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I managed to set the kitchen on fire today. Well, six square inches of it. I was cooking potstickers and I think I got some cooking spray on the burner by accident. This little flame popped up. I lifted up the pan but I didn't have a place to set it down so my hands were tied (that thing's heavy!), so I yelled "HELP MOM HELP OMG FIRE" and she wielded the mini-extinguisher.
I decided to finish the potstickers by boiling them. Hehe. *sheepish grin*
I've been working hard on apps all this week, to the near-exclusion of homework. Focusing this hard is actually kind of exciting, and it's been very productive. I brought my Stanford app from "not started" to "nearly finished" in record time, and I got a bunch of reusable essays out of the effort as well. Goodbye, Yale and Harvard supplement essays!
My conlang-sample-of-work is finished and ready to send out as well, pending conversion from doc to pdf, and pending me figuring out what the hell each college wants me to put at the top of each page. (This varies: some want an ID number they assign, some want your school name, some want your date of birth...it's kind of crazy.)
Props to Doug for giving me a super helpful initial review, and a pointer to a very...professional set of glossing instructions; johnqpublik for testing my puzzle sentences, and the fine folks on Zompist for helping me work out some technical issues.
The final Word doc is actually very shiny and professional-looking, though I say it myself; it's weird and intimidating to think that it started out as disorganized scribbles on a notepad in a sandwich shop in St. Louis.
Tomorrow at lunch, the chorus has to sing a short concert at Filoli. (Basically a whole bunch of people pay to get in and shop for low-priced fancy schmancy Christmas decorations and that sort of thing. We're halfway between prominent performers and background music.) The problem is, (1) we have 20ish sopranos, 10ish altos, 5 tenors, and 5 basses, so hello, ridiculously unbalanced sound; (2) few of the guys have focus, or technical skill, or the confidence to sing loudly; (3) a lot of us really don't know our parts and just collapse to singing the melody.
In general, this is honestly the worst the chorus has been in my four years (I can attest as a witness) and in many years before that (I hear from Mrs. Jordan). Gah! What was that about a "select" "mixed" chorus? Cause all I hear is a nonselect girls' chorus. (OK, that was exaggeration.)
I think we're actually going to be fine for the Filoli shindig, though. Nothing sounded egregiously bad in class today, and the one big problem I noticed, I have a quick fix for. No big deal.
On an unrelated bright side, I'm pretty sure I'm going to get an ipod or similar for Christmas. Woo!
I decided to finish the potstickers by boiling them. Hehe. *sheepish grin*
I've been working hard on apps all this week, to the near-exclusion of homework. Focusing this hard is actually kind of exciting, and it's been very productive. I brought my Stanford app from "not started" to "nearly finished" in record time, and I got a bunch of reusable essays out of the effort as well. Goodbye, Yale and Harvard supplement essays!
My conlang-sample-of-work is finished and ready to send out as well, pending conversion from doc to pdf, and pending me figuring out what the hell each college wants me to put at the top of each page. (This varies: some want an ID number they assign, some want your school name, some want your date of birth...it's kind of crazy.)
Props to Doug for giving me a super helpful initial review, and a pointer to a very...professional set of glossing instructions; johnqpublik for testing my puzzle sentences, and the fine folks on Zompist for helping me work out some technical issues.
The final Word doc is actually very shiny and professional-looking, though I say it myself; it's weird and intimidating to think that it started out as disorganized scribbles on a notepad in a sandwich shop in St. Louis.
Tomorrow at lunch, the chorus has to sing a short concert at Filoli. (Basically a whole bunch of people pay to get in and shop for low-priced fancy schmancy Christmas decorations and that sort of thing. We're halfway between prominent performers and background music.) The problem is, (1) we have 20ish sopranos, 10ish altos, 5 tenors, and 5 basses, so hello, ridiculously unbalanced sound; (2) few of the guys have focus, or technical skill, or the confidence to sing loudly; (3) a lot of us really don't know our parts and just collapse to singing the melody.
In general, this is honestly the worst the chorus has been in my four years (I can attest as a witness) and in many years before that (I hear from Mrs. Jordan). Gah! What was that about a "select" "mixed" chorus? Cause all I hear is a nonselect girls' chorus. (OK, that was exaggeration.)
I think we're actually going to be fine for the Filoli shindig, though. Nothing sounded egregiously bad in class today, and the one big problem I noticed, I have a quick fix for. No big deal.
On an unrelated bright side, I'm pretty sure I'm going to get an ipod or similar for Christmas. Woo!