Being busy takes up a lot of time...seriously. So does procrastinating.

Hey again! Sorry I haven't been blogging very much, AGAIN. Fail. Oh well, such is life.

This past week has honestly been one big blurr. I don't necessarily mean that in a bad way, but still. This entire weekend was basically dedicated all to choir, and this giant paper I have due on Wednesday. But let's start with the positives, shall we. Yesterday was the choir retreat! Basically what that means is that Doc (Dr. Sherman, the director) reserves the entire Fine Arts building for the whole day, even though we only practice from 12:30PM to 5:30PM, and we learn everyyyyything we have to sing for parents weekend until we know it backwards and forwards. I would say that right now we know it backwards, but not quite forwards yet...

Now, singing for pretty much five hours straight may seem like a total pain in the butt, but honestly, it was soooo muchhhh funnnn! If I could stay in choir all day I'm almost positive that I would. We started the session off with a workshop with a guest conductor from Seattle. He was fantastic! He taught us a lot of different breathing exercises/techniqes, and then we did lung vaccums! Sheldon Varsity choir kids you all should know what those are! Gooooood times. Yeah. Anyway, after that we split into our vocal sections (I'm an alto) for fifteen minutes at a time and worked on our parts, and then came back out to work as a group. You'd actually be surprised at the bonding one can get with their section after spending five hours with them in one day. By the end of the day we pretty much mastered Regina Coeli...Gloria on the other hand, well she still needs a little bit of help. The men's choir on the other hand, was INCREDIBLE. I would let them serenade me to sleep any night...I can't remember the exact name of their song right now, but I know it's definitely not in English. There's a shocker! Anyway, I am really excited for this year in choir, and feel so incredibly blessed to be a part of the SU Women's Chorale. Yay!

Welllll...aside from getting carpel tunnel from typing an annoyingly long Humanities essay, today was a pretty good day as well. Around one, I walked down to Pike Place Market with Nichole, Kate, and Vishakha, where we met Alli and Aja, and wandered around for awhile.

Kate ended up buying like 340458349 honey sticks (seriously SO GOOD. If you ever go to Pike Place, GET THEM) and then we saw the gum wall again, and again ew?, and then had lunch at a Mediterranean food place near the market. It was a good mini-adventure I would say. Oh yeah, and I should mention that it took us like 40 minutes to find the right bus to get back to school. Yeah, we wanted to avoid having to walk up the 27 bajillion hills of Seattle, so we decided to catch the bus. But what actually happened was, on our way to finding the right bus, we ended up walking up 26 bajillion hills; the bus only took us up one bajillion. Blarg.

Well, I'm sorry to cut this short, but I am reeeeally tired and I have a German quiz tomorrow I still need to review for. Yayyy for procrastination! Oh! I should add that to the title. There, done. I hope that brings whoever is reading this some sort of enjoyment. Alrighty, byeeee!

~Erin :)