Halloween: A Two-Part Quest.

I really should be studying for my Psych Midterm tomorrow.

Halloween began as any usual day. The sun came out. The air was warm, and filled with opportunity, and people all over campus were buzzing about their costumes and their plans on spending the evening.

Halloween has actually been more of a Weekend event than a singular day of celebration.

Prelude

1. Lost my music backpack ( I have two: one for academic, and one for music).

2. Campus Security kept me waiting, sitting like an emo for 20 minutes, under a single orange street light next to the locked door, hopefully belying my precious cargo.

3. It wasn't there. :/

4. I am now half-hour late for my first D-group meeting, well actually it was our second meeting, but I could not go to the first one.

5. I find my backpack in Munson Chapel on a table, and book it to meet my waiting companions.

6. We eat spaghetti, and I am as tired as can be. SO I collapse on their couch in exhaustion.

7. First Impressions are being thrown out the window at this point. =P

8. The meeting goes well! Hooray! We disperse at 8:15pm.

9. APU's Halloween Event called, "The Event" takes place at 9pm in the Village apartments circle.

10. It's a Pirate theme, and I go with my Alpha buds and a Prospective Student (did I mention it was also an All-Access Weekend where prospective students stay with us for a weekend? Yeah, it's awesome sauce!)

11. The upperclassmen create a pirate ship made from loading trucks and take truckfuls of people around the giant complex circle, just like Pirates of the Caribbean! It was great! Good times.

12. We go upstairs to the outdoor tennis courts where a carnival is underway.

13. I threw a REAL DEAD FISH through a whole for some candy. Oh yeahhhh!

14. We take a picture, and they go back to our Alpha Leader's house while I catch up with my sister Arie.

15. Interesting part: I get called a slut while walking to Kellie's (Alpha) by a car-full of girls. How classy.

16. El Fin.

Part I

The entire Adams Hall opens up for the Professors and their kids to come trick-or-treating through each dorm. It was a great way for us to see our professors in a casual light with their adorable kids and give them candy. I tagged my favorite costumed family to my profile.

Anywayyy... the multitudinous amount of children was refreshing, exhilarating, and generated a bit of nostalgia over those glorious days of saying a worn out phrase and gathering the sickly-sweetening loot that lasts anywhere from hours to years, depending on your consumption strategy. I did homework between customers, so I considered it jobs well done!

Afterwards, everyone went into Whitnee and Jazmin's dorm to watch "House," a scary movie based on a Christian novel. I know, right? What does that even MEAN?

I sure wasn't going to find out.

SO onto...

Part II

I made my usual trek to Bowles, where Arie, Sean, Ian, and Johnny Strat live.

Only this time, I'm alone... in a ladybug outfit.

You could call me Late Night Live Entertainment for the Halloween traffic. Lo, and behold would I walk in the door and see Sean dressed up as a Knight (pronounced Ken-nig-git) and Arie as... well, herself, I suppose. We spent our time talking about our weeks and lives thus far, and going through Practical Musicianship beginner booklets that were given to me by Sean.

This is how I will learn how to read music, and sight read...for reals!

I was a little frustrated at first with how much Arie and Sean knew in contrast with how poor I performed reading notes and signing Solfeggi. It wasn't so much a clueless thing. I've been around music enough and have constructed a pretty good ear at remembering music quickly and retaining the starting pitch. Applying the pitch according to the solfeggio sign, and jumping up and down while reading a sheet of entirely new music, however, can only be perfected through diligence, patience, practice and PRAYER. So they put away the sheet music and gave me the PM 1 booklet to plink out, one exercise at a time. I got up to 36 in a half hour before my brain started hurting. But it was SO MUCH FUN.

Gosh. We're such nerds, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

When I can read music... the possibilities... the opportunities...the sense of accomplishment...

it's all so overwhelmingly exciting.

I pray to keep on practicing. And thank God for sisters like Arie and brothers like Sean (and Ian, and Johnny Strat, and J-Lord, ect.) =P

Yesterday, I was beginning to add re with do, mi, so, and la.

Before we left to go back to my dorm, Sean and I (taped by Arie) performed two Improv scenes out of no where! haha! One if them is up on Facebook.

El Fin.

Afterword

A little bit of service for APU's professors and families, a lot of Solfeggio practice, and a little bit of theatre at the end provided a smorgasboard of relaxing, studying, and playing!

What a wonderful [more academic] Halloween this year.

And now... High Ho Psychology! Awaaaaay!