| Nov. 15th, 2006 @ 10:34 pm i'm going to stop procrastinating. next month. |
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I always say to myself, "time to update the old journal". And then I don't. Trying to right good will just make it harder, so I'm goin to try and jsut spit it out.
I finished my first course from Athabasaca. I passed. I did really well on the first essay, but with the second, longer, one, I took way to long to get to it, and to get it done. It stareted out well, but the second half was crap. I still don't write good concluding paragraphs, and I basically called it done when it was long enough, and had all the requisite parts. I barely wrote the exam on time, and didn't remeber enough details of the material to get a good mark. Still, %73 isn't te worst grade i've ever gotten, and i know how to improve. My next course starts in December, and in the mean time, I'm reading "Shaum's Quick Guide to Writing Great Essays", which seems like it could be very helpful, and I've got the Oxford Guide to Library Research. Athabasca opened up a Political Science major in September, so that's what i've applied for.the requiments are more flexible than Canadian Studies, PoliSci is my interest anyways, and I won't have to try and learn French by correspondence.
I'm now in two choirs, the Unitarian Church of Calgary Choir, and VocaLatitudes, a community world music choir. With the later, we performed on Sunday, singing during intermission for a concert called Make a Joyful Noise, in the lobby of Jack singer Concert Hall. For those who don't know it, the lobby is alot nicer than it sounds. I got to watch the concert, too, showcasing the music of multiple faiths. It was great, really well staged, but seemed a little narrow to me. They started with an American Indian singer and drummer, and had a buddhist chanter, and representatives of the Sihk, Hindu, and Sufi community, all of whom performed in what I would call East Indian style music, although the Sufi music was probably closer to pakistan or the middle east in origin, but still, lots of tabla and sitar.The Christian choir was impressively massive, being the combination of 4 churches and I think two high schools, and they sang "All Thing Bright and Beautiful", a lovely song. Having a (white) pianist and (white) soprano soloist singing European classical music seems like kind a of copout for Baha'i, even if they do acknowledge all prophets. The Bahá'u'lláh came from Iran, and I'm sure the Baha'is must have some original music of their own.
I've started trying to learn to play the guitar, but won't be getting a MySpace page anytime soon. I still can't switch between the four chords I know without breaking rythym.
I haven't done much mini painting lately, first because I was to busy with my course, and now mostly because painting without sunlight kinda sucks, and it's dark at quarter after five around here now.
Comic books are gradually taking over my limited shelf space. I'm going to have to do something about that.
Right, well, that worked pretty well. Ned out. |
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