Sunday, March 09, 2008
Harold and I
Sitting in the library studying our brains out for the next round of tests, I suddenly realized that the library was closing and it was time to leave. I looked at my notes and couldn't help but laugh. For the last two or three minutes I had been diligently analyzing the score to Star Wars and the strange feeling that the music was all around me wasn't just me lost in my own head, but the closing mix they play to remind students that it is time to leave the friendly confines of the HBLL and go. Closing time, you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here! I looked up at Heather and sheepishly grinned, "I like the Carmina Burana mix better!" Heather stared up from her homework with that glazed look that only comes from studying long hours or eating doughnuts and said, "Emilie...that's sad. You know all of the closing library mixes." It's true. Lately Harold and I have been getting to know each other far too well. It started innocently enough. An afternoon meeting, a study group in the evening, but lately he's been more and more demanding, and it's getting to the point where we're going to have to talk! I know how he takes his chocolate milk in the morning, and I know what songs soothe him into gentle slumber. What's worse, while Star Wars isn't usually part of my analysis homework, several of his favorite lullabyes are and so the feeling of being constantly wrapped up in Harold persists even during my abortive efforts to study at home! And I'm not the only one. It's gotten so bad lately that I can stand at the door when the music starts and tell you exactly what measure of which piece my fellow music majors will emerge, bleary-eyed into the night to trudge wearily home. I'm not sure which is worse, the fact that I know, or the fact that I have analyzed all of the songs well enough to tell you!
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
:)
Here is the Washington Post's Mensa Inviational which once again asked the readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are the winners:
1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.
2. edited for content. :)
3. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
4. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly
5. Bozone: The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
6. edited for content. :)
7. Girafitti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
8. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
9. Inocculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
10. edited for content. :)
11. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.
12. Decafalon: The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
13. Glibido: All talk and no action
14. Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly
15. Arachnoleptic Fit: The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.
16. Beelzebug: Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
17. Caterpallor: The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.
1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.
2. edited for content. :)
3. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
4. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly
5. Bozone: The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
6. edited for content. :)
7. Girafitti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
8. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
9. Inocculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
10. edited for content. :)
11. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.
12. Decafalon: The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
13. Glibido: All talk and no action
14. Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly
15. Arachnoleptic Fit: The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.
16. Beelzebug: Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
17. Caterpallor: The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Clogging
I have not written on this thing in a very long time. I recently visited my Sister in-law's blog and was inspired to start writing again. :)
I am currently a section leader for the BYU Women's Chorus. It is one of the funnest things I have done at BYU. I love working with Sister Applonie and the other women in the choir. Every week we have a meeting with her to talk about struggles our sections are having with the repertoire and with each other. Before our last concert, we had a meeting where Sister Applonie asked if we had any ideas of how to make a French Canadian piece more exciting. As I looked over the instructions, I found that it was a "mouth music" piece that they used to sing for cloggers to dance to. I mentioned that to Sister Applonie and suggested we get some cloggers together and clog during the number. She couldn't see it so I had her sing the song while I clogged (imagine clogging or dancing in front of your college choir director... it was pretty amusing!). She loved it! And then she promptly put me in charge of putting it together.
I called some old clogging friends from the folk dance team and together we choreographed and performed an awesome clogging number with the BYU Women's Chorus. It was so fun to be in charge and to have it be such a success! That will definitely be one of my fondest memories of BYU.
I am currently a section leader for the BYU Women's Chorus. It is one of the funnest things I have done at BYU. I love working with Sister Applonie and the other women in the choir. Every week we have a meeting with her to talk about struggles our sections are having with the repertoire and with each other. Before our last concert, we had a meeting where Sister Applonie asked if we had any ideas of how to make a French Canadian piece more exciting. As I looked over the instructions, I found that it was a "mouth music" piece that they used to sing for cloggers to dance to. I mentioned that to Sister Applonie and suggested we get some cloggers together and clog during the number. She couldn't see it so I had her sing the song while I clogged (imagine clogging or dancing in front of your college choir director... it was pretty amusing!). She loved it! And then she promptly put me in charge of putting it together.
I called some old clogging friends from the folk dance team and together we choreographed and performed an awesome clogging number with the BYU Women's Chorus. It was so fun to be in charge and to have it be such a success! That will definitely be one of my fondest memories of BYU.
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