Exams

It's that most wonderful time of the year....... exam time. Crunch time. Stress time. It's not too bad this time around. I only have three exams next week, but all of them I need to pass with flying colors. I am more worried about my jury than anything. Jury's are when I get up and perform two memorized pieces in front of the voice faculty and they grade me. The grade is then the only grade I get for my minor.... It's a big deal to say the least. Vacation will be nice even though I'm NOT looking forward to working two jobs..... I guess their is not vacation for a person in debt.

The Best Things are FREE

My roommate (I call her Biv) is a journalist major.  She has an internship with Time Out Chicago.  A lil magazine that covers different things to do/places to go in Chicago.  For her assignment for the next issue she had to do a "Table of Four".  It's where she and three other people go and review a restaurant.  She asked me, Jamie, and Sara to go with her.  It was sooooo much fun.  We went to the Kit Kat Lounge.  It was amazing.  We had a table reserved for us when we got there.  They kept offering us drinks and food and appetizers and desserts just so we could try all the good food they had.  

It was different than any other place I've been because of two things.  One: it had four big projection TV screens on which they had a movie playing the whole time.  It was 80's night when we went so they had 80's movies on.  Two:  they had drag queens that came out every hour and preformed (aka dressed up and lip sync).  It was soooo funny and they were actually pretty good. 

Throughout the dinner we kept wondering if we would have to pay since when Sara did it last month she didn't.  Plus the waiter would just bring us things that he thought we would like, and we didn't know if we were going to get charged. 

The bill came.... and it said $229.....  BUT thankfully the total at the bottom was $0 due to Press.  :-D  

So I got free good food and drinks.... $229 dollars worth of it.  I said thanks to biv for letting me go and told her she should go into this business.  I was fun and I would definitely go back. 

O and ps: I'll be in the newspaper with the first pic above. :)

RA Position

Today I heard back after two weeks of nervousness about the RA position I applied for.  They didn't offer me a position right now, but said that I was well qualified and asked me to be on a reserve list.  So if any of the RA's drop this semester they would bring me on.  They said they simply did not have enough spaces for all the people that qualified.  

Part of me is ok with this, but part of me is not.  I'm happy cause I don't have to leave my room, I love my roommate and I didn't want to leave in the first place.  I'm unhappy cause now I have to work two jobs over break, and deal with my suite mates all yea, and I don't save the money from semester.  

I just really wish I would have gotten it, life would be easier.  What I got wasn't bad, but it's never easy getting silver when you want gold so bad. 

Put another nickle in... all I want is music music music

Today I had my second to last voice lesson. It's crunch time. I have juries in less than two weeks. For those of you who don't know a jury is when you go in front of the entire voice faculty with four songs prepared and memorized. You pick a song and sing it first and then they pick a song. Sometimes they pick two (they did that to me last year). It's quite nerve racking because this is the only grade you get in voice lessons (aka my entire minor). I did juries once before, last semester, and got an A. Nevertheless it is still nerve racking.
Anywho, I had a voice lesson today. And for some unknown reason it went extremely well. It shouldn't off. I still have a little bit of flem in me from my cold, I just ate like three pieces of chocolate before I went in, and I hadn't warmed up at all. But for some reason, it was great. I sounded really good, really mature, I did everything she taught me all semester. I was breathing right, and she said that that was the loudest she ever heard me. She said I came back from break a different person. My voice was completely on today.
When I walked out of the classroom Amy and Susan were sitting there like they always do and they said "Amanda, you are doing really well. You've improved so much just his semester!" That made me feel soooo good. It's always nice to hear good things from your peers.
It's weird cause I dont' feel as if I'm growing. I know I am, but I thought I grew more last semester than this semester. It made me feel good to know that I am even though I can't really feel it. I hope I can do this well on juries. Another A would be very nice.
Right now I have a song stuck in my head from when I was 5 and in dance class. I think it fits pretty well.

"Put another nickle in, in the nickelodeon. All I want is having you and music music music."