Happy New Year

I didn't even need to watch the Giants/Cowboys gane last night. I was able to tell what was happening by the way my neighbors were shouting. If I heard "WOOOOOOOOOOOO!" the Giants had scored. If I heard "Ahhhh, motherfucker!" the Cowboys had scored. And in the end, there were more woooos then motherfuckers. Go Giants.

Spent most of yesterday procrastinating from writing my music theory midterm, as I was so sure that there would be several inches of snow on the ground today and a day off from school. But my brother Bryan kept saying that it was too warm outside to get much snow, and for once, he was actually right about something. It's like that episode of The Simpsons where Homer correctly predicts that the comet heading towards Springfield will burn up in the atmosphere. "I know, kids. I'm scared too."

I don't have my usual Monday night rehearsal tonight, because most of the kids in my madrigal group are in band, and the dress rehearsal for their concert is tonight. There was no point in having a rehearsal with more than half the group gone. MLK day is next Monday, meaning no school, and no rehearsal for two weeks. Add on the fact that most of the kids in the group are also involved with the musical, and are in choreography rehearsals every afternoon, some of them cutting into my rehearsal start time - at 7:00 pm. What kind of high school decides to put on Cats anyway? The one I work at, that's what kind.

My colleague and I were supposed to spend today writing our choir midterm, so of course this has to be the day she gets sick and takes off work. (I think she wanted that snow day too.) So I spent two hours by myself in the choir room writing out what will hopefully be most of the midterm. Left alone to my own devices, I ended up with questions like this:

If you see the term accelerando in your music, you should sing
a) harder
b) better
c) faster
d) stronger

If my colleague comes back and complains about anything I worked on, I might have to smack her. I haven't taken a day off all year.

As to my ongoing battle over the incorrectly shipped Christmas present...no, I still don't have the CD set, and I got a form from my credit card company to file a dispute and get the charge removed. For some reason, they wanted a letter from another reputable merchant to support my claim, so I emailed Amazon to see what they could get me. They basically sent me an email that said "Um...you know that we can take care of that refund stuff for you, right? We filed a claim on your behalf, so this should be resolved in a week or too. And here is a step by step guide on how to track your claim status online!" Awesome. If that goes through, Amazon is totally forgiven with all the grief it gave me over obtaining the last Harry Potter book.