Story time!

Okay, first of all I just want to make clear that this is the SECOND time I am writing this blog today. Thus meaning I originally wrote it around 3:00 this afternoon, but then my laptop decided that it wanted to be a jerk and errored right as I was trying to post, and then the ENTIRE thing erased. Yeah I was kind of pissed about it. Then I got busy and never had time to rewrite this until now, so here we are. I have Microsoft Word open now just in case I need to copy and save. Second of all, candy corn is addicting. Never buy an entire bag and then keep it in your desk drawer; it's just a really bad idea.

Random thought of the day: Have you ever noticed how dogs and their owners tend to look alike? I have heard people tell me this, but I never really thought much of it. But here at SU I see probably at least a dozen dogs and their owners out on the Union Green, and that allows a person to think a little on the subject. For example I saw a lady today with big-ish hair, and lo and behold, she had a poodle with big fur! And then last week there was a short guy with a Dachshund...it's really weird! Next time you go people watching you should seriously check this out.

Before I get started on anything else, I just want to say that yes I am aware that I am the worst blogger in the history of bad bloggers. I mean who tells at least a dozen people that they're going to keep a blog updated, and then not update for eight days?!? Oh yeah, me. Ugh. Life just gets sooo busy and then when I finally do get the time to blog I say "Ohh I'll just go do it later..." and then go hang out with a friend, or go to sleep, or attempt to work out, or whatever. Long story short, I will do better in the future!!

Anyway, on to actual matters of life. Like I said before, I have been BUSY. Seriously, check out my planner, if I haven't told you already, that is my evil little thing that tells me everything I have to do when and where I have to do it. It doesn't really let me sleep that much, so I'm starting to resent it just a little. I may burn it after the term ends, but lets not go there yet. Okay, yeah. the first thing I want to tell you guys is that as of last Monday afternoon, I am now a member of Seattle University University Chorale, AND Women's Chorale. This means that I no longer have two rehearsals per week, rather I have five to six! Women's Monday 12:15-1:20pm and Friday 4:00-5:05pm if I want to, and Chorale Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday 12:15-1:20pm. And then you know, there's the occasional evening rehearsal, or two hour sectional. For those of you who don't know, a sectional is where you meet with just your voice part, for me it's alto, and work for two hours on pieces, and sing a lottttt. haha. We had one last Wednesday night, it was actually pretty fun! So yeah a lot of my life is being devoted to singing now, and I wouldn't have it any other way. Oh and before I forget, I'm also in SU's Chapel choir; we sing every Sunday morning at the 11:00 Mass. That's only a once weekly practice on Sunday mornings at 9, but yeah. Being in all of these groups is actually teaching me how to manage my time really well, which is good because if I manage my time well I tend to be less stressed. Our first concert is October 22nd at 8pm, and then the Christmas, yes Christmas, since we are a Catholic school, concert is December 5th at 8:00pm, and the 7th at 2:00pm. But I will talk more on that later :)

Hey, speaking of stress, remember that giant Humanities paper I told you about last week? Yeah, did that, turned it in, got it back today. I got a B. I'm not that disappointed, but then again I am. I mean I worked my ass off on that paper, and then got a B. That's so...I don't know, B. B for blech. Ah well. There was only one person in the class who got an A on it, and that person just so happens to be my friend Maria. Yeah she spent a good portion of the day before we turned it in all like "Ah I don't know what I'm going to do about this paper! ...I don't think I can finish! ...I don't know what to write..." Yeah I no longer listen to her ever about incapabilities, like ever. Never ever. Ever. (Maria if you are reading this, I am in no way taunting you, I am just having a good time in telling you that you are a genious and that you have no incapabilities, unlike the rest of us substandard human beings.) Pretty much the point of this essay was to write on our position on whether or not we think one should acheive a technical or liberal arts educaion. It's extremely tedious and boring, so I won't explain the entire thing, but yeah that was the jist of it. Oh! I should mention, Mrs. Alderman in case you are reading this, I used the article you did for "Ethos Magazine" of the University of Oregon, the one about the Texas school district textbook distribution, as my narration portion of the paper. I just like talked about how you mentioned you try to use more than just the State of Oregon assigned textbook to teach with, rather you try to help the students to keep an open mind and form their own perspectives by using other articles and what not for study materials. Yeah I was mulling around Facebook the other day and I saw Michael Sugar had told Joel about the article, so then, after going like OMG that's my teacher! I looked up the article, and realized I could use it to help my point on liberal arts education. Yay, you're famous! Here's a link to the article, just in case you either a. have not read it, or b. are not Mrs. Alderman and want to read it. I think it's pretty bad ass and I love it :) wooooot!

http://ethosmagonline.com/archives/6646

BUT, on the upside, we did take a test last Thursday over a horrendously tedious packet of essays written by various Philosophers that was all written short answer, and I GOT AN A. Yeahhh that was very exciting, I mean it WAS my first college test :).

Oh! And, hooray for family, two of my favorite aunts visited me last Friday! Yeah one of them, Patty, is an alum of the SU law school, so she had to come up from Olympia to take a class, and the other one, Lori, just came along for the ride, and in so doing visited me! Before aunt Patty got done with her class, aunt Lori and I wandered around a lot; I showed here where all of my classrooms were, and then she sat in on my afternoon Chorale rehearsal! Her review of it was: 1. She LOVES Doc. haha. 2. We are really good. and 3. We were too loud for her to handle towards the end. I think that's a good thing...haha. So good job guys! :) After aunt Patty got done with her class, we went down to Pike Place and wandered around for awhile, and then went to Ivar's, which is a seafood restaurant down by UW on the water. It was seriously the best thing I have tasted in a loooong time. GO EAT THERE. I'm not even kidding. If I were 800lbs, I would probably have that place to blame, but then again I doubt I ever would weigh that much because eventually my conscience, and my stomach, probably, would be like "Umm wtf are you doing to me?" haa. Anyway, I was really glad they came up; it's always nice to see familiar faces every now and again. Oh and aunt Patty, if you're reading this, thank you thank you so much for the $30! But thank you BOTH for coming to see me!!

Well people, I will have more to say at a more reasonable hour, most likely. Maybe you all will get lucky and I will blog tomorrow...hmm...

Byeeee!

~Erin :)