it's amazing how quickly i can go from being hyper and energetic to just feeling completely drained of energy. i was alert most of today, and then as soon as i ate dinner i just felt so sluggish. when we came home, i was fine again, but now sitting in front of the computer i'm starting to get drowsy again. i think the computer doesn't stimulate me enough, and i get restless. grr, i feel like i have adhd or something, just get up and wandering around for lack of anything better to do.

*yawn* i'm doing the laundry at the moment, goody goody. and you know what? i just realized i have to go back to school next week. meh. i was hoping it would never come back. at least i have wind ensemble to look forward to. *jumps up and down, except not really because i'm tired*.

i got my webcam working (well, technically it's my brother's and sister's, but i'm using it). maybe i'll get some pics up a little later.

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see, i was gonna do a real entry. but dad just reminded me i have to go make a pie. post later, i guess.

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yarg, school tomorrow. leif and i have been doing the ancient indian toxic mold dance (hey, if the rain dance brings rain...) in the hopes that they'll have to tear down our school. but no such luck yet. i'm interested to see how screwed up my classes are going to be with the switch to wind ensemble. with any luck they'll tell me i can't be in ap world history, even if i want to, to which i can act disappointed and finally agree to drop to honors. ;o) probably not, though. going back to school means less time for the internet (phooey, and i had just devised so many neat ideas!)...

hopefully i will still have time for project: ihp (code name for a project that pat and i are working on). i'll be genuinely surprised if we can pull it off. can't give you any details on it because it's *shhh* top secret. ;o) actually, i can tell you that we're working on a massive latin project, with a complete word database, noun decliner, verb conjugater, and (hopefully) a latin to english translator. sound like fun?

i've been listening to the two towers soundtrack all day and i looked up the lyrics, so my parents keep looking at me funny whenever i start singing in olde english and elvish. ;o) hwaer cwóm helm? / hwaer cwóm byrne? / hwaer cwóm feax flówende? / hwaer cwóm hand on haerpestrenge? :op

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my long weekend was like majorly busy. friday night and all day saturday were taken up by region band clinic and concert. it really wasn't any fun at all. i mean, the highlight of my saturday was driving to eckard's with my friends on our break. i wish i wasn't required to do region. i'll put the recordings of us up once i get my cd in the mail. oh yeah, and my director was very quotable. he wasn't very nice, but at least he was quotable. of course, i wrote them all down. most of these were directed at the trombone section, and some of them just made absolutely no sense.

"understand short?!"

"wiggle your heads in a vertical fashion."

"you and i are going to drive this ship."

"this is enough for four concert bands." (re: the fact that we had 3 bassoonists)

"we're going to milk the cow there."

"you need an engraved invitation."

"don't make a career out of it."

"don't even put chairs in the percussion section!"

"the devil says 'yes you can!'"

"stand up and wiggle."

"i'm patriotic. i believe red, blue, and white."

"that ain't music"

"less is more... more better."

"not little packages."

"let's be better this time."

"why are the trumpets getting this and not you? aren't you the same age?"

"i guess that's survivable."

"be cocky."

"basses... be less heavy. like if you weigh 500 pounds, try to weigh 100 pounds."

"what are you playing back there??"

"you've missed your part every time you've played it."

"one-tee-tay-tah" (his way of counting)

"that's a bass drum only a mother could love. you might as well just hit the wall."

"you can't do that like a trombone." (to clarinets, re: glisses)

"i think we're making hay here."

"don't talk on me."

"all you mud-rumps over here..."

"i see fingers flying around the room!"

anyway, you can see that it was interesting, if nothing else. saturday was taken up completely by an all day birthday lan party for bryan and confirmation class. and then today, all i've gotten to do is the laundry. but! *dances* http://www.plotbunnies.com/ woohoo! emily and i are so excited. :od be sure to check back often because it's coming along well :o) i also bought the latest new found glory cd today, and i have to say, it's niiiiiiiiice. okay, i think that's about it. maybe i'll post more stuff later.

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1.) where in the world does your lap go, when you stand up?

it's taking a much needed vacation. somewhere in fiji, i think.

