We played Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader Disney Style for FHE tonight. It was super fun. We were in two teams. We didn't know who invented the first moving picture film (I think that's what it was). And we got our very first question wrong. How do you spell Dalmatian? We spelled it with a -tiOn instead of -tiAn. Shoot.
I begin my 50 day countdown to DISNEY WORLD tomorrow!!!! SOOOOOO excited! I also have to admit (and I never thought I'd say this, so pay attention) I'm ready to leave college and go home! I love college, but I'm excited I'll be in a new place next year. I'm excited for all the changes about to take place in my life. Maybe I'm weird, but I loooooove change!
Monday, June 29, 2009
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Life Lately
I went on a double date last night to see a drive in movie. Night at the Museum 2. It was actually really funny, but... well... a sequel. It was freezing. We sat outside to watch it since it was a double date and hard to see out the windows. The cold went into me so I was not only cold all through the movie, but cold after I got home. And I even woke up cold this morning! Ugh! But it was worth it.
We had a ward talent show Thursday night. I took pictures but may or may not post them. Depends on how I'm feeling tomorrow.
I felt like cooking tonight so I made a casserole. It was actually amazingly good. last time I was at the store I decided to get some asparagus as a way of forcing myself to eat more fresh vegetables. It ended up being an asparagus, bacon, cheese sauce type casserole. Sooo yummy! I added garlic too, and I've always wanted to try cutting up fresh garlic so I did. Except it was kind of a small casserole and the whole entire thing of garlic that I bought felt like it would be too much. So I only put like three couple cloves in. (or is the whole thing called a clove? I don't know...) It turned out really really good. The only thing I'd have changed was that I put in a little too much bacon. I didn't think that was possible. Bacon actually wasn't called for in the recipe I used, but I saw other recipes with asparagus and bacon and bacon was on sale for only a dollar for a pack! And I looooove bacon. So I got it and put just a few pieces in thinking you could never have too much bacon. Except I suppose you can.
And as always I can't wait to move to Disney. I even dream about it sometimes. I had a dream a few nights ago that we got there (my mom, my sister, and me) and I had already checked in and received my free tickets into the park (I get unlimited free admission as long as I work there). I wanted to go in but my mom wouldn't let me. She kept saying stuff like, "You'll have the next five months to play, right now we need to go do this." And she'd have some ridiculous errand we had to do. At one point I think we had to go to the bookstore and buy a book for my dad. In my dream I kept thinking, "She doesn't understand. She's right that I'll have the next five months but she doesn't get how important it is for me to go in RIGHT NOW!" It was weird. We were so close to the entrance too. I remember my sister being in the dream, but have no idea what role she played anymore. Sorry Cathryn.
Speaking of dreams, though... we just opened up this M&M puzzle on Monday night. We're still working on it. It's waaaaay hard. When I go to sleep at night I stare up at the ceiling and see little M&Ms looking back at me. Haunting my thoughts. Ugh. But we're almost done. I have pictures of that too.
Okay, so that outta do for an update. The end!
We had a ward talent show Thursday night. I took pictures but may or may not post them. Depends on how I'm feeling tomorrow.
I felt like cooking tonight so I made a casserole. It was actually amazingly good. last time I was at the store I decided to get some asparagus as a way of forcing myself to eat more fresh vegetables. It ended up being an asparagus, bacon, cheese sauce type casserole. Sooo yummy! I added garlic too, and I've always wanted to try cutting up fresh garlic so I did. Except it was kind of a small casserole and the whole entire thing of garlic that I bought felt like it would be too much. So I only put like three couple cloves in. (or is the whole thing called a clove? I don't know...) It turned out really really good. The only thing I'd have changed was that I put in a little too much bacon. I didn't think that was possible. Bacon actually wasn't called for in the recipe I used, but I saw other recipes with asparagus and bacon and bacon was on sale for only a dollar for a pack! And I looooove bacon. So I got it and put just a few pieces in thinking you could never have too much bacon. Except I suppose you can.
