a summary of my activities in october 2000 write me!
10/2 Hello to all! Welcome to October! You know what that means... I'm roughly 1/3 of the way through this semester! yikes! Is that possible? Well, I feel like things are going pretty well thus far. I'm not going to take a whole lot of time to comment on that just now... it's a little late at night as I write this... But I will say that you can look forward to a few little updates over the next few days... well... you may have to wait until Thursday. Tuesdays and Wednesdays are not renowned for their abundance of free time. But keep an eye out on the lyrics of the day (which I will bring up to date eventually) and the academic section... as well as, of course, the wish list... the time draws near.... heh. Oh well... my brithday is, as usual, going to be a non-event. That's expected though, I suppose, given the close proximity to Thanksgiving, and the music school's desire to make the preceding week "Concert Week". heh. But, as my Dad is oh so fond of pointing out... there's nothing too important about turning 19 anyway. Who cares? It's just another year of my life... eh. only kidding... =) Ah but anyway... =) This week is Christmas Week here at Sara and Terri's place... Sara started listening to Mariah Carey Christmas Album.... and I'm not sure how it happened.... but we've declared it Christmas Week. So we have Christmas wallpaper and screensavers, we're listeing to the Christmas albums by Mariah Carey, *NSync, Amy Grant, Manheim Steamroller, Manhattan Transfer, Plano East Jazz Choirs, and some compliation Holiday albums. We even have a seasonal greeting on the answering machine! haha... yeah... we were procrastinating from real work when we came up with this fun activity. haha.... oh well... But really, that's all I'm going to take the time to write about right now... perhaps more tomorrow... perhaps not... we shall see.... Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!
10/5 Let's see what there is today.... Thursday's are my happy day of not a lot to do except catch up. Today I'm paying bills with my new checking account (credit card, phone, rent, magazine subscriptions) and doing some basic straightening... filing... etc. After choir this afternoon, I've got a good deal of homework to do, some tests coming up in the next couple of weeks, that sort of thing. But overall, things are under control and grades are pretty good. I'm feeling pretty good about everything right now.... Things should kick into high gear here in about.... ohh.... let's say 3 weeks. But until then, it's all about not getting behind. =) So, that's really about all I have to say just now... more later
10/9 Well, today was a long Monday... something of a twelve hour school day... Conducting at 8, Theory at 9, Aural Skilz at 10, Piano at 11, Jazz at noon, errands (lunch, bank) at 1, Choir at 2, errands (making copies, theory homework) at 3, rehearsal with Skeeter at 4, Jazz Sectional at 5 for almost 2 hours (overacheivers in Jazz... who knew), quick dinner until 7:30, at which point I met with a girl that I have been partnered with for an Aural Skilz quiz.... got home at 8pm. I'm tired. I had a good weekend, got to see a lot of my friends up at Plano East for the Jazz CHoir shows. I am sooooooooooooooo impressed with ShowStoppers this year. You know it's a good year when Stroud puts in 16. Ah, but I'm going to go to bed now and get ready for another pretty long day tomorrow. (Government, Italian Diction, errands, Choir, Studio, Departmental, Grand Chorus) G'night all....
