the "birthday girl..."
this first week of school's been bizarre...
i already know i'm not gonna enjoy this schedule... from 9-7 straight on mondays, without a single break... i literally have to grab lunch inbetween two classes in the ten-minute padder, and be late to the next class... having a class after choir also means that i don't get to have that hour lunchtime with friends... really frustrating...
adventist history with mcgraw; should be interesting, since i enjoy his sarcasm and wittiness... music history; ended up getting a really bad review on my term paper... dr davis even said that my introduction and conclusion were weak, and asked how much of the analysis i did for myself... oops? i cantori should be fine, even though josh isn't in it anymore... ESL teaching methodology: dr rankin-brown's definitely interesting... comp tech; the bane of my existence this quarter... good thing caitlyn's in the class with me, b/c we keep each other entertained...
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tuesday night, i went to a free concert they held in the church... jason gray and downhere... i definitely needed that experience, considering i was already down about being back at PUC (there's always that awkward transition from vacation to school, where i don't wanna be in school)... caught up with sarah fuchs, who complimented me on the weight loss, and talked about student teaching... ended up sitting with corzie and caitlyn... had some pretty awesome pre-concert discussions with them... discussed the idea of suicide with caitlyn, and the idea of changing social situations after college with corzie...
jason gray was really chill and acoustic... my type of music, currently... it's amazing, b/c he has a stuttering problem, but he works through it to do what he loves... it really sucked once, b/c when he had a particularly bad stuttering spell, irene broke out in laughter, which was just flat out rude... he shared with us a ministry he supports, WorldVision, and watching the video inspired me to sponsor a kid...
went to the back during the break, and was torn between sponsoring a girl that shared my birthday with me, or the happy boy from south america... i opted to sponsor the "birthday girl..." cory ended up sponsoring "happy boy," so it was all good... so now i have a "child" in india named pooja... good to know that $30 i could be spending on DVD's is going to a better cause... her and her family will be able to have a decent meal each month, now...
went back for downhere's portion... definitely brought excitement in the church... overall, a good, feelgood concert... definitely an uplifting experience...
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today, i had a confrontation with keller... turns out i cantori scheduled their long tour the same weekend as the wind ensemble concert... the decision was obvious to me... he ran into me, and i asked him when raboy was gonna come, b/c i needed to talk to him... he immediately assumed that i had a conflict, and i told him i couldn't make either the tour or the concert, and he got pissed... he then told me that there was no way i was going to go on the tour, and that him and rasmussen already decided that all the people in both (the whole TWO of us) were going to stay for the wind ensemble concert... what doesn't make sense to me, is to force me to stay for the concert, when i'm in BOTH i cantori and handbells... two groups vs one... doesn't make sense...
i was fuming, so i turned my back on him and walked away... i waited until dr wheeler got back to his office, and went to talk to him... as i started to vent, tears started to flow down my face b/c i was so frustrated... i am no longer a human to this department, it seems... where was MY input in this decision? this is my life, i can make my own choices... i told wheeler that this was utterly ridiculous that i didn't have a say in the matter, and that this was my education, and i could do what i wanted to do, as long as i got the requirements done... i was doing wind ensemble as a favor, b/c i was practically coerced into doing it... what makes me more frustrated is that rasmussen probably didn't even fight for me, if keller were able to win that argument...
he ended up agreeing with what i had to say, and tried to see if i would just go to wind ensemble to play with them, so they could hear what the bass line would sound like, but told me that i was going to go on the tour if i wanted, and that they were just going to have to hire a bassoonist... he also reassured me that a multi-instrumental recital was possible for me, and that i didn't need to accumulate 11 credits in the same major... thank goodness dr wheeler's still around...
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so i'm playing for colloquy with jaylene and justin... should go well...
i already know i'm not gonna enjoy this schedule... from 9-7 straight on mondays, without a single break... i literally have to grab lunch inbetween two classes in the ten-minute padder, and be late to the next class... having a class after choir also means that i don't get to have that hour lunchtime with friends... really frustrating...
adventist history with mcgraw; should be interesting, since i enjoy his sarcasm and wittiness... music history; ended up getting a really bad review on my term paper... dr davis even said that my introduction and conclusion were weak, and asked how much of the analysis i did for myself... oops? i cantori should be fine, even though josh isn't in it anymore... ESL teaching methodology: dr rankin-brown's definitely interesting... comp tech; the bane of my existence this quarter... good thing caitlyn's in the class with me, b/c we keep each other entertained...
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tuesday night, i went to a free concert they held in the church... jason gray and downhere... i definitely needed that experience, considering i was already down about being back at PUC (there's always that awkward transition from vacation to school, where i don't wanna be in school)... caught up with sarah fuchs, who complimented me on the weight loss, and talked about student teaching... ended up sitting with corzie and caitlyn... had some pretty awesome pre-concert discussions with them... discussed the idea of suicide with caitlyn, and the idea of changing social situations after college with corzie...
jason gray was really chill and acoustic... my type of music, currently... it's amazing, b/c he has a stuttering problem, but he works through it to do what he loves... it really sucked once, b/c when he had a particularly bad stuttering spell, irene broke out in laughter, which was just flat out rude... he shared with us a ministry he supports, WorldVision, and watching the video inspired me to sponsor a kid...
went to the back during the break, and was torn between sponsoring a girl that shared my birthday with me, or the happy boy from south america... i opted to sponsor the "birthday girl..." cory ended up sponsoring "happy boy," so it was all good... so now i have a "child" in india named pooja... good to know that $30 i could be spending on DVD's is going to a better cause... her and her family will be able to have a decent meal each month, now...
went back for downhere's portion... definitely brought excitement in the church... overall, a good, feelgood concert... definitely an uplifting experience...
- - - - - - -
today, i had a confrontation with keller... turns out i cantori scheduled their long tour the same weekend as the wind ensemble concert... the decision was obvious to me... he ran into me, and i asked him when raboy was gonna come, b/c i needed to talk to him... he immediately assumed that i had a conflict, and i told him i couldn't make either the tour or the concert, and he got pissed... he then told me that there was no way i was going to go on the tour, and that him and rasmussen already decided that all the people in both (the whole TWO of us) were going to stay for the wind ensemble concert... what doesn't make sense to me, is to force me to stay for the concert, when i'm in BOTH i cantori and handbells... two groups vs one... doesn't make sense...
i was fuming, so i turned my back on him and walked away... i waited until dr wheeler got back to his office, and went to talk to him... as i started to vent, tears started to flow down my face b/c i was so frustrated... i am no longer a human to this department, it seems... where was MY input in this decision? this is my life, i can make my own choices... i told wheeler that this was utterly ridiculous that i didn't have a say in the matter, and that this was my education, and i could do what i wanted to do, as long as i got the requirements done... i was doing wind ensemble as a favor, b/c i was practically coerced into doing it... what makes me more frustrated is that rasmussen probably didn't even fight for me, if keller were able to win that argument...
he ended up agreeing with what i had to say, and tried to see if i would just go to wind ensemble to play with them, so they could hear what the bass line would sound like, but told me that i was going to go on the tour if i wanted, and that they were just going to have to hire a bassoonist... he also reassured me that a multi-instrumental recital was possible for me, and that i didn't need to accumulate 11 credits in the same major... thank goodness dr wheeler's still around...
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so i'm playing for colloquy with jaylene and justin... should go well...