drying out

hey look! it's only been two weeks since i posted last, not a whole month!

so, since the 11th: most of my life has been spent doing work for classes and the music office. last weekend was crazy... there were three music events, all of which i had to attend. the first was the handbell choir concert. i'm one of the student managers and i play on the low end. let's just say that i'm building up my biceps again, lifting those giant bass bells. we performed okay. i'm not sure what happened, but we rehearsed better than we performed. oh well. then later that day, my friend gave her senior piano recital. she was so stunning, and i'm happy i got to usher her concert and help her out. the day after that, dr. s gave a faculty recital and i had to usher that one also. i happen to really like dr. s. i haven't had a class with him yet, but i've interacted with him in the office and such, and he seems like a really cool guy.
last week was really crazy. we had these guys from NASM, national association of schools of music, coming for our ten year re-evaluation. basically they have to check out every aspect of our music program and make sure we're still doing things right and can still be an accredited school and give out music degrees. for the past month or so, dr. schu has asked me to help him get stuff togther so these guys can look. they came on tuesday and wednesday. it was just really wierd to have other people invading our space. one would just randomly walk into a class and sit down and observe for a while. we had a students only meeting with them so they could get a different perspective. that didn't go as well as planned... it's all confidential so i can't get into details but basically they ripped a few people/things to shreds within the department. i don't know what NASM can do about it, but i have kind of a bad feeling. soooo anyway after they left things got back to normal. for my vocal pedagogy class, we went to a speech pathologist here and some people in our class got scoped; basically, they shove a camera down your nose or throat and look at your vocal chords. i did not do it. it didn't look very pleasant, so the other people did it. we had a big project due in my instrumental music class on thursday, and i'm glad i got it done. we had a scenario of a brand new music program, grades 6 through 12. and we got to budget everything we'd need to buy for this program. instruments, storage, everyyyyything. it was kind of stressful, actually, because it's hard to think of every single solitary thing that one might need in a building. we'll see if i forgot anything. and this weekend has been crazy also... friday night, i went to the american international association formal (pictures coming) with rachel because she needed a date. it was nice. pretty sure that's the first time i've worn a dress at college haha. after the formal, rachel and i went ghosthunting. lolz. it was actually kind of creepy. we were looking for this bridge where a mother killed her baby and herself. we didn't know exactly which one it was, but we found a bridge and so we were just sitting there, listening and waiting. and then, rachel's phone vibrates with a text. her phone was kind of under my leg in the passenger seat and when it went off i almost peed my pants. i don't think i've ever been that scared to have a phone go off!
yesterday, rachel, lauren and i went out to w's to fish. it was kind of a bust because it started raining, and then afterwards it got realllllllllly still. however, i took the kayak out (rachel took the canoe) and it was peaceful to chill for a while.








last night was Relay for Life on campus. we did a fishing club team and set up our tent. honestly, it was kind of awful. it started raining about 6pm and didn't stop until about 1. so S. and i set up the tent in the rain, walked in the rain, and got very very very wet. my feet were wet since about 2pm yesterday until about 11am today, from fishing until a warm shower.

well, i should probably get ready for the concert i have to usher today. oy vay. orchestra and singers. oh joy.

birdland

god i suck at posting!!

so let's see... since i last posted... i went home for easter. that's always fun. i was in elyria for literally 48 hours, then had to turn right around and come back to witt. it really annoys me that they don't allow us to have easter monday off. i mean, people have dinners with their families on sunday, and that is cut short because we have to be back in time for class on monday morning. it annoys me.

last week the big event was registering for classes. somehow every semester i get screwed over... i wasn't approved by my advisor to register until two hours after my designated time, which meant that the classes i needed for my gen. ed credits were closed. so now i have to go through the business of talking to professors and convincing them to add me to their class. looks like there's another chat with w in there somewhere.

thursday we observed a middle school and high school band. i was mostly impressed. the teacher, mr. shook, is really awesome. he looks like a football coach if you were to stereotype him. he's so sarcastic and jokes around alot with his students, but i could tell that he held them to very high standards. though i'm really surprised he still has vocal chords - he would just randomly scream when the band screwed up or something. if i have any say in where i student teach, it's gonna be with that guy!

yesterday and today were two senior recitals... one a violinist and one a soprano. they were both really very good. it's making me nervous, though, because the time is coming for me to present my own recital. it's not required to do a recital(yet, though it probably will be by the time i graduate) but i'm thinking about doing a joint junior recital with lauren and rachel. and then my senior recital is me, all by myself. i actually don't mind performing in front of people, i just don't know if i have the endurance to put on a 45 minute or hour recital. especially when my jury piece this semester is frikkin crazy:



i have been working hard on this piece so far, and i feel generally confident about it. it just seems like may 7th is far away when in reality it isn't. and this semester i have to do a piano jury also. oh, and i have four tests this week. oh and i have two projects due in two weeks.

i have to say though... i was thinking about this earlier today - i really can't imagine myself studying anything other than music. i can't see myself being a sociology major or an english major or something like that. so much of my life revolves around music and those classes that i can't even picture myself sitting in an english class writing papers and stuff. it's wierd.

anyway, i've finished boring you for now.
it'll probably be another two weeks by the time you have to read this meaningless blog again! :D