30 Days, 30 Songs

I got the idea of this from my friend Brianna, whose blogs 100 Recipes and Off the Wal(cott) I subscribe to. She is currently doing it on Facebook, but I thought it would be fun to do it on my blog. The idea is to share a little about yourself by choosing a song a day for 30 days. As she did, I will add my song titles to this master list as I go along with the project. As Brianna has already pointed out, it is hard to pick just one song for some of these categories. Luckily some of them repeat themselves, so hopefully it wouldn't be as bad. I know there will be some that I have no clue what to put down for a particular day, but we'll give it a shot anyways. I will say that some of the "songs" will not be exactly songs but maybe pieces of music, i.e. classical. Like her, I tend to have varying degrees of favorites based on the day/week/month and what I am feeling like. 

The 30 Day Song Challenge

Day 1 - Your favorite song: The Raveonettes - Love in a Trashcan

Day 2 - Your least favorite song: Amazing Grace 

Day 3 - A song that makes you happy: MC Solaar - Bling Bling

Day 4 - A song that makes you sad: Giacomo Puccini - Final scene end of Act 1: La Boheme 

Day 5 - A song that reminds you of someone: The Darkness - Girlfriend

Day 6 - A song that reminds you of somewhere: Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA

Day 7 - A song that reminds you of a certain event: The Stereophonics - Just Looking

Day 8 - A song you know all the words to: Sugar Ray - Every Morning

Day 9 - A song you can dance to: The Commodores - Brick House

Day 10 - A song that makes you fall asleep: Johann Pachelbel - Canon in D major

Day 11 - A song from your favorite band: Mika - Big Girl (You are Beautiful)

Day 12 - A song from a band you hate: Justin Bieber - Baby ft. Ludacris

Day 13 - A song that is a guilty pleasure: NKOTB - Summertime

Day 14 - A song that no one would expect you to love: Alan Jackson - Chattahoochee

Day 15 - A song that describes you: Avenue Q Soundtrack - Purpose

Day 16 - A song that you used to love but now you hate: Green Day - Boulevard of Broken     Dreams

Day 17 - A song that you hear often on the radio: Katy Perry - Firework

Day 18 - A song you wish you heard on the radio: Pogo - Joburg Jam

Day 19 - A song from your favorite album: Tim Minchin - Mitsubishi Colt

Day 20 - A song that you listen to when you're angry: Tim Minchin - Some People Have It Worse Than I

Day 21 - A song that you listen to when you're happy: The Eels - God Damn Right, It's a Beautiful Day 

Day 22 - A song that you listen to when you're sad: Avenue Q Soundtrack - There is Life Outside Your Apartment

Day 23 - A song you want to play at your wedding: Tony Bennett - The Way You Look Tonight

Day 24 - A song you want to play at your funeral: J.S. Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D Minor

Day 25 - A song that makes you laugh: Monty Python and the Holy Grail soundtrack - Knights of the Round Table

Day 26 - A song you can play on an instrument: 1940 Fantasia soundtrack - Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony Pt. 1

Day 27 - A song you wish you can play (or in my case sing): Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) sung by Teresa Berganza - Una Voce Poco Fa

Day 28 - A song that makes you feel guilty: 

Day 29 - A song from your childhood: 

Day 30 - Your favorite song at this time last year: 

Son of Citation Machine and Grey's Anatomy

This website, Son of Citation Machine, has been really helpful to me this week as I've been writing my research proposal and trying to figure out how I want to do citations. I actually discovered it a couple weeks ago when I was working on the Reference group project and we included it then as a tool to help high schoolers. It pretty much does the work of citations for you to simply things, which is great for me because pretty much all teachers want you to do it a different way and I can never keep track of which way to do it. I decided to do MLA because APA was kinda confusing and it works like a dream. I recommend it to those in college or those with kids in high school. 

This paper has been a giant pain as I am having problems trying to put what I want into paper form. It makes sense to me, but I've been wallowing in the info for the whole semester. So I need to send it to my mom so she can see if it makes sense too and isn't just a giant pile of crap. I'm sure it has good points, but right now it's just frustrating. 

