urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:aviva514 Ariel Ariel 2007-05-01T21:07:38Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:aviva514:109763 2007-05-01T21:07:38Z 2007-05-01T21:07:38Z a tradition. good luck everyone!<br /><br /><br />T'was the night before finals,<br />And all through the college,<br />The students were praying<br />For last minute knowledge. <br /><br />Most were quite sleepy,<br />But none touched their beds,<br />While visions of essays<br />Danced in their heads. <br /><br />Out in the taverns,<br />A few were still drinking,<br />And hoping that liquor<br />Would get their brains thinking. <br /><br />In my own apartment,<br />I had been pacing,<br />Dreading all those exams<br />I soon would be facing. <br /><br />My roommate was speechless,<br />His nose in his books,<br />And my comments to him<br />Drew unfriendly looks. <br /><br />I drained all the coffee,<br />And brewed a new pot,<br />No longer caring<br />That my nerves were shot. <br /><br />I stared at my notes,<br />But my thoughts were all muddy,<br />My eyes went a'blur,<br />I just couldn't study. <br /><br />"Some pizza might help,"<br />I said with a shiver,<br />But each place I called<br />Refused to deliver. <br /><br />I'd pretty much concluded<br />Life is unfair and cruel,<br />Since our futures all depend<br />On grades made in school. <br /><br />When all of a sudden,<br />Our door opened wide,<br />And Patron Saint Put-It-Off<br />Ambled inside. <br /><br />Her spirit was careless,<br />Her manner was mellow,<br />She looked at the mess<br />And started to bellow: <br /><br />"Why should us students<br />Make such a fuss,<br />About what those teachers<br />Toss out to us?" <br /><br />"On Cliff Notes! On Crib Notes!<br />On Last Year's Exams!<br />On Wingit and Slingit,<br />And Last Minute Crams!" <br /><br />Her message delivered,<br />She vanished from sight,<br />But we heard her laughing<br />Outside in the night. <br /><br />"Your teachers won't flunk you,<br />So just do your best.<br />Happy Finals to All,<br />And to All, a good test." urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:aviva514:109365 2006-12-08T12:32:23Z 2006-12-08T12:32:23Z a tradition. good luck everyone!<br /><br /><br />T'was the night before finals,<br />And all through the college,<br />The students were praying<br />For last minute knowledge. <br /><br />Most were quite sleepy,<br />But none touched their beds,<br />While visions of essays<br />Danced in their heads. <br /><br />Out in the taverns,<br />A few were still drinking,<br />And hoping that liquor<br />Would get their brains thinking. <br /><br />In my own apartment,<br />I had been pacing,<br />Dreading all those exams<br />I soon would be facing. <br /><br />My roommate was speechless,<br />His nose in his books,<br />And my comments to him<br />Drew unfriendly looks. <br /><br />I drained all the coffee,<br />And brewed a new pot,<br />No longer caring<br />That my nerves were shot. <br /><br />I stared at my notes,<br />But my thoughts were all muddy,<br />My eyes went a'blur,<br />I just couldn't study. <br /><br />"Some pizza might help,"<br />I said with a shiver,<br />But each place I called<br />Refused to deliver. <br /><br />I'd pretty much concluded<br />Life is unfair and cruel,<br />Since our futures all depend<br />On grades made in school. <br /><br />When all of a sudden,<br />Our door opened wide,<br />And Patron Saint Put-It-Off<br />Ambled inside. <br /><br />Her spirit was careless,<br />Her manner was mellow,<br />She looked at the mess<br />And started to bellow: <br /><br />"Why should us students<br />Make such a fuss,<br />About what those teachers<br />Toss out to us?" <br /><br />"On Cliff Notes! On Crib Notes!<br />On Last Year's Exams!<br />On Wingit and Slingit,<br />And Last Minute Crams!" <br /><br />Her message delivered,<br />She vanished from sight,<br />But we heard her laughing<br />Outside in the night. <br /><br />"Your teachers won't flunk you,<br />So just do your best.<br />Happy Finals to All,<br />And to All, a good test." urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:aviva514:109283 2006-05-13T07:50:28Z 2006-05-13T12:41:58Z P&P soundtrack tomorrow at this time i'll be making my final final final preparations to leave my dad's house to go to the airport to go to CHINA!!!!!!!!! ON MY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!! i just found out that my flight was changed from connecting in chicago to connecting in san fran, which means our flight leaves 40 minutes earlier than originally planned. but it's ok, because WE'RE GOING TO CHINA!!!!!!!!! ON MY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!