So every weekend has been 'the best weekend ever' lately. Now, I'm having just as much fun whether I'm at home or at school or gallivanting through foreign cities.
I should probably start with Thursday, because I wrote a letter to Sara and watched Howl's Moving Castle. That was awesome!
Friday was fantastically fun from the start. It was class registration day, so I had to be up for 7:30. My plan was to take Elementary German, French Introduction to Literary and Textual Analysis [a three hundred level class, YAY], Mathematics from a Cultural Perspective [a.k.a. bullshit math to complete my general education requirement], and either Ancient Greek Religions [to complete a religion/philosophy gen. ed.] or Tonal Theory [it's the 'next step' from music theory]. Completely by coincidence, in building this schedule, I would have had no Fridays and nothing before 10:25. Well math was full, obviously, and theory had a lab that I overlooked, which conflicts with German, and Greek religions was full too. So somehow I ended up with this schedule:
MONDAY: Intro to European History, 9-9:50; French, 10:25-11:40; German, 11:50-12:40.
TUESDAY: History of Modern Philosophy, 10:25-11:40
WEDNESDAY: European History, 9-9:50; French, 10:25-11:40; German, 11:50-12:40.
THURSDAY: History of Modern Philosophy, 10:25-11:40; German, 11:50-12:40
FRIDAY: Intro to European History, 9-9:50.
After that nightmare, I decided to go back to sleep until about 9:30, but I hit the off button on my alarm and didn't wake up until 10:10! I quickly got ready, muttering profanities to myself, and made it to German in time. I'm really happy that I get to have the same German teacher for the next semestre, because he's super awesome.
After class, I came back to my room, but I didn't have German homework to do because we have a test on Monday, so I just chilled out. Wendy was still asleep. Dan came up and knocked on my door and invited me to lunch. So he and I and Ariana all went and ate, and I met a person who seems pretty cool named Emily. After lunch, I think we were headed to Ariana's room, but we never quite made it, and we sort of sat down in the hallway just feet away from her door. They started tickling me [*cry*] but then I remembered, "Hey, isn't Dan ticklish?" and so we tickled him instead. And all of the people from our house who walked by were, well, confused.
Eventually, there was dinner with a bunch of friends. At seven [I missed Jeopardy! :'( ] there was BALLROOM DANCE CLUB! Only a few people showed up, but it was still a lot of fun, and I got to swing with Tom. After the club, Ariana, Tanaha, and I walked to the Coast Guard Academy for a dance. There were significantly less Coasties this time, but Tanaha still managed to dance with all of them ;D . Dan showed up after a while, too.
When the dance was over, we walked back to Conn and Ariana invited us to her room for tea. We actually made it there that time. We listened to Stephen Lynch and Bill Cosby. Dan fell asleep on the floor and Ariana and I chatted until three, at which point we woke Dan up, but it was amusing because he was really confused. Wendy's guests were still in our room, so I just grabbed my blanket and Blankie and went back to Ariana's room and slept in her big chair.
Saturday was another fun day. We slept through the pancake breakfast that Melanie had invited us to [oh dear] and we had 'brunch' at 12:15. I made a waffle. Yes.
Ariana and Dan and I had planned a Jeeves & Wooster and teddy bears tea party for that afternoon at three in the common room. I was very surprised at the great turn-out! Lots of people, lots of teddies, and for three hours we watched half of the first season (three episodes, each being about an hour long). I'm so glad I brought my DVDs, and even more glad that I found a fellow fan and even more friends who were willing to watch!
We also saw Doubt that night at eight. Dan sat on my right and Danny on my left, and I started freaking out, "I'm surrounded by Dans!!" Not that I'm not used to that or anything... [just look at my LHS friends...] The play was really wonderful. I will copy/paste my crummy reaction paper thing at the end of this entry. And then we watched Tonari no Totoro!!! AAAH. Dan's first time hahaha. I love that movie ♥♥
Sunday was considerably less productive, probably due to the jam-packed-ness of the days prior. We had brunch together again, and then we went our separate ways.
I tried to be productive and write a journal for my freshmen seminar or my reaction to Doubt, but that didn't go over very well. I basically ended up sitting on my bed for a few hours doing absolutely nothing. Finally, I convinced myself to catch up on Fringe! Haha. Yay for productivity?
I wandered down the hall into 313 and found everyone sitting around in there, working, and they said they'd be eating soon, so I went with them.
There was also a Blackstone [my dorm] Thanksgiving party in the common room at eight, so I went to that. Awesome! We made s'mores in the fireplace and drank cider, and just generally had a really happy time with our fellow house people. Ariana and Dan tickled me again -__-;; Bo too. Stupid people, haha. The party died down pretty much after all the food disappeared, but Ariana, Dan, and I stayed to make sure we didn't burn the house down. I brought myself to study German a little and help someone with music theory, and I went to sleep around midnight. It seemed like a pretty cliché Sunday night, like something you might read in an old book, but it was good. Very happy-making.
Today was wonderful because I had two tests - one in German and one in Music Theory - both of which were mildly challenging, but not so much. Once again finished theory with forty minutes left, left class early, and I got to go practise! Yay!
I'm so happy with the bassoon the school gave me because it has such a great sound, especially compared to the LHS one.
Oh and House was super awesome today!
Doubt
I had the opportunity to see the first run-through of Doubt, and I was very impressed. I kept telling people, “It’s going to be great; definitely go see it!” Even so, I was still surprised by the end product (Saturday, 21 November, 8pm). Of course, knowing the show beforehand, I didn’t get the same shocks and emotions as the first viewing, same as Tempest, but I still loved the production.
The setting was fantastic. I was very impressed by the floor of the stage: I loved the way that it faded gently from indoor tile to garden stone, and how that played into the staging, since all of the office scenes were set towards the left and all of the garden scenes were on the right. The costuming and music all fit very well with both the play itself and the time period in which it takes place. The Mozart had an especially poignant effect after the climax.
I also think all four actors were great. (You may have noticed by now that I’m not very good at being critical…) Mrs. Muller was especially great. She really seemed as if she were hearing the words for the first time, sitting in that office, and though she only had one scene, she left a memorable performance. The only performance that I thought was a little weak was Sister James, and even she was very good. There were some parts, especially at the very beginning, where she didn’t seem completely into the character yet, but she overcame it, and when she was in character, she, too, was great.
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