So I start my first shift at Hardee's (well, for this time around) in an hour. It's really weird to be back home, especially with Cady. Once I get my digital camera (a Christmas present) I will post pictures of her. We're currently playing hide and seek with the keyboard tray. Adorable ( Read more... )

I like the new update thing, it's pretty cool. This entry is mostly just to say that I'm home, and that the drive was fine. I HATE energy drinks with a passion, but I had to resort to them. And Mountain Dew and Coke. (The drink, not anything else). It was rainy, which made it just seem really long, although my music was all good in helping me pass ( Read more... )

I'm now done with music history... for this semester. I still have next semester (late baroque/classical/romantic) and then the semester after is 20th century, but at least now we're getting into music that I've heard of (not too many people know about discant clausula and Perotin and du Fay and Machaut's hocket). Bach and Beethoven and Mozart and ( Read more... )

I'm giving myself five minutes to update before I go back to food/studying. Today: Music History exam. I almost feel prepared, but I'm not sure if almost is good enough. Then percussion ensemble audition, which will be really easy. Then over to Angela and Miny's to dye my hair/possibly have dinner. And then back here to relax and not study. Not ( Read more... )

Well, with two exams. We taught our last lesson (which didn't go as well as I would have liked it to, but oh well, I'll survive) and then I had the history exam. I guessed the two readings right (Dostoevsky's Grand Inquistor and Pearson's Scientific View of a Nation) and so the questions were pretty easy. I had to b.s. some of them (like what they ( Read more... )

So today wasn't quite as productive as I wanted it to be. And by that, I mean it hasn't really been productive at all, unfortunately. I went to church choir rehearsal, and church, and that was good. Then I came back here, with the intent to study music history, lay down in my bed... and promptly fell asleep for two hours. I woke up just in time to ( Read more... )

I should be in bed, of this I am aware. But sleep is kind of hard right now, because I'm stressed about stuff. I tutored Lauralean for a while tonight, that was okay I guess. A good review for me, not sure how much good it did her. Then I went to the jazz concert (which was pretty cool), and then I came back here and finished up a few things for my ( Read more... )

There's a lot that I have to do, especially since hopefully in two weeks I'll be home. I'm going to go through class by class, although this is more for me than anyone else.

Elementary School Music:
type up classroom observations
go over lesson plans
submit observations, lesson plans, evaluations
teach final lesson
European History
read WWI, WWII, post ( Read more... )

So I went to Alma this weekend (well, for less than 24 hours, but the idea is the same). I went with Miny, Joe, Angela, Ben, Joel, Joy, and Kelley to see the Kiltie Band marching show. It was awesome as always (and I played the cymbals with my hands for cadences, of course), although it was definitely really weird to be watching and not ( Read more... )

So I don't have tons of time before intro to argumentation, but that's okay. I got through most of my stuff so that I can talk coherently with my debate partner/opponent about what strategies we're both going to take. That's after my class, practicing like crazy, and my lesson. Unfortunately, I left my xylophone music in my room so I can't do that ( Read more... )