My level of evilness.

***You Are 38% Evil***


A bit of evil lurks in your heart, but you hide it well.
In some ways, you are the most dangerous kind of evil.


How Evil Are You?
http://www.blogthings.com/howevilareyouquiz/

Speeches

Well I'm sitting in the room where I'm to give my speech. I'm first up, which I hate being...I'd even take second, I just like having someone else go first. Oh well, people went on monday, so I'm not really first. My topic is College Illiteracy, and I'm speaking to a group of freshman. Wish me luck!

Girlie Gamers...

Alright, so I'm avoiding homework....I need to get back to it, but I thought I'd post about this...
So I discovered this girl's gamers club thing....it's exclusive too...as if there are enough girls gaming that they can be....but obviously they can...I'm not good enough, BY FAR, to even attempt it, but it's cool to check out anyway. Oh, and they get paid by a gaming company, but they don't really have to advertise for them too much...they just get to be gamers....so yeah. Here's the site. http://www.fragdolls.com

Crazy weeks.

Hi all! I just wanted to let you know that you probably can't expect a whole lot of posts for the next few weeks....not that I post often anyway, but still. The bulk of my assignments are due next Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, and then the week after that is finals. And then I move. So yeah...I'm going to be super busy...oh, and I still have to find a job!

As Chris said, Go Big Green, Michelle!

Hey all! One more thing...I was playing with this picture of michelle and thought you'd like to see it! Not as real as me with red hair, but it's something... :)

Back home, and back to normal.

Hi all! I'm glad to see you all read my blog enough to panic over my hair change....just so you know, my actual "About me" photo is still accurate...my hair is about that length and still that color. All the red was done in photoshop after a couple of hours work. It was fun. Hope you enjoyed it too!

I thought I'd give you all an opportunity to see my hair. What do you think?

Just a quick note.

Ya'll should scroll down and feed my new pet hedgehog! :D

Creepy poems.

Hey all!

So life at the U. has gotten much more interesting recently. Mary (my roommate) and I have someone writing creepy notes on our board. Poetically. The first note began It's a silent murder, it's a grave that sings your song....and I can't remember the rest of it. But I took a picture of it for evidence, if we ever figure out who's doing it, or if it gets worse. There was also a drawing, before the two poems, but we erased it because we thought someone was just having fun with the markers. And the drawing didn't really look like anything anyway. I redrew it later for Chris and he said it sort of looked like one of those native american rock drawings. So that was rather odd as well. But we've contacted public safety, and they're going to be keeping an eye on our room and the floor, to see if they can figure out who's doing this. Yeah. But the poems are these little four line stanzas that are morbid and creepy.
Oh, and there's also been this same blond guy sitting in the lounge across from our door, who never used to study in there, really I've never seen him, or noticed him, before this, and now he's there constantly. I think it's him. So I wrote down a description of him, and if anything is written up tonight, I"m going to turn in the description and Public Safety can deal with it. Ok, it's late. I'm going to check the board one more time to make sure no one's written on it, then I"m going to bed.

Rehearsal

So I had fun at rehearsal tonight. I'm not being sarcastic, I really did. I could actually see the director today, and she was understandable, despite there still being no mike. We got out about an hour early, too, which I won't complain about. (It was supposed to be a three hour rehearsal with a break in the middle somewhere, and she decided we weren't going to take a break and just finish in two hours.) I like the director, actually. She's really really good, and actually gives choir cues. It's wonderful.

I'm currently avoiding studying for the Biology test that I have at 10 in the morning, but I think I can avoid it no longer. So I'm just going to read through the study guide, and then get up early, (I'm meeting Chris for breakfast anyway), and finish studying. So off I go.

Life from a cynical idealist's point of view.

So if you couldn't tell, I've updated my layout. I don't know enough about web text to be able to really change things, but I did figure out how to change the header picture, so that picture above this is one I've edited. The text over it isn't perfect, but I'm getting to that. :)

In other news, I've been working on wedding stuff, and the guest list, things like that are falling into place pretty well. Don't worry, if you know me well enough to know where my blog is in this world, you are invited. Well, if I know you, and the aforementioned applies, then you're invited. So yeah.

Ok, so it's pretty late, and I"m SOOO worn out by this overly exciting post that I'm going to bed now. More posts to follow! Someday! :)

A study in irony.

Here's what I find ironic. Recently I heard a review of the movie "Failure to Launch". In it, the film critic was asking how truly believable the movie is, with Matthew McConaughey as a single man who still lives at home. Now, while I don't dispute this, I must say I think they've overlooked a few very important facts.
Fact #1: How many undesirable actors are there in hollywood? Based on looks, I mean. How many unattractive actors could they truly have cast? Besides, if they had, how many people would have come? Hey, I can be cynical about the critics and the fans as well.
Fact #2: How are they to know who should marry young, and who needs more time? Or for that matter, who should marry at all? Now, I know I'm being very critical of a movie, and a movie review, and taking it well beyond the parameters they intended, but this is still the message that everyone gets from hollywood. If you are young, fit, and beautiful/handsome, you must marry early, but not too early, oh, and by the way you will hate it, get divorced and marry again later on. You will have kids, but not too many, and they will be a pain and suck you dry but ultimately be rewarding. Now, not all of these things are good, or bad, but why can you not marry when you're older, or when you're younger (as I will be,) than society's "norm"? Why marry at all if you do not want to? If you don't have the desire, then you really are doomed to be unhappy in a marriage. Children are rewarding, and at this point I don't think I'll mind if they "suck me dry", I'd be perfectly happy with lots of them. But anyway, my point was originally that Hollywood shouldn't be able to determine who marries whom when. Societies norms, like all norms, were made to be broken.

