You are viewing ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.2){kind=small}
evybear's journal
You are viewing evybear's journal
All Things Evy |
 |
| About this Journal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| May. 17th, 2007 @ 04:58 pm Update on life | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Current Mood:
Good news! I don't have appendicitis. sickNot so good news! They're not entirely sure what's wrong with me. It's some mystery virus/infection. |
| ||
| Apr. 5th, 2007 @ 10:43 am Not that I really ever update... | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Current Mood:
...but I'm going to be disappearing for the next month. I should return sometime around May 9th, hopefully...maybe later. Until that time I will be: overwhelmed-Finishing my SIP. This involves trying to gather information on composers who are generally not performed/heard of, perfecting music, writing a script for an instructional DVD, running it by various people, filming, editing, and...showing? Not sure on that last part. -Comps. All I have to say on that is that this should have been given to me (and the other music majors) last quarter. We have to take at least one movement or a substantial excerpt from two different pieces of music, and then analyze in terms of history and theory. We then have to write a paper about each piece. A week later we have to defend it in terms of being a performer, composer, scholar, or educator. -Figure out a 45 minute presentation with some form of a lesson plan. -Prepare for/participate in the performance of the Bach B Minor Mass -Find an apartment to live in, and maybe get down to Cincinnati to look at it...? Anyway. There's the update on my life. Wish me luck in getting everything done while staying sane at the same time. It'll be fun times. |
| ||
| Mar. 8th, 2007 @ 04:54 am (no subject) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Well, I don't know how stunning my presentations will be, or if my classmates and professor will like them, but I do believe that I will have them done in time...here's hoping. For now, I think it's time for a break to make myself some food before my stomach eats itself. Then back to presentations, then getting ready, class, finishing up the handout for my other presentation, practicing for a bit, piano lesson, other class, getting Sam from the airport, and coming back here to sleep forever and a day. But y'know what? Today is my last day of class until the 26th. I am excited. I am also very hungry...I'm going to go work on that. Coffee and muffins. Here's hoping the muffins keep the coffee from killing me. |
| ||
| Mar. 5th, 2007 @ 07:46 pm Thoughts, Canadians, and.....squirrels? | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| I am oddly calm right now. I know that being calm shouldn't be 'odd', but it is in this case. See, I have a 10-15 minute Spanish presentation to give in a little over 12 hours, and I am no where close to being ready. Is this cause for concern? It should be...but it's really not. I started to panic earlier, and now I'm..well..fine. I'm not concerned. I don't know that I'll be sleeping a whole lot for the next few days (I have another presentation to give on Thursday), but I'm not worried. It's very puzzling. Life is odd right now. I'm still trying to work out next quarter. I need to meet with the woman who teaches the documentary classes and see if she knows of any students who would be able to help me with that part of my SIP. I need to find this out before I can register for an independent study. Maybe everything will fall in place? I suppose we'll see. Sam comes home in a few days, and I'm excited. I forgot how much I hate not having people around to keep me distracted. Not so distracted that I don't get anything done, but distracted in a healthy way so that I don't dwell on all of the stressful aspects of school, future and so on. I was told that I looked Canadian the other day. Do Canadians really have a look? I didn't think that they did. That thought brought me to the conclusion that several of the English-speaking countries (United States, Canada, England) don't really have a particular "look". But maybe that's just me. Do I look Canadian? What do YOU think makes one look "Canadian"? Caffeine is starting to kick in. Music is keeping me energetic and calm (the two go together, I promise). Time for work. But! I'll end with a happy/entertaining story: While I was sitting on the couch in my living room this morning working on my presentation, I suddenly noticed something hanging from the gutter outside of the window that was right next to me. I look over to see the face of a squirrel peeking over the edge, just staring at me and the cats. The cats immediately ran over to the window to stare at the squirrel (they're fascinated by them). The squirrel immediately started chattering at them, causing them to be confused. They spent five minutes just staring at the squirrel, and then looking back at me as if I had some sort of explanation for the behaviour. The squirrel would then disappear (still chattering away), and reappear a few feet away, hanging upside down from the gutter. This went on for a good hour, and put a smile on my face. The kittens then proceeded to cry for me to bring the squirrel back. Sadly, I could not help them with that matter. |