And as always I can't wait to move to Disney. I even dream about it sometimes. I had a dream a few nights ago that we got there (my mom, my sister, and me) and I had already checked in and received my free tickets into the park (I get unlimited free admission as long as I work there). I wanted to go in but my mom wouldn't let me. She kept saying stuff like, "You'll have the next five months to play, right now we need to go do this." And she'd have some ridiculous errand we had to do. At one point I think we had to go to the bookstore and buy a book for my dad. In my dream I kept thinking, "She doesn't understand. She's right that I'll have the next five months but she doesn't get how important it is for me to go in RIGHT NOW!" It was weird. We were so close to the entrance too. I remember my sister being in the dream, but have no idea what role she played anymore. Sorry Cathryn.
Speaking of dreams, though... we just opened up this M&M puzzle on Monday night. We're still working on it. It's waaaaay hard. When I go to sleep at night I stare up at the ceiling and see little M&Ms looking back at me. Haunting my thoughts. Ugh. But we're almost done. I have pictures of that too.
Okay, so that outta do for an update. The end!
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Procrastination: Maybe It CAN Be Good!
For my Humanities class the teacher is one of those teachers who puts the students into groups and makes the groups do class presentations. Today was our group's turn for our presentation. We were allowed to pick what topic we wanted, so naturally I picked Science, Technology and Medicine.
Well, we got the names of the other people in our group last Monday. Our group was the second to present. On Wednesday last week I looked around for the other kids in my group. There were two. Only one was there. So I went up to him after class and asked when he wanted to get together for the project. He offhandedly mentioned, "Oh, I was thinking next Monday sometime." And then left. Our other group member wasn't there.
I'm not really a procrastinator, and wasn't too fond of waiting until Monday to do such a big presentation that's due Wednesday, but I figured I'd try and relax and realize that we'd hopefully get a good grade anyway. I made up my mind to ask on Friday (it's a Mon, Wed, Fri class) if maybe we could meet a bit sooner in case it took us longer than we expected.
Except neither of my two group members showed up to class on Friday. I had no way to get their names and they didn't respond to email. I was kind of freaking out.
So Monday I went to class and thankfully they were both there. Laurel asked me if I wanted to meet Tuesday. I asked her if there was any way we could meet today (Monday) but she said she was busy. The only time she could meet was Tuesday. So we asked the guy I had spoken with the week before and he said Tuesday would only work for him if it was at 3pm. I agreed to it. Since it was the only time the two of them could meet. I actually had an appointment to meet with another teacher at 3:15 on Tuesday, but fortunately he let me reschedule for another time. I also had somewhere to be at 5:45, so I was hoping it wouldn't take a long time.
Well, we met at 3 on Tuesday. We divided up parts (I took the medical section) and figured out how we'd do the powerpoint, etc. Laurel said we could email her our parts written kind of in powerpoint note form and she'd have her husband turn it into a real powerpoint presentation.
The presentation was finished by her and her husband at 9 this morning. Class started at 10:15. I didn't even get the chance to look at the presentation since she hadn't finished it until late and I didn't have a chance to get to a computer. But I had my notes and she said she kept it in order and put the pictures in the right places. I trusted her. She made me go first because she said she thought I was smart (baha) and could start it off well.
So nervously I began the presentation. Surprisingly enough it was made very well. I kind of wished she'd made it so the words slid in one line at a time, but she was in a hurry. I had offered to create my own part of the powerpoint, but she said it would be easier to just send the notes because if I made it, they wouldn't be able to just copy and paste it into the other powerpoints (which is true, I don't know anyone who's found a way to combine powerpoints into one).
So it ended up going amazingly well. I was surprised how much stuff I said that the teacher actually knew and agreed with or reiterated and referred to later in class. He kept going back to stuff I had talked about and it made me feel much better every time. Especially considering the only guidance I had was "talk about Islamic medicine and it's contributions to the world." Pretty darn broad subject. Thank goodness it went well!
I still hate procrastinating. Unless it's something that I'm absolutely dreading I tend to try and get it done ASAP so I don't have to think about it. I get really nervous and tense when I'm procrastinating. But then again maybe I should relax more and be more okay with it. It worked out, didn't it?
Well, we got the names of the other people in our group last Monday. Our group was the second to present. On Wednesday last week I looked around for the other kids in my group. There were two. Only one was there. So I went up to him after class and asked when he wanted to get together for the project. He offhandedly mentioned, "Oh, I was thinking next Monday sometime." And then left. Our other group member wasn't there.
