"it's our last hoo-rah, the final Sing Song!!!!"

so my "no-graduation" scare is officially over. thanks to the always wonderful Nuria, i'm back on track and just short one graduate class. and guess what? when i got to choose which class to drop to undergrad, i chose the one with less homework. how crazy am i? but i really like the other one and i don't want to have to take a midterm, writing a few papers sounds better. and i'd rather do Medieval Brit Lit now with Rankin rather than wait and do it with some guy i don't like and who's not as fun...or even likable at all. anyways, my scare is over and i'm totally free and clear to graduate in may. and now to the important stuff: Sing Song! it's finally here. after a great first win in "Audience Favorite", the senior class was a little put out to only get 2nd in "Originality". i mean, really, the freshman class may have a lot of people and be really loud, but everyone says they also can't be understood. so how do they win originality? because they have bright costumes? did we just happen to get judges who are easily distracted by bright colors or something last night? i mean, come on, we're in purple and white for ACU's sake! it's the school colors! they're in mustard yellow with weird khaki vests with colored triangles on the front. we have yoda, leia, chewbacca, and DARTH VADER!!! how do you beat that? and we have a fight scene complete with light saber noises done by us. and the awesomenest video ever!!! and we have the "Centennial Falcon", get it? the Millenium Falcon meets the Centennial class of ACU and we have "The Centennial Falcon." it's hilarious and smart. who could resist? apparently the dee-dee-dee judges last night. whoever they were, they were blind, deaf, and decidedly dee-dee-dee! but it's okay. we're going to win today, both times! we're to win the whole shebang. screw those stupid munchkins! they can't beat the FORCE!!!! "I--I just found out Darth is my dad; / the dark force runs through my veins. / Leia and I made out, oh-- no. / I--I really want to know why / George Lucas wants to ruin my life? / Is it really worth being a Jedi? / The Pain I Can't Deny!!!!" Centennial Senior Class Sing Song all the way! Jedi's are going rock the house tonight!!! side bar-we didn't win! we were totally robbed. the judges were indeed complete dee-dee-dees. and does it seem a little weird to anyone but me that one of the judges was the guy who directed the act upon which this year's freshman act was based? umm...sounds like a whopping case of bias to me! our act was so much better, even when watching the video it's apparent. and btw, the sing song video was kinda sucky, especially for how much it cost and how long it took to make (seriously? it took you from february 'till may to make a dvd? i don't buy it). what, you couldn't even put in a menu page so we could skip to the parts we wanted to watch? seriously? we did that on our swing cats dvds and we don't have half the money sing song has...or the manpower. what's up with that?

"big black horse & a cherry tree"

so i'm in the mood for a little rant right about now. a rant about registrar's office. so they sent me a letter after last semester about how i needed an exsc class and two electives to finish out my degree. but the sheet they gave me, with all my classes and what they count for said that i had all the electives i needed. so i figured it was just some sort of clerical error or wires got crossed or whatever. i signed up for an exsc class and figured i was good. and today i get an e-mail from them saying i still don't have two electives fulfilled and if i don't do something soon, i won't graduate in may but will have to wait till august instead. NOT HAPPENING! understandably i'm a little miffed at the moment. then i checked my degree evaluation thingy on banner and it said they same thing the sheet they sent me said: my electives are all met. so i e-mailed the woman back and told her all this and then asked what i needed to do to fix it. i think if i have to go talk to them in person, i'm not going to be the friendliest of people. even if i don't officially graduate in august, i'm walking in may, even if i have to force my way on stage and plant my ass up there all day! apparently i'm missing two credits or somehow my stuff only adds up to 126 instead of 128. maybe they'll let me bump down a graduate class to cover. or maybe i can take some last minute pracitcums or something. god this is so stressful!! and i have to take the GRE bright and early tomorrow morning as well as handling all this sing song stuff. there are so many expletives in my head right now, they're all jumbling letters around. we'll see what happens when nuria e-mails me back. bye for now for the very ventful me "my jedi training WILL be done in may!!!! and not august or december!"

