Pastafism

Ok, this was in a topic on the Halo With Sprinkles Forums, and it's really funny...

The Flying Spaghetti Monster (click it)

"Global warming, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters are a direct consequence of the decline in numbers of pirates since the 19th Century." -under "Beliefs"

Wartburg Track and Field??? I mean, I like pirates a lot and all, but that's just ridiculous!



In other news, I have about 100 melodies to learn for my sight singing test on Friday.... I'm gunna die.... :-P

I got my psyc test back today... Um, well, my score improved from the last test by 6%... So, I go from a C- to a C... I "okay" about it... I've gotten full points for all my other assignments and I'm almost done with the extra credit. I'm gonna study for the next test over break.

I'm coming to Mason tonight for the Count Basie Concert at NIACC! w00t!

I'm gonna nap a bit, before I go practice for my piano lesson...

Is it break yet?

The best part of work tonight was Julia coming up behind me and sticking $7 in the back pocket of my jeans and saying: "For last night..."





-Meaning for the pizza we ordered and then ate as we watched "Chitty Chitty, Bang Bang" and "Walker Texas Ranger". Oh, goooood times!!!!
:-D Hahaha...

Also, the oldies radio station we were listening to in the kitchen played Bohemian Rhapsody which was awesome! I was totally rockin'out!!! :-D

YAY!

My perspective on life has vastly improved due to the fact that...

MY LEFT CONTACT CAME IN THE MAIL TODAY!!!!!!!

And there was much rejoicing!!!

I like being able to see. :-)


Happy Birthday Rachel! :-D

I hate math. I hate IS. I hate not understanding math. I hate failing algebra. I hate being cold. I hate having a cold. I miss hanging out with Matt. I hate not having a car. I hate tuna cassarole. I miss home. I hate not having enough space to put my stuff. I hate not having enough money. I hate wisdom teeth. I hate scales. I hate arpeggios. I hate harmonic minor scales. I hate minor arpeggios. I hate that all the practice rooms have bad pianos or have no pianos at all. I hate my metronome. I hate missing my friends. I hate wearing my glasses. I hate not being able to read the board in class. I hate being legally blind without corrective lenses. I hate being messy. I hate not being able to play band music at the set tempo. I hate being 1st chair without actually earning the position. I hate 7:45 am classes. I hate stupid powerpoint animations. I hate not having time to do anything. I hate workstudy. I hate getting paid minimum wage. I hate feeling lost. I hate college tuition. I hate it when stupid things make me cry. I hate ear training. I hate feeling infirior. I hate it when people ask how I'm doing and don't care about the answer. I hate not having perfect pitch. I hate being alone. I hate not knowing where I'm gonna room next year. And I really hate math, and I really hate IS.

But most of all, I hate hormones! I HATE that I experience PMS so strongly that it sometimes gives me rather strong depression each month. I hate that stupid little things make me cry. I hate that stupid little comments upset me. I hate that stupid little situations make me mad. I hate that I sometimes cry for no reason.

I hate math.

*sigh*

Hello. My name is Sarah. I am a survivor.

I survived 6 tests in three days...

Midterms hit me hard this semester... I had two written finals (one each. 1 + 1 = 2) for my flute, clarinet saxophone class and my trumpet, French horn class on Monday. On Tuesday I had a psychology test, a French horn proficiency test, and a French horn teaching evaluation. Today I had a "surprise" music theory ear training test. It's 3:11 pm and I am done with classes for the day.

I wish the rest of this cold would go away... It's kind of annoying.

I wonder... If I started watering Charlie the II with orange colored water, would he start to turn orange? Like those carnations you get on St. Patrick's day, that are green....?

I need a haircut....

No contacts yet. I think not having them is giving me OCD. I seriously have checked my mailbox 6 times today. :-P I hope they come soon.

Note to self: Do not drink pepsi at 11 pm, and then eat Laffy Taffy as a bedtime snack. The two kinds of sugar, plus caffiene makes you feel weird when you try to go to sleep.

Well, I told Julia I was gonna meet her at 3:30 pm in the FAC. She has some old John Denver records that we're gonna rock out too. :-) Yay!

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words." - Unknown

Thanks guys! :-)

I still miss you "Mad Bess Flint"!

TGIF!

Wow, the week has pretty much gone downhill since my last post... Midterms suck.

Yesterday, I was pretty much in a state of perpetual freaking out. I woke up exhausted and still mad that I had to wear my glasses, and trudged through the blizzard to my 7:45 psychology class, then I grabbed something for breakfast in the Den and came back to the dorm and did my music theory ear training. After about an hour, I called the hospital and said that I couldn't come in, because of the blizzard, and then I took a nap. Then I went to lunch with Jill and Emily and other people, then did more ear training. Went to band. Studied for the music theory test I had this morning. Got dinner in the Konditorei (the coffee shop on campus) and went back to the dorm to do MORE ear training.