I'm not really a procrastinator, and wasn't too fond of waiting until Monday to do such a big presentation that's due Wednesday, but I figured I'd try and relax and realize that we'd hopefully get a good grade anyway. I made up my mind to ask on Friday (it's a Mon, Wed, Fri class) if maybe we could meet a bit sooner in case it took us longer than we expected.
Except neither of my two group members showed up to class on Friday. I had no way to get their names and they didn't respond to email. I was kind of freaking out.
So Monday I went to class and thankfully they were both there. Laurel asked me if I wanted to meet Tuesday. I asked her if there was any way we could meet today (Monday) but she said she was busy. The only time she could meet was Tuesday. So we asked the guy I had spoken with the week before and he said Tuesday would only work for him if it was at 3pm. I agreed to it. Since it was the only time the two of them could meet. I actually had an appointment to meet with another teacher at 3:15 on Tuesday, but fortunately he let me reschedule for another time. I also had somewhere to be at 5:45, so I was hoping it wouldn't take a long time.
Well, we met at 3 on Tuesday. We divided up parts (I took the medical section) and figured out how we'd do the powerpoint, etc. Laurel said we could email her our parts written kind of in powerpoint note form and she'd have her husband turn it into a real powerpoint presentation.
The presentation was finished by her and her husband at 9 this morning. Class started at 10:15. I didn't even get the chance to look at the presentation since she hadn't finished it until late and I didn't have a chance to get to a computer. But I had my notes and she said she kept it in order and put the pictures in the right places. I trusted her. She made me go first because she said she thought I was smart (baha) and could start it off well.
So nervously I began the presentation. Surprisingly enough it was made very well. I kind of wished she'd made it so the words slid in one line at a time, but she was in a hurry. I had offered to create my own part of the powerpoint, but she said it would be easier to just send the notes because if I made it, they wouldn't be able to just copy and paste it into the other powerpoints (which is true, I don't know anyone who's found a way to combine powerpoints into one).
So it ended up going amazingly well. I was surprised how much stuff I said that the teacher actually knew and agreed with or reiterated and referred to later in class. He kept going back to stuff I had talked about and it made me feel much better every time. Especially considering the only guidance I had was "talk about Islamic medicine and it's contributions to the world." Pretty darn broad subject. Thank goodness it went well!
I still hate procrastinating. Unless it's something that I'm absolutely dreading I tend to try and get it done ASAP so I don't have to think about it. I get really nervous and tense when I'm procrastinating. But then again maybe I should relax more and be more okay with it. It worked out, didn't it?
Monday, June 22, 2009
Pretty Much Amazing.
On Saturday, our sink decided to be obnoxious and start draining slower and slower. My genius roommates decided to not worry about it and use it like normal anyways. I'm not blaming any single person... I think it's a combination of all of us putting too much food down the sink when we don't have a grinder thingy (my mind's going blank for the right word and I'm too lazy to sit here thinking of it, you know what I mean though). So anyway, by Saturday night it was totally stopped up.
Sunday in Mormonville means everything's closed and you can do nothing. So there was no way to tell the managers of our problem or go to the store or anything. Kylie and I were pretty much the only roommates who stopped cooking and using dishes at that point. By this morning our sink looked almost like this...
except if you can see the ring lines in the sink that's actually where the water level was. One of my genius roommates thought it'd be nice to fill up both sides of the sink. "Maybe all the pressure will make the clog go away!!" Kay, well I don't really know what they were thinking... oh well. I took a bowl and emptied out most of the sink. The water smelled like puke and the small food chunks didn't help. Especially since I ended up getting it all over my hands when draining it.
But I figured draining it would help the draino help better. Yep, I went to the store and bought a bottle of Draino in hopes it would work. Kylie went to the manager's this morning and told them about it and she said, "Oh. Okay, we'll send someone as soon as possible." which is manager speak for, "Maybe I'll get around to it Thursday." We couldn't deal with the smell that long.
So I bought draino and we poured it down the sink. The WHOLE bottle. Half in one sided half in the other.
