Forgotten Items Remembered, As Well As Gurf and Gerf

Alright, I just have to tell all of you about Norsemen last night. Norsemen is the first-year men's choir I am in here at Luther College. The director is Tim Peter, but he is gone in South Africa teaching a J-Term course, so his wife Sandra is teaching...err...directing us. I hate using the word teaching with musical ensembles, I don't know why. But otherwise, Norsemen's pretty rad, and we get to go perform at ACDA (The American Choir Directors Association) conference in Minneapolis in March. If any of you live close, come check us out live!

Anyways, last night we had Norsemen rehearsal. We are singing two songs as of right now. A Celtic piece entitled 'Fergus and Molly.' I'll try to get a recording of it and post it when we have it finalized and after our recording session in the spring. We're using the Celtic accents and everything, it'll be awesome! The we are singing a barbershop gospel song called 'Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?' We are having a lot of fun with that one, and I'm going to make an attempt to try out for any solos or groups in either song! They're going to be so cool when we get done with them. Like I said, I will have recordings of each one up as soon as I get my hands on them!

Now, I have borrowed a couple words from my friend, Leslie. These are words I believe she made up, and they belong to her, but I have been using them more and more frequently. These words are gerf and gurf.

Gerf is a feeling of joy or happiness, whereas gurf is the exact opposite: feelings of depression or sadness. Right now, I am feeling gurf. Very gurf. I'm not sure when I'll be feeling gerf again, but be on the lookout!

My computer is still getting fixed. The USB Drivers are fried, so the dumb piece of technology won't recognize the flash drive that my operating system is on, Nor does it have a CD or DVD-ROM drive to put a CD of the program into. FML. So Theo is trying to circumvent that and if you have any ideas, please don't hesitate to tell me!

Overall, today was a very lazy day. Went to class as usual, hung out with one of my friends. The usual.

I've got an essay to write that will be determining the parallels between Dante's Inferno and Purgatorio. Should be some fun stuff, although rereading two books that took two weeks in the space of one weekend will be difficult. Wish me luck!

Until next blog!