| ||
| Mar. 1st, 2007 @ 05:06 pm Update on life | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Things have certainly been interesting, as well as busy. However, Dr. Tung has decided that my SIP needs a little more to it. What might this little something be? I DVD documentary discussing pedagogy, technique, and the importance of adding this type of music into the intermediate repetoire of piano students. It's a GREAT idea, but... He told me that I more than likely have to choose between the DVD and my recital. I want to have a recital. Can we maybe NOT switch my SIP when I finally feel like I have everything figured out in terms of what I'm doing? However, I think I have a way to do both, and get out of taking a third class that I was not particularly excited about. I will take my senior seminar, I will take instrumental methods...and I will do an independent study for the documentary. This is not set in stone, but it's what I'm aiming for. Let's see if we can make this happen. |
| ||
| Aug. 21st, 2006 @ 02:01 am (no subject) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Current Location: my bed
The plan was to sleep...but my stomach is in such pain that I am unable to, and I don't want to wake anyone up. Well...I do, but I don't. People deserve to sleep, even if I can't. I just hope that my stomach decides to be nice to me again and stop it with the sharp stabbing pains accompanied by me wanting to curl up and die, except then they get worse and I just sort of whimper a little. It's sad. I'm not sure what the problem is, really - I actually made myself a decent meal today. Maybe I shouldn't ever trust chicken from Harding's ever again. It's not that it's old, I froze it as soon as I got back from the store, and it should last for a while once it's been frozen....and yet here I am, hoping that my stomach will stop trying to kill me sometime soon.Current Mood:  sleepyTheme Music: A symphony of crickets, featuring the sounds of Ronnie ( On a more entertaining note... ) ... And that's all of my random creativity for the night. It really is time for me to attempt the sleep thing. |
| ||
| Jun. 3rd, 2006 @ 09:55 pm (no subject) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| I get an extension on my paper, and I still find myself in a time-crunch. I need 7 more pages (at least), and I have no clue what to write about. I feel like anything I do write is either going to be summarizing information from my sources (which she doesn't want), or complete and utter BS (which I'm sure she probably doesn't want). So....this will be interesting. I need to get it done by Monday at 5:00. I'd prefer to have it done before Monday, because my mom has to work Monday night and I'd like to spend my birthday with her for at least SOME of it. And my family isn't very helpful when it comes to me needing to study. They have a habit of distracting me. Hmm...what to do. I'd stay up for most of tonight, but I think some people would kill me. Not to mention the fact that I need to be awake enough to drive home, which involves being awake and coherent. I guss we'll see... |
| ||
| May. 10th, 2006 @ 10:45 pm (no subject) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Man. I hate when people destroy my aspirin! Okay, sleep time. Goodnight, everyone! Goodnight from me and my furry little friend. |
| ||
| May. 10th, 2006 @ 09:04 pm (no subject) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Theme Music: Scoot, scuffle, scratch, waddle - Ronnie the Raccoon
My animal friend, sometimes known as Ronnie the Raccoon, has been very content living in my ceiling lately. I'm getting kind of used to it being up there, listening to it as it scratches an itch or settles down to go to sleep...but when it walks around in the ceiling, it still scares the crap out of me because it seriously sounds like there's a person in my ceiling. Sam can back me up on this one - Ronnie the Raccoon needs to go on a serious diet. And by diet, I don't mean have lots of little raccoon babies or anything like that, because...I don't want a family in my ceiling. I've just come to accept little (fat) Ronnie.Anyway, I just felt like giving you all an update on my furry little friend who I have never seen and don't even know if it really is a raccoon. It could be a ginormous squirrel. Or maybe a possum. Or maybe a hippo. You never really know. One of these days Ronnie will introduce himself...herself?...to me. Or maybe I should remind my landlord that there's an animal living in my ceiling. Hmm. |
| ||
| Mar. 16th, 2006 @ 06:19 pm (no subject) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Someone should buy this for me. Why? Because you love me, of course. :D |
| ||
