the princess talks...

Random fact of the day... I think I'm a senior at beautiful MLC now. I believe that's because I've taken way too many credits. The sad part is that this will do nothing to my graduation date - I still have two wonderful years left. The happy part is that I might get to schedule my classes with the grade ahead of me.

It's cold outside... and not just a bit cold, but super cold. Like it doesn't get above 0. I'm not ok with this. If someone could fix it, I'd be eternally greatful.

Well, I didn't quite get the snow day I wanted, but we did have a two hour delay, so at least I got to sleep a bit. Or at least I would have had it not been for my mysterious leg pains... I wish someone could figure those out... but I guess there's not much I can do about it until I get home. Anyways... clinical was fun. I got to teach three lessons - one with only five minutes notice. But she teaches straight out of the book, so it was all laid out for me. I have two rather contrasting thoughts about that... one is that following the book like that is not very creative, nor does it require much prep. My other thought is that experts were paid lots of money and spent lots of time to put together those lesson plans, so why not use them? It's all rather confusing... but after hearing more about all the stuff she has to do, I understand why - she simply doesn't have time to come up with lesson plans for all those classes.

Anyways... my teaching went fine. The 2nd graders did end up crawling on the floor acting like cats for a bit, but that happens sometimes. I think they learned something. I've found that it's going to be awhile before I'm good at realizing how much time things take. My lessons didn't quite go as long as they needed to, but you can always count on kids to come up with random questions to fill time, so that's what I did.

I conduct tomorrow... and for the first time, I haven't had any personal catastrophes the night before I conduct. I should go to bed pretty soon before I have to eat my words. It's just been a funny cycle the past few times I've had to conduct both in this class and last year - something (and usually a something with boys) has gone terribly wrong, usually making me lose much sleep, and being unprepared. So you'd think this time, with the lack of catastrophe (not that I'm spelling that right... ooh... I just noticed a spell check button (yes, I'm slow sometimes...) I will have to press that... anyways) I would be more prepared.... and I guess that I am... but I just find it hard to practice without a choir in front of me, or music or something... not that I can't hear the music in my head... because I can... I just don't know. Somedays I'm not so sure I'm cut out for this, and I really think I should consider being a wedding planner... maybe tomorrow...

So I really didn't think that thie blogger.com place would still have my blog from over a year ago, but indeed they do, which quite amazes me, as I would think they'd need the server space or something. But that's pretty cool. I kinda wish that I didn't have to read some of the posts that I have on here, but I guess there's a reason we can't change the past. Life is strange and boys are strange. Just a year ago I was so convinced I was settled down. And then it fell apart, as did I for awhile. But all is good now, although I have had issues with no less than four boys since the beginning of the school year. But such is life. I believe that God is attempting to tell me there are more things in life than boys - and would you believe I'm believing it? I turned down a date today, and with a totally datable person. Does that sound normal for me? No... but I'm growing up.

Heard an amazing choir tonight - a boy's choir from the Chezk Republic. (is that how you spell that? no... but I'm too tired to look it up.) What I wouldn't give for the range and pureness of tone of those ten year old boys... it's sad to envy a little boy's voice... but I do. The cutest thing was when they did a Broadway medly with Somewhere Over the Rainbow - their accents make V sounds into Ws, so it was Somewhere Ower the Rainbow... very adorable. And I recognized some of the songs they sang from music history class, so I guess I'm learning something.

Clinical tomorrow... that's actually going pretty well - at least better than I thought it would on my first day. However, I'm still praying for a snow day! I haven't had one since grade school, and it would be nice to have the day to relax.