a summary of my activities in december 1999 write me!
12/1 Well, Krislyn and I got to go see RENT last night, free of charge because of the "Cool Rooms" contest... We also got to meet the cast at a reception afterwards, so I got them to sign my CD booklet, and that was lots of fun. I got to talk to guy that played "Mark" for a while after the show and he's really nice. He was telling us about how he sat in on an English class for fun yesterday, and today he wanted to go to a Psychology class. So, I told him where the Psych building was, and I also told him that Krislyn and I have Psychology on MWF, but we told him we're in super-introductory psych, and he said he thought he'd try to find a higher level one. And then of course Psych today was about how music and audio cues can affect our perceptions and emotions, and it was pretty interesting. We also told him when Hoosiers rehearsal is, and he seemed interested, so who knows... he may come. But then again, he may just be a polite guy trying to act interested. So who knows. In other news, I've started Christmas shopping and hope to be able to finish this weekend. But anyway... I'm signing off now! Love you!
12/3 Well hello all! I'm taking a break from my Music Ed quiz, which consists of 12, count them, 12 essays, all to be turned in via email by Monday. AAAAAAAAA! There's not really too terribly much to report... Things are going well, but it's definitely nice to have that "I'll be done with this in two weeks no matter what" feeling. =) I think Jessica put it best when she said "I just can't wait for next sememster, because at least then all this semester's work will be done.... hm... maybe it would get done faster if I started it." Yes well, at least I've started. This weekend will be a busy weekend, and next weekend even more so, and those are the only two weekends left! Woo-Hoo! Tonight I'm going shopping, then to the Messiah, as presented by the University Singers and the Chamber Orchestra. Tomorrow I'm working a five hour shift, Sunday I think (really!) I may try church in the morning and then I have a Hoosiers rehearsal, an IU Sing meeting and a shift of work. Monday the essays are due and Timmy has a concert in which he is a soloist (GO TIMMY!), Tuesday is dress rehearsal for Chimes of Christmas concert and my final voice lesson, in which I am graded, Chimes is Wednesday, Thursday is my Piano final and the Indigo Girls show, then I'm in Cincy from Friday till Sunday, Monday and Tuesday I pack and study, Wednesday I have my Psych and Theory finals, and Thursday I come home!!!!!!! Woo-Hoo!!!!! OK... gotta get back to essays! =)
12/5 Can you believe I'm still working on those essays? [deep sigh] ah well.... c'est la vie. There really isn't much of anything new to report, since I had a pretty academic weekend. Oh, Mom and Dad, you will be disappointed to know that I didn't go to church... I was up really late doing essays Saturday night and overslept. I was really looking forward to it, I assure you... I miss hymns! =( Anyway... I just wanted to tell you that. And also, I forgot to mention that I found out at Friday's rehearsal that I have a solo in the Chimes concert Wednesday! I get the second verse of the Vocal Jazz piece!!! Woo-hoo!!! Oh, and Mom, Krislyn says I look like I may have lost some weight. hahaha... I guess this is what comes of not having very many meal points. The ultimate weight loss plan: don't pay per pound you lose... pay per pound you keep! =) ok... thats enough... must run!
12/7 THOMAS! SEND ME YOUR NUMBER!!! [ahem] ok, Now that that's out of the way... =) Things are going okay here... I've done a bit of Christams shopping a written a few of my Christmas cards... I finished the essays and now I'm working on memorizing "Die Lotosblume" and "Widmung" for my voice final today. And of course, brushing up on my b flat and g sharp melodic minor scales for piano on Thursday. Other than that, things are normal. We go to Cincinatti Friday. I get to come home in just over a week! I'm thrilled. I miss everyone, and I just can't wait for next Wednesday at about 2:30 when everything will be DONE! I love you and miss you all!
12/8 Well tonight's the big concert! We have a long rehearsal today and then the show. Other than that, I'm mostly focusing on piano right now. Voice is over and done with, and everything went rather well in that regard. So I have this concert to do then my piano final tomorrow. Then the Indigo Girls. Friday morning I go to my last Theory and Psychology classes and then I run to Cincinatti! It's going to be a lot of fun... Then I get to do my Music Ed final Monday... it's online, so I can still sleep in! =) Then the five of us (me, Tim, Krislyn, Sara, and Nick) are sleeping over all in our room so we can have a "Christmas Morning" on Tuesday. None of us have Tuesday exams, so we thought it was a cute idea. We'll exchange gifts and that sort of thing and probably have breakfast/lunch or watch a movie or something. Then Wednesday I have my theory and psych exams. I just found out yesterday, incidentally, that I don't have to take my psych exam at the scheduled time, although I do have to take it Wednesday. But instead of waiting until 7pm to take it, I can elect to take it at 12:30... so I think that's what I'll do, so I can have from 2:30 or 3:00 till the next morning to clean and pack and do all that stuff... I'm excited!!! After the piano final, I think things will really fly. Well, come to think of it, today's going to fly... so I guess I'll just be home before I know it! Woo-hoo!!! Well, I should go now! Love to everyone!
