Week 6

2nd week of February...only 2 weeks before Spring Break!
This week has been so much nicer than last week. Besides an awful Sunday, in which I spent 6 hours working on a Chemistry thing and missed watching the Super Bowl, this week has been a breeze compared to last week. Unfortunately I got my Physics' test results and I didn't do awesome (got a B), but then again I made some dumb mistakes which I probably wouldn't have made had I taken a practice test. At least for the next test I'll have all the time in the world to study for it (Spring Break). I also realized that my primary source paper for History was only 3-4 pages, not like 10.
People need to follow directions. Really. Yesterday I went to do my NMR on my sample at 12:45 but the 11:15 person was still there. She finally finished around like 1:15 and then the next person only took 10 minutes. Then the next person after that didn't follow directions and was still working on it when I left at 1:45. I had to eat a super quick lunch and then run off to Burt Tutoring. Friday was truly a mess. And now I'm actually going to run my NMR sample at 8:15 AM on Monday. Hopefully that actually works. My lab report is due Tuesday.
Olympic opening ceremony! It was really weird. They had great pyros, and the skier thing was pretty cool. There was a "party" (more like a gathering with food) at West Quad. There were some interesting guys there. We left at around 10 PM and finished watching the show in Amy's room. Michelle thought a bunch of guys were hot. Well the action starts today! I'm so mad that band is on the night when the long-program is scheduled. Hopefully they show it after 10 PM. I'm not missing Evan Lysacek if I can help it.
Talking about band...I think it's ironic that I'm sitting last chair and yet I play first part (we switch parts every song) on the song with oboe solos. I offered them to Amanda (or some of them), but maybe she didn't think I was serious? Maybe she figured since I was assigned the part that I should play it, even though she's first chair. Oh well. You know how I told you I had a crush on this horn player? Well he's only hot when his hair is slightly spiked. I saw him a few times with his hair not gelled and he just was normal. I think I have a thing for guys with slightly spiked hair... And I thought I liked guys who looked like Squall Leonhart or that main guy from Franz Ferdinand...what's his name?
Feel better Jackie! My poor sister is coughing...and I run across the street from Eugene's apartment to the CCRB in shorts...maybe the vitamin C helps?

Week 5

I finally beat Grandia II! The ending was super cheesy. But that's not the only good news...
1) Had two tests this week and an essay due Tuesday. I think I fared pretty well. I got 108 out of 120 on my orgo. test. I messed up a few small things and forgot to do this one part of a problem (oops). I was really happy with my test score. Physics was easy...I should get a good grade on that. For history I wrote a decent, but not great, paper. I probably got another A-. I'm not doing too bad in that class though.
2) Concerts! John Corigliano is awesome! Monday I saw the U of M Symphony Orchestra and Friday I saw the U of M Symphony Orchestra and Band perform Corigliano's songs. The orchestra performed "Promenade Overture" and a piano concerto while the band performed "Circus Maximus" (Symphony 3). "Promenade Overture" is hilarious because the orchestra walks on stage while playing, starting with the piccolo, and ends with the tuba streaking (not naked) across the stage. The piano concerto was incredibly hard for the pianist and it was kind of strange, yet good. "Circus Maximus" had trumpets all around the outside of the ground floor, a small ensemble in the back, percussion and clarinet and saxophone ensembles in the balcony, a mini-marching band who comes in during this one movement, and a gunshot at the end. Yeah, it was insane. When the saxophones were doing their "animal" sounds, I thought of Jolyn. She would have been great at that part.
Well there is some bad news...like my horrible lab day. And the fact that I had 2 tests did suck...and now I have all this SSG work...
3) Oh yeah, band! So the director thought I practiced my solo. Haha, he wishes. The first time I played my solo that I didn't even know existed until that rehearsal, I made like 10 mistakes. I had gone over it with my fingers like 3 times before I had to play it, so I should have been perfect note-wise, but I wasn't. My sight-reading skills have deteriorated! Anyway I played the solo like 3 times, and that's all the experience I had with it. Maybe he's surprised that I can sight-read that well? Clementine would blow his socks off. I wish the clarinets were like Jean though. They don't really suck, but I could match their technique, and that's sad, especially since my skills are deteriorating exponentially...
4) Super bowl tomorrow! I wrote my essay today so I could have the evening off. Hopefully my Honors Cup (lab) group will meet early so we can be done early.