30 minutes later it looked like this. Blech! What a waste of four bucks. (fortunately I got the four dollar bottle instead of the eight dollar bottle... although I was seriously considering going back for the more expensive one)
So we got out the plunger. Plunged and plunged. One side of the sink would go down as the other went up. Soooo obnoxious.
Of course, as always is when I'm in trouble I go to my final resort. Again. MOMMY!!! She brought up the brilliant idea (among others) to plug up one side of the sink and continue plunging the other side. I held the left sided down with a spoon (I didn't want to put my hand in that icky water again) and Kylie plunged the right... and amazingly within about 10 seconds.....
Our sink did this!!!!!!! I'm not gonna lie, we started girl screaming! Then Kylie and I cleaned the kitchen because it looked absolutely DISGUSTING! We wiped down the sink and counters like four times each. It felt soooo much better to have a clean kitchen again. But the smell is still lingering.
I'm not a fan of having throw up smell all through my apartment. Especially since my bed is exactly on the other side of the wall from the sink. Yuck! But it's not too bad and the kitchen looked even cleaner sine it's been so dirty for so long.
As for the managers calling a plunger? Well, we decided we're not going to tell them we fixed it because first of all, it's "after hours" now anyway. Second, they probably will forget about us completely anyway so why bother?
Anyway, we learned a great lesson today. Especially as each of our roommates came home and started jumping up and down that our sink was fixed!
Who needs men? Kylie and I are pretty much aMAzing!!!
Sunday in Mormonville means everything's closed and you can do nothing. So there was no way to tell the managers of our problem or go to the store or anything. Kylie and I were pretty much the only roommates who stopped cooking and using dishes at that point. By this morning our sink looked almost like this...
except if you can see the ring lines in the sink that's actually where the water level was. One of my genius roommates thought it'd be nice to fill up both sides of the sink. "Maybe all the pressure will make the clog go away!!" Kay, well I don't really know what they were thinking... oh well. I took a bowl and emptied out most of the sink. The water smelled like puke and the small food chunks didn't help. Especially since I ended up getting it all over my hands when draining it.
But I figured draining it would help the draino help better. Yep, I went to the store and bought a bottle of Draino in hopes it would work. Kylie went to the manager's this morning and told them about it and she said, "Oh. Okay, we'll send someone as soon as possible." which is manager speak for, "Maybe I'll get around to it Thursday." We couldn't deal with the smell that long.
So I bought draino and we poured it down the sink. The WHOLE bottle. Half in one sided half in the other.
30 minutes later it looked like this. Blech! What a waste of four bucks. (fortunately I got the four dollar bottle instead of the eight dollar bottle... although I was seriously considering going back for the more expensive one)
So we got out the plunger. Plunged and plunged. One side of the sink would go down as the other went up. Soooo obnoxious.
Of course, as always is when I'm in trouble I go to my final resort. Again. MOMMY!!! She brought up the brilliant idea (among others) to plug up one side of the sink and continue plunging the other side. I held the left sided down with a spoon (I didn't want to put my hand in that icky water again) and Kylie plunged the right... and amazingly within about 10 seconds.....
Our sink did this!!!!!!! I'm not gonna lie, we started girl screaming! Then Kylie and I cleaned the kitchen because it looked absolutely DISGUSTING! We wiped down the sink and counters like four times each. It felt soooo much better to have a clean kitchen again. But the smell is still lingering.
I'm not a fan of having throw up smell all through my apartment. Especially since my bed is exactly on the other side of the wall from the sink. Yuck! But it's not too bad and the kitchen looked even cleaner sine it's been so dirty for so long.
As for the managers calling a plunger? Well, we decided we're not going to tell them we fixed it because first of all, it's "after hours" now anyway. Second, they probably will forget about us completely anyway so why bother?
Anyway, we learned a great lesson today. Especially as each of our roommates came home and started jumping up and down that our sink was fixed!
Who needs men? Kylie and I are pretty much aMAzing!!!
Friday, June 19, 2009
Nothing Interesting to Report
We were going to go canoeing tomorrow. But the trip was canceled due to bad weather. We've had thunderstorms (or at least rainstorms) every single day for the past week and a half. Seriously. What kind of pathetic rotten desert IS this!?
At least I get my 5 dollars back.
