Did I brag about my MA thesis yet? I got a 9. Which is as high as I could've expected. 9,5 is extremely rare and 10 probably non-existent. We're talking Nobel prize winning territory for a 10.

So that was fun.

Otherwise I've just been busy getting my feet into shape. I have bad ankles that have always bothered me a little but after I tore up my ( Read more... )

I contacted a teacher about possibly starting doctoral studies next fall at the University of Iceland. Have an idea for a thesis and everything. But it's going to be more difficult than I thought. Apparently there aren't any teachers qualified to supervise my thesis. That or this teacher is trying to discourage me from applying. In any case; a ( Read more... )

There's only three of us here currently: me, some guy and the cleaning lady. The guy is a lecturer or professor or something - of something. I haven't bothered to find out. Ranks at least high enough to have his own office. She keeps stopping him when he makes a trip to the kitchen to tell him about different cultures and her views of said cultures ( Read more... )

I'm at school - trying to work up enthusiasm for my thesis. Might help if I actually did anything :þ

I horribly apathetic about everything right now. So I'm prescribing forced cheerfulness on myself. Fake it 'til you make it. I think I'm alone on the floor so I can crank up the music.

Also this suddenly feels like a necessary use of my time:


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Busy day yesterday. We cleaned all of our stuff out of the theater completely - costumes, set etc - and hired a van and moved the lot to our HQ. Some of it was mine and stuff I'd stolen from the office so I was shutting back and forth getting every piece into its rightful place. I then gave the car a long overdue once over and even took the extra ( Read more... )

The play is finally under way. We have a cast and rehearsals begin tomorrow. It's going to be an interesting process to say the least. The biggest hurdle I think is going to be the organizing. Three directors with a cast of 13 (although one of the directors is in the cast as well) means 15 people who's time we have to manage effectively. More if ( Read more... )

I did absolutely nothing yesterday. When I got home from piano class I dawdled in front of the computer for a while and then crawled into bed and read under the warm covers while a storm raged outside all evening long ( Read more... )

Got an email from my teacher:

Dear Ásta

Your grade in Rhythm and Sight-singing is 6,25

Greetings

[Name of teacher]Yeah. Greetings to you too. $500 down the drain ( Read more... )

Hmm... maybe I tend to blow things out of proportion.

My big singing test was two days ago and for all my fretting over anxiety and beta blockers I ended up not taking them and sailing through the test. Well not sail exactly - but paddle comfortably. I made a couple of mistakes but what little nervousness I did experience didn't affect my voice. ( Read more... )

I miss my game. I hope fangor is putting it to good use. I have several of hers but I haven't tried them out yet and so the enthusiasm is there. Yet ( Read more... )