Musica

Unfortunately, David (a.k.a. anonymous in the December 5, 5:55 comment) is right.  The Rube Goldberg idea does take a lot more time than I expected it to, so I’m going to make this post quick, but there are two things I wanted to mention. First, if you missed the Christmas concert (David) it’s been posted in the conservatory archives now http://www.wheaton.edu/wetn/conservarchive.htm. I also thought you might be interested to know that every night at midnight, a group of friends of mine goes outside to Fischer lawn (in front of my dorm) stands in a circle and sings. We start with a song that they sing at HoneyRock called “Let Us Adore” then we sing whatever song we feel like, and we end with the doxology. I join them whenever I happen to be up at midnight (which is pretty often). It’s really simple but very good way to end the day.

“Looking A Lot Like Christmas”

     On Monday, as soon as I arrived back from Thanksgiving break, I walked straight from the train station to my microeconomics class with my suitcase and arrived just as the class was starting.  After class, I went to the Wade Center Christmas party.  We decorated cookies like Wade authors, ate good food, including an unbelieveably chocolatey “bomb.”  We also played Catchphrase as you can see.  Before I arrived, they set up a beautiful Christmas tree near the front desk.  I may have told some of you that the day I flew home, there were just a few falling flakes of snow.  Well, the last few days, the snow has actually been sticking.
    Last night after the Christmas festival, the snow started falling and by midnight there was a nice layer of snow all over the ground.  By the way in a few hours, I’ll be singing in the second night of the Christmas fest, which you can watch live tonight at 6:30 AZ time at www.wheaton.edu/WETN. just click on the “watch live” or “listen live” link. Today everyone has been throwing snowballs and making snowmen and I’ve been playing my Amy Grant, Nat King Cole, and Relient K’s Let It Snow Baby, Let it Reindeer all day.  All that to say, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.  Just so you know, the picture below is of Sam Cortez, the guy who played Reepicheep in our floor C.S. Lewis raid (which reminds me how excited I am about The Voyage of The Dawn Treader coming out on Friday!) All that to say, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
P.S. It’s also looking like finals week.  I’m sure a lot of you have that feeling right now too. One thing I'm working on this week is finishing up my final project for Physics class.  Maybe I will give you more details some other time, but until then, here's a quick video of our basic setup:

Rube Goldberg project