Moving on!
I'm inspired to scribble something down here after dredging the archives for a recipie I recorded here in 2003. It involves bacon, and I feel I really don't need to explain much more. (On a side note, I'd like to let everyone know that I don't believe in regular-cut bacon anymore, as the paper-thin nature is really freaking annoying. Thick cut for the win.)
Less than a week more of regular school, then break, then student teaching. I don't remember if I posted in here where I'm teaching - Middletown High and Centreville Elementary. You do half the semester at one and half at the other. Exciting, but also scary. I had my last voice lesson with Delores today, which was heart-breaking. I remember telling people in late High School that I was going to get a Music Ed degree because you can teach or perform with it, as opposed to a performance degree. Now I find myself wishing I had focused more on the performance aspect - going back to Frederick feels like a fish being taken out of a big pond and put into a smaller (albiet somewhat more comfortable) one. I'm gonna work on some coluratura arias on my own though, and possibly enter into a voice competition in the spring; if I want to get more serious about performing I need to start motivating myself to practice on my own without any kind of deadline to work towards. Hopefully I'll find time even with all the teaching stuff going on.
I'm sad that my Dinosaurs class is going to be over soon (SO awesome) but I'm ready to be done with English and Ed. There's been a lack of feedback in those classes that I'm probably not entirely blameless for. I still battle with guilt and perfectionism and all that nonsense on an almost daily basis; I am just trying to be thankful for what I do have and work through the obstacles placed before me.
Final Fantasy XII is a very good game. It harkens back to an earlier time, and it's nice to really enjoy the combat and strategy aspect of a game again. I don't remember feeling that way since probably 8 with the junction system. My only motivation for X was the cutscenes, and granted, the plot in that game was fantastic. XII seems to suffer from the opposite - the plot is good, I like the political nature of the story, but I really could stand for some more character development. That, by the way, does not neccesarily transfer to "love story" (even though Balthier totally needs to be hitting Ashe.) The likelihood of my chars reaching 99 is pretty high at this point though, and no, I won't be using that damn cheat to get there (*coughJsincough*.)
Went to Columbia Mall on Saturday with Mom and K-Dawg. We ate at the Cheesecake Factory there, which I HIGHLY reccomend. The menu was expansive, everything we sampled from it was very good, the atmosphere was gorgeous. It looked like something you might find in Orlando, in terms of over-the-top decoration (I don't mean that in a bad way). I got the bananna cream cheesecake; I swear, anytime I get a dessert with bananna in it, it's an instant 'gasm. Holy crap.
The mall itself was really fab too - it had FIVE anchor stores, which is unheard of. Be that as it may, it only really needed one store, and that store is New York and Co.. We spent about 2 hours in there, and Santa was done for me. Gotta get some teachin' clothes, ya know.
I'm hosting a little dinner party after Christmas for some of the old High School clique (ha!), I'm starting to think out what kind of deliciousness I'll be cooking up. I know I want a pork loin to be involved (that's true pretty much all of the time).
My Grandma and Grandpa moved from Damascus to Hanover, PA the other week. This was pretty devistating - their new place is really really nice and all, but Grandma's house is no longer Grandma's house - she had a really beautiful yard, and there was just a distinctive smell, and the wallpapers...sigh. I'm just glad I don't have to pack up as much stuff as they did when we move!
Did I mention we got an apartment in Frederick? *checks*
Yeah, lookin' like a no. We got an apartment in Frederick, in a development behind the new movie theatre on 85. I'm excited to move back, especially to see more of Matt and Terri and Justin and Jess, hopefully. Oh, and Syd. Let's not forget Syd.
Alright, I've rambled on long enough. Happy holidays everyone; may you have cookies and chocolate aplenty!
Less than a week more of regular school, then break, then student teaching. I don't remember if I posted in here where I'm teaching - Middletown High and Centreville Elementary. You do half the semester at one and half at the other. Exciting, but also scary. I had my last voice lesson with Delores today, which was heart-breaking. I remember telling people in late High School that I was going to get a Music Ed degree because you can teach or perform with it, as opposed to a performance degree. Now I find myself wishing I had focused more on the performance aspect - going back to Frederick feels like a fish being taken out of a big pond and put into a smaller (albiet somewhat more comfortable) one. I'm gonna work on some coluratura arias on my own though, and possibly enter into a voice competition in the spring; if I want to get more serious about performing I need to start motivating myself to practice on my own without any kind of deadline to work towards. Hopefully I'll find time even with all the teaching stuff going on.
I'm sad that my Dinosaurs class is going to be over soon (SO awesome) but I'm ready to be done with English and Ed. There's been a lack of feedback in those classes that I'm probably not entirely blameless for. I still battle with guilt and perfectionism and all that nonsense on an almost daily basis; I am just trying to be thankful for what I do have and work through the obstacles placed before me.
Final Fantasy XII is a very good game. It harkens back to an earlier time, and it's nice to really enjoy the combat and strategy aspect of a game again. I don't remember feeling that way since probably 8 with the junction system. My only motivation for X was the cutscenes, and granted, the plot in that game was fantastic. XII seems to suffer from the opposite - the plot is good, I like the political nature of the story, but I really could stand for some more character development. That, by the way, does not neccesarily transfer to "love story" (even though Balthier totally needs to be hitting Ashe.) The likelihood of my chars reaching 99 is pretty high at this point though, and no, I won't be using that damn cheat to get there (*coughJsincough*.)
Went to Columbia Mall on Saturday with Mom and K-Dawg. We ate at the Cheesecake Factory there, which I HIGHLY reccomend. The menu was expansive, everything we sampled from it was very good, the atmosphere was gorgeous. It looked like something you might find in Orlando, in terms of over-the-top decoration (I don't mean that in a bad way). I got the bananna cream cheesecake; I swear, anytime I get a dessert with bananna in it, it's an instant 'gasm. Holy crap.
The mall itself was really fab too - it had FIVE anchor stores, which is unheard of. Be that as it may, it only really needed one store, and that store is New York and Co.. We spent about 2 hours in there, and Santa was done for me. Gotta get some teachin' clothes, ya know.
I'm hosting a little dinner party after Christmas for some of the old High School clique (ha!), I'm starting to think out what kind of deliciousness I'll be cooking up. I know I want a pork loin to be involved (that's true pretty much all of the time).
My Grandma and Grandpa moved from Damascus to Hanover, PA the other week. This was pretty devistating - their new place is really really nice and all, but Grandma's house is no longer Grandma's house - she had a really beautiful yard, and there was just a distinctive smell, and the wallpapers...sigh. I'm just glad I don't have to pack up as much stuff as they did when we move!
Did I mention we got an apartment in Frederick? *checks*
Yeah, lookin' like a no. We got an apartment in Frederick, in a development behind the new movie theatre on 85. I'm excited to move back, especially to see more of Matt and Terri and Justin and Jess, hopefully. Oh, and Syd. Let's not forget Syd.
Alright, I've rambled on long enough. Happy holidays everyone; may you have cookies and chocolate aplenty!