In fact I skipped another class just so I could finish more of my ear training assignments. It was my stupid "voice class for people who can't sing" otherwise known as MU 175. The class is a joke. Really. It is. Like IS, I am not learning anything in this class.

Oh, did I mention that yesterday was Julia's birthday?:-)

Two weeks ago Jill, Julia, AJ and I had all gotten tickets to this a cappella group called "The Bobs" which were last night. We decided it would be "Julia's birthday thing". WOW! It was totally amazing!!!! It was a nice break between the painfulness that is ear training. The Bobs sang a song about being in love with a sandwich man, being too big to drive a rental car, and middle Easterners who drive too fast in BMW's. It was freaking amazing!!!! They also did an a cappella version of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. Which is one of my favorite songs EVER! I really wish I could describe how cool and funny, and amazing the show was! (Casey, you would have loooooooved it too!)

After the show, we had a breif party for Julia. I gave her this awesome electric Finding Nemo Bubble-blower. She really liked it! However, in my haste to wrap it, using newspaper, like any desparate college student who holds onto tradition by a mere thead, I failed to notice one thing....

I had unintentionally wrapped it in the obituaries. How morbid is that??? :-P It was way funny... lol

I stayed long enough to set up the bubble blower and eat a piece of cake, then did ear training from about 10:15pm...

To 2:30 AM.

I am not kidding.

There was about 15 mintes around the hour of 11 pm where I took a break and wrote a lesson plan for the "flute lesson" I had to teach this morning for my methods class, but that was it.

And I still didn't get all the crap done.

GAH! You have no idea how much I hate ear training...

And you're probably thinking: Geez... why was it taking so long? She was probably just goofing off.

NO!

I had about 16 pages of dictation related stuff to do. What you do is, put in the CD, match the page with the computer section, listen to what it plays and then write it out. Yeah. It takes freaking forever.

There were a lot of melodic dictation sheets, where you listen to the melody and then write out the pitches and correct rhythms. There was also some four-voice dictation, which I think was the easiest of the bunch, and rhythmic dictation.

The rhythmic dictation was all in compound time... stuff like 6/8, 9/4, 12/8...

Ye-ah. It was hard... In fact, as the night wore on, the rhythmic dictation started to sound more and more like morse code.

I finally went to bed last night, and had to get up for my flute lesson thing that was at 8:30 am.

After theory I wanted to take a nap, but I did some MORE ear training... and STILL didn't get it all done... Wow, it was really bad... I turned it in around 2:30 before the 3 pm deadline. I don't think this will be detrimental to my grade, but still...

AH! It sucks a lot!!!! :-(

Now I finished with all the stuff I had today. Tomorrow I'm going to volunteer at the hospital at 8:30 am, and then the symphonic band leaves for run-out at 2 pm! I am WAY excited for that! :-D Davenport, here we come!!!

I have nothing planned for tonight... I think I am going to shower, give myself a facial, paint my nails and basically pamper myself... Then top it off by going to bed early...

*sigh* Sooooooo busy......

Extremely ticked off...

Drat... Dratdratdrat.... Gosh darnit, shoot...fudge!

Feel free to insert approprate swearwords... Goodness knows I feel like saying them...

I JUST DROPPED MY LEFT CONTACT LENS DOWN THE DRAIN IN THE BATHROOM!!!!!!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

This really really ticks me off now... Like, very much a lot!!!!!


GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

Now I will have to wear my stupid glasses for 2 weeks while another contact gets ordered... Stupid hard contacts...

It was so dry that when I blinked it out it fell out of my hand and... yeah....

I have to wear my glasses for run out.

I hate my glasses. I don't like wearing them... My prescription is so strong that it makes my eyes look smaller... Kind of like looking through the wrong side of binoculars.

THIS REALLY TICKS ME OFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I hate life. >:-P

St. Valentine's Day

Happy Single Awareness Day...

*much laughter*

Schnoebunny will have to write:

I will not be charged with conspiracy to overthrow the monarchy again

'What will you have to write on the chalk board?' at QuizGalaxy.com

Schnoebdawg will have to write:

I will not mess with organized crime

'What will you have to write on the chalk board?' at QuizGalaxy.com

Schnoebbles will have to write:

I will not trust pirates

'What will you have to write on the chalk board?' at QuizGalaxy.com

Mad Mary Flint will have to write:

I will stop trying to avenge the death of Abraham Lincoln

'What will you have to write on the chalk board?' at QuizGalaxy.com

Oooooh, goodness... These are pretty good! :-D HAHAAAA!

Support Group....

Hello world. My name is Sarah. And I'm a delinquent.