12/9 Well, today I have my piano final exam... g# minor melodic scale, woo-hoo! But after that, I'm pretty much done with all all pre-Cincy academia. So, I'm writing some Christmas cards and packing and that sort of thing. Right now I'm about to head off to Theory drill, then I'm going to work work work on piano. My final is at 1:25. Then I'm sitting outside Tim's jury to listen in at 4:30. Then the INDIGO GIRLS! I don't really have much else to do today... imagine that! ha! ok... well, I've got to go! Love you!
12/10 Well, yesterday was the Indigo Girls concert! It was so awesome.... just unbelievable. And (I hate to say it... I'm such a bad person) I got a pretty good bootleg of it. But I figure, if I desperately wanted to make money off of it, I don't know how I could... so it can't be that awful... But yes, I had my little tape recorder in my pocket the whole time. Unfortunately I missed one song because I didn't realize it was done with side A... and of course I missed "Least Complicated" which is one of my very favorite songs and they did an awesome job and the whole audience was singing along. It was awesome. They even let us take a verse! =) But anyway, I'm sure all the non-Indigo GIrls fans in the audience have now dozed off... But, in other news, I got a 91/100 on yesterday's piano final! (Go Terri, Go Terri!) So, that's good. Supposedly, I'll have my final grade in that class on Monday when I return from Cincy via email. And for Dad, I just updated the academic section, and I think you'll be pleased. We got our last quiz and homework back in theory as well as the pre-Thanksgiving essay. The essay was an optional thing, in that he drops your lowest scores of 60 possible points at the end of the class. That's either 4 bad quizzes, or the 60-point essay. So, I got a 53/60 on the essay, which let me drop 4 quizzes, which were a zero (shame on me), an 8.5 and two elevens. All my remaining quizzes were 15's except for two: a 13 and a 13.5. So, in other words, my grade just got a lot higher. Now the only thing that's left is the 200-point exam. And just so you know how that pans out: to get an A I need a 186, for an A- I need a 161, and for a B+ I need a 136. My other test scores have been 92.5%, 87%, and 91%. The coveted 186 falls into the 93% range, incidentally. Just so you know. But of course, I'm striving for 200. (But an A+ is impossible at this point, so Dad, don't even start.) =) But, I have to finish packing up for Cincy now, so I'm going to go! When I get back, there will only be THREE DAYS LEFT! WOO-HOO! bye!
12/13 Well the weekend was way cool! I'm so looking forward to the album's release... It is going to be way awesome. Seriously, I'm not just saying this because I'm on the album... but really! This is such a good collection of music! =) So, when the album comes out at Christmas of 2001, I know it's going to be the newest addition to everyone's CD collection, right? Well, anyway... today I worked and also did my Music Education test. I got a 92! =) I also did a shift at McDonald's. Other than that the day was fairly uneventful. Timmy has been sick over the weekend, so he abandoned our Christmas Sleepover, but Nick and Sara and of course Krislyn and I are all here now. We also all got very impatient and had Christmas Morning on Christmas Eve. So, I got a RENT keychain and some hairclips, a nice smelly air thing, and a picture frame that says "I am the center of the universe" on it. =) I like it a lot! Tomorrow I do another shift at McD's and spend the rest of the day studying for Psych and Theory! But until then, I'm going to bed! Good night everyone!
12/15 Just writing to let everyone know that I'm alive and ready for my finals, which will start about one hour after this update. I will update the page more fully after that. (About 2:30 or so my time) ***** And as promised, here I am! Neither of my finals were bad at all. Theory was really really straightforward, which is scary in a way, but comforting in others. Basically, if I knew what I was doing as well as I think I did, then I did really well, but if I made a mistake, I don't know what it was, so I probably made it more than once, you know? [sigh] But I feel pretty good about it. Maybe not "A" for the semester good, but probably "A-" for the semester good. In psychology the test was just like all the other tests have been in that class, just longer. And I've done relatively well on all those. So hopefully, I can still swing that "A-" although the most recent posting on the class website had me at a "B+". But, hey. A girl can dream, right? And we had evaluations for that professor today, so I just totally went off on him. Well, not really on him specifically, but on the way he structures the class. To make a long story short, I was in one of two P101 classes at ALL OF IU that had exceptionally long weekly homework assignments and a cumulative exam. All the other P101 professors had exams that covered only information that hadn't been tested before. And no other teachers give homework. So, there you have it. That's it. I just basically wrote on the evaluation that it seems odd that of all the classes I'm taking this semester, Psychology 101 is the ONE that it looks like I might get a B in! What's that about? EVERYONE HAS TO TAKE PSYCH 101 AT SOME POINT, RIGHT? So, that's all. Other than that, I'm about to go to Lazarus =) and do a little final business around here before I leave. And also, Dad, Mom, you should know, I'm not doing laundry before I come home, so I'm going to bring one suitcase of clean, and one much larger suitcase of dirty, ok? =) Not because I can't or won't wash my own clothes, but because there's no such thing as an empty washing machine around here this week. Thanks! Well, that's all I can think of. So I'm now going to check the Academic Page to make sure it's updated, and then I'm gone! Love you all! I probably won't update this before I leave for break, so I think I'm going to print it out, because it makes a pretty good little diary, and I don't want Y2K to erase my diary! So, bye!
FUTURE PLANS
12/16-1/9 [singing] "I'll be home for Christmas!"
1/12-1/16 IAJE in New Orleans.... I found the IU chapter, and they're giving me a ride!!!
