So its been a crazy couple of weeks!! Last weekend I woke up in the middle of the night with crazy stabbing chest pains and had to go to the emerge. Luckily, Laura is my hero and stayed with me the whole 9 1/2 hours, while we waited and waited and waited...and then I had to wear a stupid gown, and have stikcy things all over me for an ekg and wait and wait..and then have a doctor be really rude to me. gah! anyway, I'm fine now. They said at health services that they thought it was some sort of virus, which makes a lot of sense. but still, scary scarey...not fun at all. So I missed a lot of school last week, as I was too tired to even move, and my chest still hurt, it still hurts a bit occasionally but WAY WAY better than last week.

This weekend I went up to St. Catherines to have a birthday dinner with my nana. It was fun, we went to my uncles house and met his girlfriend Kelly who was really nice. It was a fun night full of drunken reminising by my dad and uncle and grandmother... good times. The next day I had brunch with Nana and Ralph (nanas husband, my step grandpa) my aunt and my cousisn, who I haven't seen in FOREVER! so that was nice. Then dad and Tarah drove me home and dad bought me a webcam! yay! and lots of tasty groceries. Hoorah for food!!

So now Im just trying to let my brain mush for an hour or so before I start my work. This week is INSANITY!!! Its choir intensive week, which means all choir, all the time, two hours mon-thurs, three on friday and I don't even know how many before the concert on saturday. Gah! I had my skills performance midterm today...I was mad, it went really badly. Even the parts that I was completely ready for. I had some sort of weird brain fart and totaly forgot how to sing a tonal line. Im crazy. Oh well, my solkatu stuff went well. Opera rehearsal tonight was really weird. Our director had some sort of miscomunication with The director of the program and had worked out all of the blocking for the wrong scene. the finale of Figaro instead of the act 2 finale. So we just sang through it a few times. But Lesley did give me a really great compliment! It sort of made my night. She said that I was outstanding (or some other glowing word) in the weill and she could listen to me sing weill all day. tee hee! I was like, yay..I like compliments...so that was cool. anyway...Now Im going to learn some rep..for my lesson tomorow..yeesh..Id been doing so well with staying on top of all that.
anyhoo...Im off!

So I havn't updated in pretty much forever.
Here is some fun stuff thats happening with me...

- The other day there were ducks everywhere on campus...I don't know why. I was walking home and there were two ducks on the sidewalk and no other people around...I wasn't sure if ducks attack like geese and swans so I was playing it safe and not trying to walk past them...eventually they looked at me..quacked...and waddled up the path to the house on the corner of the street...like they were going home...I felt sort of like I fell into Beatrix Potter world, except in waterloo instead of nice english countryside.

- Im going to audition for a movie! Thats right, a real live, big studio movie. They're holding open calls for a few of the roles in the movie adapation of the broadway musical HAIRSPRAY. (which...as a side note was originally a movie...its another movie-musical-movie thing...name the other recent one and get a prize...) Im auditioning for Tracy (16 year old, overweight girl with a big smile and a desire to be a dancing star) Im really excited. Even if nothing comes of it (which is likely since they've held open calls all over the place)I think it will be a good experience and it has forced me to get my resume in order.

- I won a prize today in my Evil and Its Symbols class. My prof actually brought in a bag full of prizes (like, pencils, post its, sharpies, a dilbert calendar...etc) and did a fun little quiz to get us thinking about how all of the course content was conected. I said that "evil is...Dracula" could be connected to one of the B movies we watched in which vampires are pretty much stand ins for drug dealers. So that was fun..I won a book called 'Good and Evil' by Martin Buber. good times...I like that class.

- I sang my canadian song "Green Rain" in Vocal lit and it wasn't terrible..one minor rhythm screw up..and my voice was scratchy on two entries, but no big deal. At least it's done. and I now have 4/5 jury pieces memorized and ready to go...YAY!

- I have a play and sing due tomorow that won't be ready due to memorizing one of my jury pieces, so Im going to take late marks and due it on friday.

- I got a card and some spending money from my Nana in the mail and that completely brightened my day!

- Its choir intensive week and my throat is all grumpy and tired.

and thats about it for now.