Captain's log, stardate 2845.6....
This is going to be a mostly news post to make up for all the completely uninformative ones I've been providing you with. Not that important information about which fictional characters' names can be spelled out using the periodic table isn't informative...it's just that some of the point of this blog is to help you guys keep up with my incredible exploits, so you've got to give me a chance to brag about those.
1) The concert choir (which I'm in, or why would I be mentioning it?) is going to be singing in a concert (*gasp*) on November 20 at 8pm! There will be other singing groups too, but the concert choir is totally the awesomest. We're gonna sing some Carmina Burana, the Bach Gloria in Excelsis Deo (assuming we manage to get it right by then because gosh it's hard. Also it doesn't help that there are two soprano lines so we make less progress in sectionals than every other voice part and then we get in trouble for not knowing the music. Yeah.). Also we're gonna sing some other songs that I don't really know, and the Hallelujah chorus, which is really fun.
Anyway the point of that was to say if you just so happen to be near MIT on the evening of November 20 you should definitely come to hear us, because we rule at everything in the world (except singing Bach. Which we will hopefully rule at by the time of the concert.)
2) The parenthetical remarks in that announcement took up around half of the text. This is a mark of bad writing! Avoid it like the plague! (The plague avoids all marks of bad writing!)
3) I survived my first round of tests at MIT and didn't fail any! Congratulations to me!
4) I'm getting pretty good at swimming, and the swim teacher said our class would go in the deep pool in a week or two. Aren't you all so proud?
5) Gym classes at MIT go by quarters, so swimming will end pretty soon and we get to take a different class. Wanna know what I registered for?
...Fencing!!
(Now I can impersonate Sulu except with a shirt! I'm so excited! That is totally not the reason I'm taking the class! My frequent use of the word "totally", like, totally makes me sound like a valley girl!)
Is fencing required to become a pirate?
ReplyDeleteI don't know, actually. But sailing is, and I can't take sailing unless I can tread water for ten minutes, and I haven't even learned to tread water...so I don't know if that's going to happen...
ReplyDeleteYes, I am proud of your swimming skills!
ReplyDeleteYou should be!
ReplyDeleteWe went in the deep pool today, we did backstroke and I treaded water for a full minute! Also I did freestyle all the way across the shallow pool! I'm such an accomplished swimmer :)