Glorious Sun and I am Stuck with Finals...

Oh man the weather is amazing here. Funny part is that we got about four inches of snow last week and now we are having cloudless skies and warm weather (warm enough to wear shorts and flip-flops)! The unfortunate part about all of it is the stinkin' week of studying and next week is supposed to rain. Ugh...several finals (six to be exact) in only a few days. I have some papers to finish and hopefully I can enjoy tomorrows sun!!!

I found a sun to do a performance to next semester for one of my capstone dance classes!! I am thinking of doing Love Story (Taylor Swift) meets Viva la Vida (Coldplay) by Jon Schmidt. I will attempt to upload a video of it cause it is so amazing. Beautiful triplet harmonics with perfect rhythmic beats for pas de duex partnering and coupe leaps! I hope to start putting the process together for everyone soon!!! I will record as much as possible! It really is beautiful!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v3d6SFcDys (youtube link-only if the link below doesn't work!



Enjoy!

March Madness...

This blog has nothing to do with basketball by any means. This is more of how insane March is and is going to be. It is only March 8th and I have had little sleep these last few days. This week is not going to get any easier. I am busy everyday of the week with school and studying as well as some dance rehearals on Wednesday and Friday and the last of my midterms on Tuesday evening. Here we go...bring it on...

I Did Go On A Walk...

Until just recently, Utah has had amazing weather. On Sunday, my roommate Victoria and I went for a nice two hour walk along the Provo river. We have been hitting to 60's for a while! Just recently though we are in the 40's and overcast. I did go for a walk a while ago.

Amazing Program!!!

So last night I had to cut some music for dance and was having some difficulty finding someone who could do it on such short notice and for free. I emailed a friend of mine who is a band teacher and has to sometimes cut music if she knew of any programs that were cheap and worked well. She emailed back and gave me a reference to a program named Audicity. After some installations, I was able to download a free version of this program and it is working wonders. I could edit, cut, change tempo, change the speed, record my own noises, pick from an array of pre-recorded voices and noises, overlay and overlap, enhance a note, make pauses, you name it, it probably can do it. I could even edit music down to a millisecond which helped with the song I was cutting. I can take one section and work on just that particular part for a while. I am way excited. I can fine tune my music over the next several weeks and get everything ready without stress and worry (cause I am stressed, worried and freaking out right about now). I can even have it adaptable to all music and computer systems. This is a great idea. I can slightly relax regarding dance, but only slightly. I just had to blog about this amazing gift that was given to me!!!

Draper Temple Open House

I am so excited. Today, Hannah (my roommate) and I are going with some friends from the ward to the Draper Temple open house at 1:30pm. The Relief Society president got a bunch of tickets and invited Hannah and I to go with her and some other ward members. I have never been to a temple open house so this will be a fun first for me. I have seen board casted dedications of the Nauvoo Temple and one other temple (I don't remember which one though, but I know I've seen at least two). Draper is not too far away. It is about 20-40 minutes depending on traffic. I am excited!!!

So, my mom is in town until tomorrow afternoon. It has been nice having her here. Before she leaves tomorrow we get to see our "cousins" for breakfast (long story about them being family and all). The Cleghorns are coming! They leave tomorrow night. Tonight, I get to see my pregnant adopted sister. She is having a boy in April (I get to be an aunt!!!)! Mom wants to give her some baby clothes that never made it to Utah when Mom sent them for Christmas. We are going to have a very full table at dinner tonight! It will be fun to see everyone though.

I have a very busy weekend coming up. Homework, family time, cleaning my room (man, does it need cleaning) and meetings, concert rehearsals, and a small performance are going to occupy a majority of my time. Needless to say, school is in full swing. Therefore, I remain busy. I wouldn't have it any other way.

Yes, We Can!!!

I am so mad I have school today. The Presidential Inauguration is today and I have to be stuck at school while a historic event occurs. I can not wait for President Bush to leave (I really don't like him at the moment...don't get me started on the Border Patrol agents he did not pardon). I think this country needs a President to will actually get things done. I am glad he realizes that we can't stop the war in less than a year, otherwise he would have never gotten my vote. Although if McCain didn't choose Palin I probably would have been torn between the two. Palin scares me and does not need to be in the White House. Anyways, I am excited!!! I have friend that attend University of Utah and will be in the Marching Band and on television for 30 seconds or more. Finally, change we can believe in!!! Yes, we can!!!

Less than 24 hours

yep. I leave for Utah at 12:50pm tomorrow. It is a bitter sweet moment. I am glad to be on my own again, but I enjoyed free meals and free laundry. It will be okay though. I am not looking foreward to any of the snow though. I am snowed out. It is even snowing here...RIGHT NOW. We are going to get about 2 inches and then it turns to rain. We are having flooding issues through most of the state, but since Mom and Dad live on a hill that don't have to worry! I am just hoping there is limited snow tomorrow when we leave. I don't want to be stuck in the airport. Gah...