Whopee! Getting back in the game! (of choir singing)

I just had a rehersal yesterday with a choir, it was great! They asked me to assist on a trip to Serbia in October. I got a whole stack of music to learn, but I'm a fast learner so it'll be cool. I'm quite exited to get back into singing.


Boyfriendwise:
We've been trying to see eachother every day, even on the busy days, where our time together is after my bedtime at 11 pm. Turns out, I get quite cranky at that hour, so I start bossing him about if he's not in my bed or on his way at that time, which is quite spoiling for the romantic atmosphere between us. So I think we need to get used to not seeing eachother for an entire day (!), if we can only meet that late at night.

I guess if we didn't live together we wouldn't be this lazy (or obsessive) just hanging out whenever we find 20 minutes available. I think I might need to imagine we don't live together in order to not bother him with my bad mood after 11...

Life: Acquired!

I started doing P.E. tuesday and thursday morning at 07, and swimming on fridays. It's great to get som excercise again and to get up early. I still need to learn to get to bed before 11 pm, though. Excercise before breakfeast also means that I'm halfway through the struggle before my brain awakens and realises what's actually going on. A clear advantage.

My boyfriend has started work on his ph.d. and he's working as if he's already in the final phase, he leaves a 7.45 in the morning and comes back 10/11 hours later. I'm trying to teach him to work less, but it will take me some time.

By the way, he called me yesterday and said "by the way, I won't make it home before the day after tomorrow" ... but hey, then I might actually get some studying done in the evening!


My beloved dorm

My courses in Rhetorics

I've just begun following lectures again, and it's two courses at the institute of rhetorics, the last two courses in my minor before I have to write my masters in Musicology. They're called
Rhetoric and practical philosophy
and
Teaching Composition (in writing)

I took the Composition one before, but failed to write the 25 page paper to finish the course formally. Didn't read much the last time I followed it, and what I read I didn't understand very well.

So here I go again.
Luckily, it's the same teacher and exactly the same list of sources to be read, and it seems that the bells of understanding are starting to ring the second time around. Of course, that only goes for the texts I have actually read.

Last week, at the first lecture in "teaching composition" I felt really depressed about being back. The majority of the class are Rhetoric Majors, so they have about four more years of immersion into the subject than I. So I feel a bit "behind" the average student in the class.

Today was more encouraging. It turns out that there are quite a few teachers from our equivalent of high schools with years and years of experience with teaching. They make a fine counterpart to the rhetoricans, practical versus theoretical. And now I'm not the only one not understanding the customs of rhetoricans.

And I actually understood every word of what was going on!

(that goes for the 80% of the time where I was actually paying attention. Good thing is, I was inspired into distraction, so I was taking notes to my thoughts when I was mentally absent to the class)

Horray! I hope it goes on this way.

More will follow about my other course.