a summary of my activities in december 2001 write me!
12/2 My, I'm quite the updater, aren't I? Gosh, there's a lot going on right now... but, as usual, I don't really have the time and/or energy to devote to updating the page fully right now. The short version is that most of my finals are this week. Anyway, I just wanted to acknowledge December... I'm off to do other things now.
12/8 OK, so, 8 classes down, 2 to go, and now, for once, I have a little time to update. Where to begin. Well, I guess I'll do the academic update, per usual. In order of schedule, I suppose. Woodwinds methods (1 cr) is over. I took my written final last monday and was tested on playing sax on Friday morning. I think all went well. I don't really know what my grade looks like in there. I'm thinking probably a B or so because I sucked so hard on the clarinet test. Well, parts of it anyway. English Diction (1 cr) was cake, as diction classes tend to be, and my official final grade is an A. Pop music (3 cr), while it is not officially over yet, was also cake. I have an A. Technically, I don't have to take the final, since Aaron drops the lowest test grade, so he could drop the final... but I don't know... there's something really weird about just electing not to take a test. I'm probably silly, but I'm taking the test anyway. Theory IV (2 cr) is my one remaining class that may require effort of any kind. My final in there is this Wednesday the 12th at 8am. I'm actually scheduled to take it at 10:30am, but I sweet-talked Isgitt into letting me take it with his MWF 8am section so that I can go to work ASAP after the final. PE (3 cr) is such an overwhelming waste of time. I'm done with it, thank god, but... can I even express how mad I will be if I didn't do well in this class? It's PE for goodness sake. What a load. Unfortuantely, the test was real, and actually, kinda hard. Anatomy crap and science-y health type crap. blech. I think I can find out my grade in there on Tuesday if I want to. ACap (1 cr) ended with a bang last weekend with a couple of concerts with the Richardson Symphony Orchestra. Whatever, it's alright. It was holiday Pops stuff. Nothing amazing, or even good. I did recently buy CD's of all my old ACap concerts though, and I've been thoroughly enjoying them of late. On to T/TH classes. Piano IV (1 cr). The bane of my existence. The source of a good 50% of all angst I have right now. I failed it. Yep. You heard me. I failed. I will be receiving an F. I will be retaking the class. erghhh. Good news is I passed Progressions and Accompaniment. Bad news is I failed Scales, Open Score, Sightreding, and Transposition. I suck, I suck, I suck. erghh. I don't want to talk about it anymore. Aural Skilz IV (1 cr). I'm pretty decent at this Aural Skilz thing. It's good to be done though. I'm thinking I may have swung an A in this class. Maybe only a B. But I'll me molto surprised if it's anything other than that. JS1 (1 cr) was possibly the funnest class I had all semester. Well, JS1 or Pop. I love JS1, I am so happy to be a part of JS1. I'm going to check next week to see if I can pick up a recording of our November 30th concert soon, hurrah! And finalmente, Voice (2 cr) ended with my jury on Tuesday, for which I used a little of what President Bush might call "stategery". I had 7 songs. 1 German, 1 Latin, 2 English, and 3 French. The German was my best piece. The Latin, and an orotorio, meaning I'm allowed to use my book and it therefore didn't have to be memorized. My 2 English were both memorized, sounding good. My 3 French always sounded good but I was messing up the words in all three of them. And I'm not talking about mispronouncing a "que" here or there. I'm talking about entire sentences that I don't know the words to. So... strategery. I had originally planned to open with my German, since it was my best. But instead, 12 hours before my jury, I decided to open with one of the French, "Faites-lui mes aveux" from Faust, in the hopes that the panel would pick anything BUT French for the second selection. And my how my stategery did do well. I sang Faites-lui and did fine, only made up fake French in one or two relatively unnoticable places. And then what did they pick? Why, my German of course! Muahahaha! I love when strategery pays off. Anyway, I find out my official final voice grade next week also. And so, that's the academic update. In otehr parts of my life... and in not school... as in work... life is sort of up in the air. Which is not to say my job is unstabel.... my job is stable, I am in no danger, no one dislikes me. But our manager quit and has now been gone for a week, and we're starting to feel it. Just, tension from where we've got other stores' personnel "helping out" in our store. (Read: bossing us around when they don't know jack about our store) It's tons of fun. Anyway, I've decided to do my part by trying to pick up as many hours as possible so we need less outsiders in the store. Oh, and I also did my part this morning on the phone with our District Manager, explaining to her why exactly she needs to be careful about who she sends over here and what attitude they have, because if she isn't careful, she's got a staff of six that's about to be a staff of zero in a heartbeat. And that's not an exaggeration. I have heard Beverly, Blaire, Judy, Debbie, and Annette all talk of being pushed "just once more" and "walking". Add me, and lo and behold, that's every single person on our staff. [sigh] But anyway, as to my hours... take for instance my schedule for Monday. I will be taking the Pop exam at 8. After that I will high-tail it to the store to open at 9:30 and work until.... yep, close. 9:30, baby. At least the money's pretty good, and I like my job as long as there's no uptight wenches from Hulen Mall telling me what side of the register the frikkin phone should be on. Yeesh. Hmmm.... well.... I don't know. That may just about cover my life right now. I'm going to see what other parts of the site need updating, and then I'm headed to bed.
