Feminine Hygiene

I hate shaving my legs.
I really do. Actually, to be honest I only hate it after I haven’t shaved in awhile. That’s because I just used four razors and I still didn’t get my legs completely de-furred! Urgh!!!
But you ask, why keep it up then? Well, like I said I don’t always hate it. At certain times of the month I find it enjoyable because it’s one more facet of femininity. Yes, I am a feminist, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t want to be feminine sometimes, particularly when Auntie Rose is visiting. It’s because when I’m being tailed by Auntie Rose I’m more than aware of the fact that I am a woman. I’ve got the power to bring life into the world and to nurture that life. I have a very strong maternal instinct, so I love that fact. I always feel like celebrating when most women feel cramped up and bloated.
Of course, according to Kristen this just means that I will have horrible labor because I don’t cramp. But then again for some reason I usually cramp up about a week or so before my period so maybe it won’t be so bad.
And, on a completely unrelated note, if Heath Ledger doesn’t win an Oscar for his performance in The Dark Knight, I will go Academy hunting. Every time I watch it, I am just broadsided anew by him. I have to sit there and remind myself that the Joker is Heath Ledger. In the movie, he is just the Joker, no one else. I can’t see any of Heath’s past roles in him. I can still see Morgan Freeman as Azim from Robin Hood and Gary Oldman as Dracula, but for the life of me I can’t reconcile the Joker and William Thatcher. If that isn’t the mark of a great actor, I don’t know what is.

Three Reasons This Past Week Sucked

1. Someone took my HIM poster off the door of my room. As in stole it.
I came back Thursday evening after my classes but before Lessons and Carols to find my poster gone. You don't know how pissed I was. It was a beat up poster that I was thinking of getting rid of anyway. If the person who took it had asked, I would probably have been open to giving it to them free or very cheap. Now, I want it back just because someone stole the damn thing.

2. I had a minor meltdown after juries.
I ain't kidding. I ran out of there needing one of my friends so that I could get a hug and get it all out. Thankfully I found Rebecca before I flipped. Contrary to popular belief I do not like crying in public.

3. I have three more exams before I can chill.
I really don't like exams!

Of Seventh Chords and Tremelos

So, today in Musicianship was rather eventful.

First, when I did my rhythm quiz I did something that was not only a first but completely hilarious. On the long notes, my voice had a - according to Lynn - a tremelo. Seriously, my nerves made me unable to control my vocal cords. I couldn't stop the tremelo from being in my voice and the rest of the class plus Dr. Couch had a field day with it.

By the way for those of you who aren't musicians, a tremelo is when you move between two notes very quickly but evenly. It's not a trill which is more random.

Then when we were going over seventh chord identification it became apparent that Lynn has spent way too much time around me. You see, when we first learned them Dr. Couch told us to imagine them as colors. A major-major is yellow, a major-minor is red, a minor-minor is blue, a half-diminished is grey, and a fully diminished is black.

Well, me being who I am, I came up with another way of remembering the chords. Major-major is very sunny and bright - like Autobot Bumblebee. Minor-minor is calm and sometimes slightly sad, and thus it is imprinted in my mind as the Optimus chord. Half-diminished sounds "whiney" so it's Starscream, and the fully diminished sounds very evil like Megatron. Thus, you have my memory system in place.

Well, today, Lynn identified the half-diminished as Starscream. We both sort of looked at each other and mutually agreed that we'd spent waaaaaaay too much time around each other.