Computers are terrible things. Not only do they cause eye problems and supposedly brain problems and fat person problems and finger problems... but I definitely just got on here to take an exam for my humanities class and now look at me! I have nothing interesting at all to say but here I am dutifully procrastinating this exam so I can type nonsense on this website. If the exam wasn't online I'd have probably already taken it because it's been open for almost a week.
I did my laundry yesterday and actually separated lights from darks! Something I rarely do because I normally don't have two loads worth.
Ummm... yeah. In case you can't tell from that previous comment... not much has happened. I guess I'll do that exam now...
At least I get my 5 dollars back.
Computers are terrible things. Not only do they cause eye problems and supposedly brain problems and fat person problems and finger problems... but I definitely just got on here to take an exam for my humanities class and now look at me! I have nothing interesting at all to say but here I am dutifully procrastinating this exam so I can type nonsense on this website. If the exam wasn't online I'd have probably already taken it because it's been open for almost a week.
I did my laundry yesterday and actually separated lights from darks! Something I rarely do because I normally don't have two loads worth.
Ummm... yeah. In case you can't tell from that previous comment... not much has happened. I guess I'll do that exam now...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Safari and Life
We learned about whirling dervishes in Humanities of Islam today. And that's all I'm saying about that. Haha.
I finished the Music Theory course today. I got an A. For A-MAZ-ING!! I'm so glad! Now I only have two more classes to think about.
I got magnets for a project last week. Without thinking, I stuck some of the magnets in my "stuff" drawer. That wouldn't have been a problem if it weren't for the fact that I keep my external hard drive. Oops. I was freaking out and was scared to even see what the damage was. But today I checked it and THANK GOODNESS no harm done. But now I'm a million times more protective about it as normal because that's seriously my LIFE now.
Here are some pics of the DAM Marathon. As you can see we were in the middle of nowhere. Our theme was Safari and our group go the award for best theme. you can see how that reflects on how lousy the other groups were.
10 Mile Mark
Tiff doing Gina's hair. Gina's one of my friends who did the Disney program last year. She worked in Animal Kingdom and came up with the Safari theme. She brought along The Lion King soundtrack and we listened to it three times in a row before switching to other music.
Our table
Anyway, I'm bored of this now. Maybe more pics later. :)
I finished the Music Theory course today. I got an A. For A-MAZ-ING!! I'm so glad! Now I only have two more classes to think about.
I got magnets for a project last week. Without thinking, I stuck some of the magnets in my "stuff" drawer. That wouldn't have been a problem if it weren't for the fact that I keep my external hard drive. Oops. I was freaking out and was scared to even see what the damage was. But today I checked it and THANK GOODNESS no harm done. But now I'm a million times more protective about it as normal because that's seriously my LIFE now.
Here are some pics of the DAM Marathon. As you can see we were in the middle of nowhere. Our theme was Safari and our group go the award for best theme. you can see how that reflects on how lousy the other groups were.
10 Mile Mark
Tiff doing Gina's hair. Gina's one of my friends who did the Disney program last year. She worked in Animal Kingdom and came up with the Safari theme. She brought along The Lion King soundtrack and we listened to it three times in a row before switching to other music.
Our table
Anyway, I'm bored of this now. Maybe more pics later. :)
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Volunteering
I'm loving school this semester. Not only because I got to go to Europe but also because I have amazing teachers! My religion teacher is the same one I had last semester. I'm taking him again because he's a super good teacher and his class was pretty much at a perfect time for me to register. My Humanities of Islam teacher is one of those teachers who is pretty relaxed, makes the subject interesting, and cares more about what the student learns than having set requirements and grades. Something I'm learning to appreciate in teachers. And of course music theory. Who knew that music could be so ridiculously complicated?!
I have friends in both classes (music's online), but other than that I've been totally lacking in the social department since I've been back. Other than my roommates I haven't really done much fun/social stuff. But this Saturday I was invited by one of my FHE sisters, Gina, to help in the Teton Dam Marathon. I'm gonna get an orange T-shirt that says Dam Marathon on it! And I'm waking up at 6am. Ugh! From what I've heard it's going to be very similar to the Bike America things my family used to do... except with runners. We're in charge of mile ten.
