Heh... me and a bunch of friends went caroling earlier tonight, and the title of this post was actually said, word-for-word, by me toward the end (apparently I'm the only one who has basically no ability to remember song lyrics... well, I did remember "Silent Night" but that was the only one, the rest I maybe knew one line and then just hummed along with the general tune of it if I didn't have the words right in front of me.) Despite my lack of singing ability, it actually went really well--this was the first time I'd ever been caroling, and it was kind of fun to just wander around to different houses surprising people (by singing) like that. And it seemed like most of the places we went, we got invited inside and given food (candy several times, and once cookies!)
Also found out that there are apparently multiple versions of "Joy to the World"--the one I was familiar with said "and heaven and nature sing," while the one they were singing today was "and saints and angels sing." Which I guess technically makes more sense, since people (dead or otherwise) are generally a lot better at singing than places or vague concepts are, but... still kind of unexpected. I guess it's a Mormon thing, since it seems like they use the word "saint" even more than the Catholics do, while most other Christian denominations I know of don't talk about saints much if at all.
In other news, went home over the weekend and got kinda bored for a while before I left to come back here to school today. I hope my family actually does stuff over the Christmas break, because otherwise I just might die of boredom staying home and not having any contact with the friends I've made here at SVU (between bad Internet and even worse cell phone reception, I might not hear from them even if someone does try to get in touch with me! maybe I should tell people my home phone number or something...) Final exams are coming up but those should be no big deal, aside from the ones that are at 8:00 in the morning for some insane reason. Wouldn't it make more sense to give the 8 AM exam times to the classes that actually happen at 7 or 8 in the morning, rather than the 9:30 or 10:00 classes?? There's a reason people avoid early morning classes, y'know--so they don't have to get up that early!
Also got started on both of my last two painting assignments over the weekend; did some of the wood frame parts of the door for the stained-glass window one on Saturday, and almost got my self portrait finished on the first try earlier today (the only thing that's definitely not done is my eyes, so I look kinda creepy right now with weird blank white pupil-less eyes...) Should definitely be able to get those done by 3:00 on Tuesday, especially since I have no exams at all on Monday.
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