<br /><br />all my grades are in, and it's been a rough semester:<br /><br />Geography: b<br />Piano: a<br />Lessons: b (wtf)<br />Trombone Choir: a<br />Glee Club: a<br />Wind Syphilis: a<br />Ear Training: b<br />Theory: a (I GOT A 100 ON MY PAPER, BOOYAH!!!)<br />Conducting: b (another wtf)<br />Sociology: a<br /><br />4 b's and 6 a's. new overall gpa: 3.74. <br /><br />i'm going to talk to keck about my conducting grade, because that grade was about 85% subjective, and i totally don't think i deserved a b. hopefully he'll hear what i have to say. lessons...i don't even know what is wrong with that man. oh well. my recital was not stellar, and i know that. i was really upset about it at first, but i've calmed down a bit. i'm so glad about my b in geography, especially since i was considering dropping it before the midterm. and my b in ear training was solidly deserved since ear training 4 SUCKS BUTT. but it's over and i never have to do it ever again. woohoo!! after i take 6 hours this summer i'll officially be a senior w/ 92 hours...too bad i won't be graduating until right on time. i'm officially a sociology minor!!! i'm so excited. i'm taking medical sociology this summer and sociology of gender in the fall. heck yes. i'm really just trying to waste time at this point because it's almost 4am and i have to acclimate myself to china time. hayley and erin are spending the night with me at my dad's house saturday night (tonight/tomorrow night depending on how you look at it) and we're totally staying up all night and stuff...hooray! i have yet to begin packing, and my dad gets here at 2pm...i guess i should get on that. NO SLEEP TILL CHINA!!! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:aviva514:108979 2006-05-09T17:27:12Z 2006-05-09T17:27:35Z free as a bird - the beatles free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, i'm free at last!!<br /><br />FINALS ARE OVER!!! tonight is party time, tomorrow is a day to chill followed by another party, thursday and friday we have rehearsals, saturday i go home to rosretta/marwell with hayley, and sunday is my birthday, leaving for china, and mother's day!!! i'm just so happy finals are over!! no more class!!...until june 7th anyway, when i'll be taking ed psych and medical sociology for a month, then doing who knows what. but guess what?!? I'M AT LEAST TEMPORARILY FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:aviva514:108572 2006-05-08T04:57:21Z 2006-05-08T04:57:21Z the human race on this day is unfortunate enough to have experienced the existence of emily gauld for exactly 19 years. gross. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:aviva514:108347 2006-05-03T00:23:05Z 2006-05-03T00:23:05Z Tomorrow marks the first day of finals....so you know what that means!<br /><br />T'was the night before finals,<br />And all through the college,<br />The students were praying<br />For last minute knowledge. <br /><br />Most were quite sleepy,<br />But none touched their beds,<br />While visions of essays<br />Danced in their heads. <br /><br />Out in the taverns,<br />A few were still drinking,<br />And hoping that liquor<br />Would get their brains thinking. <br /><br />In my own apartment,<br />I had been pacing,<br />Dreading all those exams<br />I soon would be facing. <br /><br />My roommate was speechless,<br />His nose in his books,<br />And my comments to him<br />Drew unfriendly looks. <br /><br />I drained all the coffee,<br />And brewed a new pot,<br />No longer caring<br />That my nerves were shot. <br /><br />I stared at my notes,<br />But my thoughts were all muddy,<br />My eyes went a'blur,<br />I just couldn't study. <br /><br />"Some pizza might help,"<br />I said with a shiver,<br />But each place I called<br />Refused to deliver. <br /><br />I'd pretty much concluded<br />Life is unfair and cruel,<br />Since our futures all depend<br />On grades made in school. <br /><br />When all of a sudden,<br />Our door opened wide,<br />And Patron Saint Put-It-Off<br />Ambled inside. <br /><br />Her spirit was careless,<br />Her manner was mellow,<br />She looked at the mess<br />And started to bellow: <br /><br />"Why should us students<br />Make such a fuss,<br />About what those teachers<br />Toss out to us?" <br /><br />"On Cliff Notes! On Crib Notes!<br />On Last Year's Exams!<br />On Wingit and Slingit,<br />And Last Minute Crams!" <br /><br />Her message delivered,<br />She vanished from sight,<br />But we heard her laughing<br />Outside in the night. <br /><br />"Your teachers won't flunk you,<br />So just do your best.