Today was a looooooooooong day. From 10 AM-8PM I'm completely busy and am going from thing to thing. The latest any of my days is supposed to end is 5 and/or 5:30. But I'll get to that in a minute.
Bright side is, that every day I get to sleep in. Sleeping in to me is about 8:00 or so because I always get up early (depending on how late I got to sleep) so I'm really excited about that. Also, every day except for Thursday my classes don't start until 10:20 or so, so I get some extra time to do what I want before classes start! Woohoo!!! My first and only class of the day is/was Into to Ancient History. Anyone that knows me know that I suck at history. I'm terrible at memorizing dates. Knowing the significance of things that happen as well as where I'm fine with, but dates are my kryptonite. It's my kryptnoite, I tell you! It's trying to kill me! So we'll see how things go there. My teacher is really funny and nice and can go off on tangents sometimes, but he really enjoys what he's teaching so that should be a great deal of motivation for me. Best part, we have 4 quizzes assigned for the class and only have to take up to two, deciding to skip whichever ones we want. AND the 'long papers' that we have are only 750 words. Thank god for that and the fact that I can e-mail them all so I don't have to worry about wasting the last of my 300 or so prints. Annnnnd we know the day of our replacement for Tinker Day and I can't wait for that day off. First day of classes and I'm hoping for a day off already. I don't think I have seniority, but I'm getting close. Or I'm just hoping that warm weather gets here so I'm a bit happier but that's neither here nor there. I went back to work today too and that was just as good as it was before. I think Mack and I are one of the few people that enjoy working where we do. Yeah, we're the only two work study students there, but we got to know our supervisors really well and we're always laughing about something while we're working. I actually enjoy it, plus it's a great way to get ready for the potential office work I'd be doing later in life, depending on where I get a job. Though our office is a bit more relaxed than most, so I may need to get prepared for that and quickly. Then there was World Music officially and as usual I loved it. I just love being able to play music and play some of my favorite songs on the steel pan. It makes me excite for my bass lessons the next day. There's just something about the way a song sounds when you get it right after ages and ages and ages and ages and ages (I could go on) of messing it up. I'm so much of a perfectionist with my music it actually really annoys me sometimes. Then my sisters and I judged the finalist poems for a contest and now we're all snug back in our apartments with the heat. Did I ever mention that I hate the wind as much as I hate the cold? The only time I like the cold is when it snows and if it doesn't snow enough for me to get a day off or something, then it's not worth it. All in all, I'd say it was
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Is it sad that spring semester classes start tomorrow and I still don't know my schedule? Haha. Anyway, not much went on today. We just drove back to school and once again I could tell how far away we were from our final destination from how I started to lose my voice. Somewhere around the two hour mark of straight singing my voice cracks terribly and that's usually where I start to lose it.
Thankfully, it makes the trip that much shorter. Bright side, I'm getting practice done on my singing. I'm not saying that I'm good, but I'm not saying I'm terrible either. Also, I learned that it's really hard to sing lower notes. Yes, my voice is kind of deep, not like super deep, but slight deeper than a girl's voice is normally registered (up until I get worked up or start going on a rant, then my voice gets high and squeaky. I actually learned something about deeper voices on females in corolation with guys from the book The Male Brain. It's a good read and very informative. I enjoyed it, anyway. But, yeah, I was singing to the song Hanging By A Moment by Lifehouse and I prefer the deeper parts of the song (best thing about being four of us is that we can harmonize/sing different parts of the song that are our favorites and it still sounds good. I think so anyway) and it was actually pretty difficult to do. Anyway, here's the big news. There's only (about) 3 months left of the school year. February, March, April, and part of May (before exams). And those 3 months are going to fly by. I never knew that time moved so quickly, it seems just like yesterday that I was in second grade with my friends, looking at the chart that listed all of the years that students graduated in and thinking 2010 would never get there. Then freshman year I thought 2014 would never get here. Jokes' on me. So what do I have planned? Well, I'm blogging more, hope to get some more things self-published, and I'm hopefully working with an online magazine called Twin Life so that way I'll have a lot of different things to use as a writing sample if I ever need to when it comes to applying for jobs. Plus, all the extra writing will help me improve, there's always room for improvement. Forgot to mention this before, but I got a month down in my resolution of trying to blog for a year. So far, so good, though now I think I'll have more to talk about once the spring semester starts, rather than trying to find something interesting to say. You'd think that being a quadruplet there's always something going on, but we can to turn our entertainment off at some point, people. Haha.
