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Thursday, December 13, 2007

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:36:09 GMT

Going home tomorrow!
My piano final is at 11:00 tomorrow then I may hit the gym. My last thing is Saturday afternoon, so I still have to study when I go home, but at least I'll get some good meals in between! Thinking I might work Friday, but I'm not sure yet, I'll need to call tomorrow to see if they'll need me.
*Sigh* I have accounting on Saturday, but at least it's a presentation. It's a group presentation, but at least so far my group works, so it should be fine.
It crossed my mind today that I could go for a Political Science minor, but after thinking about it for a little bit, I realized that it would make me too busy with everything else. We're doing Oklahoma in February, and I'm in the pit orchestra for that, and I want to try and get in plays here, so I realized that adding another class would be too much. I can always take classes when I graduate if I so desire, and it's harder to get into plays. But that would have been cool; get a degree in Music Business and a BA in music with a Political Science minor, but alas!
I had to read this book for Political Science, and it's very eye-open. It made me appalled at a lot of things. Yes, but I suggest reading it. It's very intriguing.

Saturday, December 01, 2007

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 03:09:23 GMT

Weird, I have free time. I'm so used to always having something on my mind that I'm kind of at a loss. The gym is closed, so I can't go there...maybe I'll go for a jog and then call it a day. Tomorrow I plan on studying and getting ready for finals.
I just bought this CD more or less for the first song (the CD title). How I love Louis Armstrong. Also I got a Harry Connick, Jr. Christmas album. I realized that I didn't have any Christmas music of my own, so I decided to fix that.
It's weird that I'm soon done with the semester. After that I head to see my siblings in Wyoming for a week. Ah joy! They were just down, but because of school, I didn't get to see them that much. Sad.
Ugh papers; I'm plugging one out a week it feels like. I have one to get done for next week too, I just remembered. It's a persuasive paper, but the teacher said that it could be fun. Not sure what I'm actually going to do, but I'm thinking about saying that every kid should learn the violin or something musical like that. Maybe it should be that everybody should memorize the dictionary.
I think that I wrote over 100 pages for school this semester, and starting next year I need to take a couple writing process courses. Fun, fun. Then if you count all the emails that I wrote and things like that, it's quite a bit more.

Alrighty then, I should go. I spent enough time on here for today.
To those who actually still read this, take care.

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:52:43 GMT

I love school. I love learning new things. I just have to keep working at it, and that's the hard part.
I didn't do as well on my midterms with two of my classes as I would have liked. I froze on the one, but I think I'll be okay now. I have straight A's so far with all my music classes, I wish I could say that with all of them. Yes, it's my non-music classes that I have to be careful with. I have two 5-page papers due Monday with the two that I'm not doing the best on, and I know that these points are critical for me (at least, if I want to get a B+ in the subjects). At least I have something to work towards.
Today was my first day back from fall break. It was so relaxing, I must say. Did some homework, spent time with Jared, worked and spent time with a very good friend of mine. Oh so nice! Can't believe that I'm halfway through, though. Wow, and soon it's November and that when my siblings are coming home for a couple weeks then!!
I'm working on a poem when I have the time, didn't get too far with it. Here's the start:

The moment took me with large embraces
These words were told me: "Do not leave traces."
So I walked then ran up to the old house
My tracks were like sand, my way to a louse,
My thoughts were so cold, so hard like ice
My technique so old, used it I thrice.
And my words, like love, held all my secrets
Desires from above were my trinkets.

Those are the completed rhymes that I have so far. Not exactly sure where I'm going with it, but that's really how I do all my poems, and I like the meanings that I'm able to find in them. I'm afraid that my rhyming style is getting the same. I'll need to work at that.

Saturday, October 06, 2007

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 03:09:45 GMT

Papers, papers, papers. ow many do I need to write?
Oh well, things are still going good. I just need to study harder for tests.
I need to really watch what I eat and how much of it too, lest I get fat. Oh freshman pounds are certainly coming on. GRRRR!!!! Since I really study and eat, eat and study, what does one expect?
I'm getting to the gym some mornings, they have a class I'm doing it so that I can feel active somewhat. It starts at 5:50 Mon., Wed., and Fri., so my roommate and are starting to go.
Cypress String Quartet is going to be here next week! Oh joy, I even get to have a lesson with one of them! Also they're giving a masters class when they're here, and the piano trio that I'm in is planning of playing in it. Hopefully, we really only had one rehearsal together and were going to have one today, but the pianist didn't show. That's the third time since we started, so I don't know what we're going to do.

Anyways, I must turn in for bed I need to work this morning at 8 and when I get back to my dorm, I need to study. Manheim farm show is next week, and I'm hoping to get back one day to go there.

