We had a good run of things...I guess.

As I begin this post, I would like to take a minute and remember someone who passed away. Opera great, Luciano Pavarotti died yesterday at the age of 71. While I am not an avid opera fan, I can appreciate great talent, of which the man had much of. His name was synonymous with opera. Its sad, because while he was alive I didn't really bother to find out anything about him and it wasn't till this morning when I went to check my email that I read the news. I sat here at my little table at work, taking calls, checking emails, sorting production reports, and reading a brief biography that aol.com (is it sad that that is where I get most of my news from? or just really lame? I try to watch the news and read the paper sometimes, as a journalism major I should be ashamed of myself) posted about him.

I liked how he didn't feel the need to keep opera something solely for the elite and found several ways to reach the masses by having concerts with famous pop stars, from Ricky Martin to the Spice Girls. Now my memory might be a bit fuzzy on this bit, I'm not sure if it was him or one of the other of the "Three Tenors," but from what I remember there was a sketch on Sesame Street where Luciano Pavarotti sang with Placido Flamingo the puppet. I remember thinking that was great. I was particularly fond of the pink flamingo in a tux.

His voice was amazing as was his stage presence, Mr. Luciano Pavarotti you will be greatly missed.

On another, lighter note, my first week of school has been completed. Mind you my first week was only two days long. In those two days I was only late for class once. Good for me. :)
This semester I am going to be testing my ability to keep on task and work truly under pressure, strain and stress. I am taking 6 classes this semester. My usually load is 4 classes, I've even taken only 3. I'm a terrible person, I know, but I was in London, cut me some slack. I will also be working the days that I am not at school. Which are Wednesdays till 4:30 because I then have to run to school, Thursdays, Fridays and the occasional Saturdays. On top of that I teach Sunday school (cute, I know) and I have been suckered into volunteering with the afterschool program one day a week. I also need to schedule in some fun time and some time to sleep. I'm working on it.

So far I've enjoyed my classes, and even though I had a bit of a freak out before school started, about whether or not I'm cut out to do this (Edi should know...I freak out with her) I'm looking forward to the challenges I'm going to face with these classes. I'm extremely excited about my Television productions class!!! The teacher is awesome and the people in the class are great. Especially this really cute guy... :)

So last night I got out of my Tv production class and headed over to hang out with Edi. We had some Pad Thai, and "fresh fruit" smoothies (totally from concentrate) at the place that shall be forever known as "The Place That Isn't Thai Pastry," and talked loudly and obnoxiously over the other people in the joint. It was like 20 people at one table. Then we walked through the slightly dodgy area known as roger's park and went to her house. I pretty knocked out on her futon as she sang random pieces of music. It was a good night. :)

So this concludes this post which has taken me about 4 hours to write.
-Jenny Kastle

p.s. I got a haircut...didn't come out the way I wanted, I got like a lecture about how my hair is curly so since my hair is short she can't really cut too many layers into it and blah blah blah humidity. I was like, um, yeah I know hun, just do what I tell you. She didn't, so I left, I got a trim though.