More happy, happy adventures in school!

Doing homework to catch up with my new class, I learned:

1. if I want to get everything right, I'm going to be a bit slow by the computer's standards.
2. if I actually do it faster, the computer says "Too quick for accuracy. Your score is 0." EVEN IF I GOT THEM ALL RIGHT.
3. —despite my teacher saying this several times—the computer DOES NOT SAVE PROGRESS.

So there's an hour lost on frustrating, tedious stuff I already know, which I now have to repeat.

I suppose I'm exaggerating a little bit... it's more like forty-five minutes that was lost. For some reason the computer DID save what I did at first. Weirdo.

Happy fun shiny times!

Sort of.

Apparently when one takes Music Theory I, one must also take Sight Singing & Ear Training I in the same semester. I'm signed up now (for 8:00–9:20 on Tuesday mornings, ugh), and have three weeks of homework to do and one week to complete it.

And most of it has to be done on a computer in the piano lab at Bethel.

Thank you, adviser, for not telling me about this class when I registered for my other classes. This is really just making my semester.

Okay, I'm going to go practice my solfege and be less sarcastic now. Maybe someday I'll blog again, and it will mean something.

School's cool.

Music Theory I
9:00–9:50 AM Monday, Wednesday, Friday

General Psychology
12:00–12:50 PM Monday, Wednesday, Friday

Old Testament Literature
1:00–1:50 PM Monday, Wednesday, Friday

Teaching Piano Lessons
2:30–3:30 PM Monday

Physical Science
4:30–5:00? 5:30? PM Monday

Voice Lesson
as yet unscheduled Wednesday or Friday

Homework
ALL THE TIME (except when I'm procrastinating)

Well... that was fun.

Through my own silly fault I was ten minutes late to my Elements of Music final, so, sadly, twenty minutes later I was not the first one done. I tied with another girl. *Sigh.* I'd been so hopeful.

100+ books in 2010!

Seriously, I'm going to remember this year. Or, at least, I'm going to remember for at least two months. Yay feasible goals!

ENTER
READ(!!!)
WIN*

*It's like NaNoWriMo, except I don't think you get a badge. Just bragging rights.

MAGGIE'S BOOKS

1. Betsy and Joe by Maud Hart Lovelace (Oh MHL, you make me nostalgic for your childhood.)
   
2. Pretties by Scott Westerfield
3. a novella by a friend of mine (!!!)
   
4. Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine (Oh GCL. I cannot say how much I love this book.)
   
5. The Enchanted Raisin by Jacqueline Balcells, translated by Elizabeth Gamble Miller (Amanda Pearl read these stories to me when I was little, and I haven't looked at them in years. They've grown weird in the meantime.)
6. Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman
7. River Secrets by Shannon Hale (Oh SH...)
   
8. Ice by Sarah Beth Durst (Beauty and the Beast in the modern arctic... and then it explodes. My opinion might come later.)
9. Genesis by, um, God (also Moses) (NASB) (At first I was asking if this counts, but I know it totally has to.)
10. Spindle's End by Robin McKinley (More rereading from when I was youngerish. Also, RM's prose is like pudding. I'd elaborate but I'd probably just go on a huge tangent like she does all the time. Deliciously, I mean, but wow.)
    

SNOW

HAPPY EMOTICON, GUYS

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You know those signs where you have letters you can arrange? And how it's amazing fun to rearrange them to say something witty? I was playing with one and some extra letters (A, A, D, E, E, E, G, N, N, N, N, S, T, and U) at Anna's old church and managed to spell

ANAN NEED GUTS

with only two letters left over. I'm still fairly proud of myself.