Big Day

Well, today's a big day. I broke the 300 friend mark on facebook. That really means a lot to me. I'm what's known as a passive facebooker, which means I generally facebook only once a month, so when I got on today, I added 11 new friends who had requested friendship, putting me at 310 friends. But among those friends are two brothers and a sister, and my dad - who I am convinced got a facebook account after a doomsday sermon in RS convinced my mom that facebook was the only good way to keep an eye on the dating lives of her children - so I guess I am at 307 + 3 family members.

Today is also a big day because it is means it's T-minus 7 days until classes get over. I'm pretty excited, and have a big list of things I want to get done over Christmas break.. including catching up on the 311 hours of sleep that life owes me. I also hope to write some convincing grad school essays, kick off a city little league baseball website, look into getting a part time temp job, and go skiing a couple of times. We'll see, though.

The singing class I'm in is getting a little crazy for me. For the last two weeks of class, class members bring music for songs they have chosen to class, and sing them in front of the class, with the teacher helping them. Next week, they will sing the song for the final test. This doesn't sound too stressful, unless you are the pianist, who has to figure out how to play 20 new songs by Monday.. and I only have the music for 10 of the songs. Oh well. It'll be good for my sightreading. We've been doing a pretty standard warmup for class these last couple of weeks. We do the octave lip buzz going up, and the nasal 54321 going down. We finish up with a "eh oh-eh-oh-eh oh-eh-oh-eh eh-oh" drill going 5 3423 1201 51 -- going up and down. It's fun.

Oh, last night the orchestra had a concert. We played a tuba concerto by Vaughn Williams. It was pretty uninteresting, but pretty nonetheless. The entire cello section, as well as several other sections including the basses and violas got lost during the second movement. Whatever.

Breaking news: a fellow labworker has recently discovered the value of doing things that are not school. He almost wishes he had discovered it sooner. That's nice.