beginning of school

it's been quite some time since I've written but I'm back now.

Fall Semester is looking as though it'll be rather interesting. I've gone from trying to add a beginning dance class as a nice blow-off class to not having any at all, in love to completely single and not finding feelings for anyone, being a very poor studier to working every night in the last week till midnight in the library on homework, and lastly I've gone from hardly ever singing in vocal practice to singing with pianists and on my own 6 hours a week.

It's been a wonderful, very fast first week of school. I decided to take 13.5 credits, 8 classes of music core as well as 2.0 credits of religion and what I was hoping would be a .5 credit of dance. Of course things never turn out the way we imagine them and with a little rearranging of my schedule after getting into my audition choir, I tried to get into DANCE 184 but unfortunately was turned away. However, this might be a wonderful idea because I would have been taking 16 credit hours, 10 classes (that's quite a large number of classes for me). I'm really excited for the classes that I am taking though because they are all looking to be very nice, invigorating, some rather simple and easy to get out of early, whereas others will be very difficult and time consuming.

My love life has been rather interesting in the past three weeks because I went to having a little bit of something with some people to nothing. I almost dated someone at the end of summer (Daniel) but found I should not hurt his feelings if I decided to date my best friend (Bryan) when he got off his mission at the beginning of fall semester. I found I did like the best friend missionary better, at one point was in love with him as well, but for one of the darndest reasons, don't love him anymore. With that said, we're still good friends and spend time together (I've told him that I don't like him like that and don't want to date - I am being honest with him). He currently plays the piano for me on a wonderful regular basis as well. I am going out on dates with another guy (Craig) that is very active (runs like a beast, hikes, road bikes, rock climbs - might type of outdoorsy) who just graduated and is looking into graduate school for next fall meanwhile preparing to take a group of interns to Uganda?. My last boy situation is the one that is the most wonderful. My friend Jonathon who I greatly respect and love to pieces is currently in the accounting junior core which equals habitation in Harold B. Lee. Both of us are fed up with our dating status/love lifes and don't want that type of stress anymore so we are "getting married" on a particular date in September. It makes me so happy to have such a great friend, no strings attached, that I'm able to care so much about (his health at least - getting 6.5 hours of sleep between 2 days isn't healthy!!!). He makes me laugh, he and his roommate Mike.

Jonathon helps me with this next part as well. Every night he lives in the library. So in order to be a very dedicated student versus the slacker that I normally am, I go and live there with him and his roommate as well in the fifth floor of the library (ie the Accounting floor). It makes me laugh and much much less stressed studying with such wonderful company, eventhouhg we're there til midnight most nights. Laughter is always a great cure to stress.

As for vocal practice - it's going wonderful. It's really a wonderful novel thought to practice. I've never really practiced and now that I'm averaging 6 hours a week, I'm memorizing and learning at such a rapid pace that my teacher was floored when I came to our second lesson having one song memorized and the second one (in German) with words learned but not yet memorized. I love being on top of everything - it makes the lack of sleep not nearly so bad in actuality.

This semester is going to be a great time to be here!