<br />Happy Finals to All,<br />And to All, a good test." urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:aviva514:108067 2006-04-10T01:28:03Z 2006-04-10T01:28:03Z CONGRATULATIONS to 20 wonderful, beautiful, unique and inspiring girls who have changed my life and who I now have the distinct honor of calling my sisters in Sigma Alpha Iota. I couldn't be happier...unless my Sociology test tomorrow was miraculously postponed again. Anyway, congrats and I love you all. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:aviva514:107965 2006-04-02T03:49:30Z 2006-04-02T05:04:34Z melodies from tonight floating in my head <b><i><font size="10">BEETHOVEN 9 WAS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!</font></b></i><br /><br /><br />congrats to all who were involved :-D<br /><br />and another congrats to anyone who was able to find a seat. i have NEVER seen hodgson that crowded. there were at least 50 people standing against the walls, not to mention the people who were sitting on the steps and in the walkways. truly an amazing night in hodgson hall on its namesake's birthday.<br /><br />and in other news, i got a 97 on the theory test!!! SUCK IT, schubert, chopin, and strauss!!!!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />can life get any better? i submit that it CANNOT. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:aviva514:107760 2006-03-24T23:12:27Z 2006-03-25T06:09:26Z my rectial piece! <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nda_OSWeyn8&amp;search=leprechaun mobile">Who all see the leprechaun say YEEEAHH!!!</a><br /><br />^hilarious. my favorite part is the amateur sketch. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:aviva514:107422 2006-03-22T23:51:24Z 2006-03-22T23:53:09Z doppelganger! spring break '06 was pretty boring. we were going to go to cape cod and have an awesome time, but certain unfortunate events occurred right before the break that caused us to cancel the trip. it's ok though, i got to go home, which i hadn't done since the first weekend back from winter break. but then i got bored with that and came back to atown on thursday, when i went out to dinner with the basketball band/hilton head crew and got to hear fun stories from their trip. too bad those losers got a 2 week break...i hate you guys!! jk. friday i went with kat and katie to the mall to kill some time, then we got some green dt stuff and went downtown for st. pattys! much fun. saturday and sunday i spent thinking, "man, i should really practice" but not actually doing anything at all. big mistake! my recital is in less than a week and i'm freaking out! i've been practicing so much lately, i think my lips are going to fall off. it's all good though. i think it will be ok...at least i hope so! the theory paper is due this friday, and i haven't really started that yet. awesome. piano midterm tomorrow. i hate school. other than that though, life is good. i totally rocked it out in theory today, i mean i was a freaking genius. well not really but it was at least the first day that i didn't feel like a complete idiot in that class. anyway, i should probably go practice piano or figure out what i'm writing my paper on....awesome. lata!<br /><br />p.s. monday, 3/27 5pm edge hall: be there! rachel, ashley and i are going to rock the house. yay trombone girls! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:aviva514:107246 2006-03-22T03:49:43Z 2006-03-22T03:49:43Z michelle (beatles) <img src="http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/082803/because-he-was-baroque.gif" alt="hilarious" /><br /><br />courtesy of my wonderful little sister and all the people at toothpastefordinner.com urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:aviva514:106879 2006-03-17T19:32:44Z 2006-03-17T20:07:22Z The Chapters of my Life:<br /><br />Chapter 1:<br />Initials: asf<br />Middle name: shannon<br />Birthday: may 14<br />Current location: my room in athens! great to be back :)<br />Height: 5'10"<br />Hair length: layered, with the longest layer a little less than halfway down my back<br />Eye color: blue<br />birthmarks: a spot on my neck with no pigmentation...it's really weird<br /><br />Chapter 2:<br />Do you live with your parents: nope :) <br />Do you get along with your parents? a lot more now that i don't constantly see them haha<br />Are your parents married/separated/divorced? divorced<br />Do you have any siblings? 