"Stupid Mistake" or "Hopefully Singing"

May 10, 2006You know those really bone-headed mistakes you make?  You know, the ones that you really should not have made, but you did anyway through carelessness or something similar?  Yeah, I just realized I have made one.  Somehow, with my indiscriminate spending, I forgot about paying $25 for gas last week, which normally wouldn't be a big deal, except that I had thought I would be spending the same $25 on gas to get back to Cookeville.  As it is, I have only $10 in my checking account now, but I've got about $100 waiting for me in Cookeville when I get back.  Most likely, I can get some money from Mom for gas, but I hate asking for money.  Ah, well...it'll make her happy that I'm opening up about my needs (or something like that...)

On the other hand, I've been screwing around with this sound-editing software and my old mic, as my new one is probably sitting in the TTU post office.  Anyway, by messing with different compression settings in the program, I have been able to amplify my voice without getting any of that nasty background buzz (you may know the sound...if you turn up a speaker too loud without any noise, or with a small noise, there's that buzz), thereby eradicating two flying vertebrates with one object of considerable density.  Only problem is I've been playing with it at, oh, 2 a.m., so I've been unable to give any volume to my singing.  As a result, I've had to hold the mic close to my mouth, thus giving my recordings those nice little bursts of breath whenever I pronounce a hard consonant.  Now, tomorrow, when I've got some free time, I'm going to sing into the mic from a greater distance with more volume.  The volume should be better than before, eradicating even more obnoxious buzz (I've gotten about 90% out already - this should kick it up to 95+%) and the irritating puh's and cuh's and stuh's and fuh's.  Result?  A semi-decent recording of me singing.  Then I can bitch about my tone and let people hear it and give me advice.  Anyway, I'm heading to bed.  Later.

Dreams

May 09, 2006Yeah, I haven't had a dream in a few weeks now, but I just did.  This dream could have sucked really bad, but everything turned out alright.  I was on American Idol and had already sung a song, kicking butt on it, I might add.  Later on, they had another song for me, a song which I did not know in the least.  I cast about, looking for someone who knew the song and could help me, and the only one (God only knows what he was doing behind the curtain just off the stage) was Josh Morgan, who looked scared as piss.  But he came out and sang the first verse and chorus, then I did the second and chorus, and the crowd was ecstatic.  I would have liked to have known what Simon would have said about that little incident, but I woke up too soon.

Home again

May 08, 2006It's been a tumultous visit thus far, resulting in three members of my family in tears.  We're going to go pick Jason up at the airport in a bit, so that will probably kick the grand total of tear-shedders to four or five.  Things are good, though.  Dad still wants to have nice long, loud talks with me, but, on the bright side, he bought three of the Sopranos cigars (for him, Jason, and me).  I'm looking forward to them; the company that makes them (CAO) also makes my most absolutest favoritest cigar in the world: the MX2.  Anyway, I've gotta get dressed and join the family...maybe we can get some shouting out of the way before Jason gets here.  I'm really looking forward to seeing him again.

And the final tallies are in...

May 05, 2006

Jonathan Andrew Wood

Spring 2006

Section	Course Title	Midterm Grade	Final Grade	Attempted Hours	Earned Hours	Quality Hours	Quality Points	GPA
SPCH-2410-800	Intro to Speech Communication	S	A	3.00	3.00	3.00	12.00
HON -2012-001	Self Esteem		A	2.00	2.00	2.00	8.00
HON -4013-001	Colloquium		A	3.00	3.00	3.00	12.00
HON -4013-002	Colloquium		A	3.00	3.00	3.00	12.00
PSY -2010-002	General Psychology	S	B	3.00	3.00	3.00	9.00
HON -2071-001	Special Topics		A	1.00	1.00	1.00	4.00
Current Term					15.00	15.00	57.00	3.800
HE Cum Stats THRU Fall 2006					32.00	27.00	80.00	2.963
Dean's List

That seems to be a large improvement over last years...I kind of doubled the semester GPA.  And with Calc I this summer, I'll have the UAS back, no problem.  Now, time to pack up.

Grades so far

May 03, 2006I took 6 classes this semester for a total of 15 hours.  So far, I have the grades for 4 of these classes, which is 9 hours worth.  All A's.  Boo-yah.  Of course, these are not the classes which I was worried about, but it still feels nice to have those A's.  The way everything is averaging out now, even if I failed Latin and General Psych (both of which are impossibilities), I'd still have a higher GPA than last semester.  Yay!