I kinda wish I'd have found a way to volunteer more on the radio/communications side of things because 1) I have a handy walkie radio that I desperately want to use and 2) my major is communications so I'm sure it would count for something and 3) I could definitely use the practice and it would feel like I'm actually helping more. But, unfortunately, I never found a way/group to do that. I think the communications stuff is left up to the police who are supposed to be lurking everywhere. So I'm stuck cleaning porta potties and spraying runners with water. Yippee!
No really, it should be fun. The people I'll be with are fun. And mom just sent me a camera so I'll try to remember it and take lots of pictures. Other than that not much has been happening except school. I've taken to making a list of all the stuff I want to get accomplished to fill my free time. Stuff like practicing the piano, making a recipe book, exercising, finishing Twilight (I'm almost halfway through Eclipse now!), finishing my music list(long story), journal-ing, looking for scholarships, making a scrapbook of Europe(I have the book and everything... just have to start), etc.
I guess I'll go do some of that now... After I finish homework of course! :)
I have friends in both classes (music's online), but other than that I've been totally lacking in the social department since I've been back. Other than my roommates I haven't really done much fun/social stuff. But this Saturday I was invited by one of my FHE sisters, Gina, to help in the Teton Dam Marathon. I'm gonna get an orange T-shirt that says Dam Marathon on it! And I'm waking up at 6am. Ugh! From what I've heard it's going to be very similar to the Bike America things my family used to do... except with runners. We're in charge of mile ten.
I kinda wish I'd have found a way to volunteer more on the radio/communications side of things because 1) I have a handy walkie radio that I desperately want to use and 2) my major is communications so I'm sure it would count for something and 3) I could definitely use the practice and it would feel like I'm actually helping more. But, unfortunately, I never found a way/group to do that. I think the communications stuff is left up to the police who are supposed to be lurking everywhere. So I'm stuck cleaning porta potties and spraying runners with water. Yippee!
No really, it should be fun. The people I'll be with are fun. And mom just sent me a camera so I'll try to remember it and take lots of pictures. Other than that not much has been happening except school. I've taken to making a list of all the stuff I want to get accomplished to fill my free time. Stuff like practicing the piano, making a recipe book, exercising, finishing Twilight (I'm almost halfway through Eclipse now!), finishing my music list(long story), journal-ing, looking for scholarships, making a scrapbook of Europe(I have the book and everything... just have to start), etc.
I guess I'll go do some of that now... After I finish homework of course! :)
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Funny Question
"How did you get your job at Disney World!?"
"Ummm... I applied for it...."
What else am I supposed to say?
"Ummm... I applied for it...."
What else am I supposed to say?
Monday, June 8, 2009
How Did I Get Like This?
I noticed while taking notes in Humanities of Islam today that I write weird. I remember in elementary school being taught how to write. How paragraphs need to be indented on the first line and then normal the rest of the way until you start a new paragraph. When I write I usually keep the first line of my paragraph normal and then the rest of the paragraph I indent each line. Weird... it doesn't even make sense because I was taught the other way and the other way saves more room. But hey, that's just how I do it.
When I type I was taught to type the same way. Indent the first line of the paragraph and go normal the rest of the way. Obviously, as you can see from the way I'm typing this, I've veered from that as well. I learned this style of typing from my sister and highly prefer it.
So I've easily thrown away those elementary (and some were even required in high school) habits and changed my ways to how I like it. But still, any time a teacher gives out a hand out whether it's the syllabus, a certain map, or worksheet or whatever, regardless of whether we turn it in or not, I'm still in the habit of writing my name at the top. I've at least gotten to the point where I just think about it and as my hand makes it's way to the paper I remember that I don't need to, but still. Silly little thing.
I'm pretty sure this gets at least in the top ten if not it's the winner for the most pointless, time-wasting post ever. I just really wanted to update and surprisingly enough had nothing else to say.
When I type I was taught to type the same way. Indent the first line of the paragraph and go normal the rest of the way. Obviously, as you can see from the way I'm typing this, I've veered from that as well. I learned this style of typing from my sister and highly prefer it.