Friday, September 14, 2007

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:16:21 GMT

I decided to update, though I really don't have the time. College is fun so far, though last night would tell different. I stayed up till 2:45 trying to figure out a problem with my financial accounting, and it wasn't coming out right. I spent almost 3 hours just on that problem, and then I quickly had to do others. I hope the teacher doesn't ask for it today. I have two hours before that class so I'm going to try, once more, to get it right. Hopefully this time I'll get it even though I'm still not awake.
Orchestra is great. Need a few more violinist, but we'll make due. Playing Copland's "Appalachian Spring", Sibilius' "Symphony No. 2" and a waltz by Strauss, in which the Strauss I'm principal 2nd violinist.
My violin teacher is really pushing me, a lot of technique. He said that I'm close to being able to do something spectacular. With that, it really gives incentive to practice.
I'm in a trio with a cello and a pianist, and we're doing a piece by Haydn.

Orchestra concert is Nov. 11 @ 3:00 for those who are interested.

*Edit* I just had Financial Accounting class. We went over the homework that I was having trouble with (and the rest of the class), and I found that I did everything wrong and just made it hard on myself. Rats, I lost a doller and that was the cost of Soda bought to help me stay up.

Thursday, August 16, 2007

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:11:57 GMT

Next Saturday I need to move in my dorm. It will be weird to get away from everything that I have been with for years. It will be weird to hardly be at work since I'm there all the time now, and then I won't see some good friends of mine. I guess there's the phone, and I'm not that far away so I can always come back if I need to.

When Jared came back he brought this C. S. Lewis book with him. I find it really good, but I have one more chapter to read. It's a really quick read, so it doesn't take too much time and you actually feel like you're getting somewhere. In other words, I'm saying that it's not like reading War and Peace.

I ordered a laptop from Apple yesterday, it's a Macbook. I can't wait till it comes, even though it kind of wiped me out of my free money. Not that any of my money is free anymore since I'm going to college, but you know what I mean.

Thursday, August 09, 2007

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 00:01:06 GMT

Time. World, life, time. Grief, pain, time. Summer, winter, time. It's sad to think that it's still going, going to a time that I had not imagined, a place that I had not dreamed of.
Did I squander it all away? Did I hold back in hope for other things? What would have happened, what could have happened? It is not for me to know, and time will tell my results.

I read Last days of Socrates and the one part was supposed to make me believe in an afterlife, but from his argument it didn't comvince me. Thankfully I have another reason to believe in the afterlife.

Jared's back. That's nice, but it will be different. I have to go and help brong groceries inside. Ah, family traditions...

Monday, July 02, 2007

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 22:52:47 GMT

I'm getting called a work-a-hallic by different people now. I guess it's a way to pass the time, and I don't think that it's bad for me to be like this now, I mean, I don't have a family to take care of or anyone really to see.

When my hairspray comes out, it seems more like glue. I guess that's what you get when it's sits around I don't know how long (seriously, I don't).

What do you guys think of my header? I like it (otherwise I wouldn't have put it up) since you can make it a lot deeper than what it sounds at first, and I love that.

I'm thinking about many things right now, I'm confused, but I like that. Still, what I'm confused most about is doctrinal questions, and it's the things that many arguments are over, so I don't feel too bad. Still... just how far does predestination go? Yes, I believe in it, but before I was saying that everything was planned, down to the hairs on your head, really. But I might be changing that standing once I think about it more, I don't know. Back to the bible and prayer and my brain of critical and logical thinking!

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:32:14 GMT

Last Sunday we dropped Jared off at Harvard, the place we're his film camp is. Right now I'm not feeling to much his absence, but I have been keeping busy. Probably when I get bored with everything I'll start to notice.

I'm trying to improve my mind with more important things. Since I'm really not working as much as I hoped to, I decided I better do better things with my time. I'm hoping that when I finish The Last Days of Socrates, I'll start on a David Humes book, or something more about atheism.

I'm not sure why, but rereading Narnia (actually I'm listening to the books on tape) can start to choke me up, I guess it's C. S. Lewis' way of writing and his observations that he puts into the characters that makes it more real.

Friday, June 15, 2007

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:41:51 GMT

As depression sets in,
The slowness of time begins.

That is the start of a song that I wrote years ago. And it's beginning to become true. It's starting to sink in that Jared is going to be gone for a while and next week is the last week. Six weeks. Wow, that's going to be a long time.

I'm trying to expand my reading horizons, and I find that I can actually enjoy a booklet like this. I have found this rather well written and clearing up the doubts and questions that I had. I am now reading a book that I got for graduation called The Man God Uses. It has some good points, but I kind of find his logic isn't flowing as well and, at least to me, gets kind of contradictory when he unintentionally gets into predestination and how men are brought to faith. Also, I see that it was no accident that made me read The Reformed Faith right before this, even though I just started.

I got the poem I wrote for my lit class published. I entered it in this international competition and 200 were picked to have their poem in. I'm happy, but since they do this a lot, I'm not overjoyed...at least now. What did make me happy was that my poem is the first poem in the book. That pleased me a lot.

Oh yes, for those who don't know, my birthday was last Sunday (the 10th) so I'm 18 now.