Thanks Nina

http://overheardlines.blogspot.com/2006/10/new-yorker-trying-to-grasp-geography.html

Courtesy of my fellow oklahoman friend, Nina, thanks!

Well, today was a huge build-up to my audition. My stomach was so tight, I was really stressing over it all. I got in there and sang my heart out. And I was really pleased/satisfied/thinking "I rock" when it was all over. Then my sweet accompanist left and they had me listen to a sequence of 5 notes and then repeat them. I did fairly well on that. Next was the rhythm test. Don't ask me why I was more nervous on that one than the previous ones, but I was. It's like I couldn't clap a rhythm to save my life. Sad, I know. But after my short visit to the hallway, they came out to say that I had been admitted to the department of music. Hooray!

Now I needed to get enrolled. The advisor over the music performance degree said to come back to her office at 4pm to enroll. No problem. I went home/changed/ate lunch/drove back at 4pm. I entered her office where there were 2 very young girls, freshmen, getting their classes figured out. At 4:45pm, they left and I began looking over my classes with the advisor. I thought it was great that I didn't need to take any gen ed courses--but we discovered that there aren't enough music classes to equal 12 credits, so I would either need to add another class (non music) or not be full-time. The advisor said I should definitely take another class to be full-time, but I'm not sure. We found 7 classes that did work, but only equaled 9 credits--that's a music degree for you--but another snag was that one of those classes (opera) is on MWF from 4-6pm. Ummmm, Anna's out of school then and Tyler is going to be doing his MBA classes this next quarter from monday through thursday...big problem. One of the main reasons I was going back to school is because I could attend class while Anna was in school....So, I don't know what we're going to do about that. If I don't take that class, I'll be 2 credits less--and I really really want to take it. So, we'll have to figure something out...by the time we had the classes I was going to do--it was after 5pm, therefore the registrar was closed. I was aggravated because I was there ON TIME---WHEN she asked me to be, but she double booked herself, so those cute freshmen girls had plenty of time to get enrolled whereas I couldn't and school starts on the first day that I could go to the registrar. GRRR. I was very upset/frustrated with the lack of organization on her part.

The Neel family came over and brought chinese food for us all for dinner--YUM! Then we played carcassonne & 5 player hearts. It was really fun. My dad & co are currently enroute to see us. They should arrive tomorrow morning sometime...it's almost my birthday!!!! You didn't forget, did you?