07.28.09
Posted in Uncategorized at 11:38 am by Abby
I seem to be rather bad about keeping a blog. Or three. ^^” Oh well.
Life continues on, and summer has almost gone as I prepare to student teach. Otherwise, there isn’t much to actually say on here. Musically, I’m enjoying the freedom of playing what I want, which is largely Scott Joplin and Super Mario Bros. theme music. Oh, and music for a wedding.
I suppose the main reason I decided to put anything on here at all, is becauses I came by and saw all of those little blue word highlights all over the place. O.o I find them to be… very distracting. And a bit annoying. And rather useless since this is one blog that really doesn’t have any readers, minus myself. Ahh well. Someday, perhaps. Someday.
-Abby
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03.22.09
Posted in Uncategorized at 11:38 am by Abby
One would think a student who pays a good 6-7k a year for tuition only would be at a university that can take care of its students. As it is, I’m only barely ‘tentatively’ accepted to student teach this fall. Why? Because the university isn’t updating my audit to get rid of the small list of classes that /I don’t need/ for my degree. As a piano major, I don’t take vocal diction, and I’m opted out of group piano lessons. But they’re still listed anyways. The music department sent in, over a month ago, for the corrections to be made but the university has yet to make them. If they don’t get around to it by the end of this semester, I won’t be allowed to student teach. -_- Not annoying at all…
Hopefully they get things done!
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03.01.09
Posted in Uncategorized at 8:52 pm by Abby
9:00 am – I get up, take a shower, and eat a light breakfast of Blueberry Mini Wheats.
10:00 am – warm up scales on the piano, start painting finternails, Alia comes online and I begin rp’ing with her.
12:00 pm – Finally finish fingernails. Still rp’ing.
12:15 pm – Eat a light lunch of one pizza slice. Still rp’ing.
1:30 pm – Finish getting ready to leave. Still rp’ing.
1:40 pm – Leave for campus.
2:00 pm – Arrive on campus, change into formal, head to the concert hall to find Dr. D already there.
2:10 pm – Begin working on warm-ups again.
2:15 pm – Parents arrive. Get programs put out on music stand in the lobby.
2:35 pm – More people begin to arrive, I go backstage and sit there waiting to begin the recital.
3:00 pm – Call the technician because he didn’t get the broken piano string cut off of the second concert grand.
3:05 pm – Begin the program.
- Slight mistake in Prelude in D Major by Rachmaninoff, repeat about four measures and on track for the rest.
- Rock out on Polichnelle by Rachmaninoff. Hey, I knew I’d not get it perfect no matter the tempo. So boo-yah.
- Discover that nail polish and glissando’s don’t mix. Leave lovely blue streak down half the keys of the $100,000 concert grand piano. Oops.
4:00 pm – Everyone claps, little cousin, looking VERY proud, carries up two bouquets of a dozen roses. I give one to Dr. D. Little cousin comes back carrying a blue gift bag which she gives to me, which I then give to Dr. D. Dr. D says I really shouldn’t have.
4:30-ish – I give my little cousin one of the roses from my bouquet. She was still holding it with both hands, kissing the rose, when they leave. ^_^ So adorable.
5:00 pm – I change clothes, go with my cheer squad to the mall. Parents and other family members head to buffet.
5:20 pm – get sixteen inches cut off of my hair. It’s now chin length which is shorter than I’ve ever had it before.
5:45 pm – Arrive at buffet and eat with family.
7:00 pm – Return to my place. Share the fun with friends. More RP’ing with Alia.
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01.19.09
Posted in Uncategorized at 9:21 am by Abby
Interesting thoughts can come at interesting times. When going to let the dogs out last night, I was fortunent enough to notice movement in the shadows by the house. It was a opossum, and as the little ankle-bitters (still inside) went ballistic, the creature came right out in front of the doorway. Just a glass door pane (and sunroom walls) dividing about a three foot space between us and it. Of course, I went for my phone (and the camera specifically) but it was scared off by the dogs and gone by my return.
Then came the fun of getting my lantern and a good flashlight to search around the backyard in the dark to be certain it was well away before letting out the dogs.
It was an interesting situation, one that reminded me that often times things that are, in fact, constantly around us develop a strong ‘out of sight, out of mind’ opinion. I know there’s opossums around. And coons, deer, coyotes, and who knows what else. But I don’t see them, so that awareness is in the background and all but ignored until a situation awakens it.
