busy-ness

it really has been!
friday was a fairly early start, although i didn't get as much work as i intended to do done before i had a class at 10am. it was unfortuantely the last lecture we have with our cool american lecturer, scott (well, he's american. and he's got a cool american accent. he's totally cool.)
then i tried to go to the con to read the concert reports from several weeks ago to see what people had written when i played. but i got told something i really didn't understand. oh well. perhaps i'll try again next week.
then we had lunch, and spent ages talking to sam and xing and then tried to do work after that. was feeling a bit unmotivated to practice piano. i unfortunately have to feel it, and to feel it, i have to feel like i have a good amount of time, not under pressure. so it hasn't happened yet, because i have felt really really busy.

then i had commerce dinner. it was good. unfortunately, jeff borland couldn't come because he had a stomach bug or something. and i was supposed to sit next to him so that i could talk economics with him. rather unfortunate that he wasn't there, really. i was really looking forward to getting to know the head of the economics department, you know, nice and chummy. perhaps my ticket to honours..?!? oh well, the dinner went quite well. it was a nice event to get all dressed up for :) dinner was delicious, the speaker, Dr David Cousins, was good, and the conversation we had was good. i then nicked off to go to girls' night at the vic. i didn't even bother getting changed out of my dress, i stuck a coat on top, and walked over at about 11pm! i didn't care, i had promised that i was going to make it to girls' night and i wasn't about to not fulfill that promise!

i arrived just in time to start The Notebook. I really wish i had my pjs instead (everybody else looked, and i bet, was, really comfy!) yep, so what happens when you watch The Notebook with nine other girls, who are basically all as weepy as me? Yes, it was emotional. we had the toilet roll out, honking our way through it; it was soo sad!! but so good! (why do us girls put ourselves through such emotional trauma quite willingly?!) we all agreed that we wouldn't turn on the lights well after the movie, for fear of looking like absolute train wrecks..! (I assure you i was; i'm one of those people that when i cry, i look absolutely terrible - you can tell when i cry. my eyes are all puffy, red, and my nose goes bright red and doesn't un-red itself for a while). well, it was a late night, i got home at about 2am, went to bed at 2.30.

so this morning, i got up at 8.30, because i was meeting lauren at 10am, and i kinda wanted to get a bit of work done. yep, 6 hrs sleep is not very much. it's quite unfortunate that i have been very close to this quite often recently. i will seriously crash on the holidays. as long as i can hold out for about two weeks longer...
we went to piano landmarks this morning, saw Stefan play Satie, and Stephen McIntyre play Debussy. It was a good concert! loz met her friend marina in the city, and i had to head home after it because i had a bunch of work to do!

things i missed out on today:
michael's farewell (I feel really bad about this one. considering he's going for three years...)
the icac art exhibition (i really wanted to see this. it's always interesting to see this! and go poke around another college. it's kinda fun..!)
the CU ball (i really wanted to go to this too. amy was telling me i HAD to go.......i feel bad for her..!)
this monash uni orchestra concert at melba hall (with four soloists playing....stuff...)
treas' birthday bbq
the rest of the piano landmarks concerts. because i wanted to go to all four, because there was at least one thing in each that i really wanted to see, either a certain person who was playing, or the piece that they were playing. pooh. and ondine was being played by ke lin (who incidentally, first studied commerce. i tell you, the number of musicians, especially pianists, mostly male actually...who did commerce first. or are doing commerce too..........the odds are up..!)

mind you, i went to Youth Alive tonight with loz, sam, and two other ormondians.
the quirky bits first...
one of them is steph, who is incidentally a friend of li's. and who went to College. and so she knows a whole heap of queeners. totally cool!
the other one was chloe. who is a music student. who incidentally comes from perth. who knew sof (flutes at uwa...). and she went to penrhos. she knew amy twining. and apparently she goes to subi as well..! (except she goes to the evening service...when i go back, i shall have to see her there..!) how quirky is that?!?!

anyway, youth alive was at rod laver arena. it was such an amazing night.
it was so amazing and encouraging to see so many young people expressing their love for God. something like 12 000 people. Not kidding. it was HUGE. totally amazing. there was a band, some skateboarders, preston - this dude who delivered a testimony (a truly amazing one, i tell you!) and a speaker, Reggie (he was totally cool). it was a truly AMAZING night.
rod laver is totally cool too :)
the walk there and back from the flinders st/swanston st station was just beautiful. it was just such a beautiful day and night out today (and tonight!) - it was cold, not too windy. it was just beautiful. surely we are so blessed.
we went out after to get some gelate. we talked. it was nice.
it was a truly excellent day. just that work unfortunately doesn't do itself for me. this is a great pity, in my opinion.

so, on that note, i should get back to it....(i'll go to sleep soon, i promise..!)