Million Year Post

Alright.  Fine I am officially a terrible blogger.  I have not posted in far to long.  If there was anyone to fire me they should have done it by now.  Anyway this most likely a vain attempt to start posting on a more regular basis and regain the attention of my readers.  Not that I really had any to begin with…  But I like to pretend.

Since the last post I am sure that much has happened in my life.  I just can’t thing of what that could possible be.  I spend my time nowadays simple grinding through day after day of classes and homework.  Not much to talk about really.  I am taking Music Theory, Aural Skills, Keyboard Skills, Voice classes and Italian.  I guess one cool thing is that my voice teacher wants to make me a tenor.  Or at least a Baritenor.  <- Thats good for musical theater.  As for that whole aspect of my life, I went to a costume fitting last friday for the opera.  Tights and silly pants it will be something to remember.  So rehearsals start around the thirtieth of November and we get right into the swing of things.  Basically every night 8-10 or so.  Still no word on when the Faust auditions are but in all honesty I could use the time to practice my French.  Anyone know a good tutor?  : )  I also just got a German piece and I would love to get Kaya’s help on the diction.  Seeing as a don’t know French or German I have some work ahead of me…  No surprise there.

On the fun side of things I am currently righting this post from Walla Walla!  Andrew and I drove up last night to see Sophie and we now we are all studying in the library.  Well there are studying…  This year is has been a vast improvement over the previous simple because of my new housing arrangement.  Living with James is awesome.  We have a great two bedroom apartment and its in the perfect spot.  The apartment is right off Willamette next to Barry’s and its only like an eight minute bike ride to campus.  Living with someone you like makes all the difference in the world.  We hang out, we do awesome things, I eat all out food.  Its great.  I only hide in my room when James is sick.  Naturally I have been working on his TV and movie education.  We have Studio 60, I have made him watch countless movies and we are almost done with Farscape.  I have also introduced him to a bunch of shows that we desperately need to finish such as Chuck. Which everyone desperately needs to see if you haven’t.  Recently I have been concerned because I was unaware of any newer shows that were worth watching.  luckily my Kel came to the rescue!  I have been watching a bunch of shows recently that deserve a mention.  First of all Castle.  ITS FANTASTIC!!!  Nathan Fillian being an awesome writer and working for the police.  I have thoroughly enjoyed it thus far and can’t wait for more.  Next is White Collar.  Its kinda like Catch Me if you Can only with Bryce Larkin…  Watch Chuck you’ll understand.  And last but not least Burn Notice.  Disavowed spy being awesome in Miami.  Not much more to say about that one other than his monologues are brilliant.

So that is more or less what my life is like nowadays.  School, occasional friend stuff and relaxing at home.  Its a great year so far and I think its going to get better.  Hopefully someone with help keep me honest and so I can post more often than I have in the past. Well  good bye for now my friends and have a wonderful day.

