English reading exam

There were 4 readings at the beginning of the exam about the late pianist Glenn Gould, which was, you could say, the perfect sort of thing for me. It was very interesting to read about him, and I actually read through the whole of the excerpts instead of just skimming for the answers to the questions. But anyway, I was finished the exam in one hour (out of the 3 that we were allowed) and was the first person to leave as soon as we were allowed to (after the first hour).

And then later, when other people were starting to come out, I overheard some kids saying "what was it with all of those readings about that f*cking pianist?!" and I seriously think that if I hear someone say that one more time, I'm going to explode. Maybe some people just don't know how to appreciate real music instead of wannabe music. Meh.

Now this is a decent length [journal]

I've kind of grown a liking for our CD for some reason. I think it's that I really liked singing some of the songs. (Except we still sounded bad on Amazing Grace because the alto part overpowers the soprano part too often. That's my fault in that a capella part. It's like as if I was going solo or something.) In some of the songs I sound like the only person who is spitting out all of the words. And I know all this is me because I know my voice when I hear it.

I finished the reading exam just under an hour, the hour after which we could leave. I heard a lot of people complaining about the huge section of readings about Glenn Gould but I didn't mind and even liked it because it was on a pianist, which was something I could understand.

(haha -- 'Skye Boat Song' is like the "me" song since you can hear me loudly over all of the other parts, esp. in the beginning when I still had breath.) (It's all my fault isn't it, though one could complain that I should have been a soprano because they really needed some tonal guidance and confidence that I provided for the alto part.)

Anyway, back to our regularly scheduled programming -- Ms. Baschzok gave me a really big German dictionary-factbook kind of book for being ... um ... really smart in my German class from way back when.

(Now, now, no more bad choir singing stuff.)

No, I haven't studied for that SS exam tomorrow and I'm not going to start now. I really don't care.

I'm debating whether to use the notebook I got from Chinatown or the one engraved with my Chinese initials that my neighbour gave me for grad with the matching engraved pen (I still haven't tried that pen, come to think about it) after this one.

I overdid my Mildoo's Hard Limeonade™ recipe this afternoon so I was all dizzy again. And that rapid heartbeat that won't calm no matter how hard you try. Of course that's faced with endless chastising by my friends (both online and off-) to quit doing that to overcome the habit before it's too late. Though I think that I believe in a more of an 'if you have, learn to deal with it and not make it worse' sort of approach than the 'stop it at all costs' approach. I think that if you back up off the road, the road has still been explored and you'd yearn to go there again and then further. Whereas if you strive to stay stationary where you are on the road, you don't lose anythng you've experienced before because it's all behind you. Then it's just controlling the urge to explore more. If you ask me I think that puts less stress on the person, so he feels more content with his situation and thus at more peace.

Besides, I believe that my life was meant to be full of pain and suffering and difficult challenges to the fabric of the mind. And that approach above is just the way I have to deal with this sort of challenge.