10/13 check it! It's scary Friday the 13th! Aaaaaa! haha... Well, today so far (it's 9am) has already been kind of scary. I just got out of conducting in which we took a test which my instructor keeps telling us was "mostly diagnostic" because he "doesn't want to ruin anybody's weekend". Oh my goodness that was one of the the hardest (and most irrelevant) tests I have ever taken. Hi kids, I'm a choral student, right? How much do I know about band transpositions? Oh wait, NOTHING. I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING. Well, actually, that was like 2 weeks ago. In the last 2 weeks, I've learned some and I get the idea of it, but it's still kinda confusing and I'm a little slow at it. And frankly, I think that's ok! What, am I suddenly supposed to be able to transpose at sight right alongside the band geeks in my class that have been playing E-flat sax all their lives? NOOOOOOO!!!! ugh. So the test was a transposition extravaganza. It was nuts, and he has in fact ruined my weekend. ergh. yuck. So, I have an hour to hang out here in the lab, and then I've got Aural Skilz, in which I must perform a duet of quote "sight-singing" with another girl in the class. This is "sight-singing" that we were given Monday to prepare for today. This is "sight-singing" that I have memorized. So, so far, to summarize... all the band geeks in my Aural Skilz class got cut a huge break because [whiny band geek voice here] "I've never used solfege before" and "I'm not very good at hand signs yet" and "I didn't ever sight-sing in high school" while poor little Terri Lee gets stuck in Mr. Band Man's Conducting class which suddenly includes transpositions. (Meanwhile, Sara is in the Conducting section taught by Karen Kennaston, a fellow singer, in which they are perfecting the use of the left hand). ergh. ergh ergh ergh. yeesh. So after my "sight-singing" thingy in Aural Skilz, I have piano class, in which we have a quiz on playing "Scarborough Fair". And that, my friends, will be a fair quiz. Why? Because it's not being led by a Band Person! (yes, surprise surprise, my Aural Skilz teacher is a Band Person). Then on to Jazz Singers practice. After that, I'll probably take a wee little nap, or maybe call some of the New Horizon kids aout a meeting this Sunday. Then I have to be dressed and ready at the Murchison for the Homecoming Festivities at 7:45. For those that may be interested, tonight's concert is free to the public, and starts at (I believe) 7:30. "But Terri..." you may ask... "why don't you have to be there until 7:45?" Well, my friend, The concert order is as follows: first the world class One O'clock Lab Band plays, followed by the world class A Cappella Choir, followed by the world class Wind Symphony. so, my portion of the program, I am told, will only be from about 8:15 to 8:45 or 9. I have debated the possibility of flying down to The door post-concert to catch Mulberry Street on the chance that they play the later time slot. But... I don't know for sure that they will be in that slot... And if my dad comes to Denton for the concert, then I'm hanging out with him instead. But if he doesn't come and we get done relatively early... well I may just go. I'm not sure. We shall see... I'm trying to think of any actual news that has happened over the last week or so... not really... most of my classes were fairly uneventful this week in favor of Big Ugly Midterms next week, as evidenced by my "Future Plans" below. Woo-hoo. Well, I'm going to move along now and consider updating this week's lyrics.... maybe.... maybe not. ha.
10/16 Well, I just got finished with my Big Ugly Sightsinging Midterm, for which I received a 90. I think I did pretty well, thanks. Nothing big going on for the rest of the day... just your basic piano, jazz, and choir stuff. I'm going to do my darndest to get a hold of Skeeter (my accompaniest, for those that were anaware) today, because I kind of need to, oh I don't know, REHEARSE? I got some good time in yesterday at church when my 3:00 meeting was unexpectedly cancelled.... worked out some tuning issues and memorized a song... Also yesterday, I was unexpectedly recruited to be a judge for the kids choir speaking part auditions. That's such a hard thing to judge, because all of the kids did well, and given a line or two, any one of them is capable of memorizing it and doing it well, no problemo. It's not like there are actual roles this year... you're not casting a Ewenice here... =) So, ehh, whatever. Speaking of things that happened yesterday... um, hello weather! The rain was such a pain in my butt! It really stressed me out... I was supposed to go straight from kids choir to Chucks to Denton (Chucks to feed cats). But at 6 when I wanted to go to Dallas, it was pouring down the rain and I was gonna die. So I stayed in Plano and watched Sister Act II on TV (yesssssss) and finally ventured to Chuck's at what, like, 8? Then stayed there until probably 9:45... and then finally trekked "home" as it were. But there at about 7 I was sure I was going to be making the drive in the wee hours of the morning or something equally gross.... I was so stressed. ha. Ah, but it's all over now... =) yea! well.... hm. It's about time for me to head over to Piano... sorry, haven't updated the lyrics yet... maybe tonight. Later...