Common Theme

My current Desktop

^^^^ The Image is just for fun.  Because.. why not.  Anyhoo, There seems to be something in common with many of my posts.  Can you tell what it is?  That’s right Misery!  I have discovered that it is far easier to right about terrible events.  And it usually turns out to be more fun.  Its very similar to what Ego said at the end of Ratatouille.  “Criticism is fun to right and to read.” Or something along those lines.  Anyway I found my self biking to school, Pop-tarts in hand of course, thinking about what I would be blogging about this week.  Well nothing came to mind.  Although it was a very busy week with school, midterms, Opera rehearsal from 7-10 every night and being sick…  Busy but thoroughly enjoyable.   I did alright on my midterms I got two B and an undetermined as of yet (turned out to be a almost B : ( 79% So close!!!)…  Little worried that one is the theory one and theory is hard. (And it was actually the Aural skills one…)  Anyway we had a great performance of Il Trovatory and now I am just getting back into the swing of things.  Getting ready for my big Wushu competition.  So things are going swimmingly…  Until last night I guess when I lost my keys subsequently locking myself out of my apartment.  So that’s fun. Hopefully they are locked in my voice teachers office (They weren’t…) because if they aren’t I have no idea where they are (And didn’t until I found them in a bush… ) Oh I also got a 12$ parking ticket this morning.  Because I had to drive into school, However the really thing that urks me is that the ticket had a time on it like when it was issued.  I got the ticket about 5 min. before I got to my car. Oh well.  It was like 12 dollars.  Seriously though this post is late late late… I am a bad person and a bad writer.  At least your a good reader… Presumably…  Anyway lets go for a quick recap of what the last couple of weeks has been like.  I honestly think that the most important thing, and it just so happens coolest thing,  Is the fact that I am Kilik.  That’s right.  I am Kilik.  How? What? Or who the hell is Kilik?  These are all questions that may be running through your mind…  Frankly I am ashamed of those of you who are asking that last one but what the hell there may be some people among the readers of this blog that do not understand that “THE SOUL STILL BURNS!”  Anyway they can ask me about it later.  As for the how.  I am kilik because in Wushu (Chinese Kung Fu) I am learning staff form and it is awesome….  Its like the most awesomist thing ever!  This is the first form that I am learning.    I have already spent more time practicing staff then I have without a weapon…. AHAHHAHA!!!  I am really motivated… Anyway..  So Colligetes is coming up.  That is the first of two Wushu Competitions I am competing in.  I am not competing with staff in that one as I am just now learning it. But after spring break there is CMAT which is down in California somewhere. It is the bigger of the two competitions but apparently an staff is not a popular weapon so if i get good I may even have a chance at meddling!  I will let you know.  And this is a belated thanks but damn…  A long time ago Kim told me to watch a show called Gun Sword….  I have watched like half of the first episode and I can’t wait to watch more…  Its awesome and it seems to be exactly the show I am looking for.  At least the main character fits the bill… Point is thanks Kim!  Here in Oregon we have found the rain.  Its been fairly wonderful lots of bike rides and long walks in the rain…  It is at these pivotal points in my life, yes i consider a walk in the rain pivotal.. there are some important internal monologues that go on in situations such as that… No wait pivotal.  I neeeed to learn how to tap dance.  It needs to happen because then I can go around Singing in the Rain.  Me and Andrew are considering taking tap dancing over the summer! I just have to fit it in with the show and other classes.  Oh that’s another thing!  So I was worried about how the audition for the ofam musicals went because I had not heard back from them yet and it had been like a month!  So I ran into a fellow Brigadooner and asked him how long it took for them to get back to him last time.  He told me that it took about a month O.o So, and I kid you not, about three minutes after we parted company guess who called.  So I have a chorus part in Oklahoma which rocks because it means I get to preform at the Hult again!  So I can’t really wait for that.  On the geekier side of myself I bought Left 4 Dead.  Which doesn’t really make sense because if there is one thing that scares me in this world, well kind of in this world… how about concept? yeah if there is a concept that scares me, its Zombies.  But the game is sweet, just a bit linear for my taste.  If it was a bit more of a sandbox type word it would add so much to the game.  But they done real good because there isn’t a Zombie game or mod that comes close to it.  So good on em’!  Oh and Hey! Mass Effect 2! And while we are on the concept of 2 how about Flashpoint 2, Starcraft 2!  Or hell lets be adventures and move to 3.  Diablo!!!!  There are quite a few things in the gaming world I am looking forward to.  On the active side I got to hang out down at a Gear Swap that the Iceaxemen organized as a fundraiser. It was really sick!  BCG brought down a ton of gear to sell when I left I think we had made something like $500 for the club.  But while I was there I was walking around with $10.  Not enough to get anything really cool right.  Wrong.  So hutch’s bike shop was there selling three frames for $5 each.  So I bought a frame that I am going to turn into a fixed gear : )  Should be fun.  But that’s about it.  Other then the fun stuff I have just been schooling.  And having a good time with friends.  So what I hope to accomplish with this post is to break the paradigm that I myself established in earlier posts.  Wish me luck.  And maybe just maybe, next weeks “Weekly Dosage”  Will be in a week.  I could use some luck on that account as well.  Well that’s it from me, See Ya!