So I've easily thrown away those elementary (and some were even required in high school) habits and changed my ways to how I like it. But still, any time a teacher gives out a hand out whether it's the syllabus, a certain map, or worksheet or whatever, regardless of whether we turn it in or not, I'm still in the habit of writing my name at the top. I've at least gotten to the point where I just think about it and as my hand makes it's way to the paper I remember that I don't need to, but still. Silly little thing.
I'm pretty sure this gets at least in the top ten if not it's the winner for the most pointless, time-wasting post ever. I just really wanted to update and surprisingly enough had nothing else to say.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
First Day
First day of school. Again. My second first day this semester. Weird how that works....
I only actually had one class today. Religion. And my Humanities of Islam class is tomorrow. Those in addition to my online Music Theory class are my only classes this block so I'm expecting/hoping it will be a breeze. The only real difficult one will be Humanities of Islam. But I already know the teacher (he went with us to Europe) so that helps a bit, I hope.
Actually, funny story about him. The first time I ever actually spoke to him on a personal level we were in a museum in London. I was with Sarah at the time and the two of us had just walked into the museum with a small group of students as well as the teachers. I had been telling Sarah a few minutes earlier how I was worried about taking pictures because I thought (at that point in the trip) that I'd only have one gig of camera space so I had to be super careful about what I took pictures of.
So we're in the museum and I saw something I just had to have a picture of. So I pulled out my camera and Sarah turned to me and said, "You can't take pictures!" I told her, no it's okay. I can. I really wanted this and I'd delete another. As I was trying to explain while taking the picture at the same time Sarah continued telling me, "No. Dianna, really, you can't take pictures... seriously." We were "arguing" in a way not upset or anything but more bantering a little because I was trying to explain to her it would be okay, I could just delete it. As I went to take the picture, the teacher came up behind me, grabbed my camera and said, "She's right. You're not allowed to take pictures in here. Put it away."
So. Totally. Embarrassed.
I felt horrible for "arguing" with her and going to do it anyway while the teacher watched the whole thing. I was clearly the idiot, as is usual. Haha. I went back to her later and apologized, explaining that I didn't understand and we both laughed about it. Unfortunately the teacher probably just got the impression that I'm a terribly rebellious kid. And that's my excuse if I end up failing his class. Haha. No, actually he seems really nice so I'm not too worried.
My other teacher I had for religion last semester so I already knew he was an excellent teacher. He's really funny and extremely smart. Excellent teacher, but his class is going to require almost three hours of reading a week. Yuck!
All in all I'm pretty darn excited for this semester! I'm excited for classes and seeing what it's like to take block classes--finding out whether they really are as hard as most say they are. I also am going to try to keep going to the gym as much as I can. Today, instead of just running, I decided to do a mile on the elliptical, a mile running, and then a mile on the bike. I'm not sure if that worked better or not than my usual running 2-4 miles. The elliptical always makes my butt sore, though. We'll see.
I love my life!
I only actually had one class today. Religion. And my Humanities of Islam class is tomorrow. Those in addition to my online Music Theory class are my only classes this block so I'm expecting/hoping it will be a breeze. The only real difficult one will be Humanities of Islam. But I already know the teacher (he went with us to Europe) so that helps a bit, I hope.
Actually, funny story about him. The first time I ever actually spoke to him on a personal level we were in a museum in London. I was with Sarah at the time and the two of us had just walked into the museum with a small group of students as well as the teachers. I had been telling Sarah a few minutes earlier how I was worried about taking pictures because I thought (at that point in the trip) that I'd only have one gig of camera space so I had to be super careful about what I took pictures of.
So we're in the museum and I saw something I just had to have a picture of. So I pulled out my camera and Sarah turned to me and said, "You can't take pictures!" I told her, no it's okay. I can. I really wanted this and I'd delete another. As I was trying to explain while taking the picture at the same time Sarah continued telling me, "No. Dianna, really, you can't take pictures... seriously." We were "arguing" in a way not upset or anything but more bantering a little because I was trying to explain to her it would be okay, I could just delete it. As I went to take the picture, the teacher came up behind me, grabbed my camera and said, "She's right. You're not allowed to take pictures in here. Put it away."
So. Totally. Embarrassed.
