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musicalbabe (profile) wrote,
on 10-1-2004 at 5:21pm
Current mood: cold
Subject: Today was crazy.
Mr. Shaull is going to put me in therapy. Really. I think that Molly counts has half-therapy because her dad's a psychologist and she's good at being calming and reassuring. So really, after a few weeks, I'M ALREADY HALFWAY THERE.

So what does Mr. Shaull do that threatens my psychological health? He's not mean to me. He doesn't constantly pick on my voice. He doesn't get mad at me for my behavior in class. He always calls on me. There must be at least 25 people in the class, but he must call on me like 50% of the time. I'm not exaggerating. It's totally random stuff too!

A few examples:

*Melissa, tell us a little about John Rutter.
*How has (soandso's) voice changed? How does it sound now? What do YOU hear? (this has happened at least 3 times, and he directs the questions to me and me ALONE.)
*Melissa, pick 2 rhythms from columns 1 and 2 and say them for the class.
*Okay Melissa, I'll say 2 measures, you'll say 2, and the class will figure out which ones they are.
*...and Melissa is coming up to the front of the class and saying the Italian for you to repeat.
*...and Melissa's coming up to the board and writing us a melody with rhythm.
*...and Melissa's going to write a melody for us. It cannot start on 1, must be in a different key than we are in now, must end on one, and be centered around 5.
*Melissa, you're a talented sightreader, talk us through what you think when you see a piece of music for the first time.

...AND THOSE ARE ONLY THE MAJOR ONES THAT STICK OUT IN MY MIND!! HE DIRECTS COUNTLESS OTHER QUESTIONS TO ME EVERY SINGLE DAY.

I honestly can't understand why. For the dictation crap especially. You'd think he'd realize it, but I'm not very good at composing quick melodies and general theory. I'm just not. Simple as that. And how should I know better than other people what improvements I hear in someone's voice? EVERYONE ELSE HAS EARS! It's not like I've had more musical training than anyone else.

Maybe it's just cause my hormones are all crazy right now, but IT REALLY GOT TO ME TODAY. I was near tears at the end of Chorale today and dreaded Concert Choir. I understand that it should be flattering and all, but HE NEEDS TO LEAVE ME ALONE OR I'M JUST GOING TO BREAK DOWN ONE OF THESE DAYS.

Maybe If I was in Girls' Ensemble and none of the freshman knew anything... but i'm not. There are so many other people who have more experience than I do! Maybe if I had the voice to go with what I know... but I don't. I'm NOT better. I DON'T deserve to be singled out.






In other news:

The hot guy in my PE class doesn't have the attitude or personality to go along with his extreme sexiness. It's kind of dissapointing, but whatever. He's still eye candy and he's still on my team...

There's only like 2 weeks left in the quarter and I'm worried about Chem, MEHAP, and French III... (not that those will necessarily be B's, but they could be.)

Marching band performs at MVHS at 4:00 tomorrow! :0D If you're free and want to come, that'd be cool! I'm pretty sure it's free, so just show up!

K, I think that's all for now. I'll go try to de-stressify myself now.
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QueenWog

10-01-04 9:30pm

At least he has never called you funny-looking or freaking Moldrid. Yeesh. My dad is a pshycologist by the way (it's different!), but he doesn't really help me more than any other parent.

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musicalbabe

Re:, 10-01-04 9:50pm

k, i edited the psychiatrist/ologist thing. and you know he only does that because he likes you...

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QueenWog

Re: Re:, 10-02-04 5:11pm

I think it is very sad that I can't even spell my own father's proffesion correctly. Why did I get stuck with the dad with the profession that is hard to spell?! Hahaha. Just kidding.
ANYWAY, Mr. Shaull will be Mr. Shaull. I was really just kidding about the whole therapy thing, anyway. Just trying to be funny. I don't REALLY have a problem with him. I don't always agree with him, but generally I don't hate him. I am sorry, however, he causes the greater population of singers at LAHS pain. I guess that is the price we have to pay to be beautiful, talented, musical people! Hehehe.

