More coherant?

We'll see about that. But I'll try my best.
So, have had a couple of exams and am waiting till December for my final one. Seems like ages away - I hope I don't lose motivation.

Orchestration exam was as expected - I though pretty straightforward. It was one of the classes I had this year that had the majority of my friends in it (though admittedly, so did Prac, where Thursday Concert Classes were a bit of a time to catch up; as too was Chamber Music, though the division of the class into instrument groups didn't really allow for that much social interaction. Anyway). So there were a bunch of us, sitting all in one row. The exam was held in Theatre A in the Old Arts Building - if you don't know it, I must tell you that this is a lecture theatre where the desks are those flip-out ones that flip out from a row in front of you. Therefore, it is very difficult to get in and out of the seats in the middle of the rows. Which is exactly where I sat. Silly me, because I was pretty sure I wasn't going to stay for the two hours. I left with N after an hour and a quarter, and made life difficult for myself and the four or so people we eventually disturbed in order to get out of the exam. And the whole time, I was wondering whether I should do a fancy leap-over-the-rows act, or perhaps be thrown to the front of the theatre by some friends to make it out, while the lecturer looked at us bemusedly as we pondered how to get out without affecting a maximum number of people.

K's exam was the next day - went pretty well, it was fun to do. I suppose she was very relieved when it was over, as it was her last exam for this year! So well done on finishing, K!

Then had Macroeconomics exam on Thursday. This was the one I was dreading the most; it has been the subject giving me the most grief in terms of study, and perhaps all this semester, although that is a little hard to determine because I don't think that I worked hard for it at all this semester. Until Swotvac. It went ok, I think. I hope. Not really sure. I definitely studied my butt off for it. (Though my butt is still in place, thank you very much.) Not really sure how I did - you know when you do exams and you think you do ok, because you can answer pretty much almost everything with a little bit of confidence, but then afterwards you start talking to your friends and they start talking about specific questions and how they answered it and you have no idea what they're talking about - the concepts are ones you don't even recall, or possibly have never heard of. That's when I decided to leave and go home, because the exam was done, and I couldn't do anything else. Oh well. We'll just have to wait and see, won't we? I do hope I at least pass though, because it would be very painful if I had to do the subject again. Plus, I kinda don't want to have to spend another semester at uni, just doing commerce stuff. What a drag that would be!

It was good to get out on Thursday night to celebrate S's birthday - almost like a mini-post-exams party (though not really post-exams just yet). Furthermore, there was a BBQ the following night to celebrate P's birthday which was earlier in the week. So that was fun. There were a couple of people that were at both, but even not so - there were good friends at both that made both evenings much fun and relaxed and definitely what I needed following some intense study.

Had a pretty chilled weekend - some rehearsals, some relaxing (though how much of REAL relaxation, without thinking about much else is debatable), some business to sort out. All good.
Got called by J for my piano debut at church that night. It was cool. I've always had a bit of a *thing* about playing piano in church, particularly since starting uni. Much too long to get into here, but anyway. Bottom line, it was pretty cool. Still not sure where I'm going with it next year and stuff, but there's definitely lots to think about.

This coming week sees about eleven rehearsals in the diary. Yes, you read correctly. And performing of sorts five times. I'm not sure how my wrist is holding up - I don't want to do any damage, but let's say today it's not doing so well. I know it's something I have to be overly cautious about, and eleven rehearsals in one week definitely won't help it. So please remind me to take it easy, and to be very careful!

Now, if somebody could just tell me exactly when the new James Bond movie comes out in Australia. I feel really stupid, as I have in my diary 27 November as the release date, but read somewhere (probably wikipedia....haha) that it's been shifted forward a week to this Wednesday. But I can't, for the life of me, actually find the date. Please enlighten me.

Wow, I should really go eat dinner. I called my mother up at work this afternoon to ask how to cook that broccoli and egg thing that my uncle does. I would have called him, but thought my mum might appreciate it more. I think she was in a meeting or something. Either way, she was definitely laughing at me.

very brief update - in ten minutes of furious typing!

It is been almost a month since I blogged. Primarily because term four has been super-busy (more than usual...is that possible?) and also because about two weeks ago, my computer decided to kick it. So, not having the distractions of checking my email and facebook every two minutes, as well as not having the need to update the readers of this blog on my weekly happenings.

But this will probably be fairly short, with more updates (ie. the whole of the last four weeks!) to come later, probably at the end of this week.

Done lots of playing, which may be summarised as such:
*Concert Class - solo (woo!) and the Khachaturian trio (yay!)
*Concerto Comp with a few friends
*Chamber Music Comp
*Chamber Music tutes
*Chamber Music exams
*Apollo Concert (my last as Choir conductor!)
*Concert at Queen's
*Composition Concert
oh, and rehearsals here and there for all the above, plus more.
It's been fun :)

A couple of 21sts, one themed as a jazz night and the other as a Spanish Fiesta. Both were enjoyable. Good chance to catch up with some friends, party for the last time till after exams (hah)

Been organising some AYO stuff on my side, getting forms in, chasing up people and bits and pieces.

Figured out that my late-night study regime is actually quite good - as in, I study fairly well at night (particularly with no MSN open to distract me now!). But this is also a bad thing, because I work well in the early morning too. And can't *really* afford to sleep in the afternoon given that my body should get used to being awake in the afternoon due to exams in the afternoon. What I need is to be able to survive on NO sleep. Or perhaps just a little bit of sleep. But unfortunately, that is not the case. Oh well....

Okay, it is time to depart. More to follow, if it is necessary.....