I felt horrible for "arguing" with her and going to do it anyway while the teacher watched the whole thing. I was clearly the idiot, as is usual. Haha. I went back to her later and apologized, explaining that I didn't understand and we both laughed about it. Unfortunately the teacher probably just got the impression that I'm a terribly rebellious kid. And that's my excuse if I end up failing his class. Haha. No, actually he seems really nice so I'm not too worried.
My other teacher I had for religion last semester so I already knew he was an excellent teacher. He's really funny and extremely smart. Excellent teacher, but his class is going to require almost three hours of reading a week. Yuck!
All in all I'm pretty darn excited for this semester! I'm excited for classes and seeing what it's like to take block classes--finding out whether they really are as hard as most say they are. I also am going to try to keep going to the gym as much as I can. Today, instead of just running, I decided to do a mile on the elliptical, a mile running, and then a mile on the bike. I'm not sure if that worked better or not than my usual running 2-4 miles. The elliptical always makes my butt sore, though. We'll see.
I love my life!
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Music Theory 101
I've been thinking a lot about this soccer class I signed up for second block. It's at 7:45. AM. Meaning morning. And I'm not too excited to wake up at 7am every Monday and Wednesday this coming block if I have another option. So, out of desperation, I checked the website for the jillionth time to see if there was any other potentially fun elective credit I could take so I could at least be at or above the twelve credit mark. And I actually FOUND one!
Music Theory. It's an online course so yesterday I emailed the professor and asked if I could please be in his class and if there were deadlines that were already passed. He sent me a very nice email this morning asking me to give him my I-Card info and that he'd wave the deadlines that had passed for me and register me into the course as long as I promised to attempt to get caught up as quickly as possible.
At 4pm today I began the course and have taken the first two exams already without even looking at the course because, really people. Beginning music theory when I've been playing piano since who knows how long and had band all throughout middle and high school. Yeah, piece of cake.
Or so I thought. I'm now on unit three. Out of nine. And to be totally honest it was a cinch up until about twenty minutes ago (learning about treble and bass clefs and what notes are, haha). I never learned about compound duples and simple triads! What the heck? I understand how to count it all and I know how many beats everything gets and all... but it's all the terminology that's throwing me out of bounds. Wow.
So I guess this'll be fun and interesting. I need to be on exam 5 by the end of this week to be caught up. Hopefully I'll figure this out. I'm gonna feel like an idiot if I fail music theory 101 (okay, well the real course is 190 but we all know it means 101).
Music Theory. It's an online course so yesterday I emailed the professor and asked if I could please be in his class and if there were deadlines that were already passed. He sent me a very nice email this morning asking me to give him my I-Card info and that he'd wave the deadlines that had passed for me and register me into the course as long as I promised to attempt to get caught up as quickly as possible.
At 4pm today I began the course and have taken the first two exams already without even looking at the course because, really people. Beginning music theory when I've been playing piano since who knows how long and had band all throughout middle and high school. Yeah, piece of cake.
Or so I thought. I'm now on unit three. Out of nine. And to be totally honest it was a cinch up until about twenty minutes ago (learning about treble and bass clefs and what notes are, haha). I never learned about compound duples and simple triads! What the heck? I understand how to count it all and I know how many beats everything gets and all... but it's all the terminology that's throwing me out of bounds. Wow.
So I guess this'll be fun and interesting. I need to be on exam 5 by the end of this week to be caught up. Hopefully I'll figure this out. I'm gonna feel like an idiot if I fail music theory 101 (okay, well the real course is 190 but we all know it means 101).
Monday, June 1, 2009
Announcement
I'm DONE! DONE with all those stupid papers!!!
Well, actually to be honest I'm at that point where I can call myself done but technically should go back through them all one last time to be sure they're all "turn-in worthy."
But that hopefully won't take super long and then I'll be DONE! Two days early!!!!!!! Know what that means?
I have NOTHING to do for the next two days!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! I'm so excited to be DONE!!!!!
Well, actually to be honest I'm at that point where I can call myself done but technically should go back through them all one last time to be sure they're all "turn-in worthy."
But that hopefully won't take super long and then I'll be DONE! Two days early!!!!!!! Know what that means?
I have NOTHING to do for the next two days!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! I'm so excited to be DONE!!!!!
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