Haha, Modern Dance I final movement project a success!

I wanted to do an "ode to klutziness" since I'm one of the least graceful people in the class and I spent lots of time being mildly frustrated with various movements that I'm still working on. And then I got struck with a brainstorm to set it to "The Masochism Tango" by Tom Lehrer. Add the fact that I'm working with a basis in and love of musical theater, well. Heeee.

The class loved it, Professor said I did it with lots of finesse and committment, and I had a helluva lot of fun doing it, even if I might have left a bit of skin on the dance floor. :P A couple of the senior thesis support crew asked to see it- anyone else want to see it? I'm willing to show it off, if I can get the dance studio space for a little while end of this week or sometime next week, since I refuse to do it on carpet. Unless anyone know another flat space that dancers can use? LAC? That also has sound? Yeah. ^_^ So let me know if you want me to dance for ya.

Meanwhile....to work. I have stuff still due this week, since senior grades are due Friday....

Heee. This one sent to me courtesy calculusdude16, made me go all giggly. I totally want to do this before we graduate. We should totally tag the goat!!! XD Meanwhile, lookit the shiny pictures!

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any takers? ^__^

Done with thesis! It's sucky! But it's done! Ds get Degrees!

Meanwhile- come to the concert choir and chamber choir joint concert this weekend! Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 7pm in Garrison Theater. A millenium of motets, so lots of shiny! it'll be spiffy!

Oh god oh god i'm going to die

-Acknowledgments
-Introduction
-Background info <--nevermind
-Methodology 6+ pages
-Analysis
\\adjectives 5+ pages(I have shiny charts now!)
\\semantic differential 2 pages (new page of averages)
\\language ID 8+ pages(whee charts!)
\\rationales 5 pages
-Conclusion
-Appendices

-printing and binding

ETA: mmm. Arabic coffee. Anyone wants some, hit me up, okay? It's tasty, and the kind you're supposed to drink in these teeny little cups.

ETAmore: yeah. it's kinda sucky and not entirely finished. But it's done. la. *whump*

Life? hah. I have no life- thesis has eaten it. Admittedly this is mostly my fault because I've been a slacker and now I have to make it up....

thanks to my friends, who provide me with socialisation time at mealtimes, when I actually leave my room. I will be so glad when Friday is here and I can turn in my thesis, but that would require me finishing the writing of it first, which, ehehehe...

on the other hand-- thesis did motivate me to clean up the minefield that is my floor so that I have space to use my desk as it was meant to be used for the first time this year. XD

ps. also never has my icon felt so appropriate. One giant Meep indeed. -_-;;

So my thesis is trundling along. And I'd like some help, from those of you on my flist who are from the Claremonts. I'm doing my study on music and language, so I've got a survey up where you listen to snippets of music and answer questions about them. It should take 20-30 minutes depending on how long it takes you to get through all the tickyboxes.

So if you're from the Claremonts and you're willing to take this survey for me, I would be eternally grateful. If you're willing to pass it on to other 5C people you know so I get as wide a range of folk across the 5Cs as possible, I would be even more grateful. Also if you take it you get entered in a drawing for a $20 gift certificate to the store of the winner's choice.

Linky!
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a warning for firefox users, this survey does use IE. Apologies. :P But surveymonkey only allows 10 free questions, and this was the one good free unlimited questions unlimited responses online survey thing.

thank you! ^_^ (er, I'll update soon with life stuff, really. Let's just say i'm going to try for a thesis embargo on SGA fandom since it's too big and new and shiny)

Crazy crazy couple of weeks, but today was a Very Good Day. ^_^
( Here be commencement speeches, Breakthrough, dumplings, massages and improv...Collapse )

I went to the Faculty/Alumnae dance concert tonight. There's a lot to say about it, but for the moment there's just one random thing I wanted to write about, because it's something I discovered about myself that is very strange.

You know how, if you take a wine glass, wet your finger and then rub it around the rim of the glass, it resonates? I found out that *I* do that. I mean, I used to notice that I was a lot more sensitive to music than other people, but only in the sense of beats and rhythms. At least, that's all I thought it was, because I tended to tap and really feel the rhythm of music around me when other people might just sit there, or tap only in their heads.

Tonight, two separate dance pieces, in portions within them, played music. Or rather, tones. Very, very discordant, dissonant tones. Repeatedly. And I found out that my body *resonated* to them. In a gut shuddering, crawling-bugs-under-the-skin sort of way. Which is to say, even when I held my hands over my ears, that only damped the sound reaching my brain, but didn't do a damn thing for the whole bit where my body was acting like a giant wine glass. Or ear drum. I was totally squirming in my seat trying to get away from the tones and I couldn't, and Adele was giving me slightly funny looks until I got a chance at the ends to explain.

*shudder* I've still got the echoes of that feeling in my bones and under my skin, even now. It makes me really glad that the pieces were sandwiched by other pieces with lyrical or loud pounding music that is good to my ears. meep.

So I'm now wondering who else got this:

The CMC outlet of Army ROTC is recruiting me. *Me.* Can anyone else back me up on how wrong and just plain strange that is? Me and "other select members of your senior class." Mmmhm. *boggles*

And here's a lovely gem in the middle of the letter:

"America's Soldiers are demonstrating the goodness of America and Americans every day around the world, instilling and protecting democratic processes, principles and values in countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Europe, Asia, South and Central America and here in the United States. Every day, America's Soldiers, led by Army Officers, are truly making a difference for America and the world."

Excuse me while I keel over from the sheer, painful irony.

And hm. No wonder folks don't think much of U.S. students--the Army, supposedly home of our Best and Brightest, thinks Europe, Asia, and South and Central America are countries. Don't even get me started on the hash US involvement has made of countries in those areas. And notice how they forgot Africa, ne?

Now, I support our troops and all that jazz, but this recruiting stuff is more than somewhat ridiculous. And I'm seriously wondering if there were some qualities of mine that led to me getting this letter, or if all the seniors got one. Because the mind boggles trying to think of one: I'm kinda not fond of authority, I don't necessarily play well with others, and I'm over-educated to the point of crazy, which means I'm not going to believe whatever propaganda training crap I'd get fed. Which means I'd prolly get lynched in pretty short order. Plus- I'm a slasher. XD