i no longer lead a dull and pet-less life. i got a hamster. his name is bacon, and he is glorious. let's hope he lasts longer than my fish did. poor franklin. only twelve days. so far, bacon seems to be doing ok. i put him in his hamster ball yesterday and he didn't scream when i picked him up like he used to. right now i'm waiting for him ( Read more... )

today is saturday!  i'm happy.  next weekend my aunt kim is coming up from virginia to visit, so i'm going home to see her.  i'm probably the closest to her out of any of my relatives.  i see her the most often, and she's kind of like my second mom.  she's my mom's little sister.  she's lots of fun and she likes to play trivial pursuit.  always a ( Read more... )

you can get anything you want at alice's resturaunt.  that's what i always say.  (that's actually what i always say, that's just what i happen to be listening to at the moment.)  i'm in one of those moods where i'm bored, but i'm tired of all my books and all my music and i don't feel like watching television and i really don't have anything to do ( Read more... )

My father finally got my computer to work again!  yay!  i would like to thank valerie weaver for being so patient while i mooched off of her by using her computer basically everyday since the first day of school.  thank you val!

in other news, the opera cast lists are up, and i am happy as a clam to have a spot in the chorus of both the marriage ( Read more... )

so, jac trussel, who is the head of the opera department and my advisor, was just chosen as stage director of the year by classical singer magazine.  how awesome is that!?!?  they're going to do a feature about him in the magazine, and his work, which is us!  i'm so excited.  and my coach, joan krueger, was classical singer's coach of the year for ( Read more... )

so i'm back at purchase for another year.  woot woot!  i'm so excited.  i'm even more excited because since i was such an exemplary french student in high school, my grades were enough for me to pass out of beginning french without taking the test.  so now i don't have to take that class.  sweeeeeeet.  four less credits for me to worry about.  ( Read more... )

I'm home alone this week, watching the house.  so far, i've forgotten to water the plants two days in a row.  when i live on my own for real, i better not be allowed to have charge of any living creature.  it would be dead in a week.  actually, i have been doing rather well with remembering to feed my cats, so that's good.  i hope i don't kill ( Read more... )

i have so much work to do for school.  oh my god.  i don't know what i'm going to do.  i have to read two plays which i haven't bought yet, i have to learn the entire role of Barbarina from marriage of figaro (which isn't much of a role, but the recit is freakin' hard!), i have to learn the whole beethoven missa solemnis (which is 74 minutes long) ( Read more... )

three more days until freedom!  i'm counting down the seconds.  i am going to have the best three weeks of summer vacation ever.  val is coming down to visit me, and we are going to have lots of fun!  although after we've done all there is to do in flemington, (which should take exactly two seconds, because all there is to do in flemington is look ( Read more... )

A quick trip to the doctor on wednesday night has confirmed that i do in fact have tonsilitis.  he didn't say anthing about removing them, he just put me on two weeks of augmentin which is this extrememly potent anti-biotic that i have to take twice a day.  i'm going to have to bring my swiss army knife with me to HITS, because i have to cut the ( Read more... )