1 brother, josh, and 1 step sister, ashley<br />What pets do you have? none right now, but i have had 3 cats, a dog, and some fish<br /><br />Chapter 3: Favorites<br />City: london or nueva york<br />Ice cream flavor: ben and jerry's dublin mudslide...mmmm....<br />Season: spring before it gets hot<br />Clothing brand: tough one, i'm gonna go with gap<br />Color: either blue or green, but since today is st. patty's day, i'm gonna go with green :P<br />Number: even numbers<br /><br />Chapter 4: Do You...<br />Sing in the shower? occasionally, depends on my mood and whether or not i have a good song stuck in my head<br />Write memos on your hand? if it's something important that i know i'll forget otherwise<br />Call people back? i try to...unless i don't like you haha!<br />Believe in love? more than anything else<br />Sleep on a certain side of the bed? depends if i'm falling asleep to music on my computer or to something on the tv, because they're on opposite sides of my bed<br />Wear glasses or contacts? yes, i'm pretty much blind otherwise<br /><br />Chapter 5: Have You Ever...<br />Gone skinny dipping? not yet...<br />Been in braces? yes...twice<br />Broken a bone? i used to be able to say no and be very impressed with myself for avoiding it considering how clumsy i am, but unfortunately i broke my right pinky toe this summer at natalie's house...it's still a lot bigger than the left pinky toe but doesn't hurt as much<br />Had stitches? not that i can think of<br />Shoplifted? no, i'm a good kid :D<br />Punched someone in the face? i probably punched josh in the face when we were little<br />Skipped school? i skipped senora diablo's class all the time junior year, and in college i've skipped class too many times to count :P<br />Taken painkillers? yeah but not very often<br />Gone SCUBA diving? not yet! it's on my list...<br />Been stung by a bee? no, just by a wasp when i was 10<br />Thrown up in a restaurant? gross...no<br />Been to overnight camp? heck yes girl scouts!<br />Written a letter to Santa Claus? no, actually<br />Had detention? Our entire math class got detention in 7th grade and i was so worried it was going to go on my permanent record hahaha...other than that, nope!<br />Been sent to the principal's office? nope!<br />Been called a bitch? yes, most recently by my mommy haha<br /><br />Chapter 6: Who/What was the last..<br />Person to IM you? kquick<br />person to call you?: my facebook wife :)<br />Person you hugged?: clair when she walked in unexpectedly this afternoon!<br />Person you tackled?: uhh...i don't know<br />Thing you touched? besides the keyboard, i was just doing some dishes<br />Thing you ate?: some gross rice a roni stuff that i wouldn't recommend<br />Drank? wowta<br />thing you said?: "lata" to my facebook wife cuz she just called<br /><br />Now 40 "Random" Questions......<br /><br />40 RANDOM questions:<br /><br />WHIP OUT YOUR CELL:<br />last missed call - robert<br />last received - katie<br />last text received - jason<br /><br />CURRENT:<br />what channel is the tv on - housing 12 - elizabethtown is on :)<br />how many IMs are up - none, just an away message because i'm lame :)<br />what song is playing - "moses" from singin' in the rain!!<br />watching - elizabethtown is on in the other room<br />whats on the computer - this, aim,, facebook, and itunes<br />what is your background - one of the window's standard desktops - the pretty one with the yellow tulips<br /><br />FAVORITE:<br />food - chocolate, i'm not gonna lie<br />shirt that you own - i don't really have a favorite...my wardrobe is pretty boring<br /><br />OTHER RANDOM:<br />whats the time - 2:24 pm<br />whats the date - march 17! erin go bragh!<br />whats the day - friday (hells yes) <br />light or dark out - sunny<br />do you own a washing machine - no... <br />do you own more than 5 tv sets - not me personally<br />do you own a toaster - i own a toaster oven if that counts<br />do you own a house with 2 floors - my mom does, and my dad owns a townhouse with that many too<br /><br /><br />WHAT DO U THINK OF WHEN I SAY:<br />cat - my old kitty, george<br />jump - little children<br />bed - bow chica wow wow ;)<br />scratch and sniff - plug ins <br /><br />RANDOM AGAIN:<br />what are you wearing? green :)<br />whats your favorite color(s)? deja vu...green!<br />who is your Idol/Hero(s)? i know it's dorky, but i'm gonna say mr. watkins<br />whats your name? ariel, uriel, urinal, rel, relish, and some other nicknames that escape me at the moment....take your pick<br />how old are you? 19, and i'll be 20 in a little less than 2 months, even though that's a really boring age <br />are you a pimp? ladies is pimps too, go on brush your shoulders off!! