The accordian. Why???

Ok, so I'm sitting in U.Brew, again, (I'm here every tuesday and thursday, because I have most of my mornings free then...) and there is a guy on stage with an accordian. He wrote his own music. Now, as much as I enjoy original music, this is definitely not high on my favorites list. Oh dear. He's just attached a harmonica around his neck. His next song is about skeletons. He sings too, but you can barely hear him over the accordian. Scary. Why am I still sitting here? I guess because I have other things to do while I'm here. I'm just going to try to block him out now.

U.Brew

Here I sit in U.Brew with Chris. We've both got our laptops, and he is of course checking out tech sites for news. I'm planning to meet with my friend, Jenny James, in a few minutes to go over plans for a new bible study that I'm planning to start, and also to have lunch. I'm looking forward to it, really. Partly to hack out the plans for this bible study, which I'm really looking forward to doing, and partly just because Jenny is fun to hang out with. :) Well, that's about all the time I want to spend on updates today. Hopefully sometime soon I'll be e-mailing people.

Ode to my friends. (The Group).

So much potential, so much variety,
Wrought in different people.
All friends, all feed off each other,
But each unique to a fault.

While others discuss fashion, they discuss philosophy.
While others are picked up for DUI’s, they kick back pixy sticks.
While others fight to blend into the cool crowd, they choose to remain unique.
While others avoid “useless” knowledge at all costs, they thrive on it’s potential.

These are the theater kids, the band and choir kids, the debate and chess club kids,
Those that you knew and made fun of, or were friends with.
These particular people are my friends.
I was one of them, and they will forever be dear to my heart.

Blah.

I don't have much new to report, I just felt like I hadn't blogged in awhile.

Chris and I went on a double date last night, which was pretty fun. We went out to Cattleman's, and then rented "The Exorcism of Emily Rose". I hate horrors, but surprisingly, I kind of liked the movie. I will say that that is the first movie in an extremely long time that made me feel uneasy about falling asleep. I think the last one was "It", when I was four. I didn't even watch all of "It", but I always came in on the creepy parts...(well, creepy to a four year old...I haven't seen the movie since...) You know, the part where the clown eats a boy, or blood starts coming out of the showerheads in the locker room...parts like that. But I digress.

So the movie was good, and then we played two games (with many hands making up one game) of UNO. The first game, I did not win a single hand. The second game, I won. Yeah. It was fun though.

Ok, so I was planning to be in bed about an hour ago, and while I could ramble more, I know I"m going to hate my alarm clock in the morning already. Goodnight!

I think I'm just going to ramble...

Today I made cookies. I think I made about twelve dozen...at least, I did according to the recipe. I'm sure it was less than that, but it was still a lot. Is that a dozen dozen cookies? Oh well. :)



Engaged life is interesting. I have the strange urge to stop people I know to see if they know Chris and I are engaged yet, when I know the automatic response of "Congratulations." Some people, those I'm close to, whom I've been good friends with, and of course family, have more warm reactions, but others I almost feel as though I'm intruding on their lives by telling them of mine. I have become quite an introvert, haven't I? Oh well, I don't mind it, and I can still play the extrovert well enough. At least I think I can...



I'm sitting on my parents queen size bed with my computer next to me as I watch Law and Order: SVU. Those who know me know of my recent addiction to the L&O shows...SVU is my favorite. So much so that it's 12:30 am and I stayed up to watch it instead of sleeping at midnight after the L&O: CI got over. Oh well. I haven't been watching tv all day, whatever it may sound like. I was making cookies, remember? :)



There are so many things I could ramble on about right now, but I'm getting the same feeling of intrusiveness were I to share them. So if you're really curious, you can talk to me. But until then, I think I"m going to be done rambling.

delayed updates...

Hi all!

I'm sitting in Chris's apartment right now at Finals Fellowship for CSF. I should be studying, but it's nice to take a break for a bit. I just got through 51 flash cards for my test tomorrow night. I have 145 more to do. So I'm avoiding them. It's alright, they won't be bad...I"m just really tired and not up for it...



On another note, I wrote a song. It's for two pianos, and I found out today that it's too difficult for even the piano prof to play. So I have to rewrite it so it's easier, and possibly comprimise some of the sound, or I can rewrite it for other instruments, namely percussion...if it were any other instruments, it'd be too difficult...the convenience of marimba methods makes it playable there. Unfortunately, the program that I wrote this song in doesn't list the marimba as an instrument possible to write for... So yeah. I'm having difficulties. Hopefully that all made sense.



So, for my last post, I'm going to make an announcement. Chris and I are engaged!!! Yay! I'm officially going to call everyone and talk to them, preferrably in person when I get home, but I thought I should probably officially announce that here.



So yeah. That's it for now.

Delayed reactions.

Hello one and all who read my blog. I am currently sitting in U.Brew, sipping an apple-raspberry italian cream soda, trying my hardest to avoid homework. This is of course to no avail, since I have none. All I have to do tonight is practicing for my voice lesson tomorrow. What I really really should be doing is going over pronunciation of all my foreign language pieces. Of course that is the last thing I am doing. This requires me to put on headphones and speak aloud a language which no one else understands when I say it, even if they are native speakers. It's alright. Sometime tonight I shall confront my french, my german, and my italian, and I shall attempt to conquer them. If my tongue is sore in the morning, this shall be why. :)



What I would like to be doing, even more than blogging at the moment, is to go get my sketchbook out of my dorm room and head over to shakespeare's garden and draw all that I see there. Or perhaps I'd like to work on the third chapter of my story. I haven't worked on that in awhile, and I fear one of my characters is suspended in time walking home to dinner until I begin the next chapter! As I like this girl, I would prefer to keep her from being suspended long. (This is not a literal telling of what I am writing about. If you care to know what it really is, ask me.)



Well my cream soda is drawing near it's end, and I should too. I think I"ll leave you with this thought. Ask someone to answer a question you don't yet know to ask, and you may get one of three reactions. They may a) look at you strangely and shrug, b) say yes/no, sarcastically, or c) give you a very creative, fun answer to something that you really didn't know about them. Try it sometime. The risk of the first two answers are made worth it by the possibility of the third.

Complete rambling.

Well, as far as that bio test goes, I am pretty sure I passed, and that's about all I can say. It was horrible. I made it through it though, and supposedly that's the worst test of the year, and they're better after that. I hope so!

I should be over practicing for my voice lesson, since that's tomorrow, and I haven't really practiced all that much since last week, being sick and all, but I don't want to practice right now. I have class at three anyway, and I think I'm just going to hang out and relax until then. I should be writing some letters in my free time, which is also the reason why my stationary is sitting out on top of my dvd table, but I haven't gotten to it yet...I just can't seem to get started. Maybe I'll journal for myself. Not likely though...I usually do that at night, and I don't feel like it right now. Book it is! So I'm going to read something....not completely sure what yet.

Biology.

Tonight I have to study Biology. There will be a test over chapters 1-8 tomorrow. Fun fun. I aced my aural singing test! 100%! Yay! So that's good. Now I just have to increase my brain capacity by a lot to contain bio, and get better.