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| and i would walk five hundred more...this past week, i only went to two full days of school. one of those days not in school was spent celebrating the jewish new year, and the other two were spent feeling like death. yesterday was knight of champions, which went about the same as it does every year, so i guess there is no reason to be proud or disappointed. this next weekend is isu, which is general party time. actually. well, i don't know what kind of a time it will be. it will be weird to be a senior at a competition and not know the ropes. like, i've done u of i and lake park and wheeling so many times that it's old news, but no one in the band has done isu. owen was something like six months old the last time phs competed there. weird!
it's so cold! i am not happy about this. in fact, i am a little miserable. i mean, i love sweaters and warm shoes as much as the next person, but i should spend my time at home trying to figure out why all the heat is escaping my body. also, i have to start wearing socks now, which is an overrated custom.
i signed up for nanowrimo again! yes! | | |
| take a breath, look around, swallow your pride... for nowokay so now it has been a full week and i can feel properly guilty about never updating. so this past week has been homecoming week, which i thougth was a lot better than most years. i still think that our theme was sort of a cop out and awkward to pull off, but in participating in a lot of the events, i got a lot out of the week. coronation was also really fun because yesterday, i only attended one actual class, and then i spent the rest of the day sort of being with jazz band but not really. neither chris nor margaux nor i won, which was slightly expected, but i think we all okay about it because.... it went to really nice people. the performances last night were pretty mediocre and a bit lackluster, but they went well overall and it was a ton of fun. i don't know. in comparison to other weeks, this week has just been really good. and then after halftime i went out with a bunch of alums that i missed and have not seen twice a week in the past two weeks.
today is actual homecoming which will hopefully go well but i am really skeptical. we're supposed to be going over to courtney's for two and half hours to "get ready" together, but i have had a hard time explaining that i don't think someone who is not a trained professional can do my hair, so i am just leaving it as is. maybe i can take two and half hours and paint my nails there. i don't know.
tomorrow begins regular schedule of hell between studying for my calc quiz that i will not get an a on like i did my limits test (yay yay yay!! up to a b in ap calc!!!) and doing a lot of econ notes. additionally, i think i'm going to go to some clinic sponsored by harper college for imea percussionists. that might be terrifying considering i suck at 4/6 of the parts. i think. at least when i get in there, the marimba piece will be absolutely baller.
when i started listening to things like kiss fm and trashy music over the summer, i made it a goal of mine to at least have heard 50% of the songs played at homecoming. we will see if this ambitious goal will actually become a reality. | | |
| tied up to the ground, we're spirallingthis week has been a little blurry. all i can remember is that i was called out of gym twice. the first time was because i decided to go to an informational session on augustana, which was dumpy. it wasn't horrible, and the school seems pretty nice, but everyone there was so obnoxious. all they cared about was the smoothie machine and what kind of bikes to own. the second time i did not go to gym was because we had an assembly in which i was presented to the school, which was mortifying and embarrassing. and people laughed at me for being jewish. but whatever because i got to wear a dress to school and that is lovely.
i am thus far impressed with the status of the jazz band rhythm section and orchestra percussion. we will see how that comes along.
i love ap english! it is by far my favorite class. reading greek plays and not just sitting in a circle and discussing pretentious bullshit is amazing. i am so glad half of the kids who thought they were the shit at literature finally dropped down. now at least i can be in a class with people who generally know what they are talking about. | | |
| head under water, and you tell me breathe easy for a whileso today has been kind of a bad time. i am really disappointed that lake park was cancelled. it took me two years to learn to appreciate lake park, and i'm sad that my last memories of playing at lake park are from that terrible finals performance that we played. we had a pit breakfast this morning though and that was amazing. i really like going out for breakfast because then it's not like "oh here's this crappy toast that i ate at home". it's like "oh look at this amazing omelette that i couldn't get at home!" then we had rehearsal for about four hours, which was hellish because it was hot and everyone was so excited about the rain. rain is cool, okay, but every single break, everyone would go run out and get sopping wet and hit on each other, but in doing so, they would track up the floor with water. and okay, i take the blame here, but i wore shitty shoes, and i slipped and fell THREE TIMES.
the last time was far worse than the others. i slipped under my vibe, so when i bounced on the impact of my butt hitting the music wing floor, my shins shot up and hit the metal under my vibe. they were bleeding and swollen and oozing and being disgusting all afternoon so i had to sit in bed and ice my legs for four hours. :(
i am almost done with physical therapy (when they see the new bruises on my shins, they will probably think my parents beat me because of all the bruises i always get)! this is good because i am sick of doing exercises with old people and hearing the same sara bareilles song over and over again. even though i kind of like that song. but i'm sick of it!
i need to find clothes to wear tonight. i just showered and i want to wear clothes that don't shout "i sweated and fell over a lot today". plus john wants me and chris to go to the blues bar even though we can't even drink, but i want to look presentable. | | |
| all i wanna know is sexy can i?this song makes no sense to me. well, no, it does. but who thought this was a good idea?
i am trying to quit debate. i do not want to deal with political science douchebags who have no social skills or very kind nerdy boys who like me and will honestly do whatever i ask. the latter has nothing to do with me being bitchy; i just know i'd abuse the system. i can find other outlets to dress up nicely and yell at jewish boys.
i really like my second georgetown essay. i've been thinking about it since july -- as in what to write -- and now that i've figured out what i want to express, it's just so good. it's my true voice. i know georgetown will reject me. but i hope they can at least read the essay and go, "well there was someone who really did want it"... and then stamp it with REJECTED. but i guess it'd be one of those cases where i was hella proud of what i could produce. like with my grapes of wrath paper.
i am not hating calc! :)
today we relearned mean, median, and mode in psych. some people didn't get it. my head imploded. | | |
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