I was watching a free movie (Ray) in the Student Union the other night and they were having some technical difficulties with the film (it got tangled). While we were waiting for it to be fixed, this guy walks up on stage and proposes to his girlfriend! Everyone was going "oooooh" and when she said yes, there was loud cheering and a huge standing ovation! I mean there were at least 150 people in that auditorium!

Hey folks! Just a quick little update. Been neglecting all my journals as of late. Maybe that's because nothing remotely exciting is going on. I'm wondering if I should go ice skating with the info & library science folks. I dunno...I need some sort of excitement in my life. Heh. I can't skate, but hell. It'll be fun anyway.

I've been working on my website and getting my new portfolio up and running. I accidentally destroyed the other one last year when I deleted the database. But now I'm getting it back in place. And I'm going to be taking on several projects this semester to add more meat to it. So far most of the stuff in there is work done on my own time. But now I will be working on more sites (hope I'm not killing myself here folks) plus all the class projects, so that will help bring me up to caliber. And starting next week, you know what's gonna happen: JOB SEARCH!!! Every single day I will look for a job, because I gotta have one. In a perfect world, I'll have some kind of a job that starts in June. After the 11th (why the 11th? I can't say just yet).

I still have my job from last summer, and there's still a lot of room to grow with that job. If I don't have a new job right away, I can continue to work for him until I find one. Or I can continue to work with him on top of a new job, because working for him is more of an "I'll-call-you-when-I-need-you" kinda thing.

Okie. Ttyl.

Ermm...I'm really pissed that my nice duckie layout is gone. I like this new version of tabulas and appreciate all Roy is doing, but grr. I just miss my old layout. LOL.
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I'm back from tour!! It was SO FUN!! I had an amazingly fun time. The mountains were awesome. Took a chairlift up and everything. Tour really helped me ease the transition between winter break and classes starting. Oh, and I did my little solo once. It was a sextet however, since there were 2 people per part. It went well, considering we didn't have any time to practice, lol.

So far my classes seem interesting. A lot of work, but I am refreshed and ready to work hard. I even bought a monthly planner and already marked due dates and exams. There will be NO surprises this semester. I'll be able to SEE when things are due and how much time I have left. I'm a visual person, so looking at dates marked on a calendar is much more effective in curing my procrastination than a traditional daily planner. I Okie, first impressions on MWF classes:

11:00-12:50 - JOMC 80: Begining Photojournalism - I was dreading this class, but it seems like it's going to be VERY interesting. I think I'll like photography better than audio and video. It seems easier. It does look like a lot of work though, but I'm ready. This class meets MW only.

2:00-2:50 - PSYC 28: Intro to Personality - My obsession with the MBTI made me want to take this class. It looks very interesting and seems like it'll be an easy A. I'll enjoy the readings and activities as well because I'm already deeply interested in the subject matter!

4:00-5:50 - JOMC 189: Multimedia Design & Production - This is supposed to be the hardest class in the Multimedia sequence. It focuses strictly on ActionScript. We only have 3 projects (one of which is a class project that's due in like 2 1/2 weeks), but it's a lot of work according to the professor. I do think he's exaggerating the difficulty level a bit. Still, I'm prepared for the hard work. I need to become proficient in ActionScript anyway.

5:15-6:45 - Women's Glee Club - I had to talk my JOMC 189 professor into letting me leave JOMC 189 10 minutes early so I can get to Glee Club by 5:45. I'll have to be 30 minutes late each time, but that's better than not doing it at all. There's NO WAY I'm giving up Glee Club. Singing in a choir keeps me sane. Plus, I really like the people in Glee Club. I just love it to death.

I still have 2 more classes, JOMC 189.7 and INLS 124. Reports on them tomorrow!!!

In less than 2 hours I’ll be at Hill Hall, rehearsing for Glee Club. We load the busses around 2 and should be in Winston Salem (our first stop) around 4 or so. Like every year, I’m really nervous about this tour. Maybe even more nervous this year.

I would be blasé if I wasn’t doing a solo. But no. I just had to audition for that solo and just had to do it, right? Now I’m deeply regretting it. I’m afraid I’ll make a complete fool of myself. I mean, I know it’s not like I’ll be singing by myself. So it shouldn’t be that scary. I’m just…nervous. I don’t want to make a fool of myself. I don’t want to look visibly nervous. I think I’m more nervous about being nervous. Sigh. Well I’ll just think of the current CHHS choral teacher, who makes the students sing in quartets in front of the class as an assessment. I mean, I really believe I may be nervous now, but once our conductor rehearses the three of us singing it at least once, I’ll feel loads better. Just imagining it is scary, but doing it I think is actually fun. I’ll just have to pretend I’m in my room or not even look at the audience. It’s better if they dim the lights, but they never do. Sigh.

Well I have everything packed. My new suitcase I got for Christmas and the bag that came with it (monogrammed with my initials), and my backpack. That’s it. Sigh. I don’t want to go. But it’s kind of too late now. Ah well. Come the 11th, we'll see what story I'll have to tell.

It's 2005 and I'm mucho happy (well as happy as I can be, considering the tsunamis). Got another week and a half before school starts up again. Spending the latter part of that week on tour with the Glee Club. We're going to end up in Tennesee. Should be very fun. Then my last semester of college begins. And then I'll graduate and maybe do something fun (can't say what that is yet) and then get a job.

Hope everyone has a lotta luck in 2005!!!