oreos = delicious + evil

So I was sitting here thinking about what to do since it is 8:30 at night and I am not quite ready to go to bed seeing as the sun is still up and I am 26 yrs old and the last time I went to bed this early I was like 10....

And I realized I have not written anything in my blog for awhile.

First, an update of recent events...


This weekend marked PAPAs second concert series. I personally felt it sucked, and I will tell you why!

Our scope was too wide... we just had too many songs... so none of the songs we did were particularly amazing. Our director kept reminding us to get our heads out of our music... but how could we when we barely knew the songs?! If he had shortened the concert by even just 2 songs, we would have improved drastically. The concert was about an hour and a half with a 15 minute intermission. That is an hour and 15 minutes of music to learn in 4 months, at 4 rehersals a month. That is 16 rehersals. In other words, not a lot.

Not only was the song selection to broad.... but it was too narrow.

What?!

Yes, that is right, it was also too narrow... every... single... song... was... slooooooooooowwww.

I kid you not when I say that I yawned through all 3 concerts. And not because I did not get enough sleep. The songs we did were beautifully slow... but... still slow. And boring. Did I not mention that yet? Totally boring.

Do not get me wrong, there were some incredible moments with gorgeous harmonies and overtones... but for the most part, if I thought that is the kind of stuff a choir usually did, I would make sure to save my 10 bucks and go to the movies instead.


So, we had a concert on Friday... afterwards Jon and Nick and I came back here to find my parents mysteriously missing. Naturally, if they are not home on a Friday night watching a movie from on demand, I assume the worse. I called my mom and she did not answer. I called my brother, he too did not answer. I finally called my dad.... turns out mom and dad were at the new casino in Chester. Lovely!

It was great though because Nick, Jon, and I just hung out and ended up watching... oh poop... I totally cannot rememeber the name... there is too much noise in the house right now and I cannot think of it. It was about zombies. I know you know what it is. Yeah. It was amusing.

On Sat I dropped some serious cash at Old Navy for summer clothing. I have a lot of things to get rid of, so it was justified. Dont ask me how much though.

Then the concert at night. woo.

Then Jon and I went out with our married friends to TGIFridays and got appetizers. Yummy parmesean crusted quesadillas...

...which made me ridiculously sick the next day.

On Sunday I spent the morning relaxing and chilling and then went to the concert. Afterwards Jon and I made dinner at his place (broccoli, cous cous, honey mustard grilled chicken mmm) and then after that I proceeded to make use of the facilities. Multiple times.

We then drove to LM for our first Project Philly rehersal... at which I also used the facilities multiple times. Ugh.

Rehersal was GREAT though, it was so fun to see the "old heads" and to get my a cappella on... I am just super excited. I think our group is going to be laid back and rock out at the same time. I am extremely thrilled at the progress of the song I am arranging... that is, a mash up of No Diggity and Wonderwall. I did not make the mash up, but I am definitely converting it to a cappella form. (Play on playah, play on playah)

In fact, I am so excited that people are going to be singing something that I put to paper, I am not all that concerned with nabbing a solo this summer. I mean, yes, I would love to have one, but most of the girlie songs we are doing do not seem to fit my voice. I will just have to rely on the satisfaction that comes with arranging a kickin song.

I hope to finish the arrangement this week, if I have the time, at work.



Speaking of work.... yeah baby last week of school! I am officially done on Wednesday of next week, but my kids are done on Friday. It has been a lot busier than I thought it would have been... mostly because my dept head called me a slacker, and I have since taken on the initiative to create a Biology handbook and talk with the other life science teachers about how biology should be taught. It has been fun, and I think I have done a good job with it. I hope my dept head will know after this that I am perfectly capable of taking on and executing my own small projects... I just dont like to INITIATE stuff. I find it stupid to work in a dept of go getters. The problem with everyone starting these programs is that invariably, there are too many things to get done at once, and then they are all done poorly, or some fall through the cracks. Why add another thing to the plate when I could instead use my talents to carry out something which has already been initiated? It makes sense to me, dont you think?


Aside from that keeping me busy, I have also been going to my grad class, a workshop on environmental education. It has been enlightening. I am going to be researching energy and other resources at my school and creating a proposal to make it more "green". It is an interesting concept and hopefully the ideas I generate can be used wherever I end up living.


And on THAT end, I went to see a place today and the dude who lives there was not there to show it to me. Trust me, it was awkward.... instead, the roomie who is moving out was there, and he was sooooo strange. Yeah. So I dunno, it is an option, at least.


Other stuff that is going on...

Jon and I are going to Maine at the end of the month for his family reunion and we made relatively solid plans to go back up at the endof July and stay a few days with Jason and Michelle and go see the new addition to Gwen and Christian's house. It should be fun, and I am definitely looking forward to the time. Maybe we will even get to relax! :)



So this has been incredibly long, but that is the basic update. I am sure as grad school progresses you will start to see some environmental living missives in here. :)