Sorry

I here by promise to update once I get home for Christmas break. Until then you will simply have to make due with the fact that I'm studying for my four exams that are in the next four days. Sorry!

Papers

For the life of me I cannot write this paper!
As a music student I spend most of my time practicing music, improving my musical skills (not very much like nunchuck skills), and completing theory assignments. Thus I hardly ever write papers. Except for the occasional one, like the one that I'm desperately trying to write now.
I've been blaming my lack of proper research skills on the fact that this is only the fourth paper I've written all semester and the other three were merely reflection papers on classes I had attended.

So why is it so hard for me to write papers? I pumped out a kajillion papers while in TREAD and now all the sudden an eight page research paper (a.k.a a paper where you are given all the information already you just need to reorganize it in order to present others research [supposedly it's a good learning experience]) is staring me in the face and I want to run and hide in a wardrobe that will take me far, far away.
In the time that it has taken me to write the less than 100 words I have put together as an intro, I'm almost certain we could have solved 63 Rubik's cubes, made a pie that looks like a UFO, preformed a reenactment of every episode of Friends (it was the only TV show I could think of that's been on the air for more years then man has been on the moon), and found a way to create an anti virus program that would show you a little monster eating the evil viruses that infect our computer (and I have no idea how you would even begin to create a program). Oh dear me.
So there you have it. If anyone has a great way for me to stay focused and accomplish this paper before it's due on Tuesday, please let me know!

Lack of Update

The reason I haven't updated in two weeks is due to the fact that I haven't been alive. Whatever I caught seemed to have sucked most of the life out of me.

I had been living in the schools quarantine room for a week (I was most thankful for the privacy of my own bathroom) where I spent my time sleeping, watching movies, drinking plenty of liquids (thanks Kylie), sleeping, talking to my mommy on the phone, visiting friends from a distance, sleeping, attempting to do homework, and some more sleeping. Which is why there hasn't been an update.
Unfortunately there is nothing new to report about my life because of the fact that I have either been sick in bed or at the Urgent Care Clinic waiting to see a doctor or attempting to catch up on my homework...my life is so thrilling!

The Theory Assignment that is Never Done

Hours and hours I've spent working on this assignment
Pouring over notes and rests
Trying to figure out how to make sense of this great big line of black dots on a page
Instead of sweet completion,
I am left with utter confusion
I would like to say that I'm good at music,
That it comes naturally for me
But it would seem that Second Species Counterpoint desires to prove me wrong
I suppose that you could say maybe I'm too creative for it's limitations
Or maybe that the context in which it is constructed does not suit my learning style
You might also say however,
that I just don't get it and should go running through a field to try and clear my head
Or that today just isn't my day
Any old way you look at it,
I've got a few hours left before it needs to be slid underneath the door to my professors office
And yet, here I am blogging about it

Winter

Winter is here at CMU. It seems like just yesterday that it was fall. Well, actually it was. The leaves on the trees were green, the sun was shining, and then all of the sudden the wind blew in, the leaves instantly fell from the trees (it was the strangest thing I had ever seen), and the snow started falling. It was a strange and beautiful sight all at once.
I've always loved the first snow fall. At home we always play a Christmas CD or two on the first snow fall, so this morning Kylie and I played Ella Fitzgerald's, "Ella Wishes you a Swinging Christmas." It was a great way to start winter.
Here's a look-see at what the weather is like outside.

Not as snowy as it was earlier, but winter has arrived!