I purposely skipped IS class today.

I just decided that today it wasn't worth my time. I did the reading and filled out this survey we had to take about morals, and decided that class wasn't worth my time today.

I guess I don't have very good morals... :-P

I dropped the survey off in the prof's office shortly before IS class ended.

Emily told me I was a turd for skipping and I should have told her, so she could have skipped with me.

I know this is gonna make mom and dad angry, but they're not the one's who have to attend this class.

I'm not gonna skip often, so don't freak out.

The class has no basis in my education anyway, and doesn't help my major. I am not learning anything.

Fun Things!

Okay, so I definately should hang out in Julia's dorm more often... Fun things happen!!! :-D

First of all I ate dinner with Julia and Jill. Julia has this dot on her hand that is supposed to be like a mood ring. It changes colors. It's for her PE class. This led to a lot of discussion about WHY it wouldn't change from black. (Black = stress). Then, after dinner, I ate some of Julia's chocolate mint cookies, which were deeelicious, and we looked at her confetti cake. After that I got on her roommate's computer and spammed Julia's Wartburg e-mail account, by sending her an e-mail that only said "spam" over and over again. I am so clever! :-D After thaaaaat we discovered that Jill had sat on the confetti cake. Yes. SAT on the confetti cake. Luckily, it was covered with plastic wrap. However, one side is definately flatter then the other. Wow, it was pretty much hilarious! :-D

Oooooooooh my goodness, we laughed really loud, and really hard. It was great!

HAAAA!

And then Julia's dot turned green. (Green = happy)

And then Jill left and I watched Julia clean her YAHOO! e-mail account of REAL spam. Yeah, she hadn't checked her mail for a week and she had 237 e-mails. *237* Wow, THAT was a good time!! She won a lot of X-boxes and stuff... And a bunch of e-mails want her to be a cop... That was amusing. We discovered that she had gotten so many spam e-mails because her spam filter was turned OFF! Stupid yahoo.... :-P

And then Julia made puppy chow with her friend Ellie... And they said some Facebook worthy quotes, so, since I was on Julia's compy, she told me her password to add the quotes to her account... >:-) Those of you who have Facebook... heehee... check it out...


Test results:

Music Theory II: B+ Yay!!!!
Psychology: C bleh... but I heard no one did very well... and she doesn't keep your lowest score, so I'll be okay.
Clarinet test: B Yeah... My chromatic scale was... not chromaticly correct.... :-P
Trumpet test: B- Trumpet scales are stupid because you only have 3 valves... How are you supposed to get 13 notes and their octaves with just 3 valves????? I am not meant to be a brass player.

However, I do like French horn... hmm... *shrugs*

We talked about hypnosis in Psychology today, it was pretty interesting... How some people are suspeptable to it, and some aren't. Then we watched this amazing movie made in like, 1999 or something, judging by the computer graphics. It was about the chemicals in the brain and how they can be changed, monitored and stuff. It made me laugh a lot... The music was this computer "techno" stuff and... It was like those educational PBS TV shows that you have to watch in middle school or something. :-P

I took a nap today, before band. When I went to sleep, it was brown and bare outside. When I woke up, an hour later, it was white and snowing. I must admit, my sleepy brain was out of its league for a whlie. It was kind of amusing.

And my comma key on my compy is sticking, or not allowing itsself to be easily pressed.... How annoying...

My feet hurt so I'm going to go to bed.

Some silly things...

Okay, so this picture is incredibly silly, and if you have Facebook you've already seen it, but it just makes me laugh... So I'm posting it here to share with you all.

Heeheeheeheehee...

It's me with a softball glove on my head!

HAAAAAA!

I don't know why this makes me giggle so much, 'cuz it's really dumb, but I love it... :-P

I posed for this picture while in Julia's dorm when Mary and I spen the night, and I didn't sleep hardly at all.


Another thing that made me laugh was my psychology assignment. We're studying the brain right now, and we had a worksheet about the results of damage to different parts of the brain then there was a section about lobotomies. I found this quote particularly interesting:

"In many instances, lobotomy was widely abused as a last-resort tool, as Egas Moniz wanted, and it was carried out in problem children, rebel adolescents and political opponents."

Heeheehee... Polictal opponents... I also don't know why that is so funny... But it is... :-P

My cold is getting slightly better... Pseudophedrine keeps it managable.

Alright! I'm off to bed!!!

Bleh...

Ok, so it was just pointed out to me that the awesome new calendar that I bought at Kepharts Music Sale they had here on campus last Friday is LAST YEARS CALENDAR!!! And it totally says *2006* on the front cover. And it was shrink-wrapped too... That makes me mad.... grrrr.... I might write Kepharts or something... >:-(

Oh, and I did laundry, which is happy! I now have 3 weeks worth of clean socks! Yay! :-D I also washed my pillowcases and towels... Hooray clean!

