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Name: Joel
Birthday: 2/28/1985
Gender: Male
Interests: I love to sing; I love to hang out with friends; I love to eat; I love to hang with my girls; I love to hang with my boyz!
Expertise: Singing and anything that occurs in the bedroom....that is all
Occupation: Student
Industry: Education/Research
Message: message meEmail: email me
Website: visit my website
AIM:  JEWage
Member Since:
5/5/2004
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| Wow, no posts for 8 months, yikes. Ummm....life update. I move down to Milford, Illinois to student teach in Cissa Park in 8 days. I'm pretty stoked. I've heard great things about my cooperating teacher from a bunch of friends that met her at a music training camp type of thing. I'm living in a pretty big single apartment all by myself and I wont know anyone within an hour of my apt. so feel free to visit....anytime.....you want. I'll have a futon that can easily sleep two. I even have a kitchen table, gonna be crazy, I'm like a grown up. I'm pretty stoked for all this growing up stuff. It's pretty scary but I think/hope I'm up for it.
I came to the conclusion today that I'm going to have to delete this account due to an abundance of information on it that shouldn't be known by my future employers. I guess maybe I can wait till after student teaching 
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| Well, I figured since I actually have time, I will update the Xanga. After watching Star Trek from 1-6 for the past 3 days, my realization that I have actually had some relaxation time has been most welcomed. I have worked 45 hours for the past two weeks, and my $600 paycheck is going to rock my face. My last shift is tonight, and I'm not sad at all. I'm not at all saying I dislike work, it has just been so busy and i've been yelled at by pissed off "guests" that time away is much needed.
My grades weren't quite what I had hoped for, but I'll just have to deal with it and try to get past it. My C in General Music is going to make placing me for student teaching difficult, but since General Music is not what I want to do with my life, I figure I don't care much if I get a crappy placement.
I have suddenly realized that I don't have much else to say and Star Trek is back on. Anyway, hope everyone has had a great break! BYEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
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| Not gonna lie, this is mostly for me to make a checklist for my life right now
-History of the middle east midterm that makes up 1/4 of my grade
-justice paper on lord of the flies
-general music methods portolio
-choral methods portfolio
-application for student teaching
-Elijah (big choir concert for you non-music people)
-learn a song for the studio recital
-learn the damn cantata for my senior recital
Pretty much i can't fall asleep anymore because i always am thinking about the next thing i need to work on. In other news, im taking 13 hours next semester, and i don't care who tells me i should take extra classes. I deserve a break! THE END. | | |
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Life is so crazy right now. My outlook on everything is not very good. I'm so busy with classes. My piano teacher asked me, and I quote, "how did you pass piano IV?" Yeah, great way to start piano lessons. Choir concert last night will give me more time to focus on other things, like that damn cantata i need to learn, but only for a few weeks until the damn Elijah which will dominate my life when it arrives. I don't have time to practice voice or piano, when i practice its basically all choir stuff. I have class all day, 2 days of the week I don't even get to each lunch because i have a clinical. I'm so overwhelmed, (i know you can be over whelmed, and you can be underwhelmed, but can you ever just be whelmed? I think you can in Europe.) Sorry, couldn't help it. Anyway, I even bought season 2 of The OC and i have yet to watch a single episode. I'm not sure how much longer i can keep this shit up. Maybe my trip home this weekend will give me the break i need. Granted i'm going home to "see the family," I'm also going to be working 3 days....we'll see what happens. And now I am out of time. Though I will leave you with a humorous little exchange that occured last night after my concert.
Dr. Fredstrom: Why didn't you try out for madrigals.
Me: Dr. Fredstrom, I can't go to the bathroom without bringing homework with me.
Dr. Fredstrom: Fair enough.
Ok, maybe it wasn't that funny, but I thought it was. THE END. | | |
| - Nothing BetterI think i might be dying. I started a new medicine for the ADD and its still a rather new drug with millions of indications on the directions, which kinda scares me. The side effects have sucked thus far. I haven't been able to sleep through a night since i started taking it a week ago, but it also makes me crazy tired, which is not a good combination. Not to mention a couple days ago i spent 10 minutes trying to pee, and i just couldn't do it. And i don't even want to mention the "this drug may increase the risk of suicidal thoughts" so i haven't even been able to think clearly due to my fear of this little tid bit of info. So yeah, that part sucks.
School is a little crazy. I'm taking 18 hours, including 3 ensembles and two applied studios, which sucks a ton. Im taking Band, (im teaching myself clarinet and im terrible at it), im taking concert choir which is tough and very time consuming. Men's glee is a piece of cake on the other hand, but still takes up time during my week. I'm also taking voice lessons, which aren't bad except i think i may have bitten off more than i can chew. I'm doing a solo Bach Cantata (for those of you non musical people, think a major 15 minute work, all by myself) and it is the most beastly piece i've ever seen. Plus i am taking private piano lessons. Its going to be a rough semester. Wednesdays i go from 10 am to 9:30 pm with an hour break for lunch and an hour for dinner.
I'm pretty much loving the apartment. Not the biggest bedroom, but the living room and kitchen are huge, so thats awesome. I love the roomies. Made chicken for them tonight, twas a wonderful meal. It's nice living with people i don't hate, so thats awesome too. So everyone needs to come visit my awesome apt, and drink my alcohol. I have five bottles already, so i need to get rid of it all.
Going to Champaign this weekend, and im not really sure i feel about it. Its with work people and im not too stoked to get back into the middle of the drama again. I sometimes kind of resent that people are so comfortable telling me their problems because it often drags me into the middle of their problems. Not to mention i then go crazy deciding if i gave good advice and i feel like i am involved in it. I love to help, but i hate the torment it often leads to, so....meh. I feel like in this instance, i can't stand by and watch these problems play out from the sidelines anymore. Its just come to a point that i have to take sides, and i don't want to. I'm also angry at one of the parties involved in this dispute, but i'm also not sure i have the right to be mad since its not my problem, which makes the whole situaiton even more awkward. I don't know what to feel anymore. I know one thing, i feel....tired.
In conclusion, i have homework and studying to do, so i should probly get on that shit. Hope everyones had a good start to the school year and i hope it continues to go well. THE END.
Will someone please call a surgeon
Who can crack my ribs and repair this broken heart
That your're deserting for better company?
I can't accept that it's over...
I will block the door like a goalie tending the net
In the third quarter of a tied-game rivalry
So just say how to make it right
And i swear i'll do my best to comply
Tell me am i right to think that there could be nothing better
Than making you my bride and slowly growing old together
I feel must interject here you're getting carried away feeling sorry for yourself
With these revisions and gaps in history
So let me help you remember.
I've made charts and graphs that should finally make it clear.
I've prepared a lecture on why i have to leave
So please back away and let me go
I can't my darling i love you so...
Tell me am i right to think that there could be nothing better
Than making you my bride and slowly growing old together
Don't you feed me lines about some idealistic future
Your heart won't heal right if you keep tearing out the sutures
I admit that i have made mistakes and i swear
I'll never wrong you again
You've got a lure i can't deny,
But you've had your chance so say goodbye
Say goodbye
~Nothing Better, The Postal Service
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