7:51 am | Wake up |
8:00 am | CLASS: Ear Training lab |
8:03 am | Continue to wish for perfect pitch. |
8:04 am | Hate the violinist next to me with perfect pitch. |
9:00 am | Remember I’ve got a 10-page paper due today. |
9:01 am | Start 10-page paper. |
10:00 am | CLASS: Music Theory |
10:00 am | Realize I did the wrong music theory homework. |
10:04 am | Attempt to remain motionless for an hour because if you don’t move, professors can’t see you. |
10:05 am | Get called on in class to explain today’s homework. |
11:00 am | Rehearsal with the choir I don’t actually have to be in but it sounded really cool at the time. |
Noon | Lunch. |
12:15 pm | Rehearsal with accompanist. |
12:16 pm | Discover I never the gave the music to the accompanist but it’s OK because I have this memorized. |
12:16:10 pm | Spend 45 minutes reading the music over the accompanist’s shoulder. |
1:00 pm | Go to practice room because the accompanist gave me a dirty look and kept pounding that B-flat. |
1:02 pm | Naptime. |
1:20 pm | Do theory assignment that was due at 10 am. |
1:22 pm | Never mind. |
1:25 pm | Do assignment for “class I don’t care about.” |
1:25:15 pm | Open new Word document, |
1:26 pm | Stare at blinking cursor. |
1:30 pm | Realize I have a music history listening journal due at 2 pm. |
1:30:15 pm | Calculate the possibility of listening to 4 hours of music in 29 minutes. |
1:30:18 pm | Figure out excuse for why I didn’t do my listening journal. |
2:00 pm | CLASS: Music History |
2:07 pm | OK, Wagner is pretty cool. |
2:55 pm | For God’s sake, does Wagner ever shut up?! |
3:00 pm | Voice Lesson — “I want to sing Wagner!” — Voice teacher laughs. |
3:07 pm | Voice teacher kicks me out of my lesson because he says I have whooping cough or whatever. |
3:09 pm | Read email from mentor telling me I have 13 absences from “class I don’t care about.” |
3:17 pm | Search for YouTube videos so I can learn my piece for the voice lesson I was just kicked out of. |
3:20 pm | Figure out that my voice teacher purposely gave me a piece that wasn’t on YouTube so I would have to learn it myself and it’s good for me. |
3:20:20 pm | Consider changing my major for the 3rd time this week. |
3:21 pm | Go to a practice room to find a piano so I can learn the piece that wasn’t on YouTube because I would have to learn it myself and it’s good for me. |
3:26 pm | Really wish my Mom didn’t let me quit piano lessons when I was nine. |
3:27 pm | Vow to take piano lessons next semester. And call my Mom. |
3:28 pm | Hope my voice teacher doesn’t remember that he gave me that piece that wasn’t on YouTube because I would have to learn it myself and it’s good for me. |
3:34 pm | Start walking across campus to my 3:30 pm choir rehearsal. |
3:37 pm | Arrive at the rehearsal hall and discover no one is there. |
3:37:15 pm | Check GroupMe and remember the rehearsal is in the concert hall. |
3:37:45 | Start walking all the way across campus to the concert hall. |
3:40 pm | Rainstorm. |
3:40:15 pm | Seriously considering changing my major. |
3:45 pm | Arrive at concert hall. |
3:46 pm | Realize I forgot my music back at the music building. |
3:47 pm | Get yelled at for not having my music even though I’m the only person in my section who actually knows the stupid song which I don’t like anyway. |
3:48 pm | Discover that I KNOW the song but don’t really have it memorized. |
3:53 pm | Plot methods for killing the person next to me without getting caught. |
4:02 pm | Plotting. |
4:16 pm | Wood chipper. |
4:26 pm | PLEASE CAN WE SING MIXED UP?!?!? |
4:28 pm | Wood chipper girl leans over and tells me she wishes she had a voice like mine. CRAP. Now I like her. |
4:40 pm | Still working on the same rhythm in measure 6. Director goes off on some tangent about the Dalai Lama and asparagus. |
4:40:30 pm | Wondering if my parents would cover the tuition if I just quit and gave up my scholarship. |
4:45 pm | Wood chipper girl is in the wrong key. |
4:46 pm | I HEARD OVERTONES!! I WILL GET MY PHD IN MUSIC AND TEACH OVERTONES!!! |
4:46:10 pm | Spending the rest of this rehearsal listening for overtones and feeling superior to the cretins in my section who can’t hear overtones. |
4:55 pm | Announcements – Concert tomorrow. |
4:55:12 pm | Realize my formal is back at home, six hours away. |
4:56 pm | Ask if I can get a new formal because my zipper is broken and everyone stares at me because they saw me at that reception yesterday scarfing those two pieces of cake and they know why my zipper is broken. |
4:57 pm | Wood chipper girl asks if she can get a smaller size. Yeah, the liking her is completely over. |
5:00 pm | Dinner! Mmmm, cake… |
5:01 pm | Realizing I’m still in rehearsal. Moving on to measure 7. Director is on about dark matter and the lobster tank at Walmart. Rethinking most of my life choices. |
5:15 pm | Dinner for real this time. (But no cake because the football players ate it all.) |
5:30 pm | Opera rehearsal — off book. |
5:36 pm | I’m not off book, BUT I SOUND GREAT. I AM THE BEST SINGER EVER!! |
6:15 pm | Meeting. Not sure for what, but apparently I’m the president. Cool. |
7:00 pm | Play rehearsal — off book. |
11:30 pm | I wasn’t off book. |
11:45 pm | Realize I have 110 pages of reading for class tomorrow. |
11:48 pm | Head out to Taco Bell. |
12:30 am | Come back to my room. |
12:32 am | Excellent. Already in my pajamas — decide to go to bed. |
2:00 am | Phone battery dies, so I can’t watch YouTube videos anymore. Plug it in. |
2:01 am | Think about taking a shower tomorrow morning and really pulling my life together. |
2:02 am | Realize that if I fall asleep RIGHT NOW, I’ll get six hours of sleep. |
2:03 am | Open laptop. |
4:00 am | Realize that if I fall asleep RIGHT NOW, I’ll get four hours of sleep. |
4:01 am | Laptop crashes. Text my Dad. No response. |
4:02 am | Paper that I actually did for my 8:00 am class is gone. |
4:02: 12 am | Decide to skip my 8 am class. |
4:04 am | Restart laptop. Paper is back! So is YouTube!! |
4:05 am | I am SO going to my 8 am class!! |
8:12 am | Wake up. |