But, I missed a Kleenex in some pocket, so there were bits of tissue all over my laundry...

*annoyed*

And annotated bibliographies are NOT my friend! Henceforth, I have declared them my enemy, and they shall be met with much anger, hatred and aggression. Well... At least very loud protestations whenever they are assigned.

GAH! I do not like this cold at all... It kept me up almost all night, last night... I got about 3 hours of sleep. And I was already exhausted from the night before... I couldn't breathe, and a cough started and my throat itched, but I was too tired to get out of bed for a drink of water. My nose was clogged, but I had already taken the max dosage for pseudophedrine, and my nose was (and still is) sore from blowing it all day.... and, and, and... yeah. It was not fun. I thought about calling or texting some people who I thought might be up at quarter to two in the morning, but I was coughing and blowing my nose quite a bit, and I was so tired, all it would have been was whining and tears due to extreme exhaustion. So I toughed it out and finally slept for a bit.

In the past 2 days, I have gone through one box of psuedophedrine, half a box of psuedophedrine sinus, and a box and a half of tissues.

I hate this cold... >:-P

And now it's Monday and I haven't practiced piano or flute at all, due to this blasted cold. *siiiigh*

And, I have more, but I need to get to bed, so I'm gonna stop here. Night!

Paths of life...

I find it very impressive when I read the blog posts of some of my friends and they are able to express themselves so well. Being able to bare your soul and put into words whatever turmoil is fermenting inside... I don't think I am capable of that.

Maybe I just don't have problems that run that deep...

I don't know...

I mean, I do know that I don't write EVERYTHING in this blog... I usualy keep in mind who reads it and stuff. But it's often trivial things that I don't write about, and I can discuss them verbally with someone.

There are times when I think I'm letting life go by. Everyone else seems to be having more fun, or more of "something" that I'm not having. I have no clue what the somethings is, but it seems to be there. Annnd I don't have it.

Do you ever wonder what it would be like if you said what was really in your heart, knowing things would never work out?

Incredibly awkward and embarassing that's for sure... I've gotten over things, but I still wonder. *sigh* :-/

-I would also like to thank Scott for convincing me that dying my hair blonde was not the way to go. I'm soooo glad I didn't!

I hope and pray that someday God will bring the right person into my life... Dad assures me that the right person is out there. I guess I just haven't gotten to that junction in life yet.

But waiting is hard.

Oh, so very, very, hard.

I was asked not too long ago if I had ever been in love before. The answer was no. Since then I've had a small taste, and I want more... But... There's nothing. No guys, no interest. On either side.

Just Sarah writing in her blog again. About the same old topic of being single.

Except that this time, there are no crushes or secret pinings.

It's just... "Where is this guy?"

I must admit, there are times when I doubt... I wonder to myself: Is there really a guy out there for me? Or am I fated to remain an old maid for the rest of my life?

Sometimes it's hard hard to find things that make me happy. This cold doesn't help either. My class/work schedule often requires that I eat meals quickly and at times when there's nobody I know, with whom I can sit. To me, it's a kind of a depressing, lonely feeling... Then you have Matt who's like: "I'm on a first name basis with the college president and his wife! I know tons of people on campus! I can always find someone to eat with at whatever time I choose to eat. I have so many friends..."

Yeah, this makes me feel great. :-(

I no longer know where I'm going with this... I think I should go to bed. I am really tired.

Wow... To have someone who cares about you so much...You are so very lucky. You both are. And I'm so glad I know you both.

Sweet dreams be yours, dear, if dreams there be,
Sweet dreams to carry you close to me,
I wish they may and I wish they might,
Now good night, my someone, good night!

True love can be whispered from heart to heart,
When lovers are parted, they say,
But I must depend on a wish and a star,
As long as my heart doesn't know who you are...

...Now good night, my someone, good night

Weeird...

Okay, so I took a short nap this morning and had this weird creepy dream... It had the feeling like it could become a nightmare but I woke up before it got really bad...

Rachel, someother people and I were watching a video of some stage production of something along the lines of Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas... Which is creepy already... :-P And for those of you, who have seen the actual movie, do you remember the mayor? How his head can turn around and switch faces? Well there was this character like that, except that it had like, 6 different faces... And do you know the name of this character?? "Crazy Bus". I dunno why it was call "Crazy Bus" but it was... and yes, it was shaped like a bus, and the different head were all different little kids that would ride a bus to school.

That's all I really remember, except that "Crazy Bus" was creepy, so in my dream I decided to go to bed, but they were still watching the movie, and I was trying to sleep, and Crazy Bus was talking.

Ah! Sooooo creepy!

-I have really weird dreams....