The Runner Up

Ok so my last post was also about a horrible morning but this one deserves an honorable mention.  Oh and yea I know.  I haven’t posted for a long time and I deserve some yelling at.  But what can I say.  I like being lazy over the holidays.  Anyway on to the Runner Up.

So I have always been a supporter of the idea that Mondays aren’t really as bad as people say they are.  We simply don’t like Mondays because they come after the weekend.  How can we attack Mondays for that?  It is not their fault and its not like they’re evil.  Well, this particular Monday decided to take it upon itself to validate its reputation and prove to me with only one small falter that Mondays are evil days.  Lets begin.

So Sunday night after homework, around 1:00 (Sorry Mom), I set my alarm for 6:30, with the understanding that I would totally ignore it until around 7:00.  Well sure as rain in Oregon my alarm went off and I held up my end of the deal by ignoring it.  I even threw in an extra half hour of ignoring because for some reason it just felt really early.  Then as quick as I could I jumped out of bed and was heading out the door right around 7:45 giving myself lots of time to get to class.  But as soon as I opened the door something deep in my brain said.  Hey, hang on a minute, only it was early so it was in German.  See my mind realized something was wrong but couldn’t place it.  That is about when it occurred to me that at 7:45 the sun should be up.  Not to mention that I usually have to compete for the bathroom with one of my room mates.  It took me a minute to figure out what was going on.  I looked at my cell phone just to check the time again and there was a slight discrepancy between my clock and cell phone.  It was 6:45.  I had was woken up at 5:30.  Why I still don’t know because it was correct when I went to sleep seeing as it agreed with my computer on the fact that it was 1:00.  I went back inside crawled back in bed and unfortunately couldn’t sleep so I watched some West Wing, brilliant show by the way!

So that was a bad start to a Monday but there is more.  Due to the fact that I crawled back into bed and my brain was not functioning at optimal levels of consciousness, I proceeded to crawl into the wrong pair of pants and left my wallet and knife at home.  For those of you who don’t carry a knife leaving it at home is like leaving a dear friend behind.  And as for the wallet, no wallet, no coffee.  No coffee… what is the point?  So I stole three bucks from my mom and promptly bought a cup of coffee, it was nice.  So here come the highlight of my day!  I scammed a friend into buying me lunch!  Thanks Kaya!  It was a much needed break from a crap day.  So that was great until I realized at around 3:30 that I had forgotten my music for my private lesson at 4:00.  So me day once again returned to crap as I jumped on my bike to bike as fast as humanly possible to my apartment.  I made it back at about 4:10 with my music and then went to a lesson that instead of going for about an hours went from 4:10 to to like 5:40.

At this point the only thing I wanted to do was return to my apartment and watch West Wing.  But no!  After having dinner with a friend of mine I rushed off to Opera rehearsal from 7:00 to 9:45!  Which means I missed all of Wushu which I really need to start practicing for because I was badgered into competing. So I got home at about 10:15 and started my homework.  But it was all ok because by Tuesday I was happily finishing up the one episode of West Wing I could keep myself awake for.

So that is why it think Mondays are truly Evil.  And they are.  Just as an after note I find that is always a little easier to write about bad days then it is good ones.  When I write about bad days they always come off snarky, which is so unlike me, and a little comical.  Does that seem right to anyone?  Anyway Mondays suck, West Wing is amazing and thank God its Tuesday.

