White Feet

While strolling to the music building to sell my soul to a piano for a few hours, I came across the conclusion that my feet are white. This can only mean one thing. It is time to get back to gulf shores and get my farmers tan back.

Robbed

So Sunday night someone broke into my dorm and stole about $600 of electronics. The police and RA's can't do anything about it, they are not even allowed to look at the cameras (the one room that actually has cameras). So that's how my exam week started off.

Packing

So today I started packing my things in preparation for moving out next week. During the course of my packing endeavors I found many things that I have no recollection of ever having. I find that packing is quite a fun task as you see just how much junk you really have, good news is that I have a lot of new recycling materials now.

Classes are Over

With classes finally being over I have so much free time that I almost don't know what to do with all of it. Today I slept in and then went to Wal-Mart to stock up on food for the next week because I am out of tiger card money. Then I had an orchestra rehearsal for the AU Pops concert which is a benefit for the music and theatre programs here at Auburn. It was quite annoying being at the rehearsal for it tonight as it was about an hour and a half for the first round and then they decided to run all of it again. Thats all for today.
~Stephen out.

Finals and Moving

So finals week is almost upon us! This is kind of scary yet I am ready for it to be over for the year so I can go home and get a job. Moving out of my dorm is going to be interesting though since I might not have enough room to fit everything in my car, especially with my friend going with me this time. I hope everyone is doing fine with their studying for these finals and that your papers are going well. Thats all I have got for now.

Group Projects and Final Exams

So the group project is coming along, but it is kind of scary to think that it is due by wednesday, and these blogs at the same time. I finally looked up my exam schedule yesterday and it turns out I have exams almost every day at 8am. This is not fun at all but I guess that is how the cookie crumbles as the saying goes. Time to get ready for the free write so that is all for now.

Nugget in a Biscuit

So I found this guy on youtube named Tobuscus and he posts a lot of "Let's Play" videos which is sort of like a tutorial most of the time, but he goes off on random bouts of singing about trees leaving their mothers and being cheated on by sugarcane. Some really weird stuff if you don't play minecraft. The main thing that made me want to write about it was this song called "Nugger in a Biscuit" he made, it is so catchy and short that I can't get it out of my head.

Shogun

So I am at shogun, eating sole filet and chicken. This is by far my favorite type of food but I prefer to go to Mikatos which is in gulf shores. The only downfall of this food is that it is expensive so I don't get the chance t eat it very often. Well that's all I've got.

Aliens in my Air Conditoner

So here is another random post I thought I would write for you. Lately my air conditioner has been making strange noises, and not the regular kind of strange noises you would expect from an air conditioner but more cow-like noises. This is extremely strange when I am sitting at the table with a group of friends and a "Moo" spontaneously comes from our locked air conditioner maintenance room door. We believe this is a prank by the RA on our floor, but we are not sure. Well thats all I have got for today.

Minecraft

So, running out of blog ideas so I will talk about mine craft for a bit. Minecraft, for those who don't know, is a game that works with blocks to build structures and other things. I opened my own online multiplayer server and have been playing it with my roommates. We have begun building the city of Rome and now have a completed coliseum, Roman-Catholic Cathedral, Government Building, and Nobles house. This all took about two weeks and in my opinion is becoming quite good. We may make the server public soon or at least post videos to youtube.

Sunday Funday

If you can't tell from my cheesy title I am expecting tomorrow to be pretty good. I have a trombone choir concert at the 1st Baptist Church tomorrow and then I am off to Montgomery to pick up my best friend and then we are having a fajita party at his apartment. So hopefully things will all go as planned and It will be a good day. Church, friends, fajitas. What could be better?

Random Ramblings

So for this blog post I am going to see how many words I can type in a minute while improving my free writing skills. So here I go:

So I am sitting in history class waiting on it to start and he just turned on some music. I don't recognize the band but the song sounds a little familiar, possibly 90's. It sounds a little country but in the bluesy rambling man sort of way. I only learned about rambling man from Rock Band which is a game that I used to play on the playstation.