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:aviva514:106527 2006-03-06T17:27:08Z 2006-03-06T17:27:33Z someday you will be loved - death cab hok so should i drop geography, risking graduating a semester later than i want to, or should i just try really hard in the class and try to pull off a c or higher? there are 5 tests, he lets us drop one, so far we've had 2 and i've failed both of them because i didn't study at all. withdrawal is tomorrow and our 3rd test is wednesday. i'm going to actually study for this one, but i think a lot of the questions come from lecture, which i either don't go to or fall asleep in it when i do go. what should i do??? i really don't want to drop it, but i also don't want to fail... urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:aviva514:106378 2006-02-27T17:36:51Z 2006-02-27T17:38:52Z stop pretending. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:aviva514:106236 2006-02-21T00:01:04Z 2006-02-21T00:05:41Z the shining - badly drawn boy I am...<br />i am - doing this quiz because i have nothing better to do in life<br />i will - make the newsletter after this i guess<br />i like - watching crap tv (the bachelor is on tonight!)<br />i do - homework at the last minute<br />i have - a tummy ache :(<br />i licked - that's a funny word<br />i kissed - jason's pimp cane saturday<br />i chewed - some gum during my nap and it didn't get into my hair!<br />i drank - not a single drop of alcohol on saturday, yet i look drunk in all the pictures.<br />i ate - clair's week old thai of athens for lunch and it was still good :D<br />i slept - for a few hours this afternoon...can't live without my naps!<br />i watched - ferris bueller!<br />i listened to - cnn during my nap<br />i danced to - some michael buble this morning<br />i don't - want to have a lesson tomorrow :/<br />i won't - go to class on wednesday or thursday...suck it<br />i love - to dream<br />i hate - boys.<br />i miss - being a kid<br />i wish - i knew what's so wrong with me...<br />i yelled at - i haven't yelled in a while...well, not on purpose, anyway<br />i got annoyed with - myself for being so mopey and depressed yesterday<br />i cried over - someone else's personal issue last week...it was very weird<br />i visited - with my mom AND my brother last week<br />i wrote to - Lpatt on her facebook wall congratulating her on making GHP RA for the summer!!!<br />i called - my mom today<br />i fantasize - about the future and being happy<br />i wear - chacos in the freezing rain<br />i hope - i fall in love just once<br />i gave - up on boys forever yesterday<br />i received - probably an f on my geography exam today urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:aviva514:105803 2006-02-20T04:28:49Z 2006-02-20T04:28:49Z wtf is wrong with me?????<br /><br />AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:aviva514:105696 2006-02-15T22:12:07Z 2006-02-15T22:12:07Z <a href="http://kevan.org/johari?name=Uriel">DO IT.</a> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:aviva514:105310 2006-02-13T05:55:36Z 2006-02-13T05:55:36Z new favorite word: vajayjay.<br /><br />i love grey's anatomy. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:aviva514:105088 2006-02-10T21:24:35Z 2006-02-10T21:24:35Z lion's mane - iron and wine this is for no one in particular, i just think this song is beautiful.<br /><br />run like a race for family<br />when you hear like you're alone<br />the rusty gears of morning<br />and faceless, busy phones<br />we gladly run in circles<br />but the shape we meant to make is gone<br /><br />and love is a tired symphony<br />you hum when you're awake<br />and love is a crying baby<br />mama warned you not to shake<br />and love's the best sensation<br />hiding in the lion's mane<br /><br />so i'll clear the road, the gravel<br />and the thornbush in your path<br />that burns a scented oil<br />that i'll drip into your bath<br />the water's there to warm you<br />and the earth is warmer when you laugh<br /><br />and love is the scene i render<br />when you catch me wide awake<br />and love is the dream you enter<br />though i shake and shake and shake you<br />and love's the best endeavor<br />waiting in the lion's mane urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:aviva514:104845 2006-01-31T21:02:57Z 2006-01-31T21:02:57Z cannonball - damien rice somewhere along the line i lost my mind and now i can't find it. last night i showed up to exec at 7. i could have sworn it was at 7. it's been at 7:30 all year...yeah. today was just