Today was my first full day of classes: Speech at 9:00, Old Testament at 10:00, Humanities at 11:00, lunch at 12:00, Photography from 1:00 to 3:00, work in the theater from 3:00 to 4:30 (they're still moving into their new theater; today we moved a bookshelf full of old scripts from upstairs to downstairs), choir practice from 4:30 to 5:30, and then dinner. My classes are all great--in Humanities we sat in a large circle and narrated / discussed things from our readings; in photography we learned about shutter and aperture and the other basic functions of the camera, and I had my first quiz--not a difficult one. In Old Testament we've been reading the first few chapters of Genesis, and today we discussed what we can learn (merely from the first part of the OT) about the natures of God and man. The best part was when the professor first asked what we learn that God is, and two people simultaneously said "just" and "merciful".
But it was a long day. My first experience with nine-to-five, I guess you could say. After dinner I was listless, until at twilight I decided to take some homework outside and read. I met my voice professor and we talked a while. Then I went back to my room and one of my suitmates played some Broadway for me (I may be helping him to prepare a piece for an audition). After that my roommate got in from music practice, and we've been listening to Cecilia Bartoli and some of Chopin's ballades and discussing Salieri and Stravinsky.
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