Muppets, music, and giggles...

The Hoops and Yoyo cd my mom sent me is hilarious! So ridiculous but I have laughed so much listening to it. It's amazing! Any cd whose first song is entitled "The First Song on the Album" must be listened to. It'll certainly make you smile. :) Yesterday was a much better day than Wednesday, although it had a bit of a rough start. General education courses are a pain! I think that liberal arts is really important, but for my life, they do not hold precedence over my music curriculum. It really frustrates me that they are weighted more than my music courses, but that's another story entirely that I do not care to delve into yet again this week. Anywho, it was my lesson day, so it automatically had to be a good day. My lesson was fabulous...the best I've had this semester (or in quite awhile for that matter). There were so many laughs and lots of progress, too. Lynn and Chad are brilliant! Putting them together (although hazardous at times! hehe!) makes life all the more fabulous. It was like the "Lynn and Chad Show" when Isaac came in at the end of my lesson to run through the piece for tomorrow. The two of them sat on the sofa in Lynn's studio making commentary and giggling. They were like the two old guys that sit in the box at the theatre in the Muppets. We also cast the Muppets version of Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)....we think they should create a whole new series: Opera Classics. How amazing would that be?! BRILLIANT! We decided Kermit would definitely be Figaro and Miss Piggy would be Marcelina (after much debate of her as Cherubino). I want to email the Jim Henson Company with this idea....I just might... After my lesson (and choir) was yoga. I think that class is going to save my life this semester. So relaxing! I didn't want to leave at the end of class. I just wanted to sit there in my own little world (although much of the time I am in my own little world anyway!). Of course, I had to leave and go back into the crazy world with a to-do list longer than there is time in the day. Today, I wanted to rest my voice because I was tired after my lesson yesterday, however I ended up singing and talking tons today. (It is so frustrating that my voice gets tired so easily, but it is changing and "growing," so it is to be expected because it is not used to the new things yet.) Oh well. Now I am taking the rest of the evening to work on papers and be quiet and get to bed at a decent hour so I sound my best tomorrow. I am already super tired, and it is only 8:30 pm. Completely unrelated and random (that's how my brain functions), I have come into watching a lot of British comedy lately. I don't really have time to sit and just watch the "telly," but I turn it on and moreso listen as I do my homework. The fabulous public library a block and a half away has the greatest audiovisual department. I am there at least once a week getting dvds and cds. They tell me the most important thing I can do while studying music is listen, listen, listen, and go to the theatre as much as possible. Ordering me to go to the theatre for a class? Fine by me! Poor me! I have to go to the theatre! Personally, I find that one of the greatest perks of being a music major...and student discount tickets make it entirely possible. Of course, having professors in the operas, ,orchestras, etc. also help because every now and again, they can sneak you into dress rehearsals. Yeah, my life is good. I like it. I complain sometimes about stress and so much work and the like, but my life's lots of fun. (Yeah, I'm the crazy girl that leaps down the hall in the conservatory singing and handing out heart stickers and grandma cookies! Gotta love it!)