brokenrecord | Entries tagged with wind ensemble

( Being Erica )

I'm a member of Entertainment Weekly's Front Panel thing where you give your opinions about various stuff, just because I like giving my opinion about TV shows and movies and all that stuff. Anyways, yesterday in the mail I got a USB drive from them with the pilot from a new show or something. I don't know, I haven't watched it yet, but OMG THE USB DRIVE IS ADORABLE. I realize this is not what I should be focusing on, but seriously. It's in the shape of like a casette tape, and I don't even know, it's just really awesome. Also, it's really cool to be sent a new TV show to look at! It doesn't seem like a show I'd be interested in from the name and picture of it, but I'll maybe check it out this weekend if I have time. In any case, I'll post a picture of the USB because omg so cute. I hope I don't have to return it.

I think I'm quitting Wind Ensemble next semester. We had a meeting yesterday where our conductor told us that next semester (and also basically all next year) we're going to small ensembles instead of the big Wind Ensemble. ( Wind Ensemble talk )

I went to go through analyzing my results with my Directed Research adviser this morning, and I discovered that I accidentally left out one question for one of the scales I used. I feel so stupid. It's really not a big deal she said, since it's only one question and loads of people have done it before, but I feel stupid. Also, I have to go through all my data because some of the questions were about how many hours a person did an activity, and many people put a range, such as 2-3, but when I downloaded the results into Excel, Excel decided to automatically make 2-3 a date, so it displays as 02/03/2009 instead of the actual result. And when I change the format of the cells to general (instead of date), it gets all screwy. So I have to do it manually. ugh. I thought my data was all cleaned up for analysis, but it had so many issues, so now I have to clean it more and then meet my adviser again tomorrow to go through it. sigh. At least in 2 weeks this will all be over!

Current Mood: stressed

My bad mood from Tuesday or Wednesday or whatever continued for a few days and I was going to make a post about things I was feeling bitchy about, but today was actually really great and it kind of bodes well for the rest of the semester, so now I'm going to make a post about things I'm feeling bitchy about and things that are making me happy:

( Things I'm Feeling Bitchy About )

( Things Making Me Happy )

I randomly feel like watching old Supernatural episodes. Mostly season 2, which is the only season I have on DVD and I haven't even watched it yet (I got it for Christmas). I also feel like watching season 1, though. And season 3, kind of. Ok, so I guess I just want to marathon it all! We'll see, though. I'm going to spend this afternoon cleaning my room (it is so ridiculously messy. It was a mess when I left and it's just gotten worse since I've been back) and then I don't know what.

Current Mood: good

Ugh I got switched to a different German lab for the second semester in a row! I plan out my schedule so perfectly so it's exactly how I want it, and then it gets screwed up! And at least last semester it was ok because it was the only class of the day and late in the afternoon and I was good friends with the people in the lab. This semester I got switched from Monday at 3:30 to Tuesday at 1:10. That time is so awkward because the lab goes until 2:10 and then I have class at 3, so it's like it's not enough time to do much of anything, so I just end up losing nearly an hour out of the day. And now I have another awkward break on Mondays (which, ok, I would have already had on Wednesdays as well, but still!) where class gets out at 3:20 and then I have Wind Ensemble at 4:45. So it's enough time to get to my room and procrastinate, but I know I actually won't do any work during that period. I might as well have class then so at least I'm doing something productive! And I got switched out of the lab that had my two closest friends and into a lab with one girl I'm friends with but not as good friends with, and another girl that I don't really like but don't really dislike. I guess it's not the end of the world, but I was so happy with how things were and I'm frustrated because it got screwed up last semester too. sigh.

Also, I'm tired and kind of hungry since I stupidly stayed up until 2 AM and I didn't get quite enough sleep but I missed breakfast and I'm going to be having dinner late when it's ridiculously busy because of Wind Ensemble.

I don't know, I guess I'm just not in a great mood right now. And I know they're all stupid, trivial things that really don't have much importance in the grand scheme of things, but they still don't bother me any less. And I'm really not looking forward to Wind Ensemble tonight because our usual conductor is taking this semester off and so we have a new conductor and I really like the old one. I mean, I haven't met the new one yet so he'll probably be fine, but I guess I'm not a huge fan of change when things are working well as they are. And I want to quit Wind Ensemble. I like it, but the time is just inconvenient and I really don't like having to make an extra trip in the bitter cold and it just kind of screws up my Monday and Wednesday nights. I think I would have quit by now except I need 4 consecutive semesters to get my fine arts credit and I've gotten through 3 so it'd be silly to quit now. Even if it is irritating me at the moment. sigh.