Well I didn't get very much down did I? Ill attribute that more to I couldn't think of what to type instead of my typing skills because I am a very fast typer and 75 words/minute is not an accurate measurement. Well that was my blog idea for the day. See you next time.

History, Theory, Juries and More

So I have been extremely busy lately, I thought I had caught up on everything over the weekend but as soon as I walked in to my first classes on Monday I learned just how wrong I was. It wasn't that I didn't know what I had to do but more that they had just added a lot more then the whole class had previously known about. So my schedule for next week looks a little more intense then I am used to even though I have been taking eighteen hours this semester anyway.

Pop Quiz

So I had no clue about that pop quiz we had today. I tried my best to just take an educated guess and I was pretty close but not quite so I  don't know how I will be graded. So Easter was cool, my first time home since Christmas break. The group project is going well, we have a nice facebook page set up to help us communicate with each other.

Easter and Ramblings

So I finally got to come home, first time since Christmas, and had a good time with some friends and family. For the group project we were supposed to post to a discussion thread, we all gave questions but we didn't designate someone to post them so they were late =/ haha, communication fail on our part. That's all for now.

Final Group Project Paper

So for this group project we have to write a paper with the help of two classmates whom we were paired with. I usually prefer to work alone but I think this will offer an interesting experience especially since I am going into business next year. I never thought I would write a wiki page but now that I have to it seems pretty cool. Writing a credible paper for online that people may actually use for their research studies just like we used to do. Pretty neat if you ask me. Stephen out.

A Monday That Never Ends

So recently I returned from a tour of China with the Auburn University Symphonic Band, and I thought I would describe the journey home to make an interesting blog post for you while I practice my writing.

China is thirteen hours ahead of Auburn and when we travel back from China we cross the "date line", this essentially rewinds whoever crosses it a whole day. I left for America at 10:00am Monday morning and after the thirteen hour plane ride I arrived in Detroit at 11:00am. I just traveled thirteen hours to arrive only an hour later? Blasphemy! I just had a Monday twice! And so ends the story of my thirty six hour Monday.

So, since I'm back from China here is a list of things you should no longer take for granted:
#1: Clean Air
#2: Soft Beds
#3: Chap Stick
#4: Food that you can tell what it is
#5: Salt

#6: Cold Drinks
#7: Warm Weather
#8: Toilet Paper
#9: Toilets
#10: English
#11: Shrimp without heads
#12: Plates larger then your phone
#13: Drinking Glasses Larger than a size D battery
#14: Size D batteries
#15: No Car Horns 24/7
#16: Street Lanes
#17: People who drive cars that don't want to kill you
#18: Crosswalks (that are paid attention to)
#19: Drinkable tap water
#20: Working heat/air
#21: Internet
#22: T.V. that makes sense
#23: Democracy
#25: Stickers (it's true)
#26: Working Shower
#27: Warm Water

There are many more but I don't have time to write more. Think about this list before you go to China!

China

So I am going to China this friday and I thought I would just talk a little about it and I can post it because it does have some sort of relevance to writing as we have to keep a journal while we are there. As you can tell from my blog history I kind of got lazy with writing the super long ones, not so much lazy but I have been extremely busy with the basketball Pep Band, Concert Band, Symphonic Band, Orchestra, Trombone Choir, the list goes on. But some of that ends after spring break so maybe I can go back to posting my super long awesome posts. China should be fun, but I am preparing myself to be exhausted for a few weeks during it. My flight leaves early, so I have to be out of Auburn by 1am since China is 12 hours ahead of central time. Thats all for now.

Interview Topic

So for this new project I think I'll be doing an interview about attendance from a musical point of view. Attendance is very important for all musicians due to (especially if you are one on a part) the group needing you to cover the part you were assigned because the others must listen and match to you, and if you are not there then they are unable to do that making the overall playing level of the group lesser because this one person decided not to show up, even if they have good reason. I plan to use a professor in this field and a friend who is not in this field as my professional and bystander.