the holidays, and christmas at luther, are right around the corner.

it's a strange thought, how quickly the last 14 weeks have gone. In 3 weeks, i'll be half done with my freshman year of college. how weird is that?!?

a lot of things my voice teacher has been saying all semester are finally making sense. I'm comfortable here, this is normal now.

I'm incredibly excited for J.Term. I'm taking one class, Stubborn Light, and we're rehearsing the Mendelssohn and Sheherazade for our spring break tour! YEAHHH!

p.s. this is the class description for Stubborn Light:
" What is to give light must endure burning." -- Victor Frankl. An off-campus, rural Decorah based course. Students will travel to on-sight location for informal discussions which will culminate in a collection of visual and written creative works. Cooking and eating meals together will be part of the discussion/creation series. The course promises to encourage honesty of reflection; spirit, compassion, truthfulness; a shaking-up of our comfortable world view; looking at life from a different perspective; and to obey little and resist much. Transportation provided.Prerequisites: Open only to first-year students who are self-motivated individuals with a desire to cultivate creative thinking and actions.


i'm so excited to be home simply for all of fun time i'm going to spend in a real, high functioning, kitchen. i'm making chex mix, pies, pretzle buttons, bulgar .... salad?, puppy chow, and triple chip chocolate cookies. and too much love, and kimya dawson, and new retainers, and decorating for christmas with my family, and seeing my ridiculous extended family, and just about everything. i'm ready for a break.

this year, i'm thankful for t.gives.