"it's two AM and i'm still awake writing this song"

okay, bored again at work. and to top it all off, it's 7 in the morning and i haven't had caffeine yet. but i will in just a second. first i wanted to post a new poem i wrote, an ode to valentine's day as it were. here goes: Happy Singleton's-Awareness Day most girls get flowers and chocolate I get homework and jumping jacks and itchy pants and computers that won't cooperate Valentine's Day sucks then again...I did get to see Hugh Laurie almost naked I think that beats flowers and candy any day enjoy courtesy of me and my bitterness towards another evil V-day spent alone. seriously when's it gonna be my time?!!!

"something has changed within me"

okay, not really. i'm just bored and felt like posting some poetry i wrote for class the other day. it's supposed to be in the style of Ginger Andrews, but i don't know how close i got. but here goes:

conversation

I try to tell him everything at once because I feel like I don’t have enough time to sit quiet and withdrawn so I say inane, stupid things that are meaningless to even me but I feel like I have to get it all in before he gets bored and goes back to his computers and radios his other life before I get resentful and sit quiet and withdrawn with a book that makes me look smart and unapproachable _________________________________________

shiver

ever notice how good singing gives you shivers initially I’ll try to pass it off as a draft or something like that but when it lasts to the very last note the final crescendo I give up being coy and accept that it’s all the power of song and a soaring voice that makes me feel touched so visibly that I shiver in response ______________________________________

addictions

“What Not to Wear” is just one of my TV drugs of choice so is “Desperate Housewives” which wasn’t on tonight because of the Superbowl. and then “Grey’s Anatomy” had a scary, cliffhanger ending which I’ll have to wait a week to see resolved or longer if I miss it because of Swing or Sing Song practice. at least I got caught up on “Charmed” thanks to their Superbowl marathon on TNT. finally I know why the Avatar’s Utopia didn’t work out and how Leo came to be human…again. and I got to see Billy Zane dressed up like Gene Kelly, Shakespeare, and Robin Hood (though thankfully not as the Phantom). all in all a good day in my opinion. though, truthfully, I should have been cleaning. ____________________________________________ so, there you go. i gave it my best shot. i guess i'll see how i did in class on friday. so, uh, that's it. i'm going back to med. brit. lit. now. have a nice night!

"but remember this/every other kiss/that you ever give/long as we both live/when you need the hands/of another man/one you really can't surrender with/i will wait for you/like i always do/there's something there/that can't compare/to any other"

"la vie boheme"

i decided i'd take that quiz, loraine. it was kinda neat. and kinda true. Your elven name is Eleniel,it means 'of the stars'.You are kind,loving,but most of all a dreamer.You love to dream night and day about adventures or far off lands.You like to live in your fantasy world where you can be everything you want and do everything you can dream of.When you are not daydreaming(and that is not much),you are a loving and sensitive person.In your grup of friends you are definetly the dreamer,but you surprise your friends with wonderful ideas that nobody thought of.Don't forget that our world has beautiful things in it too.If you don't pay atention you might miss important chances. Colors that suit you:soft colors. The clothing style that suits you:medieval clothing. (it's like they read my mind) and here's another one: You are the goddess of hope and nature, also called "the Golden Goddess", Circe. You have long golden curly hair, emerald sparkling eyes and a pair of wings that usually are silver, but at times they are goldish and appear made of sun rays, nobody knows why (but you do, that's because you are secretly in love with the god Cerneus (god of sky and freedom!). You often like to go on Earth and admire the forests, but you remain unseen, your status asks it, you are a member of the High Council of Gods. so it's a dorky way to spend part of my work hour, but i don't have anything else to do...at least until jacque reads my scene and tells me how it is. and that's it for now. what no song quotes or titles? okay, i won't break with tradition just yet. "to days of inspiration/playing hooky/making something out of nothing/the need to express, to communicate/to going against the grain/going insane/going mad/to loving tension/no pension/to more than one dimension/to starving for attention/hating convention, hating pretention/not to mention of course, hating dear old mom and dad/to riding your bike mid-day past the three-piece suits/to fruits, to no absolutes/to absolut/to choice, to the village voice/to any passing fad/to being an 'us' for once/instead of a 'them'"