So, yeah, Spring Semester starts Wednesday and I'm excited for it, but at the same time dreading it because there's one class that I'm not too particularly fond of taking, but have to because I put it off since freshman year so that's my own fault. And, you can't enjoy every one of your classes but I digress. I have a big grab bag for the different kinds of classes that I'm taking so it should keep me interested in some way. Plus, with the different kinds of classes, you all shot be entertained with how I'm able to keep up with my blogging, what goes on as a senior is about to graduate, and everything in between. On a side note, don't you hate it when you're writing something and it never comes out the way you want it to? That just happened with a chapter of a story I wrote and when I'm done with it, I might just delete the chapter entirely. But such is life, everything can't be perfect. Funny thing is that I forgot it was the super bowl today until I saw, like, one tweet on my twitter. Which is funny because in past years you'd see hundreds of promos for the super bowl and it would be all anyone would talk about. Not so much this year. The only reason I like it, honestly, is because of all of the snacks I get that day. Can you say chicken wings?
So I'll give you the rundown of my day: I skyped with my Dad today, which is always cool to do while he's gone. Being able to catch up with him a little bit about the things that happen when we're at school is always fun to do. The excitement about being able to tell him everythig that had been going on as well as talking about the classes we're going to take is always exciting to think about. Then my sisters and I started to talk about what we would do after college, get a job or go into other years of school. It's exciting and scary to think about, especially knowing it may be one of the first times we'll be split up. But that's something I'm not going to think about anytime soon. And we basically did that all day while watching the Puppy Bowl (who doesn't like the Puppy Bowl) and then made plans that all four of us would get the same type of dog so we can each put bandanas around them to differentiate them. We already have the names picked out, just need the dogs now, haha. In fact, I have three names picked out just in case some don't work out, though we all have our own dibsed so no one else can have them. And we take the rule of 'dibs' very seriously. Then we talked about the new tattoo that we want to get. This is one we've had planned for a while but haven't decided on the actual design yet. Those that we've told the idea love it just as much as what we've done with our decorative robes for school. I'm still trying to decide if I want to extend the one I already have or put the new tattoo in the place that the extension would go. Who knows? Whenever I get it done, I'll definitely put up pics about them. Then it was time for the Super Bowl. If anyone knows me, they know I don't watch the super bowl that often (only for the commercials and when I watch a game I barely know what's going on anyway) and am only excited for the food. Yes, I'm admitting it. I'm a Super Bowl Food mongrel. I guess that's what you'd call it. I prefer the snakcs I can get during the game rather than watching the game itself. What can I say? I love food. And, like I've said before, I don't get whalf of what's happening during the game anyway. I even had my Dad explain over the phone what a safety was during the game, but that's netiher here nor there. I hope everyone enjoys thier superbowl sunday and that they continue to enjo You know what I never particularly understood? What gets you into different fandoms. For those that don't know what a 'fandom' is it's 'the fans of a sport or famous person'. This also includes TV shows, bands, books, movies, cartoons, anything you can think of where there's a community of people that like a specific thing, it's a fandom.
What I always wondered is what makes it that some people can get into a fandom that others may not enjoy. For example, I don't get the hype over Doctor Who or Sherlock but from being on tumblr and looking on Facebook I know it's really popular. A show like that doesn't interest me, but shows like Chicago Fire and Chicago PD (which Mere and I had just recently found as well as spent the past three days watching) are types of shoes that we can easily get into. And don't get me started on elimination game shows like Amazing Race. (I could go on and on about how much I lovee them). But what's more interesting to me, or slightly worrying depending on how you look at it, is what makes some people get so invested in the fandom that they get emotionally invested. (And when I say emotionally invested, I mean like fans that have cut themselves to get Justin Bieber's attention). I've seen people say to other people 'you're not a true [insert fandom here] fan if you don't do this, don't think this is funny, don't say this, don't act like this' and it's really ridiculous to me. The fact that people enjoy the fandom is what should be the point of watching the show or listening to the music. Some people, yes, are going to be more invested than others but should it get to the point where fans are rude to each other or let it control their lives? There are some people online that Doctor Who is all they talk about and that's it. I get they like it, but there has to be something else you're interested in. How far can fandoms go? The fact that every new celebrity or band is getting fan names (like Beliebers, Kitty Kats, Gleeks, Directioners) is making it so that it's not as fun or clever anymore and are just annoying. Am I saying that I've never felt like this or done things like this? No, you should have seen me in high school up to my freshman year of college and being a big fan of something I was proud of. Now I find it kind of silly. I can be a fan of many different things but not have to get to the point where it's all I think about or become rude to fans that haven't been in it as long as others. I think fandoms should be a place where people are welcoming to others and so everyone can just agree on enjoying whatever they're supporting. And, like writing, there's always going to be something that you like and dislike. |
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