HUGE SIGH OF RELIEF!
that's the LAST thing I need, is someone else mad at me.
good concert, me thinks.
i need a break!
ba dum da da da da da

Okay. So this is another hellweek in and of itself, but this time it seems to be by choice. i keep screwing stuff up. i wish my brain would work, free of emotion.
in other news, i went to a drag show to see one of my friends perform on Tuesday night. That's what those mysterious black Xs (that are STILL on my hands) are from. Woo for being underage, $5 cover charge at the Phoenix.
The drag show was quite possibly the most frightening thing I have EVER witnessed. And I mean it. I was SCARED. I couldn't stop staring. It's incredible. I admit, I was jealous. They had beautiful flawless legs AND more cleavage than I ever will. AND they could walk around in those pencil-heeled knee-high boots. I think that's all I want to say about that.

it's AMAZING to me how quickly the most wondeful person you've ever met can morph into the biggest asshole you'd ever want to encounter (pardon my French, non?)
UGH.

But tonight should be great! I'm really looking forward to Wind Symphony! I know they're playing some really hard stuff, but, hey, so did we and we were awesome. I have no doubts. Also I'm going canoeing on Friday with our Outdoor Adventures program! Our school offers so many wonderful things that people don't know about, or don't care enough to participate in. The Entertainment Committee works SO HARD all year to put on events that a lot of people don't attend - doesn't anyone wonder where their Student Service fees go!? It also pisses me off that we (anyone NOT involved in the sciences) get no recognition. I realize that it's the main focus of UAB but there are such things as Music Therapy, and cathartic writing, etc. The Healing Process has never consisted of ONLY science. If a person doesn't hope, or doesn't want to live, they won't. It's that simple. Anyway, I'm not sure where I was going with that.
I'm just glad to be going to the concert at 8.
and I wish I would stop being so gosh-darned enlightened and skip everything to write my papers. hahaha

::ECSTATICALLY DOES MENTAL CARTWHEELS!::

okay, so maybe i spelled that wrong but you get my drift. that was sooo much fun, and i never felt like i was gonna pass out (so maybe i finally got the deal with the whole knees-unlocking thing) and go facial expressions!
I've never come away from a concert feeling so ecstatic and ready for the next one. I'm sorry for the Chamber Singers, who had very little downtime, but I LOVED the set up, with our freakin hour and a half or so break in the middle of our performances, it was a little more than enough time to recouperate from the first set, and rebuild my energy to go out there and GLOW! in the second half.
Man, I'm a dork.
Also, my friend Ricky came to the first half, which was really nice of him. I'm alternately pissed off and offended that my other friend didn't come (yeah, the one that gave me the shaft royally last week). Stuff was awesome on Friday, but I guess it's too much to ask for two days in a row. UGH UGH UGH UGH UGH. He always has good comments about what we sang, and remembers individual songs. GRR. he makes me so mad. anyway!
ANYWAY
great concert.
that was exciting!

i like my men like i like my coffee... with sugar!

HEY! EXCITEMENT, NERVOUSNESS!
I've been shamelessly plugging our concert to everyone I know, and even a lot of people I don't.
I hope we have a good turnout! How awesome is free entertainment on a Saturday night?!

have you ever tried to explain a choir concert to someone who has never participated in one before, only observed and came away the impression that it "looks painful"?
the best I could come up with to explain is that: it's abs and throat and breath-control and trying not to itch and people staring and hot lights and intense concentration and trying to keep your knees unlocked and not take your eyes off Dr Copeland and remember every word and nuance and note of every song.
what did i forget? :) ANYBODY NERVOUS?

and, just so you guys know, i had an awesome night tonight :)

Maybe some of you have noticed that I've paid more attention in choir this week. No offense, Dr. C, but sometimes I zone out...okay, a lot. Well, I've sort of have a personal crisis with a few friends..."friends" of mine this week, and my life has pretty much gone straight to h-e-double-hockey-sticks. Maybe that's why I seem a bit less happy than usual, although introducing caffeine back into my diet has done wonders for my energy level!
Anyway, when we start to sing, I don't have to think about how much people suck and how I've been completely discarded/disowned/shoved rudely aside for no apparent reason. Believe it or not, some people actually dislike me. I don't get it. Music makes alllll my problems go away, and I get to think about dynamics and what the words are and what they mean and meter and notes and all that fun stuff, and it's really been helping me a lot. When I wake up in the morning, my problems are all I can think about and it's driving me crazier than I already am. I hate feeling like this! So, anyway. I've never gotten so much school work done.
I've been studying my choir music outside of class (which for me is weird, I admit), I wrote a paper early, I did a presentation over the course of several days instead of all the night before...I studied Chemistry! Maybe this whole not-having-friends thing is good for me. Although it makes finding a dinner partner kind of tough (right, laundry boy?).
Only a 3-page Lit paper about Uncle Tom, a 10-page Research paper about Horatio, a Chem test, and a buttload of finals to go! Not to mention packing, moving out, and packing for the trip. And getting all my residents moved out (woot, woot - I LOVE MY JOB)!
sorry this was so long. hope you didn't get this far! haha

okay, I promise you're safe from opera in this post. I've completely changed genres and am currently enjoying Xavier Naidoo, who just so happens to be a German pop/r&b singer who has the sexiest voice everrrr and plus they rap some and that's so funny! i can't make half these noises, but listening to foreign music makes me feel so exotic! lol
ALL RIGHT ALL RIGHT SO I'M PROCRASTINATING AGAIN, WHAT DO YOU WANT?

I am SO in an Opera Mood these past few weeks!

These are a few of the songs I've fallen in love with (of course they're also the ones I can sing random vowels to and still not feel like I'm cheating):
+ The Three Tenors' rendition of La Triviata
+ Pavoratti's O Sole Mio
+ Andrea Bocelli's La Donna e Mobile
+ Maria Callas's Carmen aria thing (I don't know the name for this one.)
+ Maria Callas's Queen of the Night Aria
+ Dido's Lament from Purcell's opera

And even though it isn't really opera, Andrea Bocelli & Sarah Brightman's Time to Say Goodbye. I realize these are all popular songs and I'm not really that cool, but man. I wish I was a soprano sometimes. But not often.

Anyway, it's Phantom time, so I'm gonna go screech my way through the prettiest bits of Sarah Brightman's rendition. teehee.