I know I only just posted last night, but there were so many fair pictures I thought they deserved their own post. I have had the CRAZIEST last two weekends! When organizing my schedule for this fall semester, I knew that, unlike most people, my busiest time would be the weekends and my BREAK would be Mon-Wed. This is due to my Thursday night Johnson grad class, teaching all day Friday at St. Peter’s, Saturday morning Shakespeare class, Saturday voice lesson and choir practice/Vespers, and Sunday morning choir practice/liturgy. Add onto to that special events, and whew!! It was all I could do to keep my energy up and make it to Monday! Now how’s that for a reversal!
Last weekend, for instance, I helped organize a choir workshop for our church. Jammieca Mott, my voice teacher, was the instructor for the entire 6 hour workshop. A few of us had to sing solos so that she could critique us in front of the entire group. I went first, because I figured, hey, she picks on me every week in our lesson! Nothing new!
Wrong. Very wrong. Seeing as up until a year ago I had never done singing of any sort, this was the first time I’d sung in front of anyone by myself. There was that one time I tried out for a musical in the 6th grade and practically threw up on stage.
So, “A” for bravery. As for talent, well, good thing Christine was the only one other than the choir who had to hear me (she came up from Houston to join us for the weekend!). It was tiring- we went from a 6 hour workshop straight into singing a 3 hour Vespers service!
This weekend was crazy busy as well. I had a giant test in my Shakespeare class on Saturday morning. We had to memorize at least 30 formal element terms (things like, “polyptoton”, “synechoche” and “catachresis”) and read Puttenham’s Art of Poesy in preparation. All we were given for the quiz was a Spenserian sonnet. The instructions were to write an essay demonstrating our knowledge of the “formal elements” while arguing for the meaning and intent of the poem. I managed to crank out 3 pages in the 45 minutes we were given, but I was nervous!
After going straight to my voice lesson and then church for 3 hours, Courtney drove me over the Gaspards for “Girls Night”. This is something we just started doing, with out first event being the outing to PF Chang’s and Time Traveler’s Wife. This time, all 10 of us got together at Katie’s GIANT, BEAUTIFUL house in Dallas. We ate brisket tacos and nachos before “retiring” to the sitting room for different varieties of wine and goodies. TONS of goodies. We had chai caramel fondue with pound cake, chocolate covered strawberries, chocolate with cherry at the center, pears, apples and Milano cookies. So much yum!
And then, of course, Jenny, Jason, Jesse and I went to the Fair after church on Sunday. All in all, I am just thankful I made it to Monday!
Here are a few pictures from the Girls’ Gathering.
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