Week of February 5, 2006
FINALLY!!! A somewhat normal, healthy, and most importantly - happy week! No accidents, no failing exams, no evil viruses - just a normally stressful and busy week with a blizzard to end it. I did find out that I have completely passed my history exam (thank you very much 2nd Viennese School of Music), but I still can't seem to pass the chorale harmonization on the theory exam. Both Michelle and I are in the same boat with that one and our piano. WE CAN DOOOO IT!!! (hopefully!). Thursday night at Harvard Graduate Christian Fellowship Jeff Barneson spoke to us about evangelism and we took some time to focus on a passage in Acts. It was a really good time, very thought provoking, and we had some good group discussion.

Friday night was the Longy Winter Gala (formerly known as the Longy Winter Dance - we changed the name so more people would come) and it was a blast. It was a Mexican theme with catered food from Jose's and a really great DJ. Even some faculty showed up! One of the best parts was that Ashley (my dance partner) and I tied for first in the dance-off!!!!!!!! It was like a 20 minute work-out at 10:00 in the evening but it SO much fun! Saturday morning I awoke at 6:15 and my body could barely move and I felt like I had a hangover-only I didn't have any alcohol the night before. Why wake up that early on a Saturday morning you ask? I asked myself the same thing. There was a good reason - I was getting up to run in the 5 mile Bradford Valentine Race in Bradford, MA. A group of us from Longy drove up and ran on a very cold 17 degree Saturday morning - but it was bright and sunny and the view of the hills while we ran was gorgeous-although the first mile of the race was up a hill that I didn't enjoy. Needless to say when I got home I slept for 2.5 hours straight and when I woke up my body was REALLY mad at me.
Yesterday we had a blizzard! YAY! Although - we got a little jipped because we didn't have as much snow as NYC and not as much snow as we did last year. But it was still a blizzard and it was still fun! I made buttermilk waffles for breakfast and sat around and relaxed and worked on music all day long plus a little chatting here and there online :-D . I think overall we maybe got 15 inches of snow - although I am not sure what the exact count is. Pictures from that and all other adventures to come soon!

In our song analysis class we have to compose our own song over the course of the semester. In freshman and sophomore theory at Cap we had to do compositions every semester but I don't think I ever created a song. Composing a song is a bit more difficult, I think, because there is so much to consider: the poetry chosen and what exactly the poem is trying to convey, figuring out the meter of the stanzas so that the meter and rhythm you set in your song makes sense etc. etc. etc. Let's just say I'm NOT a composer!
I'll leave with the text I have chosen for my song which comes from Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis.


'Had I no eyes but ears, my ears would love
That inward beauty and invisible;
Or were I deaf, thy outward parts would move
Each part in me that were but sensible:
Though neither eyes nor ears, to hear nor see,
Yet should I be in love by touching thee.'