where did the semester go?

only two weeks left, craziness! this is our last week of "normal" classes. i only have three finals this week. tomorrow is my trombone playing exam (E flat, B flat, F, and G major scales, chromatic scale, country gardens, and sightreading one piece), thursday is our dictation exam for sightear, and friday is my piano playing exam. The theme of this week is Christmas concerts!!! Tomorrow night the flute choir is performing at Westminster Retirement Home. We'll be playing an hour of mostly all Christmas music. My personal fav. pieces are the Trepak (from the Nutcracker) and the sacred ones that Kim arranged. Wednessday night I have a rehearsal at First Baptist Church. Another girl in the flute studio and I are accompanying the choir on Sunday morning. Sunday is also our Wind Ensemble concert and Christmas evening service at church, where emily and i are playing handbells. I'm not yet sure when to study for finals... I love Christmas, but sometimes it feels like the most stressful time of year. I sooooo can't wait to go home to make christmas cookies, go iceskating, sing christmas carols/broadways with Nish and Tirz, go christmas shopping, drink eggnog, see friends, read some good books (NOT theory!), and worship My Savior!!! I'm sure there is much i'm forgetting on my little list, but i only had four hours of sleep last night so....yeah. emily and i were at the music building until midnight. emily was practicing for her jury and i had filming for Joe's 3-D concert in Sursa hall. Joe (a music tech major), had a project where he asked a cellist, violinist, violist, clarinetist, bassoonist, and myself to record a piece he wrote. We each went to the recording studio at separate times to record our parts. Than last night we all met together in Sursa to film. we basically had to pretend that we were playing our parts while walking around the hall...it was supposed to look aristic. Apparently our piece will be playing some place downtown Muncie this week. If i had a car i would go see how it turned out... After filming emily and i went back to the dorm and watched "The Three Muskateers" (disney version) b/c we were much too hyper to sleep. This morning we dragged ourselves out of bed to head off to 8am theory, only to find out that Trawick was not in (sick?) and class was canceled. so emily and i being the good music students that we are went to practice piano. we would have gone back to bed but i had a 9 o'clock class and emily wanted to practice before her piano lesson. so right now i'm running on coffee and i don't even like coffee!
wow, i'm not sure this blog has a point...except that i'm sleepy...
i think i'll go practice conducting for tomorrow. Have a great last week of classes, unless you're in high school or teach high schoolers that is ( :