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Anonymous

:(, 10-02-04 2:37am

Mr. Shaull just sucks. He's put me in tears once too. During class, no doubt. And the next day, he had the nerve to ask me if he was mad at him! Hello.... how do you answer that? We'll just have to hope that he gets better.... someday!
~Katherine

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Anonymous

Re: :(, 10-02-04 1:26pm

My question is:
WHY DO YOU PUT UP WITH THE ASSHOLE?
Okay that's out of my system. Just get him some prozac or something. And if he keeps calling on you, talk to him about and ask him why he's picking on you all the time. Although personally I would prefer if a teacher kept calling ON me rather than calling me MOLDRED! Poor pong :-P . But it'll be okay Melissa. If you can survive Shaull, you can survive any other teacher.
I'm just glad I don't have Ferrucci or else I would've made the comment full of comparisons between the two. I think they plot to how to reduce students to tears together; they have different techniques, but they're effects are the same nonetheless.

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musicalbabe

Re: Re: :(, 10-02-04 4:11pm

I put up with him because I have to if I want to sing. (And I want to sing.) Plus, even though he's an asshole a lot of the time, he really gets us to sound good when it comes down to it.

Mr. Ferrucci isn't that bad in marching band, but I guess I'll see what he's like in Symphonic Band if I get the nerve to ask him if I can transfer in 2nd quarter...

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Anonymous

Re: Re: Re: :(, 10-02-04 11:20pm

DON'T DO IT! Transfer in to something, ANYTHING else. He HATES Symphonic Band. It would only make you miserable. Take my advice, if you want to make good music and have fun, stay away from symphonic band because they let even the terrible people like me in. Actually, I was right in the middle of them all so I wasn't even the worst and I already don't think I play well.

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kirbydee

Aww, sweetie *hugs*, 10-03-04 1:20pm

Don't let Shaull get to you, I'm positive he hates me now that Darin is gone hah. Anyway! Point is, don't doubt yourself. You're awesome and he likes you. He hates me, did I mention he hates me? lol Sorry. I'm fixated on the fact that he hates me...

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Anonymous

Re: Aww, sweetie *hugs*, 10-03-04 10:43pm

haha welcome to the club, deanna! even though hate is a very strong word.... seriously mel, its exactly the same w/ u and molly. he likes you, so he wants to show the rest of the class what a "model student" sounds like/ can do. plus i think part of it is you see him at church and stuff, so he prolly feels like he knows what ur capable of. not that the rest of us dont kno the theory stuff or w/e too, but he knows for sure that MELISSA knows it so he mite as well save the rest of the class some stress and just ask melissa. cuz she can handle it. of course i dont agree with this at all, but its wat i imagine goes through his head. im sry ur so frustrated, tho!
-rachel :)(courtney.... at least he knows my name now....)

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musicalbabe

Re: Re: Aww, sweetie *hugs*, 10-03-04 11:36pm

i guess...but we seriously don't even talk to each other at church. he doesn't run the youth choir either, so i dunno... it's not like he asks me the stuff like, 'and what key are we in? and what does that tell us?' more the 'and what does she sound like?' stuff, which shouldn't stress anyone out because you can basically say whatever you want. i dunno....i talked with my church buddies about it today and i think that i'm gonna talk to him and ask him if he could maybe call on some OTHER people if he keeps it up...

thanks for the comments, guys!

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QueenWog

Re: Re: Re: Aww, sweetie *hugs*, 10-03-04 11:56pm

RACHEL HE DOES NOT HATE YOU! (read that sentence several times)
haha, yee told mel and me that mr. shaull totally forgot her name. she was walking by him and she is like "hi mr. shaull!" and he's like "hi!" and yee says "do you remember me?" and he starts WALKING AWAY. so yee being cool yells after him "do you remember me?!" and he turns around, shakes his head, and walks away! hahaha. o man, good times.
mel, breathe. itz good that u r going to talk to him. it'll all be fine.

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musicalbabe

Re: Re: Re: Re: Aww, sweetie *hugs*, 10-04-04 12:19am

well, i'm only gonna talk to him if he keeps it up. i really want to avoid confrontation if at all possible...

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