So since this week and past couple have been pretty stressful at my house, while we are trying to figure out our finances in conjunction with the baby, and I think this quote fits in with our situation quite nicely. Now I'm a huge Grey's Anatomy fan even though I know it's a fluffy girl show, but sometimes they do say some brilliant things on there, like this quote from everyone's favorite bad boy Karev in Season 5. 

• Grey’s Anatomy, Season 5, Episode 18, Karev: "Trauma messes everybody up, but maybe that's the point. All the pain, the fear and the crap...maybe going through all that is what keeps us going forward...it's what pushes us. Maybe we have to get a little messed up, before we step up."

Big Announcement!

So I've been holding this off for three weeks until my first ultrasound, but here it is: I'm 7 weeks pregnant and due July 2011! I'm just glad to be able to tell people and talk about it. This is my first pregnancy so everything is new for me. I'm glad to be able to apply the things I've learned in Early Childhood Materials class to my own personal experience, and will start reading to the baby soon, probably after I graduate. I know how important it is to start early, even when the baby is in the womb. 

The other big news is that I finally got the results of my graduation portfolio back and I aced it. So I don't have to worry about that, just need to write the Research proposal and papers that go with it and I will be done for the semester. 

Last couple weeks of class

I am currently down to my last 2 weeks of class, and this has been one long semester. My group poster presentation was yesterday and it went really well, and people seemed to like our idea for establishing K-12 information literacy training in public schools with collaboration with public and academic libraries. I've turned in the paper, poster and abstract for the group so as far as I'm concerned we are done with that class. I turned in my final paper for my internship describing what I did and what I learned on Tuesday as well. I've not heard back from my adviser about my portfolio now for about 15 days, so I am assuming it looks good. Might email student services just to check. Now I have to concentrate on my Research class as I need to write my research proposal and associated papers before Dec 13. My concentration has just been totally shot lately so I am planning on doing it tomorrow after my doctor's appointment, and just go to the library.

Today is the first day of December and we've not put up the tree yet, probably will do soon. It's finally feeling like winter as today was a high of 55 degrees F with a lot of wind, which I had to go out and experience as the pest control people were spraying my apartment and I didn't want the pooch to ingest the gel they were using. Only about 3 weeks till we are going to Arizona again to visit my parents for Christmas, and I am very excited!

Feeling exhausted but happy

Two days ago I couldn't sleep, ended up staying up all night and catching four hours of sleep the next morning. I had a paper due at midnight for my Reference class yesterday and as usual, I waited till the last minute to start it. I wasn't even sure exactly how I was supposed to get the info for the paper until I actually sat down and thoroughly looked at the assignment sheet and part of last week's lecture. Thankfully, it only took me about 3 1/2 hours to complete and I turned it in by 8:30pm. Needless to say I was exhausted after only getting 4-5 hours sleep and then stressing out about the paper. I slept for over 11 hours and feel groggy, but much better than yesterday. I got another Indian cookbook from the library, as well as an audiobook of The Hobbit, which I've started that today in the car. It's kind of random because it is a BBC Dramatization so it's full cast doing the book like an everyday conversation and some of the things they said in there, I don't know if it's the book or stuff they've made up on the spot. I haven't read the book since high school so my memory is a bit foggy. But I like it so far. The parts I keep remembering from the book are the 70s cartoon version (and again, not sure how close it is since I haven't watched it since high school).

I finally caught up on reading for my Research class, and managed to make one blog post for it. Oh, I forgot to talk about it on this one. It's a research journal for the class, whose main project is putting together a research proposal at the end of the semester, which will be on foster children and their reading/library use. It will go into what may affect the foster kids, like constant movement, Foster Parent/Biological parents' education, if the FP/Bio parent read to them and/or encouraged reading, and if they go to the library and if not how to encourage them to go. Luckily we just have to write the proposal and not carry it out, though I would like to in the future after I have a job in a public library. So the blog is basically where we record about things we read, things we need to ask, and where others comment about our thoughts. Here's the address: http://705lrp.blogspot.com/.