This is for Sophie...

FINALS!

I'm crazy busy with studying for em'. And I'm trying to memorize some Spanish and Italian arias... Fun times!

Here's a video clip that I love to tide you over until I can get to posting again.

Enjoy!

Irony?

I am a stickler for the correct usage of the term 'irony'. So many people seem to be using it wrong these days. I feel like such a snob when someone calls something ironic and I HAVE to tell them "No, I'm sorry. That's not ironic." So snobby.

Case in point (which is totally obvious but still a good example): the song Ironic by Alanis Morissette. 95% of the stinking song is full of examples or situations that are not ironic!

It's like rain on your wedding day (Who said your wedding day HAS to have good weather? This person could have planned it during the rainy season. Who are they to expect clear skies? Please just plan a summer wedding if you want good weather. Idiots!)

It's a free ride when you've already paid (Just sounds like bad timing to me.)

It's the good advice that you just didn't take (That's not ironic. It's choosing to do what you want. Really, Alanis?)

It's a traffic jam when you're already late (Ok really? That's a no. Leave early.)

It's a no-smoking sign on your cigarette break (Shouldn't you already know where the designated places to smoke are at your own place of work/hangout?)

It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife (Is anyone else being fooled by these? What life situation ever would bring me to a place where I had 10,000 spoons available to me?)

It's meeting the man of my dreams And then meeting his beautiful wife (Now this one is funny. Just because you see a guy you want and has the qualities you're diggin', he should be single? Uh, no.)

Something happened to me last week, that I thought could be irony, but then later decided that it was just coincidental:

I dropped my hairdryer into my bathroom sink which was full of water... I know! Stupid and dangerous, and why in the heck was the sink full of water, you ask? I don't remember. So it totally dies. I then grab my roommate's hairdryer and hers is broken! Two hairdryers in one day! Gone! Dead!

When I arrived at work that morning, a rub on tattoo of a hairdryer was randomly left on my desk. No one knows where it came from... WEIRD. Right?

Pretty sure it's coincidental.

Water Passion, Baby!

So it's been a little bit since my last post... and I am so sorry. I know that some of you even have my blog as your homepage, and you were getting a bit tired of my nerd post. So sorry.

Here's what I've been up to:

The University of Utah Singers and A Cappella Choir know you're interested in unique and exciting performances. With you in mind we continue presenting Choral Masterworks, and this year we've got something amazing to share with you.

Tan Dun's "Water Passion: After St. Matthew" is an "astonishing piece conceptually" (Times, London)..."a work of captivating visual music and sound meticulously disposed in space" (Newsday, New York).

Based on the passion story in the New Testament's St. Matthew, the "Water Passion" is an exciting and unexpected piece of music, challenging the senses and sensibilities. On Friday, April 10th and Saturday, April 11th at 7:30 PM in Libby Gardner Hall, you have the chance to experience a dimension of music performance unlike anything you've seen or heard before.
Creating a unique shared cultural experience, performers and audience members will experience a remarkably wide range of vocal style, from four-part chorales, to overtone singing, Tuven-throat singing and elements of Peking opera. Western instruments are used to produce sounds of Chinese, Mongolian, and Middle Eastern cultures. On stage will be seventeen filled, transparent water basins lit from below and played as instruments, thus creating a unique auditory and visual experience, all based around the universal theme of rebirth.

Featuring the University of Utah Singers and A Cappella Choir, Alisa Thomason, Soprano; Gary Sorenson, Baritone; Leslie Henrie, Violin; Amy Leung, Cello; Michael Lipsey, Percussion; Yuanlin Chen, Electronic Sampler; and Brady Allred, Conductor.

Don't miss this once in a lifetime opportunity to see this work performed live. And at $7.50 for adults and $3.50 for students, you can afford to bring a friend.

Tickets are available at the Kingsbury Hall box office or at 801-581-7100.

Please come if you can... we've been working super hard on it and it's going to be freaking sweet! We've started rehearsing with all of the water percussion people, and it's so rad! Seriously!

I'm a big NERD and here's why (today anyway!):

I'd like to discuss a few things today that I care about. Yes, they are nerdy and lame, but I guess we all need to come to terms with the fact that that's who I am! It's not news to any of you, I'm sure.

1- I love oatmeal! I used to hate it... but that was when I had some options in the morning. BUT now I can't get enough! And good thing it's a dollar for a box of instant at the Walmart... that feeds me for a week and a half! And guess what? Shocker: oatmeal is actually really good for you! Bonus! I still hate oatmeal cookies, though. Get the freaking healthy stuff out of my dessert! Whoever invented oatmeal raisin cookies is a fool. But now that I think about it... my 2nd favorite Ben & Jerry's ice cream (2nd to Cherry Garcia. Mmmm!) is Oatmeal Cookie Chunk. It is simply delicious. I have issues.

2- I'm a geeky closet fan of Moosejaw.com and Backcountry.com! I love all the gear and outdoor clothing... but I never seem to buy anything. Typical. Great news, though! For my company last year, I purchased some Northface jackets for everyone and got some 'reward points' and with those reward points I can buy more stuff! So look what I ordered today and I'm actually getting it completely free!!! Love it!

3- I am a bookworm! I will read anything, but I do appreciate a really well written book. If any of you have read something really great lately - let me know! I love love love a good book. Right now, I'm being super nerdy and I'm currently halfway done a children's fantasy book: Fablehaven 4 by Brandon Mull. Yes. It's the 4th book in the series. Yes. I've read the previous 3 books and absolutely loved them. They are quick, easy to read, and well written. Obviously they are for children, but hey, they are good. They are the perfect books for when you have tons of homework and you want just a quick break. Or if you're on vacation and you want a book you can start and finish in a day or two. The author is a guy who lives here in Utah and I got my book at Deseret Book. How sweet. Has anyone else read these? Am I the only one?

Yup! Total nerd. But that's why you love me, right?