horrible. i found out how important a brain is for functioning (you can't miss something till it's gone right?) i hadn't been to any of my t/r classes in a week because of gmea (which was super btw) and i just completely forgot to do all my homework/practicing, so every class sucked. forgot about the piano assignments and didn't practice the right things. basically forgot how to play trombone in conducting, and then when i conducted it was horrible...absolutely awful. i just couldn't get my arms to do what they needed to. i looked a foo. forgot to do ear training and when we were doing melodic dictation...well there was a descending 2nd and i wrote an ascending 4th. i don't even know how. i just wasn't paying attention and i looked at it and i was like...that's not right. it's just been bad. i really need to take a nap, but i've got stuff to do for tomorrow, like study for my sociology test. that's actually VERY important because i probably failed the geog test yesterday because i bought the lab manual instead of the text book. what is WRONG with me?!?! my mind is gone!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!<br /><br />it's nap time. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:aviva514:104225 2006-01-25T04:20:33Z 2006-01-25T04:25:12Z milk and cereal - g love and special sauce <table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" bordercolor="660000" bgcolor="CC3300"> <tr> <td bgcolor="FFFFFF"><p align="center"><font size="+1"><strong><font color="CC3300" size="+2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br><br /> Tranzliate this Shiznit to Jive!</font></strong></font></p><br /> <p align="center"><a href="http://sites.gizoogle.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.gizoogle.com/jive/spinning_rims175.gif" width="175" height="172" hspace="10" vspace="10" border="0"></a> </p><br /> <p align="center"><font color="3C3A78"><strong><font color="CC3300" size="+2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Click the Spinn'n Rim Beotch!</font></strong></font></p><br /> <p align="center"> </p><br /> <p align="center"><font color="CC3300"><strong><font size="3"><a href="http://www.myYearbook.com"><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">www.myYearbook.com</font></a><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> -- Created<br /> by 2 high school students to kick myspace's ass</font></font></strong></font></p> <br /> </td> </tr> </table><br /><br />thanks, emily, for providing what i'm sure will be hours and hours of ghettolicious fun. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:aviva514:104020 2006-01-23T04:26:39Z 2006-01-25T04:57:10Z lilo and stitch - hawaiian roller coaster ride HOORAY!!!!! tonight was pinning, which is the beginning of the pledge period for the new mit's, and holy cow i'm so freaking excited! watching the process from the other side was so cool...very surreal. I HAVE THE BEST LITTLE SISTER EVER!!!! YAY EMILY!!! that's what you get for stalking someone for a year. plus getting paid to hang out with her is a good deal. the pledge class rocks so hard, and even though they have to do a lot, i'm almost jealous of them...ahhh good times. YAY!!!!!!<br /><br />anyway, i swear i'm not anti-lj, i'm just really lazy. this semester is pretty cool, i like all my classes, except for the fact that on MWF they're all back to back and i'm late to almost every one of them, esp. wednesday with my 8am lesson tagged onto it all. but it's all good. i'm really excited about starting my sociology minor, i already love it and i've only been to like 5 classes. geography is the other core i'm taking this semester. my mom majored in it at CU, so i thought it would be pretty cool...it's definitely pretty boring. although after reading ratemyprofessors, i thought it was going to be AWFUL but it's really not all that bad. the other new class i'm taking this semester is conducting, which i absolutely suck at, but absolutely love. tuesday/thursdays are AMAZING this semester, esp. because i get to go to ramsey with katie after glee club!!! hooray!!! and because i have the coolest ear training section ever. it's just going to be an overall great semester! i found out today that i don't have a position at hodgson to work at, so i'm going to try to find another on-campus job instead. it's all good. ok, well i will update more often, i promise!!