tripod

ordered a tripod. wooo!
also chamber singing for this week was cancelled so we are finally resting.
today I went to/had
class
food with people
class
room
library
food without people
library
room
art studio
food with person
room

riveting.


oh! but also I hung out with Anna the other day and she told me there is a ceramics club! I contacted the head and there is a kiln, pug machine, one wheel and "tons of clay"
how happy am I? very happy.

Saturday AM shift

My application for emergency driving didn't go through, but Jasper contacted me asking if I was interested because he saw me at one of the mandatory meetings. Turned out he already staffed, since he didn't see my application, but someone had dropped from the Sat AM shift, so I have a job again.
We are both desperate I guess and take what we can get? I was starting to worry I wouldn't get even the amount of money I got last semester.

I will now go and make myself some black tea with ginger and honey.

illegal bunny

The only reason I remember what happened last week is because my cork-board says stuff like
"Sunday
@10 skype: Yulka
@2   kline : Ari
@3 library : Brit
Tuesday
baking Margaret
Wed
@320 studio: Laura Battle"

Of course there was other stuff, unplanned meals with friends and study sessions. Laura Battle is now my art adviser (yesss!) The concerts are done, they went well. Baking never happened because Margaret was busy. Adrienne came back from visiting friends last night. Two of my friends dropped off and picked up their bunny (Bunbun, gender unknown) because their building was having the sprinklers fixed. We aren't supposed to have animals that large, but I know of at least three bunnies on campus. I finished The Bell Jar a couple days ago. I threw up twice last week and now I have a really bad cold, but I've only missed one class. I should go to the studio at 4:30, when the rooms free up, but I don't know if my nose will be stable enough to allow me to draw without blowing my nose every two minutes.

Midnight in Annandale-on-Hudson

Went to see Midnight in Paris at Weis. It's not really a movie that I would re-watch, but I did because everyone else went.
and later there was a weird fake-gambling for raffle tickets at the campus center.
either way, waking up tomorrow morning to go to rehearsal at 10, which lasts until 6, lunch provided. Botstein's conducting.

Double Bed

Yesterday we got on Margaret's giant double bed (her roommate is taking a semester off, so she pushed the beds together and its awesome for watching movies)
50/50 (so many weepy ladies in the room for that one)
Mystery Team (so many wildly contorted faces for that one)

and here are some random quotes from James Bagwell while rehearsing Elijah (they might not be as funny without knowing who James is or being in chamber singing):

"Imagine you are trying to scare a little kid. Imagine how fun that is! Of course, you don't have to parent them after the fact"

(on Elijah ordering all the the Baal prophets to be slain)
"that's not compassionate conservationism"

"A check minus is the worst thing a teacher could give, not to hurt your developmental sensitivity. It's like a smiley face with a stake through its forehead"

(on consonants)
"Otherwise it ends up being a tiny ghat and it needs to be a horsefly"

(trying to explain to the sopranos that we need to come in less strong)
"It's like...I'm not going to make that metaphor... (we sing again, so he starts)
...you have to kiss first! or hold hands at least. If a guy comes up to you in a subway and asks you on a date...(makes a shovel digging motion) I'm just digging myself a grave here"

James W. Kalat

taking a break from drawing by starting my 'biological psychology' textbook which is fantastic because
a) it has a picture of neurons, a yawning fox and a drinking pigeon on the third page of the book
b) "Biological psychology is the most interesting topic in the world. No doubt every professor or textbook author feels that way about his or her field. But the others are wrong. Biological psychology really is the most interesting topic"

I haven't yet gotten past the first page because I had to write this down, but hopefully there are a lot of other reasons that this textbook is fantastic other than the ones I have already found.

forgetful

forgot my

• rain jacket
• India ink
• portfolio to keep things in (I can make one though, but still)
• binders
• cell phone charger
• pair of large socks to use as slippers
• sent five books home instead of here, so I don't have any current books for Other Romanticisms

plus I'm just stressed for tomorrow, I have class from 11:50 until 6:40, with two 20 minute breaks to get from one class to the next, and I'll have to carry all my drawing supplies with me the entire time unless I figure something out. plus for some reason I feel like the professor is going to eat me alive, I guess because I just really care about this drawing class. She told us to bring everything so I guess I'll just go and get some paper tomorrow morning to make a portfolio, hopefully it won't cost to much but my paper is 18 by 24 where the hell am I going to get cardboard that large?