Market Day and clubs

The turkeys have been surprisingly silent lately. Apart from the occasional thud and minor scratching, they have been quiet. Fingers crossed hoping they stay that way!

Today was Market Day on campus. Basically, Market Day is when lots of clubs set up tables around the Great Court and advertise. There were also lots of tents with clothes and iron on patches and records, among other things. I had a list of about four clubs I wanted to investigate. Unfortunately, only one actually had a table. That was rather depressing. The club that was there is a no audition choir on campus. I figure I enjoy singing, it should be a good time.

One of the guys at the table handed me a little flier about the club and said that practices are Wednesdays at 7. Conveniently enough, today just happened to be Wednesday! We’ll get to that in a moment. Settle down. We’ve been over this, kids, chronological order is really the way to go.

After spying a few other stands that turned out to be busts, I headed to meet with my research professor. He took me on a tour of the lab (actually the post doc that I met with earlier did most of the touring, but he was there!) and gave me a huge stack of information to start reading. Its probably a solid inch of paper. There is a summary of the project, a heftier more beefy description of it, a list of other things the lab has worked on, and a sample report I am going to have to write. The report is really intimidating, there are color graphs and lots and lots of words. Not only that, the words seemed to form a very clear picture of someone who knew exactly what he was talking about.

That being said, I’m still pretty excited to get started. I have a mandatory lab safety session on Tuesday, after that I can start working hopefully. I am going to be doing lots of lab work I think, which is great. It seems to be a lot like what I was hoping the research would be. Lots of taking of data, using lab equipment and such.

I headed home and rested for a while then headed to the choir meeting. It was in a classroom right off of the Great Court. Basically, they are in the process of preparing for a concert. In two weeks. They handed out the music (all in Italian) to the new people and started in. They’ve had this music since about a month before their winter break. Did I mention I’m not the best sight reader? I am, however, really excellent at matching someone’s pitch. Like, it’s actually kind of a problem if someone of a different part sings right behind me because I tend to match people around me. This came in very VERY handy. The girl next to me told me she was impressed I was actually singing, despite never having heard the music and not knowing Italian. Hellz to the yes.

Don’t get me wrong, it was fun. The people were pretty nice too. I was kind of hoping it would be something different though. I love singing, but I’m not big on the type of songs choirs tend to sing. I haven’t decided if I want to go back or not. I think it will be fun; I’m just not sure how much fun. I might want to dedicate that time to something else. Also, if I wanted to do the concerts I’d have to buy quite a few things. Black pants, black long sleeved shirt, black shoes. All things I have, just not here. Problems problems, indeed. Ah well, I have a week to figure out if I will go back.