10/20 Well, children... (kids is getting old maybe... but "children" sounds like I'm trying to be Mr. Garrison... hmmm) Well, um... people... hi! I know I haven't updated it a bit, but so much has happened, it feels like... I had a bunch of midterms this week... The Sightsinging one I already told you about... I got a 90. Then there was Government, which I was so scared of! yikes! But, I really didn't feel like it was all that hard in the long run, and so even though I haven't gotten back that grade yet, I'm fairly confident. Then Wednesday I had my Dictation Midterm. Now, I am the Reigning Queen and Champion of Rhythmic and Melodic Dictation, but my history with harmonic is really really bad. And the good news is, I filled in the whole score, you know? I at least had some idea of what I thought the notes were1 So, yeah! AND I did the extra credit stuff (inner voices and cadences) so while I know it won't be a perfect score... it will be better than I have done in the past. And isn't that the point? So then yesterday I had Italian Diction with my stalker (who sat next to me again) and I knew I had a pretty good grip on the material, especially after having done French... but I didn't realize how good of a grip I had until Ms. Chisholm asked me to demonstrate for the class the difference between all the vowels... and I say "eeeeee... ehhhhhhh..... aaaayyy.... awwwww.... ohhhhh..... oooooooh...." and she's like "perfect... now you try it, class" and they're like "eiieeiiieheeeehaaaayaeawwwaooiiheehaooooaahoohhuiohooo"... so that was fun. And just now I took my Keyboarding Midterm (sightsinging, dictation and keyboarding are all for aural skilz, none of which is related to my "piano" grade) and I got a 90! woo-hoo! Ah, but now I must hasten to Piano for a quiz. yesssss.... bye all same day... a little later Hi again, people... It's now 2:14 and I got a 95 on that Piano quiz... I also auditioned for a solo in Jazz Singers II... nothing major, just a little thing. I was too chicken to try out for a scatting solo. I'm such a wimp. ergh. Right now I'm about to go check my mail and buy a paper and then I'm going on a quick jaunt to Lewisville to pick up tickets to the free (FREE) Wallflowers and third Eye Blind concert that's coming up in a couple of weeks... all I have to do is go to some wireless store. No purchase required, I don't think. Then I don't really have any plans for tonight until Sara gets off work at 9ish. I think we've decided to go see a movie of some description. Perhaps Pay It Forward. Or I may make her watch Almost Famous. Hard to say. Tomorrow... I'm having lunch with Thomas, it would seem, so Mom and Dad, I'll be home probably around one-ish or something. give or take. No real plans for the rest of the day until it's time to see.... you guessed it... The Wallflowers on SNL. And then Sunday will be like every other Sunday. busy. So... that's really all there is from here... I think I'll update song lyrics tonight while I'm bored and Sara's at work... okay? good!
10/24 Well, it was a good weekend, overall... I was sorta moody, but how much does that ever really surprise anyone? haha But overall, it was good. I saw Dogma, which is this truly odd movie... an interesting concept, I think, this movie. The idea basically being that these two fallen angels can prove God fallible and therefore gain re-entry to heaven, but in the process, this would prove God fallible and therefore un-create creation, right? Well, at least theoretically right in this movie. Well, my thing is that just because in the end the angels don't actually get to committ the physical act of walking through the arches that would've pardoned them and granted them re-entry... just because they didn't actually do it doesn't mean that it couldn't have been done... and God is still fallible regardless, right? OR is the fact that the angels psychologically unraveled themselves in the process of proving God fallible just another way of proving God infallible? Like, they could never have actualy done it because no matter what, they didn't really have the mental/theological capacity? Because God has created them with a certain capability, which they cannot exceed....? hmmm... anyway... it was an interesting movie. I watched it twice. The second time it was a little hard to concentrate, because the goober I was watching it with kept drumming on anything and everything... Goober! (haha I don't know if he actually reads the site... yikes...) Then I went home and watched SNL... and then your basic Sunday church schedule. One of these days, I'll actually have a covenant meeting... I really will... haha. I keep getting conflicted with... last week it was auditions for the youth Christmas play... and then this week is was Crop Walk... so maybe I'll get to have a meeting this next week. Hmmm.... let's see... yesterday, I don't think a lot of anything interesting happened yesterday... today I got my government midterm grade, which I choose not to disclose. ha. It was harder than I thought. But, my homework is pulling me up. I have updated The Academic Report accordingly. And then I just finished my Italian song test... and of course, I kicked its butt all around the room. I've also now updated the lyrics section... so, for once, I think the site is pretty up-to-date. I guess I better work on My Wish List, hadn't I? hahahaha OK, that's it...
