Oh. Right.

Oh yeah, I have a blog. Whoops. Well, it’s been almost a year, how are things?

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OMG! I was washing dishes last night around 1:30am, when I got a call from Krissy saying “Look outside.” OMG ITS MY FIRST SNOWSTORM!!!!!!! You have no idea how quickly I finished those dishes and how stupidly giddy I was for the rest of the night!

Needless to say, about 15 minutes later, we were outside playing in it until about 2:40am. I took some pictures that I’ll put up on facebook shortly.

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Busy busy busy

I’m getting a bit overwhelmed with school in preperation for our big PASIC concert next week, so I don’t have much time to write about anything (or hardly think about anything!). I’ll be back with a post of the notes that I took while on my trip to Italy when all the madness is over!

Maybe I should be an architect…

NIU has the most oddly designed music building I have ever seen.

So there are 2 buildings that are connected, one to the North and the other to the South. The North building is where I spend most of my time, as it has all of the percussion rooms. The big percussion room is right next to the large ensemble rehearsal room, which makes it fairly easy to schlepp things to and from rehearsals, but the big room is also right behind the recital hall. This means that whenever there is anything going on in the recital hall; recitals, lectures, dress rehearsals, recording etc., we are not allowed to practice or really make any noise in there, which sucks as it is one of our 4 practice rooms that we share between 23 people.

Also in the North building, the only elevator is built right behind the concert hall. Whenever there is a concert going on, they have to shut the elevator off because it makes way too much noise. This is EXTREMELEY INCONVENIENT. The other grad student was telling me about how his recital last year was on the same day as some concert in the concert hall, so he had to move his entire multi set-up and drumset down 3 flights of stairs. Screw that!

Bathrooms are also very strange… The North building has 4 floors. However, there are only Mens restrooms on floors 1 and 3. There are female bathrooms on every floor. WTF? The south building has this problem too, with only mens rooms on 1 and 3 while each of the three floors has a womens restroom.

I am just amazed that somebody could actually sit down and design buildings like this, and that it would also GET APPROVED AND BUILT! I’m pretty sure I could have designed a more fully functional building when I was 9, but maybe thats just me.

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