Worst Morning Ever

At least it is the last right?  Anyway today has been a very bad morning for several reasons.  But first lets do a little recap because I know, I know “Weekly”  but when it is your first finals week every I personally feel that you should be cutting me some slack…  But why Conor? Why is this week so crap?  Well I will tell you.  Its a well guarded secret that dead week, were teachers are supposed to be nice and not give you finals, is a lie!  Much like the cake.  It is evil and a lie.  I had more finals in dead week then I will in finals week.  Not cool.  Anyway Wednesday I had two very nasty finals, Aural skills and Theory.  They were both very hard and I feel like I did better on the Aural skills and i got an 84% That doesn’t baud particularly well for the Theory exam.  Although that brings me to my current situation, Camping outside my GTF’s office door.  I think that I am going to be here for a while…  But the question is once again why?  Well lets drift back to this morning around 7:00  Right about then I woke up.  I got out of bed.  I put on a pair of pants.  Realized that I really needed to do some laundry.  Then I did something terrible.  I turned my alarm, which was blaring at a perfectly awake individual, off.  Then somehow I managed to fall face first on my bed for a total of two seconds and I was out.

This was bad.  Like bad bad.  Not oh it will be ok bad, but bad bad!  Let me explain.  You see I am still very nervous about my grade on the theory final and the theory lab that I slept through this morning has a very important impact on this.  If a student was at the lab, that is required i might add, then he or she gets the benefit of a curve on there test.  I am fairly certain that I need that curve.  So my morning sucked! I missed class and I have a worse grade to look forward to.

HAHA!  Victory!  Ok so a funny thing happened as I was writing about how much my morning sucked and talking to Tegan about how depressed I was, a wonderful thing happened!  My strategy to camp my GTF’s door paid off!  He showed up to drop stuff off before a class and had not read any of the emails I had sent him.  (There are quite a few)  But he agreed to meet in an hour go over the test and give me the curve!  So that is my story of how a crap morning ended  in a blissful peace…  Or will end because I have not meet with my GTF yet.

Ok so that’s it for me.  You have just heard what my whole week has been like.  Panic and tests.  Sometimes it seems like that’s all I ever do.  Well next time I don’t Post for a really long time you can just assume that my life is currently the suck…  but not now.  Now its wonderful.  No more classes, only two more tests, and so much nothing to catch up on!

Moral Dilemma

This is Galaxy News Radio coming to you live with STUDY BREAK!  Ok, this is fast becoming tradition.  I have to take a break from studying now and again and this is my outlet.  Who knew! Anyway, on with the show! (Because it is mostly selfexplanatory.)

Oh, Its On!

Ok.  So i missed the beginning of this challenge week but since this is a new thing for me I think that I should be exempt from retribution.  Anyway the important thing is to finish strong right?  Right?  Anyway so i figured I would begin and end with a triple run.  Three Pictures.  Three different bits of Awesome.  Ok, number one!  New coat!  Softshell weather proof, little breathable and damn sexy if you ask me.  Or any sane person. Anyway if you don’t recognize the pose your lame…  No its a classic pose from a magician that the O’Brien kids watched to death!  I think his name was Rudy Coby.  Or something like that.

Its the Coat

Moving on we have the classic I have fresh homemade cookie dough and you don’t.  : P

Ahahaha

And finally, What I strive for everyday, excellent hair fresh out of bed!  I didn’t touch it! just got up and took the picture.  So ha take that John!  No really I know I can’t Compete but a guy can dream right?

Ok so there may be some stubble... It just makes me look rugged!

Anyway so thats what I came up with last minute I hope it is up to par.

Hey, 1812. Stop singing!

Epic.  That is that was the soul of the past week.  Once again I’m proud to be an American.  Today is an auspicious day.  Its Unification Day! No really there is a new president of our country and I couldn’t be more exited!  I am… having trouble finding the proper words for this occasion.  Ahem!

Anyway my week was also fairly epic.  First of all, I had back to back midterms on Wednesday and that sucked.  Although I did really well on my Theory the written part of my aural skillz test didn’t go so swimmingly.  But the actual Aural skills part of it went fine.  So that was big and it simply kept on growing with a new job at the Presbyterian Church.  I know i feel like a traitor but they just pay better then the Newman’s…  Sorry.  But with the new job also came the day from hell.  Actually the midterms were involved in that as well.  Wednesday I two midterms in the morning and then I had three places to be that evening all at the same time.  Sigh.  So I ran back and forth to the Iceaxemen staff meeting, my new job and Wushu.  Busy night but I was doing some awesome stuff so it was all good.  Once again I find myself with some real time to myself, for about a day anyway, and it feels great!  As for my trip I still don’t quite know.  Sorry Fedya, I give you full reign to call and kick me in the but for not doing what I promised.  I am a bad, bad man.  But I like my attitude.  Io sono molto pegro!  Look it up if you have to.  God.  Epic week.  Oh man but i haven’t even come to the best part!