P.S.
I personally loved the movie, with the exception that I saw much more of Terry Bradshaw than I ever, EVER wanted to.

Just a quick note.

Just thought I'd answer a couple questions...

I am planning to get my masters, (doctorate? Possible, doubtful, though...) in Music ( and by that I mean vocal) performance. Right now I"m looking at different grad schools, just sort of scoping them out to know what I need to work towards...two that are plausible and still in consideration right now are USD Grad school, which is more practical simply because I don't have to wait a year between graduation and starting grad school. Another school is University of MInnesota, which would be very cool, very worth it to be able to attend there...it is somewhat expensive, but relatively cheap as the grad schools I've looked at so far go. It's around 7,000 for a non-resident, per semester, and most other schools that I've looked at are at least 12,000.

Amanda, I have no idea what tests you were talking about, to be honest, but now that I've got the heads up, I'll look into them. :)

The trip and future plans and such.

Hi all! By popular request, I'm going to write about all that good stuff.

So the trip. Well, Chris and I, and three other people, went to Kansas City for spring break. It was fun. We did (Chris and I) decide not to attend seminary, after visiting it there and finding that it didn't suit nearly as well as planned. Which is ok. Because we have other future plans. More on that in a minute. We also went to this great place called Swagat Indian Cuisine. Authentic indian food, slightly expensive, but split a $45 bill four ways isn't too bad for 2 appetizers, 2 main courses, 3 orders of bread, and coconut soup for me (my favorite dish!!!). Definitely my favorite restaurant that we went to on the trip. We also went to an outdoor shopping mall, a movie, and hung out at sem. It was a lot of fun.

Future plans. Well, Chris is planning to get his Masters in Business Administration while I finish up my undergrad, and then when we're both done, I'm planning on grad school. Near future plans and such? Well, my good ol' 8 am class is in the morning, and if I get to bed now, I can get just over six hours of sleep. Goodnight!

All that Jazz.

So tomorrow, I'm working at jazz festival. I have to be at Slagle auditorium, (I know that means nothing to you, but let it suffice that it's across campus) at 7:30 am to set up the concession stand. I'm working until 1:30, and all my music classes for the day are cancelled. I still have biology lab, but nothing else. I don't know if I'm happy or sad. I was actually looking forward to my morning class, because I really enjoy it, but oh well. I guess I'll just have to look forward to Thursday. And I guess I'm happy about the fact that I won't have had Music Theory for two days in a row. (Prof was sick today.) So I guess that's the exciting life that is Mine. Hope you've enjoyed my scrambled ramblings.

wow.

So here I sit in U.Brew again. I got some interesting, and really cool, news this week. One of my roomies from Summit is pregnant! She's due at the end of the summer, about. She sounds really happy, so I'm happy for her. It's weird though, because I think I might be older than her...otherwise she's only a month older than me...it's something like that. And she's going to have a kid! Wow. I hope I get to play almost auntie and spoil the kid! :D

Housing

Well, yay! I got into McFadden, the school owned apartments. The free-for-all signup opened at 7 am, and it is 7:18, and McFadden is officially full. That's how quickly it fills up. I even got on first floor, where I wanted to be, and I'm on the end of the apartment, so less noise from all my roommates will be heard! Yay!

Ok, so maybe getting up at 5 am was worth it after all.

Johari Window

Amanda had this on her blog, so I had to copy. It's fun! Copy and paste this into your browser bar. http://kevan.org/johari?name=elythra Then you can make your own, after doing this. Seriously, try it.

The accordian. Why???

Ok, so I'm sitting in U.Brew, again, (I'm here every tuesday and thursday, because I have most of my mornings free then...) and there is a guy on stage with an accordian. He wrote his own music. Now, as much as I enjoy original music, this is definitely not high on my favorites list. Oh dear. He's just attached a harmonica around his neck. His next song is about skeletons. He sings too, but you can barely hear him over the accordian. Scary. Why am I still sitting here? I guess because I have other things to do while I'm here. I'm just going to try to block him out now.

U.Brew

Here I sit in U.Brew with Chris. We've both got our laptops, and he is of course checking out tech sites for news. I'm planning to meet with my friend, Jenny James, in a few minutes to go over plans for a new bible study that I'm planning to start, and also to have lunch. I'm looking forward to it, really. Partly to hack out the plans for this bible study, which I'm really looking forward to doing, and partly just because Jenny is fun to hang out with. :) Well, that's about all the time I want to spend on updates today. Hopefully sometime soon I'll be e-mailing people.