The semester is over.  It ended for me at 8:13 when I handed my Methods final envelope to Mrs. Van Slyke.  The amount of information and the experience I gained are both a little overwhelming right now.  I feel so much more prepared (and yet still unprepared and PETRIFIED!) to student teach (in less than four months) (when I will have to be a grown-up and have a car and live in an apartment and wear dress-up clothes and shoes every day.  And be a responsible, in-charge teacher?!).  It's been an incredibly stretching semester in just about every way possible.  I really feel like I've learned, though.  And not only have I learned, I've had time to do goofy, fun things, and gotten to know people so much better, and even sent out mass e-mails!  And I've learned more about relationships and vulnerability and conducting.  (And all three of those things really do go together.)

So it's over, but Mayterm is coming.  And after that is scary to think about.  Ack!

Satisfaction and Contentment?

Caitlin and I are watching the State of the Union address right now.  It's incredibly entertaining as the cameras zoom in on grumpy-, sleepy-, or happy- looking people.  Or as half the group stands up and claps and the other half sits there in stony silence.  I'm pretty sure the guy they just showed on tv was sleeping.  And I really wish Dick Cheney or Nancy Pelosi would make a face behind President Bush.  That would be so wonderful. 

I know this is incredibly irreverent.  Forgive me :)

Currently Listening Smetana: Moldau/From Bohemia's Meadows and Forests/Dvorák: Slavonic Dances Op.46 & Op.72 The Moldau see related

I'm procrastinating on my Conducting plan.  And H & P reading.  And Piano Lit reading and project.  And Methods.  And a vast number of other things that, if I did them now, would make my life so much easier this week.  But I'm not doing them. 

This weekend has been absolutely wonderful.  Susannah stayed with us for a couple days, and Alyson, too, because she was taking a well-deserved RA break.  We ate so much amazing food- burritos, alati, potato pancakes, french toast, pie, cranberry bread, cookies- and with the International banquet and bazaar there were crepes and bread salad and more crepes.  Oh yum. 

And there has been a ransom note left for Jacob, which makes me glad.  I was so worried that someone just took him and we weren't ever going to get him back.  There are ten clues, supposedly, before we can get him back, and I'm not sure if I'm looking forward to getting him back or finding out who took him more.  I have some pretty good suspicions who it might have been, too. 

Also, we watched Arsenic and Old Lace last night and it was beyond bizarre.  If only we had found out about it before the Old Maid party it would have been perfect! 

Finally, this post needs something worthwhile in it, so here is a quote from Martin Luther...