So this semester, in many ways, is looking up. I'm liking pretty much all my classes, even Chinese (which, considering how HORRIBLE I am at foreign languages, is a surprise). I didn't get into the musical =( but I got into a straight play: The Furies, aka The Eumenidies, as a Fury, which is super exciting. =) KP has been pretty busy, having just finished competing in the ICCAs (we didn't place, but we still did really well and I'm so proud of us) and we have several gigs coming up, not to mention a birthday! =) I've been really busy and it's been fun.

On the other hand, it sucks. I'm maxed out at 18 units, plus the play. I'm in class until 6pm every day except Friday, going straight from 2-6 without a real break, plus classes in the morning. My Mondays in the future are going to look like this: class 11:30-1, class 2-3:30, class 4-6, rehearsal 6-10 and KP rehearsal 10-12. It's going to be insane. I may or may not actually study.

Of course, that leaves Friday and Saturday totally open. So I'm actually unsure how to use all this free time. It's a little strange. And everyone I know is busy all the time, so it's hard to coordinate things with them on those weekends. So I got from all-day busy Mon-Thursday to almost nothing on Friday and Saturday. Sundays we have KP rehearsal and some Furies rehearsals sometimes.

So it's a double edged sword.  Of course, I'm the kind of person who'd rather have it all spread out so I'm doing a little bit every day, instead of everything at once and then a few days to rest. But we'll see how the semester goes.

I like lists. So here's a list of things that make me happy!

1) Last.fm. Such a great site for tracking your listening habits. Download the program (it's free, and it hasn't given me any problems, so I'd say it's pretty safe to download), and it'll track the songs and artists you listen to, then give you recommendations for other artists. I don't use the recommendations much, but I do love looking at my stats. I've listened to so much Lauren Kennedy, and I hadn't even realized! It's a great site.

2) 13 -  the new Broadway Musical. It's Jason Robert Brown, so automatically it's going to be pretty good, but this score is so much fun! It's quite poppy at parts, but I enjoy it. I'm obsessed with some of the songs, like Opportunity and It Can't Be True. And these songs are sung by 13 year olds! I never had this much talent as them when I was their age. It's amazing. If you like popular music or Broadway, definitely give it a try. It's a lot of fun.

3) My Alphasmart Neo. It's a great little gadget that lets you type anywhere - basically a portable word processor. And now that I've installed the correct drivers for my computer, it works perfectly. Even though since I downloaded it my printer has stopped working correctly... hmm... but whatever. It's a great thing to have. I love it. It's named Nemo. =)

4) Singing. I'm in an a cappella group at USC, and it's so much fun! When we're on, we're on. And we have our first performance with the new members this week! I'm excited. It's a small show, nothing noteworthy, but I have high hopes for our future as a group. (We've only been a group since February, so we've made strong strides this year. It's exciting.)

5) Meeting word count at NaNoWriMo. I haven't been writing every day, more like every other day, but since I always write more than 1667 (usually somewhere in the 2000 range) I haven't gotten too far behind. Yay. And after I wrote my daily word count, I went on the forums and got excited again. I'd be writing more now if I didn't have 4 pages of a draft of a paper due tomorrow. Maybe I should work on that..... hmm....

6) Cool new playlists in iTunes. =) Enough said. (Especially ones that have songs with amazing harmonies. I LOVE HARMONIES! (I'm also a music nut. Can you tell?))

7) Smiley faces. Because they're happy!!! Hehehehe.....

8) Q10. It's such a great program for Windows. It makes awesome typewriter noises when you type, it's full screen and I have a pink font color! It's cute. I love it.

9) My boyfriend. Because I love him. And he makes me happy!

10) New music. I just found a song from Shrek the Musical of their website (for free! Download it) and it's very cute. Plus it has Sutton Foster, who's absolutely amazing, so I like it a lot. I also just got Christina Aguilera's newest song, which I don't love but I don't hate either. And, of course, 13.

2 hours of a cappella singing rehearsal shouldn't be a big deal. I do it all the time, several times a week.
But tonight, singing so many high G-Bs, trying to control the vibrato and keep it soft so it balances with everyone else.... ahhhhhh!
Plus a round of high belting, which the highest notes (an F!!) I have only recently developed... and we sing it way sharp. Double ahh!!!!
(At least I can sing an F now. That's really exciting for me... I thought my belting range ended at E flat. But it's getting higher and higher! Hooray!! (now, granted, I can't sing that song more than 3 times in a row before my voice starts to give out... but still. It's exciting.))
So... no voice. But no need to talk for the rest of the night, so no biggie!

TiVo didn't record Privileged because of the Obama victory. Which is great, because I'm really happy he won... but also a bummer. I'd like to have seen the episode. I guess it's off to internet television methods to watch the show!

I've gotten a little off track with NaNoWriMo, but if I write a few extra words a day I'll be fine. I'm not worred. I can finish... I just need to get the willpower again to start. But I've been writing on and off during boring classes, so I think I'll be ok.

Homework time! Lets get this massive Philosphy exercise out of the way.