the modern bluestocking

I really should be sleeping right now, but I have a hard time remembering how tired I am in the mornings come night time. What can I say? I’m a night owl! OvO

Anyway, I have an intense couple of weeks coming up, so I’d appreciate prayers! My days will pretty much be filled with classes, practicing, homework, eating, and sleeping. Good times :D.

Unfortunately, there are lots of other things I’d like to be doing too. Like:

• Going through Beth Moore’s Daniel Bible study
• Making awesome jewelry (I’m envisioning a cross between this and this)
• Doing this to a pair of jeans I just bought
• Other minor mending projects (buttons, adjusting, etc)
• Sorting through my clothes and donating unwanted items here
• Going “thrifting”
• Watching this
• Working out (biking on my cyclops trainer and doing yoga)
• Finish reading Dumas’ Three Musketeers (go d’Artagnan!)
• Slowing down and enjoying more simple pleasures like: a walk in the woods, a cup of tea, a comfy chair and warm blanket…….

*sigh*

Oh, by the way, I am very torn about this new Emma movie. A) It was the 1996 version which first got me hooked on Austen and  led me to explore other 19th century women authors. Obviously, as far as movies go, it holds a special place in my heart. B) The actor portraying Mr. Knightly also portrayed Edmund (my most beloved Austen hero!) in Mansfield Park. So while this new Emma promises to bring some very good things to Masterpiece Theater’s collection of Austen dramatizations, I can’t help but feel it’s taking away some things as well….. : /

Well, it’s past my bedtime. I guess that means this owl needs to turn in for the night……. Whooo, whooo!

I turn 19 tomorrow.

Wow.

I know that New Years was just a couple of days ago, and that is the typical time to reflect on the past year, but I often find myself more contemplative when nearing my birthday. A lot happened in my 18th year. I graduated from high school, I gave a senior recital, my brother got married, I was a cabin counselor at a children’s camp, I spent 2 weeks at a harp camp in Georgia where I won student of the year, I started college, I played Mahler’s 5th Symphony with the Waterloo Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra….

I’m expecting my 19th year to be full of new and exciting things as well. I am auditioning for several orchestra festivals this summer (orchestra festivals are basically longer, more intense, grown up versions of music camps). I am performing 2 more shows with the Waterloo Symphony this spring, as well as performing Chichester Psalms with Coe’s Concert Choir, and Debussy’s Danses with Coe’s Orchestra.

I, of course, will still be taking classes – Music Theory II, German II, Human Relations, Crimson and Gold (a vocal ensemble), Orchestra, Hour Harp Lessons, and Half-Hour Piano Lessons. I am also adding one more student to my piano studio, for a total of 6 students. I anticipate this next semester to be busy, to put it mildly.

But as for now, I’m pretty much being a lazy bones (it’s past 10:00 in the morning and I still haven’t gotten out of bed) :D. But that’s because I wrote an essay last night and didn’t get to sleep until after 1 am.

Anyway, I’m going to try to enjoy my last day of being 18…

19, here I come!