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Country: United States
State: Tennessee
Birthday: 7/28/1985
Gender: Female
Interests: I love music: Singing, playing, or listening doesn't matter to me! Horseback riding is what keeps me sane, and I spend way too much time on this comp.
I am also madly in love with my wonderful boyfriend!!
Expertise: I plan to major in psychology!!
Occupation: Student
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AIM:  fasterthanzach
AIM:  JessJessYay
Yahoo:  JessJessYay
Member Since:
1/15/2004
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| Ecce Quam Bonum
The University of the South
"First we outhink you, then we outdrink you..."
I'm so glad I'm a senior now! I love Sewanee and all, but it's been a rough road and I'm ready for a change... for a break. I'm taking a Linguistics class this semester and I think it will be a lot of fun, but it's already given me some interesting thoughts.
For example, why in the world were we punished for not speaking the standard dialect? I mean, getting a bad grade for writing a grammatically incorrect paper is one thing, but getting yelled at for saying "I don't have none" is a different thing altogether. That is how it is spoken in some parts of the US. Just because some guy wrote a book on his personal preference of how the English language should be spoken, does not mean everyone who speaks English needs to follow those rules. "Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it" (Henry David Thoreau). The southern dialect that many of our native Tennesseans speak is just as valid a language as the standard dialect. "There are no primitive languages. The great and abstract ideas of Christianity can be discussed even by the wretched Greenlanders." (Johann Peter Suessmilch, 1756, in a paper delivered before the Prussian Academy).
But I suppose the purists of the English language will disagree with me. That's ok too! | | |
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Quizzes are fun when you are trying to get distracted from important things 
I've been working on my comps this summer, trying to get a really good
start on them before classes begin. I've done a pretty good job
so far, at least I think so.
I've been playing a text-based game that's a lot of fun. It's called Eternal Kingdoms
if anyone is interested in something that takes up your extra time and
does absolutely nothing useful except for letting you meet new
people. If you do end up playing make sure to join clan
#368 Roos United 
Classes start the 24th of August, and Ed goes back on the 16th for RCC stuff... *sigh* It's all going a little too fast!
I hope everyone has had a wonderful summer!
Love Always
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| So yeah, I've had my last exam on Friday and all I have left is a nice
11-15 page paper due on Tuesday. I'm so close to being done and
yet it is so much harder now to concentrate. Oh well, everything
has gone well so far, and I've got at least 6.5 pages done on my paper,
I plan to stay up all night until I get it done (thank God for Red Bull
 ) so I can just have a good time at Sewanee until Thursday.
I've found something that made me really happy from a good friend's aim profile (sorry I stole this Cristy).
Laughter
is the face orgasm. When you laugh, the private organs must go, "What
the heck was that? I thought we were in charge of fun!" It must freak
the ol' nads out. I imagine there's a running competition between the
sex drive and the sense of humor. A battle between the funny bone and
the boner. Which can cause more pleasure? The ha ha or the oo la la?
Comedy or hot dripping sweaty naughty good times? Which begs the
question: After you share a big hearty laugh with someone--the kind
that makes you convulse with nasal snort noises--do you still respect
each other in the morning? Do you avoid each other, then bump into them
at the water cooler and sheepishly go, "So. Things got weird, huh? I
laughed. You laughed. One thing led to another..." Ever look at someone
and go, Man, I'd sure love to get together with that piece of funniness
and laugh and laugh till milk shoots outta me. That person will make
milk come out my nose over and over and over again. Ooh. Yeah. Tell me
the one about the rabbi and the penguins, baby... Right there...
Yeah... Ah! Ah! AH HA HA HA HA HA!
So yeah, I thought this was definitely worth sharing. Now I must go back to my paper.
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| I've been in class for about 3 weeks now and I love my schedule!
On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays I don't have class until 1:00 pm
and that is my only class for the day! On Tuesdays I have
classes at 9:30, 11:00, and 2:00; on Thursdays I have classes at 9:30
and 11:00, and a lab from 2:00 to 5:00. It's been a wonderful
semester and I love all of my classes, even the one class that I
thought I would dislike, I'm really enjoying.
That's all for now!
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| Well, today is my voice lesson "juries." My instructor (last
Tuesday) told me about my juries and said not to worry because it would
be just like the recital. Well, I worried over the recital as
well. I think if she hadn't changed one my pieces yesterday
then I would not worry so much, but as it is my stomache has decided
that it wants to keep those butterflies. I am singing two pieces
in front of all of the music department faculty/staff and the other
students taking private lessons. There are going to be 22
students doing their juries. Apparently juries are very similar
to a normal class's final exam. I think we have all of the voice
students, violin students, and piano students who are taking private
lessons for credit. I know that the organ juries are going to be
held in All Saints, whereas my juries and the other 22 will be in
Luke's Chapel. The juries start at 1:30, but I probably won't be
performing until around 2:00. *nervous, nervous, nervous*
In other news, classes are over.. yay!!
I can't wait to be home!!
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