back to blogging

So I am going to be a good blogger now. Really.

My recital's all over and done with. Mom, dad, mammabeth and papageza all came into town for the festivities. It went about 95% as well as I would have liked it to so that's just fine with me :)

So now all I have to do is graduate! but spring temperatures combined with senioritis make that seem like a very far off goal...

I sent in my first real job application this week which is odd and grown-up feeling for someone who was counting quarters to buy popcorn yesterday...Anyway I applied to this program called

that's sort of like Americorps. It's a year of service focused specifically on schools in less than awesome areas. Anyways it gets a ton of applications so I dont have my hopes way up in the sky but getting a job seems like a good idea. Okay better post to come with better pictures!

oh right...posting

So sometimes school gets hard and you forget you have this blog that you're in theory updating with your life.

Well I did my best at the concerto competition, and though I didn't win (singers never do) the Maestro of the orchestra came up to me and told me how much he appreciated the singing I've been doing lately so that felt pretty good. He's not a man to give compliments lightly.

So then it was getting ready for summer program auditions which is like summer camp all over again but for older people. I'm applying to programs in Aspen, Brevard NC and Chautauqua NY and we will just seeeee
















But, before the school year was out, my voice teacher and her husband (chair of the voice dept.) held their annual christmas party for all their students full of cheer and singing.



Clearly I've been home since I've seen nearly everyone I'm related to over this break. Thanksgiving and Christmas were good though time went sort of disturbingly fast, and I'm due back to Wisconsin in a few days. but here are some pictures from my adventures at home. I was home for six weeks and took like..6 pictures




























and here's some of my friends

























and so finally I guess I'll chat about what my plans are for next year because people are asking. This is a vague answer but that'll be fine. All I know now is that I'm moving to chicago...hopefully finding a job in a montessori school for a year before applying to grad schools. And so i leave you with a picture of me in chicago freshman year. it's very circular.

Happy Halloween

This is a very dull halloween. The concerto competition is tomorrow so I went to a party with all my friends for...40 minutes before it was too loud and i had to go home. But look at my lovely pumpkin!


I can't give a recording of the competition though it is open and friends are coming to watch...also if I win the concert will be on internet radio for all to hear. But the chances of me winning are a shot in hell–the last time a singer won this competition was so long ago that literally no one can remember it. But here's someone else singing two of the 5 (someone that I might study with in grad school hopefully)! you should especially check out the second one

Haircuts or How Molly Lost an Afternoon to Photoshop

Yes I have decided to bring the 1930s back via my hair. It's a small effort but we'll see what happens. This haircut mostly grew on me when I realized the photoshop potential of making a million photos looking vaguely like they came from the 1910s-1930s.




It seemed like a decent way to spend a rainy afternoon. Trivia weekend at Bjorklunden was fantastic. Sorry there haven't been a lot of posts. I haven't taken tons of pictures lately and I feel cheap when I post things without pictures.

It was fall here for a nice long time but then this wretched rain appeared a couple of days ago and since then all our leaves have migrated to the ground. It snowed too but that doesn't count because it didn't stick. I'm pretty pleased that I'll be in Virginia where it's decently warm from thanksgiving to new years...though it'll make coming back to negative temperatures rather depressing.


But we just discovered that the bowling alley/bar near our school has free bowling for those over 21 because of their desperation for some business so we were pleased to take full advantage of free bowling (this is what there is to do in Appleton Wisconsin).

some stuff which is happening or has already happened.

Well Opera auditions went down with lots of drama. Very long and painful story short I didn't get the role but was given super kudos and encouragement, including one of our most critical teachers urging me to continue on in music because I have a future waiting for me in it. So...yeah okay. So I ran off to the woods for the weekend with some friends and started working on my new project

So now my new project is the Concerto Competition, which is actually a bigger deal than the opera auditions because a vocalist hasn't won since the early 80s...it's a conservatory wide competition with three representatives from each division (violins, singers, trombones etc) and three winners get to perform their solo with the orchestra in a simulcast orchestra concert. So that's nifty...I have about a month to pull that together super fast...hooray!

In other news I made it onto the official Lawrence Youtube channel. My life is pretty much complete now. Matt's story is more moving and I look like I haven't slept in days which is accurate because alex (the filmmaker) called me at 8am and asked me to come do the interview but it's my claim to fame


I've also been writing the "artist spotlight" column for my school newspaper which you can check out weekly at http://www.lawrentian.com/

And...I am busy busy busy. OH! And I'm a trivia master! this is very exciting for everyone who is me. That means that at the end of january I'll stop sleeping and be a little bit crazy but in the best way :)

Training!

HRLA training done. RLA training in full swing. Not a whole lot to report. Maura got back today and Tim gets back on sunday so soon I will be filled with joy. For now I just got to put out fires which was pretty cool...my friend John documented the whole tragedy.

This was me a while after starting to put out the fire...





John captures my fury on the way back

almost back to school...

Hmm...well I guess people DO still read this as a weekend at the beach confirmed. So the big news is that I'm going to be the Head RLA in Trever Hall this year so I can...basically do the same thing I did before. It's pretty minor but it means a pay raise which i'm pleased about. Pictures from trip home to follow