Music is awesome

Picture of the Day] An amusing sign I saw when I got take-out from Oodles of Noodles.

Mood] Very pleased

Weather] Relatively warm, 75 Degrees

Currently] In my room

Quote of the Day] "Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world."

Things are moving along quickly with class and otherwise. We've pumping through music at X-Chromotones rehearsal! It's awesome. In case you are just catching up with my blog, the X-Chromotones is an all-female acappella (singing) group here at IIT! :D I am currently musical director of said group, so I've been chugging through different music deciding what we can be singing for this semester! Since I finished arranging Won't Say I'm In Love, from Disney's Hercules (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_bEWXs_FX4), we've been working on that and it is pretty awesome. We have a soloist now and are just working on getting it all together (mostly memorized!) I hope that it all goes well.

Other songs on the agenda are Still Alive, from Portal the video game (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI), Beyond the Sea, the Celtic Woman arrangement (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz_fcbKKmQA) and an original mash-up by one of our members, called Why Do you Let me Stay Here/Sexy Bitch. The last is comprised of these two songs: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkzRyHa9a6g&ob=av3e) and (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo_7bhk1UzA). I'll keep you updated as we go along!

CONCERT IN NOVEMBER!!! :D BE THERE.

Singed out!
Jaye

Fresh in the cIITy

Pictures of the Day] Party, Mind Games, Sack Race, Panorama of my location

Mood] Excited and Tired

Weather] Cool and incredibly windy

Currently] In my room

Quote of the Day] "You try to give away what you want yourself."

So Fresh in the Ciity was awesome fun. It was absolutely horrid weather to begin with. It rained until at least one or two in the afternoon, but then it was beautiful! The sun started coming out and everything. :) We began at Morton Park on campus (the one in front of VanderCook) and then we did a series of games to get the freshmen ready! They did a sack race, magic footprints, mind games, and then they grabbed a packet based on where they wanted to eat for lunch. Then, they were off! At each station (Navy Pier, The Loop, Mag Mile, Museum Campus, Lincoln Park Zoo, etc..) they had to perform a series of tasks and trivia to go on. They could answer as many questions as they wanted in order to get points.

I was stationed at Museum Campus. We had them create sand castles, take photos of different statues, answer trivia, and throw a frisbee. It was good fun and there was tons of teamwork. It's free for freshmen too! Free lunch, free dinner (we had vendors from all over the city come), and free cash prizes!!! It was great and although it was incredibly rainy, there was a good turn-out.

What a way to spend a Saturday!
REALLY tired,
Jaye

Site and Field Trip

Pictures of the Day] Panoramas!

Mood] BLAH

Weather] Cool and incredibly windy

Currently] In the basement

Quote of the Day] "My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?"

So we went on a field trip to Evanston Art Center as part of our assessment of a site possibly in need of preservation. The day was beautiful. It was bright and sunny, but very very windy. My allergies definitely flared up. Driving to Evanston took about 30-45 minutes. There was some construction along the way so I had to navigate around that, but otherwise it was a very lovely drive.

The Art Center itself was a very old building. It reminded me a lot of the Ecology Action Center in Bloomington-Normal. The interior has winding passages that are maze-like to different areas, most leading to what were servant quarters or store rooms. The grounds are very nice as well. There is an entrance to the beach area and also a park-like grove. The major problems with the site include an overgrowth of trees and brush that block the views to the lake and a drainage issue. There is a Jensen Council Ring that, partially embedded behind a slope, creates a dirt trail for runoff when it rains, which inevitably transforms into a flooding, water-fall effect.

This is the semester project for my Historic Landscape Preservation class, so we'll be learning a lot of skills in assessing the land and researching how to solve the problems. Hopefully a suitable, relatively reasonably priced solution will be reached.

Quite tired,
Jaye