yuck. I'm so glad I have nothing to go to for the rest of the night; I can get some stuff done here!