10/27 Once again, it's Friday morning and I'm spending my hour an the Mac lab... I've just finished updating the quotes page and the Cd List to reflect my most recent purchases. There are three, can you spot them? haha Let's see... news from the last few days. Not a whole lot. I got to go see Ben Harper with Chuck on Wednesday. I was on vocal rest anyway and wouldn't have actually been singing at Chancel Choir practice, so I didn't feel too guilty. Ben was enjoyable... his opening act, Blackalicious, well, they were simply vacuuous. Is that how you spell that? They sucked, OK? I don't usually say that, certainly not on my family-friendly page, but kids, it's so true! the only beter word I can think of is vacuuous, and I'm not actually sure whether it should be vacuuous or vacuumous or something else, or how the heck it's supposed to be spelled. So, sorry... But overall, Wednesday was enjoyable, and it was cool to bond with my brother. =) I have Aural Skilz coming up in just about a half hour. Today is happy fun keyboarding day... no quiz though. After Aural Skilz I have Piano, in which every day is happy fun keyboarding day, and every Friday is quiz day. Woo-Hoo! Next week is test week in Piano, which means I don't have class on Wednesday or Friday! Woo-Hoo! AND, my Aural Skilz teacher is going to some kind of convention on Wednesday and Friday (Thursday too, but that doesn't really apply to me) so we won't have class those days! Woo-Hoo! So next Friday I'll have a pretty light schedule. Woo-Hoo! Speaking of things that make you go "Woo-Hoo!"... I got back my Aural Skilz midterm for dictation... this is the same sort of excercise that last semester I got like a 55 on. I don't know that I ever mentioned how pleased I was wit the B I got in Aural Skilz last semester, but Dad, harmonic dictation kicks my butt. Well..... My Aural Skilz midterm grades this year were as follows. 90 on sightsinging, 90 on keyboarding, and 93 on dictation. Score one for the gipper! ahem. But anyway. Also on today's schedule is a little performance of Jazz Singers II in the music commons at noon, during our normal class time. We will be singing So Danco Samba, Fligh of the Foo Birds, and Muddy Water. I have a solo on Muddy Water. =) It's one of these growly ticked off woman solos. Think: Lindsay Allen's solo on I'm A Woman in Boogie Down aka Fall Show 97. I enjoy it. I auditioned for two solos... Muddy Water and also a guitar line in the gorgeous beautiful wonderful song called Tristeza Del Mar. "A guitar line?" you say... "But Terri... you do't play guitar!" "Yes, yes, I know, kind friend" I reply... "but this is not just any guitar line. This is a vocalist singing a line which will be simultanously plyed by a guitar!" "Ohhhhhhhhh!" Yes... that's right kids, you heard it here first. That solo has not yet been announced, but I think rosana is very much a fan of the "everyone gets a solo" policy... So I don't know if two solos is allowed. We shall see. Tonight, I have no real plans, except I may go ahead and do the rest of this semester's government homework (because things are going to get real crazy real fast) and also finish up the extra credit I'm working on for that class. Thus far, I'm not aware of a compelling reason that October 28th requires my presence in Plano... although I may go ahead and come in anyway so as to use a real piano to practice for next week's test. I'm not yet sure. Sunday I've got the normal church thing, plus my covenant meeting, which I'm told may even be in the bulletin this week! Wow! Monday is my piano test. Tuesday is practice at the church for the Grand Chorus concert. Wednesday is theory midterm. Thursday is Italian IPA test and Pat's birthday. Friday is my light day and the Third Eye Blind/Wallflowers concert. etc, etc... there's always something, you know? Hmmm...
FUTURE PLANS
10/27 Jazz Singers II perform in the music commons at noon
11/1 Theory Midterm
11/2 Italian Diction IPA test; Pat turns 21! Woo-hoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
11/3 Free Wallflowers / Third Eye Blind concert @ Reunion
11/5 Grand chorus sings at FUMC Denton at 3pm
11/14 A Cappella Fall Concert
11/17 Jazz Singers II perform in Kenton Hall
11/19 4-5 kids choir sings "I Want To Be Ready" @ both services; I turn the big 19!
12/3 FUMC Hanging of the Greens and Children's Musical