So I needed an epic way to finish such an epic week.  The Wushu club provided such an end.   So although I’m not actually in this video you get the point.  I had class while they did this so shucks oh well.  Anyway around 9:40 we hit the streets and roamed around camps from party to party doing the thriller dance all over the place.  We carried a boom-box and blasted other Michel Jackson songs.  It was all great fun and we got people to follow us around!  Man it was great.  I didn’t get home until about 4:00 on Halloween.  I am really having a good time at college.  So long for now I am going back to our own little election party with Guinness and champagne.

Coat of Plus Five Peace Keeping

So I have been watching Farscape every chance i get over the weekends.  Its a wonderful form of stress release. Anyway, so I was poking around online after watching a episode and just wondering what became of John Criton’s unbelievable coat.  This is, what I found http://www.benbrowderportal.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=93&Itemid=64 I can’t (<- Ooww! Look a contraction!) believe A. How lucky that guy is and B. How much money they got for that coat.  I mean yea if I had that kind of money I wouldn’t hesitate to buy that coat, but honestly… Damn that is a lot of money for a coat.  Anyway my life right now seems to be confined to my room and school.  Wednesday and Thursday of this week I spent over fourteen hours on campus.  It was not so much fun.  Although admittedly on Thursday I went to see a voice recital and it was all in french and amazing.  The last piece inparticular was fascinating.  It was a song about the Jesus rising from the dead and general praise and alleluia kinda stuff.  But, the piano was playing this disharmonious melody thing that was just down right scary!  It was REALLY REALLY interesting.  Friday made up for it though because I went home to cook with Dad-o.  God I can’t tell you how much i missed our kitchen.  I mean the one in my apartment is adequate but its just not up to par to the pristine order and cleanliness of ours.  Plus the amount of space…  Anyway that was a fun time.  And I guess that gets us to Saturday.  Well today was spent sleeping, reading Gardens of the Moon, doing homework and eating on occasion.  Although food seemed to be secondary as per usual.  Yep so that’s just the last couple days.  This week was long and this weekend will be too short but what can ya do?  Anyway enjoy the rest of the night and your weekend.  Rover out.

The Great Email Fiasco

Ok I don’t know who got what or how many times.  I am sorry the email program for the university is not the cleanest system around.  Anyway the important thing is that you all know that this is here and I am going to use it so stay tuned!

Night of the Shattered Moon

Ok.  Here I go once again.  I have tried this once before and It took all of two days to stop my rambling.  This time I hope to better my record.  I begin this post hoping that it is followed by many.  I am going to try to post once a week.  We will see how it goes.  Anyway Dad-O also said that I should start keeping a journal, this is step one.  Step two is get a journal.  I figure this is like a test run.  If i can write in this at least once a week I can do a journal.

Well on to my life i suppose.  Music school here at UO is great!  It is really fun and really challenging.  It is taking me some time to adjust to college life.  It is kind of tough to stay motivated in the theory and keyboard classes, however the rest of them are easy to get into.  The workload? Maybe not so much but I am trying.  I did get good luck with the apartment though.  Its great! For the most part me and my room mates get along fine i just don’t see them that much because I am either gone or locked in my room doing homework.  Like I should be doing now. It is that motivation thing.  Kicks in quite a bit as the week goes on.  On that note I really should get back to it.  I will, however leave you with this video for those who have not seen my apartment.  I do urge those of you who have seen it to watch the video anyway.  I have done some decorating since last anyone in the family has seen it.  Talk to you soon!