Oh yeah...

I also tried Ginger wine the other day--apparently, it's a Scottish specialty. It was good, a bit like ginger ale, only stronger. I'm going to try to see if I can bring some home. :)

Haggis!

So I FINALLY got around to trying haggis today. Actually, a haggis stuffed mushroom. It wasn't too bad--in fact, it was pretty good. I just had to not think about what was in it. :)

Other than that, not a whole lot here. The waves were crazy today, crashing up onto the shore. The tide was in at 3:30 in the afternoon, which seemed early to me! Of course, it's getting dark now at about 4... That, I'm not a fan of. I do miss the sunshine!

I went to a poetry reading today, which was pretty nice. I haven't had much of a chance to write since I've gotten into the swing of the semester--I wrote a bunch of poems the first two weeks I was here, and then really nothing else. It's not even necessarily that I don't have time to do it; sometimes, it's just hard to switch gears or something. I may go to a writing open mic night tomorrow, where I would probably read. I haven't read my stuff in awhile, and there's something good about reading. It makes it seem more real or something. Last semester, I read a bunch of Native American poets, and I like what they say about it--it's spoken word that has the most power, and writing the language down kills it. I don't come from the same oral tradition, but there is something about the spoken word, meant for someone to hear (instead of writing into what seems like a vacuum), that makes the language more alive. Well, that was a digression.
I'm off to read now. Cheers!

Hi!

Well, it's been awhile! Mostly, I've been doing school stuff. I got through my first round of papers! yay!

Tonight, we performed the Messiah. The performance went relatively well. My favorite glitch was that there was a high school choir singing with us on three songs only...and they missed they're first song completely! ooops! :) And there was another song where we totally got off at the beginning, though it did eventually come together. But it was fun to perform it, though I am tired now. We had a three hour practice before the performance!

The best thing was I was practicing the Messiah in my sleep last night...kept waking up with a different song in my head. :)

Not much else to report! :) It is cold...and has been for awhile. Oh, I did go to a play the other night. I thought the production was good, but I didn't like the play very much. The characters were not very good.

Alright kids, that's all I got. Happy belated Thanksgiving!