I am now done with college (minus student teaching, which will go next semester from January 18th-April 30th). I will never have to take another final exam, play another student recital, play another jury, sit through another boring class, sit through another interesting class, write another research paper ( Read more... )

Well, I finally conquered The Paper. I don't know if it's my best work ever, but I had my mom proofread it for me and she assures me that it makes sense as a whole. Possibly I shouldn't believe her, since she probably has no idea what I'm talking about (Luciano Berio and contemporary music), but I can't handle the idea of rewriting anything right ( Read more... )

I would just like to say that I hate writing research papers. I'm a slow paper-writer at the best of times, but when you add to it the fact that I despise doing research, it isn't a pretty combination. Odd that I hate research, since I love libraries and reading, but there you have it. This particular torment is a paper on Luciano Berio, ( Read more... )

I really like tea. Coffee is good if it has lots of extra sugar and flavors in it (and whipped cream...mmm), and if my friend buys it for me with the extra money on her meal plan (yes, I am a shameless moocher). But tea, tea is really good. If I'm really tired in the morning, it has just enough caffeine to get me going. It's great when I'm not ( Read more... )

So, this Christmas probably wins as being the crummiest Christmas I've ever spent. I mean, yeah, I suppose it could have been worse. But so far, this one takes the cake.

On Monday, we left the house around 4:30 for the Christmas Eve service at church, for which I was going to be doing some special music on my flute. Right about that time, I started ( Read more... )

This is the first evening I've been at home in a week.  We only had a matinee for the Wizard of Oz today, so I went to dinner with my parents afterwards and then came home and watched JAG (and ate cheesecake... yummmm).  I just finished writing my short story reaction for EDF.  It may be complete baloney--I ended up talking about the story in terms ( Read more... )

 This is amazing... I got my paper for EDF done in just about 2 hours, without dragging it out all evening. Granted, I missed the community band concert I wanted to go to to do so, but hey, at least the important work is done.  Yay!  I even managed to write about something semi-relevant to the story in a fairly coherent way.  I related the short ( Read more... )

I'm really tired.  So I don't know why I'm posting on here.  But I am, so whatever.

I'm taking a world music class right now, and my group is doing a research project about Greece.  We each have to do a paper about an instrument from that culture, as well as build an instrument.  (It doesn't have to play, but it does have to be a good visual ( Read more... )

 I have a lot of things I could be doing tonight.  I have a lot of things I should be doing tonight.  But instead I am stuck here at the computer, writing a paper about the Ku Klux Klan that is due tomorrow in my history class.  I've had about 3 weeks to read the assigned book and write the paper, but no, I had to read the remaining two-thirds of ( Read more... )

 Hmm... I was just looking at the list of possibilites to set my mood on this entry, and I came upon this one: "examinate".  Now, word lover that I am, I have never heard this word, and I'm rather curious ast to what it is.  I think I shall go look it up.
Ok, according to dictionary.com...

ex·an·i·mate
1.inanimate or lifeless. 2.spiritless; ( Read more... )