Updating things here...
School:
I had my Food Safety/Sanitation exam this past Saturday, and I've no doubt I aced the thing.
So far, I'm beating school down and stealing it's lunch money. I'm easily getting a 4.0 grade average in my classes, based on marks I've already received. I've joined the Dean's Recognition Program, which offers some extra credits and a recommendation by the Dean at the end of the year. I'm willing to bet I'm the top of my class in just about everything but Culinary Skills 1. I can't say for sure with that class as I'm too busy to check out what other people are doing, but if I'm not first, I'm second or third. On the first day of school, I set a personal goal of being in the top 5 for the class of 2010. We'll see how I am in April of '10, but I'm well on my way. Hell, if everything's hunky dory and done next friday, I'll even go to math class the day before the wedding to avoid breaking my perfect attendance record.
Wedding:
I've got sketches to finish for it, but I work best under pressure. Though, pressure has been at a minimum. Everything's gone so smoothly that we're not really stressing about it. We went and met our officiant Ken last week. Imagine if you will, a tallk, skinny horn-rimmed science teacher from the 1950s, and you've got the guy who's gonna marry us.
I'm currently compiling dinner music for our wedding. We've decided on mostly jazz from the 1920s to the 1950s. Of course, there'll be the big names like Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, the Ink Spots, Billie Holliday, Mel Torme, Thelonius Monk and a few minor modern exceptions like Harry Connick Jr. and Michael Bublé.
I've always had a soft spot for jazz. Especially anything by Ella.
The really geek thing, is that in this lineup of music, I've got the opening theme music for all three Fallout games. "Maybe" by the Ink Spots from Fallout, "A Kiss to Build a Dream On" by Louis Armstrong from Fallout II, and "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire" by the Ink Spots from Fallout III. Yeah, I'm that much of a geek.
Also geeky is that included is "Aquarela do Brazil". Not just because it's one of the only pieces of latin jazz that I like (save for "Girl from Ipanema"), I gained a love for it after watching Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" a dozen times or so.
I hereby state there shall be no Nat King Cole. Besides the fact that his talentless hack daughter has been stomping all over his memory by doing a "duet" with every song he's ever done, I've never found his stuff that special. He has always been a mediocre singer to me.
Random:
Why Marilyn Monroe didn't get more recognition for her singing ability, I'm not sure. She had such a pure, precise (yet not mechanical sounding) vibrato in her singing voice, and enough balls to really give it when a song needed it. Her voice just seemed so well suited for jazz. It's a shame her breathy singing of "Happy Birthday to You" is all most will know or remember of her voice.
I just realized that I think my soon-to-be father in law is the white reincarnation of Cab Calloway.
Hidey-hidey-hidey-hi.
I had my Food Safety/Sanitation exam this past Saturday, and I've no doubt I aced the thing.
So far, I'm beating school down and stealing it's lunch money. I'm easily getting a 4.0 grade average in my classes, based on marks I've already received. I've joined the Dean's Recognition Program, which offers some extra credits and a recommendation by the Dean at the end of the year. I'm willing to bet I'm the top of my class in just about everything but Culinary Skills 1. I can't say for sure with that class as I'm too busy to check out what other people are doing, but if I'm not first, I'm second or third. On the first day of school, I set a personal goal of being in the top 5 for the class of 2010. We'll see how I am in April of '10, but I'm well on my way. Hell, if everything's hunky dory and done next friday, I'll even go to math class the day before the wedding to avoid breaking my perfect attendance record.
Wedding:
I've got sketches to finish for it, but I work best under pressure. Though, pressure has been at a minimum. Everything's gone so smoothly that we're not really stressing about it. We went and met our officiant Ken last week. Imagine if you will, a tallk, skinny horn-rimmed science teacher from the 1950s, and you've got the guy who's gonna marry us.
I'm currently compiling dinner music for our wedding. We've decided on mostly jazz from the 1920s to the 1950s. Of course, there'll be the big names like Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, the Ink Spots, Billie Holliday, Mel Torme, Thelonius Monk and a few minor modern exceptions like Harry Connick Jr. and Michael Bublé.
I've always had a soft spot for jazz. Especially anything by Ella.
The really geek thing, is that in this lineup of music, I've got the opening theme music for all three Fallout games. "Maybe" by the Ink Spots from Fallout, "A Kiss to Build a Dream On" by Louis Armstrong from Fallout II, and "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire" by the Ink Spots from Fallout III. Yeah, I'm that much of a geek.
Also geeky is that included is "Aquarela do Brazil". Not just because it's one of the only pieces of latin jazz that I like (save for "Girl from Ipanema"), I gained a love for it after watching Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" a dozen times or so.
I hereby state there shall be no Nat King Cole. Besides the fact that his talentless hack daughter has been stomping all over his memory by doing a "duet" with every song he's ever done, I've never found his stuff that special. He has always been a mediocre singer to me.
Random:
Why Marilyn Monroe didn't get more recognition for her singing ability, I'm not sure. She had such a pure, precise (yet not mechanical sounding) vibrato in her singing voice, and enough balls to really give it when a song needed it. Her voice just seemed so well suited for jazz. It's a shame her breathy singing of "Happy Birthday to You" is all most will know or remember of her voice.
I just realized that I think my soon-to-be father in law is the white reincarnation of Cab Calloway.
Hidey-hidey-hidey-hi.