Ok, I'm going to go waste some time instead of doing things I should be (like cleaning my room, which is an absolute mess right now and I really need to get to at some point, or doing Differential Equations homework) before the first Wind Ensemble rehearsal of the semester.

Current Mood: bitchy

So somehow I actually managed to figure out when and where to meet with the other two people in my math group and we all showed up in the right place at about the right time and it all worked out. I'm kind of shocked. And somewhat proud of myself, since I hate planning things and I really suck at it. And we've kind of divided up the 5 questions we have to answer and two of them are solved and I was the one who solved both of those questions which also makes me feel awesome. So that's going way better than I thought it ever would. We're meeting again on Sunday and we actually have a time and place already, so hopefully this will work out and this project grade won't bring down my grade in the class too much.

Tonight there's this "retreat" for Wind Ensemble. It's kind of weird. It's like... we work on music for a few hours, and then from 9:15-10:00 our director is going to play polka music on his accordion and I guess we're supposed to dance the polka and get to know each other better and stuff, and then we're going to watch Fantasia (I think the 2000 version) from 10:00 to midnight. I kind of don't want to go, but I don't really have a choice. Oh well. Maybe it won't be too bad. But also, well. One of the people in my math group was talking to me after the other person had left and she was like "Oh, can I have your phone number? Are you going to be working on homework on Saturday? Around when?" and all of a sudden I had plans for her to come work on math homework with me in my room on Saturday afternoon. And my room's a mess since I had my mattress on my floor for awhile and I just put it back up last night (as much as I don't want a lofted bed, there's just no room in my room for my bed to be on the ground) but everything else is just kind of everywhere because there was no room for anything with my mattress on the floor, and anyways, basically I have to clean my room if anyone else wants to go inside it. And I have class until 4:30 and I'm supposed to meet with my math group for a little bit after class and I'll probably have dinner at 5:30ish, so I'll basically only have 2 hours to to clean my room up. And it's not even definite plans, so Murphy's Law says that if I don't clean up, she'll show up, and if I do clean up, she won't. Oh well. I do need to clean things up.

I've been watching the Secret Diary of a Call Girl (I caught up on the first season sometime over the summer), and oh god I'm loving this season. Callum Blue! I love him! The first season was pretty good (I mostly just watched for Billie Piper, and I started shipping Hannah and her best friend (I forget his name now. I fail) towards the end of this season), but oh man I really love Callum Blue and his character and it's making me so much more exciting about this show. The premiere of Supernatural was also pretty excellent.

Current Mood: busy

We had our Wind Ensemble concert last night, which actually went much better than I expected. I didn't screw up any of my solos, which is good. I really like the Threepenny Opera music; I'm kind of disappointed I won't get to play it anymore. Oh well.

I still don't have Paintshop Pro. I'm very bitter about this. Oh well. I have plenty to do this weekend as it is. I don't really need PSP this second. I hate that there isn't a way to track the package, like with Amazon and all. All I know is that it's shipped. I really hope it comes soon.

I think I'm falling behind on my 150 Movies this year thing. I should be at 25 by the end of February, and right now I'm only at 19. I am going to watch 3 more today, and one in my psych group on Tuesday (we're also watching a film in Film Analysis Thursday, but it's Citizen Kane, which I've already seen. We might be watching a movie Tuesday that I haven't seen, though, so that would be one more), so that would get me to at lest 23, which isn't bad, I guess. Especially since it's kind of out of proportion, since I'll probably be watching more movies this summer, when I don't have school to worry about. Plus, watching the Oscars always makes me want to watch more movies, so I'll probably watch more than I'm planning to in the next week or so.

Anyways, I'm so excited for the Oscars! I'm going to do a post about my predictions/my choices, but probably not until tomorrow. I'm planning on watching Michael Clayton, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, and possibly La vie en rose tonight (I love iTunes rentals/Netflix instant watch!). But first I need to get some schoolwork done so I don't feel guilty spending all day watching movies and all day tomorrow watching Oscars stuff.