Election time

I'm truly exited about today's election in Denmark. We might be getting a new, red government (if we're lucky).

Still my life goes on, I enjoy my three jobs
1. conducting my amateur choir
2. singing at church
3. being a substitute teacher

And still, I haven't been studying enough, and it is just about to come back and hit me in the face, hard.

I just put a lot of nice music on my iPod, so I'll be tapping my foot to Prince, MJ, Erykah Badu, Depeche Mode and the Beatles while trying to study.

Election and what I'm up to

We have an election for the Danish parliament coming up in 11 days, and it's quite exiting, since the good (red) guys and the bad (blue) guys are coming out quite even in the polls (is that the way to put it?).

The politicians seem to have an ongoing competition to say the following most times a day: "this election will purify the atmosphere". I just hope it doesn't end up with being the blue guys in control, as it has been for the previous six years.

Anyway, enough about politics.

I had a bad case of diarrhoea this wednesday, and even though I didn't have it yesterday at all I spent the whole day recovering. But now I'm back in shape, I started the day with my swimming lesson. I wasn't very good at what we were supposed to learn, but at least the coach called me sweetie, so that made my day...

My boyfriend is still great. He doesn't do as much boy scout stuff as he has been doing a month ago, and I stopped singing in a choir on thursdays, so we get to see eachother a lot, which is nice.

A few weeks ago I tried to persuade him to move out of the dorm with me, but without luck. He pointed out that my being fed up with the dorm was just a symbol of me being fed up with my poor studying skills, and he was right. I don't really get anything done these days. Time flies by without me noticing... but at least I don't waste all my time on the internet anymore. I don't have internet in my room anymore, couldn't manage it....

Anyway, back to work.

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.

Trying to get a life

My boyfriend and I have a small issue: I need to get a life and we need to sort out how much or how little to see eachother. One accomplishment will certainly help the other.

I just spent 32 hours (divided into five shifts) pulling rubbish out of the mud at the Roskilde Festival. My pay was the ticket for next year's festival (worth about £130). In a way, it was great to have a reason to get out of bed early, but also pretty uninspiring to collect rubbish.

I ordered an Ipod, so I could hear music while working, but it hasn't come through the mail untill today... typical!

Now that I'm done working for the festival I can look forward to another two weeks of getting up early with my boyfriend for no reason whatever, then pop right back into bed or vegetate in front of my laptop untill the time where I would usually get up, if I didn't have him.

At least I have my first rehearsal with my amateur choir next monday, I can spend about a day preparing for that.

... but then what!!

I planned to try and find a job as a substitute teacher, and I know realise that while I have been working at the festival, I raised my demands for my future job so much that I'm not likely to find anything. This has caused me to loose my drive for even looking.

This is silly. And also another classic example of how life seems to be one long battle against your own thoughts.

So one of these days, I'm gonna go look, and I'll force myself to take something that matches only some of my wishes. (I'd like to teach less than eight hours a week, I'd like to avoid travelling too far to teach, I'd like to teach the subjects in which I am actually qualified - music and English)

But while I still have loads of time (untill the term starts in two weeks) I can attemt to drown my beloved in kisses and adoration. Unfortunately, he started his PhD today, so I can only do my thing on him after 6 pm... *sigh*

I need to get a life... maybe the Danish equivalent of Tesco has some in the "ready meals" section.

Horray!

My boyfriend is now an engineer! He defended his thesis and got very high marks!

I now have my own choir, and this time I get paid! I'm going to conduct every monday for two hours.

I have work next week, and the salary is the Roskilde Festival ticket for 2008.

Now I'm going to Vigsø, Denmark for a wedding. Should be a nice, long trip. But I do consider weddings to be the best parties.

Let's toast to the institute of musicology in Copenhagen. I just sent them an email and received the answer:

"the secretary is away on holiday untill monday the 23rd of july"

July! This is august!