Brilliant mind. Average grades.

So, yeah...I got my Aural skills and 18th century tests back today. Average grades on both. I'm relieved about the AS grade because I knew the harmonic dictation was going to screw me over. It has been screwing me over since Aural Skills 1 (and this is 4). The other test was 2 points higher than the AS grade, but still nothing to smile at. What somewhat pisses me off is that I didn't study the Haffner Symphony and Beethoven's symphony No. 1 as thoroughly as I should have. If I had, then I would have made a B+ on the sucker. Cramming for music history is not smart. Someday, I will learn that. Also, I need to learn to trust my instincts more and just take the risk that the answer I put down the first time is probably right. If USM still offered the Church Music degree, I would so be doing that rather than Musicology. William Carey offers it, but I cannot afford to go there. USM has better credibility too.
I think I will be doing my 18th century paper on Mozart and Freemasonry. It seems like I can go far with that topic and I should be able to pull up a ton of information on it. We'll see though.
My voice lesson went rather well this morning. Dr. Nichols is going to let me do Schumann's "In the Wonderful Month of May" from Dichterliebe. It is short, and very sweet! And there is another Schumann piece he is having me do. Other pieces I am working on are Schubert's Die Forelle, Mozart's Non so piu from Le Nozze di Figaro, My Little Welsh Home by a welsh composer. I have to repeat the French Si Mes Vers by Hahn this semester. Also, The Beatitudes by Malotte, a Bach aria from the Pentecost cantata, and the Green Dog. Those are the ones off the top of my head. He did complain again about getting up early, but he didn't dwell on it like he has in previous lessons.
I am just now coming back from a wonderful dinner with my wonderful boyfriend, Mark. What an unbelievably sweet guy that God has placed in my life. Even before we started dating, he was still a really good friend.
Carillon rehearses tonight from 8-10. I will probably hit the floor when I come in from that rehearsal. Bells always seem to wear me out. I guess it is just the intense concentration, either that or Larry is just that intimidating. :)