There Will Be Rest

My audition at Mankato (!!!!!) will be February 17. I have an interview at 2:00 and will conduct the Concert Choir from 3:05 to 3:15. This is the piece I will be studying diligently until then to make sure I am ready. If you don't LOVE it like I do, then maybe it's okay that you and I are on different career paths. :) I think it's AMAZING! I had my choice of three songs. I went with this one because I can find heaps of recordings to practice with and already have a lot of the chords in my ear. I've heard it performed live several times by some pretty amazing choirs at regional and national conventions.

Side note, I spent my day listening to seventh graders sing "Hot N Cold," "All-American Girl," and the Friends theme song as they prepare for their talent show auditions. I can't wait to go to grad school!!!!

The poetry in this piece is pretty amazing.

There will be rest, and sure stars shining
Over the roof-tops crowned with snow,
A reign of rest, serene forgetting,
The music of stillness holy and low.

I will make this world of my devising,
Out of a dream in my lonely mind,
I shall find the crystal of peace, --above me
Stars I shall find.
---Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)

Singin' for Obama

Sorry about the commercial. This is video from my local news. KWWL Channel 7! :) They tell me about all my unexpected vacation days!

This is the kind of choir I want to conduct someday. Perhaps a more mature sounding group.... but the same sense of excitement and dedication to their art.

Seriously. Seriously?

Similarly - This link was sent to me by Miles about a month or so ago.

http://www.yankodesign.com/2008/08/18/compose-music-all-high-tech-like/

Malloryisms

I found a scrap of paper in my desk while I was looking for things.

"When you say pick everything up off the floor, do you mean the bed and stuff? Can you write that down?"

"If you're allergic to food, does your hair turn green or do you get sick?"

"I have a friend who got his tonsils out. Well it was either tonsils or lungs, I think maybe lungs."

Melbourne the Living City

This music has been run through my head whenever I'm thinking of Melbourne or an observation tower. This is the cheesy video you can watch near the gift shop. CHEESE in it's finest form.

The Cold Day List

20 degrees below zero, 45 degrees below wind chill...

Here it is...

X Watch the Today Show (not sleep through it)

X Buy groceries for school treats tomorrow

___ Bike indoors :)

X Finish Blue Like Jazz

___ Dye my hair

X Prepare school treats for tomorrow (I'm holding off on a few since we might not have school?!?)

Make tacos for lunch (Having lunch with a friend instead of coffee)

X Quality time with God

X Coffee time with friend (or call and cancel...)(changed to lunch!)

X Wash dishes

X WATCH GREY'S ANATOMY (that doesn't need a list!)

X Find skit book

___ Laundry?

X Call Tara

X Look for CD with college papers saved on it

___ Sort college pictures for future scrapbook project

X Find cheesy Melbourne commercial (This was spontaneous...)

X Take a nap

I'd better get to it! Today I celebrate May 28th. When the date actually rolls around, we'll be in school!

I didn't get to everything. Some I finished up today (January 17). In the end it was a very productive week.

It's Cold!

Nearly 50 below wind chills are expected! It's crazy to me that skin can freeze in less than 10 minutes. I'm hoping that the superintendent thinks it too cold to have children outside! Yes, I already had one snow day this week, but I wasted it. My own fault I guess. I was LAZY! I suppose you might think that laying around is okay on a snow day, but I would have liked to accomplish a bit more. Tomorrow, when we have another day off (or if...) I'll make a list and let you know what I do with my day.

Hotel Zwiefel

This place has been busy lately!

Friday, January 3 - Mom and Mallory came to stay the night before we left to go to Burlington to visit relatives. We ate at Applebees and watched Enchanted.

Saturday, January 4 - An ice storm changed dinner with friend Bryan into Bryan staying on the sofa de Zwiefel. We scraped together some food out of my well-stocked "bare" cupboards. You know the kind... there's plenty there but nothing to eat. Pizza, baked beans, pina colada jello. We watched the Chargers win!

Sunday and Monday - I rearranged the things I had been storing in the guest room to make way for...

Tuesday, January 6 - Friday, January 9 - My friend Kate needed a place to stay for a few days since the dorms were closed. She is a part of the small group of college women I lead in bible study once a week. We had tons of fun, and she brought baked goodies. Always a plus!

It has been so wonderful having house guests lately. The couch and guest room are currently vacant. Make your reservations today!

I'll leave the light on for ya.