I think that this experience is one that can also be related to teaching. Events exist, students have lives outside of the classroom that affects them, that exist and are very real, but are out of sight of the teacher. As a future teacher, I need to learn to become consciously aware of the things that I am not a part of, by being aware of the surroundings around me to identify the consequences.
After all, if I hadn’t noticed the motion in the shadow, the dogs probably wouldn’t have won.
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01.02.09
Posted in Uncategorized at 9:29 am by Abby
Happy New Year!!
The beginning of this year is the beginning of the home stretch of college study in my life. My music will be finished this Spring with my Sr. Recital, my teaching will be finished this Fall with student teaching. Then I’ll be done with my Music Education. 2010 will finish off my English degree.
Finally reaching this part of my life is quite exciting. I’ve spent the last four and a half years to reach this, and while it isn’t over yet, it’s close enough that it really feels achieveable. That and I’m so far into both degrees that I’d be a complete fool to even want to change either one now.
I see this New Year as being one filled with good completitions, and hopefully new beginnings as well.
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11.16.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 9:46 am by Abby
So, after spending weeks debating with myself on the values (and the addiction) of joining that delicious public bookmarking site place, I did so. While I spent almost an hour messing around on there and adding lots of rather pointless bookmarks to my list, I think overall it’ll be a really handy thing to have. Good for saving things that I might not want to be instantly accessible to me but might want to have in the future.
Of course, talking about something called Delicious has lead to me simply having to add a picture of something simply… delicious. ^_^
Pic from here.
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09.04.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 11:43 am by Abby
In continuation of my last post, my website does seem to have a high intelligence rate when it comes to figuring out just what Dihydrogen Monoxie actually is. Two days after I set up the poll, I now have five votes against the proposed ban, and one vote for. My inbox tally is up to three statements to me on the fact that they know what it actually is, and the yea-sayer figured it out as well.
So out of six votes (so far), I have six voters who all individually figured out what Dihydrogen Monoxide is.
I have the strong suspicion however that any further votes given will be too strongly affected by the conversation that has started up on the thread that the poll is in to trust that they figured it out on their own. While no one has stated the answer, those that have started posting have had great fun by saying everything possible EXCEPT what it actually is. So the experiment is now pretty much over with. Still, it was fun to do and has left the members of my website with a fun smuggness that we are (self-declared) smarter than average. And left me with the knowledge that sometimes things won’t go quite as predicted.
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09.02.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 3:41 pm by Abby
Part of my technology class today revolved around a website and Youtube video that dealt with the banning of Dihydrogen Monoxide. A very dangerous and potentially lethal substance that can cause death, skin damage, sickness, and has been proven to improve the abilities of atheltes. This substance is also better known as H2O. Water.
In the video, an experiment was done at some kind of rally to get people to sign a petition to have it banned, and hundreds of people end up signing this petition. The video didn’t mention if anyone actually figured out what it was or not out of all the people they asked.
But I found the idea quite amusing, and so set up a similar experiment on my website to see what would happen to it. A site filled almost entirely of upper high school/ college age/graduated people, it’d be interesting to see who paid attention in their Chemistry classes. I set up the poll, linked the website against the evil DHMO, and waited.
Within twelve hours, I’ve had two vote No, and received one private message of: “Oh yes. *eyes the name of poll* Let’s just up and ban water.” *
It will be interesting to see if anyone else votes, and since I have it set up that a person cannot see what the votes are until AFTER they themselves have voted, it eleminates the risk of them being affected by the votes of others.
* – To protect the privacy of the members of my website, I will not be giving out names/webnames/or the address to/name of my website unless permission is given by the individual (in the case of the middle) or it is very specifically needed (in the case of the latter).
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08.20.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 9:38 am by Abby
It is a pleasure and honor to have you visiting me on this fine and lovely day!
This is my blog, much of it will be done as assigned by the education class that I am taking that has this as one of the requirements, but some of it will also be various things that I come across that are of facination to myself and of interesting in either a musical or educational sense.
Thanks for stopping by, and while there isn’t much to be found around here at the moment, expect quite a bit of expansion to take place in the next few months. ^_^
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