<br /><br />time for homework... urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:aviva514:103875 2006-01-13T20:43:54Z 2006-01-13T20:43:54Z day-o (banana boat) - harry belafonte so i haven't updated this thing in a million and a half years, but i thought i'd share this tid bit with the world:<br /><br />i was just in the band office dropping off my first check for the china trip when romines came in from his office and announced to us all that he just got it so that we can get "study abroad" status (not hours or credit, but it's still cool) and some really good travel insurance for $1 a day or something for the china trip. woo-hoo. <br /><br />ok, well off to marietta for the weekend to play with katie mac on a concert with the cobb county honor chorus, back sometime sunday evening...<br /><br />and maybe i'll update about winter break and the first week of classes later...hehe i'm such a slacker ;) urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:aviva514:103496 2005-12-22T19:20:25Z 2005-12-22T19:20:54Z james blunt the random trip to the mountains was fun. katie mac and i left mayretta around 2 or 3 on sunday, and it took us a long and boring 2 1/2 hours to get up to apple mountain resort near clarkesville. it ended up just being dan, katie mac, and me. but it was cool. we went grocery shopping and got stuff for a few meals, and i swear i haven't eaten that badly in a long time. don't get me wrong everything tasted good, but i don't think we had a single "healthy" meal the entire time. it was fun. we watched some movies sunday night, and on monday we drove over to tallulah falls/gorge and went hiking around there. it was actually less hiking and more walking down (and then back up) 450 steps. holy crap we were winded by the end. but it was really cool. we "hiked" all the way down to the bottom and then jumped this gate that technically (legally) we probably shouldn't have crossed, but it's all good. we climbed on the rocks a little until dan fell in the river and got his entire leg soaked...it was hilarious. after that we climbed the bajillion steps and drove for a while to the dillard house for lunch, which i had never heard of but dan and katie mac had, and it was pretty much amazing. after lunch we came back to the cabin-thing and played risk. good times. then some dinner and more movies. we checked out and left early the next morning for helen, which was pretty random - an entire town that looked like bavaria, but all the shops had the same touristy stuff in them. we split a funnel cake for breakfast lol and then started our journey home...with a stop at the north georgia outlet mall. dan took forever in every store, so i'm pretty much never shopping with him again. and i was really sick and just wanted to go home...got home, took a nap, and then my mom took me to get a new phone! the service at the store was awful. we were there for an hour and a half and it didn't really seem like anyone there knew what they were doing, plus this one lady was kinda rude to me when i was picking out phones, but it's all good. i got my phone and i'm happy. yesterday i did some laundry and then a lot of nothing. and now i'm at my dad's. i just made an appointment to get ma hurr did tomorrow! so excited!! looks like we're not going to charleston, very sad. but i am going back to athens before the bowl trip, probably on the 30th, hooray! ok, time to go...do something else :) urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:aviva514:103270 2005-12-17T15:14:33Z 2005-12-17T15:16:21Z all my music is in athens or at my dad's :( i'm so bored already! i think though that once i get my license back (again) next week i'll be a lot less bored. but for now boredom rules. it's a good thing i'm not the only one who feels this way. dan's been home since tuesday and is bored out of his mind, so his parents rented him a cabin in the mountains and a few of us are gonna go up there tomorrow and chill until tuesday. that should be exciting. and when i get back i'm planning on moving into my dad's for the rest of break, because my mom and step dad's work schedules are really weird, so they're never home, and hanging out with josh on the rare occasion that he is home is not exactly the most fun ever. so yeah. oh, i finally saw <i>sense and sensibility</i>, and i must say that jane austen is the best author ever, even though i'm sure these movies do her books less justice than they deserve. holy poo. i'm planning on seeing <i>pride and prejudice</i> a THIRD time with my mom, because we decided we should see it together before it even came out. well, that's all that's really going on...a whole bunch of nothing. three days ago i would have begged to be able to do nothing. but its charm has passed. *sigh* i wish i hadn't come home from athens so early!!! BOO!!!