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Feb. 17th, 2007 07:14 pmHoooooome. *flops around* My absolute favourite thing about coming home to Christchurch is probably... the obscene amount of television I can watch before uni starts. So far this week I've bleached and scrubbed the bath and toilet, cleaned out the kitchen (including wiping every single cupboard both inside and out) and my bedroom, set up my room, and done several loads of washing.
I also had a really productive and exciting meeting of my choir's committee. We're a casual/fun choir associated with the university - except we're not associated as a choir but as a club. A few years ago we were apparently really big and pretty good, but some disasters with management, etc, in 2004 (the year before I arrived) basically sent most people packing, and since then we've struggled to keep more than twenty members. Last year our director of the previous year pissed off without finding a replacement, which basically sucked ass since none of the rest of us are music students (since the music students are all in the auditioned choir that I'm too scared to try out for.) So, Victoria directed and I helped out a bit and we got through to the end of the year okay, which was a relief but it was basically a long and sucky year, choir-wise. So we had a committee meeting - it's testament to the shape the choir was in that I got shoved onto the committee in my first year just because they were so desperate to get a quorum, but I actually really enjoy it. It looks like we're all excited about choir this year, we're planning an ambitious re-name and reimagining ourselves as a choir with, hopefully, a lot more personality.
We're thinking of calling ourselves Choirsoc, which IMO is a) way more fun-sounding than Bel Suono, b) more descriptive of what we actually do since, hey, we're a choir and we're social, c) way less off-putting than stupid italian. We're going to have singstar at Clubs Day - basically to get people coming over to us - and big signs and music and hopefully, fingers crossed, some scratch choir singing at lunch time. And our repertoire this year is going to be really different - we've previously sung a lot of traditional stuff which I love but - let's face it - it's boring and traditional. Hooooopefully this year we're going to sing some song by A Perfect Circle (yeah, doesn't do much for me, but whatevs, Vic's excited and it's different) and we're going to do some musical medleys - Rent, yay! and some more jazz and I'm going to see if I can find some swing and basically we're going to have a lot of fun this year. I really, really hope.
I've also watched the end of season two, all of season three, and the first two discs of season four of Gilmore Girls. (Um, I also, like, caught up with my mates and drank tequila til four in the morning and, you know, left the house. A lot! Honest!) Also, the last two episodes of SPN and the most recent BSG,
( commentary on which is under the cut )
Tonight I'm watching two weeks' worth of House and Bones. Hooray!
ETA: Oh, oh, the funniest "Houses of the Holy" recap.
Also, gang, I'm reading the flist only sporadically on account of it's a little bit sprawling right now. I'm going to cut some comms and things before uni start (and if you've been wanting to defriend, go ahead and do it, although I'll probably cry it'll be good for my grades ;)) but if I've missed something do link me?
I also had a really productive and exciting meeting of my choir's committee. We're a casual/fun choir associated with the university - except we're not associated as a choir but as a club. A few years ago we were apparently really big and pretty good, but some disasters with management, etc, in 2004 (the year before I arrived) basically sent most people packing, and since then we've struggled to keep more than twenty members. Last year our director of the previous year pissed off without finding a replacement, which basically sucked ass since none of the rest of us are music students (since the music students are all in the auditioned choir that I'm too scared to try out for.) So, Victoria directed and I helped out a bit and we got through to the end of the year okay, which was a relief but it was basically a long and sucky year, choir-wise. So we had a committee meeting - it's testament to the shape the choir was in that I got shoved onto the committee in my first year just because they were so desperate to get a quorum, but I actually really enjoy it. It looks like we're all excited about choir this year, we're planning an ambitious re-name and reimagining ourselves as a choir with, hopefully, a lot more personality.
We're thinking of calling ourselves Choirsoc, which IMO is a) way more fun-sounding than Bel Suono, b) more descriptive of what we actually do since, hey, we're a choir and we're social, c) way less off-putting than stupid italian. We're going to have singstar at Clubs Day - basically to get people coming over to us - and big signs and music and hopefully, fingers crossed, some scratch choir singing at lunch time. And our repertoire this year is going to be really different - we've previously sung a lot of traditional stuff which I love but - let's face it - it's boring and traditional. Hooooopefully this year we're going to sing some song by A Perfect Circle (yeah, doesn't do much for me, but whatevs, Vic's excited and it's different) and we're going to do some musical medleys - Rent, yay! and some more jazz and I'm going to see if I can find some swing and basically we're going to have a lot of fun this year. I really, really hope.
I've also watched the end of season two, all of season three, and the first two discs of season four of Gilmore Girls. (Um, I also, like, caught up with my mates and drank tequila til four in the morning and, you know, left the house. A lot! Honest!) Also, the last two episodes of SPN and the most recent BSG,
( commentary on which is under the cut )Tonight I'm watching two weeks' worth of House and Bones. Hooray!
ETA: Oh, oh, the funniest "Houses of the Holy" recap.
Also, gang, I'm reading the flist only sporadically on account of it's a little bit sprawling right now. I'm going to cut some comms and things before uni start (and if you've been wanting to defriend, go ahead and do it, although I'll probably cry it'll be good for my grades ;)) but if I've missed something do link me?