2.) "life's mysterious, don't take it serious." are you easily riled by things you could have laughed off? why does or doesn't that happen to you?

i'm usually a pretty easy-going person, and i try to get riled up by as little as possible. i tend to get really annoyed by people who have ego problems or are constantly proclaiming their superiority over me... people that talk down to me. other that that, i can usually laugh stuff off.

3.) on the other hand, some things are serious. what argument/situation can't you walk away from?

i don't think such a thing exists. at least it hasn't happened to me, yet. i believe that if you don't take life too seriously, then there isn't any argument that's important enough to make you lose sleep over it. any argument with my parents tends to kind of bother me though.

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not so obvious consequence: come to find out in school this morning, he's been suspended from school for 1 to 2 months (during which time he has to attend an alternative school where he'll go to counseling every other day). not only that, he's been effectively kicked out of band, even when he does come back. so... uh... i suppose i'm third chair now. no complaints here. the ensemble he was working with for solo and ensemble contest has recruited me to take his spot, which means i gotta practice like crazy to get it ready for next month.

i was just realizing how messed up our section is now. right now, we have 2 seniors, 1 junior, 6 sophomores, and 38746 freshmen. assuming the two seniors graduate, if i make drum major, the section will be left with 1 senior and 2 sophomores (a lot of the sophs are planning on quitting). both of our dis (drill instructors) from this last marching season are out of band now, and we only have 1 senior next year, who's not even a tenor. ah, woe is the trombone section.

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ups had better, like, hurry up and bring me my stargate dvds, lest i go insane. there's a reason people pay extra for fast shipping, you know. *shakes fist at ups* okay, so maybe it's better that they don't come today, since i have like a big paper about anthem to write for tomorrow. it will probably never get done. or if it does, it will be completed at 3 a.m. there's just so many better things to do than obsess over some psycho woman and her weird political ideas. i really hate ayn rand, by the way. if i had my way, i would be reading cryptonomicon (which i started the other night and looks like it will be really good, but i was expecting that) or working on plotbunnies.com or something. oh well.

okay, so like i'm in a total design slump. i can't come up with a single thing that will work for this blog. right now i'm thinking something summer-related. i say that because i've noticed that my blog designs center on things that i'm wanting or looking forward to. it helps me relax and i think it's nice to have something that means something to me... the original riverwalk design was a photo from the san antonio paseo del río (from which this blog obviously derives its name), because there's no place in the world i enjoy more than the riverwalk, and i'd like to live in san antonio some day. the aotc design came in waiting for the movie to come out, and the matrix one happened right after i saw the trailers for reloaded and revolutions, which look just awesome. and the current one is from a shirt i've been wanting. plus, that stormtrooper just rocks. so, at the moment, i'm thinking something that just screams "vacation!" would be nice. we'll see what i can find.

so, that guy that got kicked out of band (see previous post)... he left a nice big gaping hole in the full orchestra at our school. so guess who got recruited? *points flashing neon sign at himself* yep, i get to be in dorkestra now. i've been told it will consume my life and that i'll hate it. oh well.

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anyway, so i have a history test tomorrow. blah. :op i really, really, really, really want to make an a in that class this grading period, though, so i may just study. or i could go read my other book or watch my new dvds. are we seeing why studying is a problem for me? :op oh, by the way, let me tell you something i'm really mad about. *fumes* anyway, so like, right now we're on block scheduling (rotating four-period "a" and "b" days), and it's the best thing that's happened to school in forever. you get two nights to do your homework and classes are long enough to where you can actually answer questions and learn things and absorb them. plus, you don't have to try to cram seven subjects worth of material into your brain in one day. but the problem is that having 8-period scheduling requires more teachers (and therefore more money) that 7-period scheduling. well, our already poor district just got severly budget-cut this year so they're returning to 7-periods after only 2 years on the block schedule. which sucks. but guess what the school board decided to do today?? they decided to have a bond for $320 million to build a new football stadium. excuse me if i sound rude, but our football team doesn't deserve a new stadium. we can't even fill the dinky one we have, and not to mention our football team blows. how about maybe using that money for a parking garage so maybe we don't have to pay for 398499729 buses to ship students every year? or how about making the school bigger, seeing as it's way overcrowded and we have huge classes in small classrooms, not to mention you can't even get through the halls at class change. urgh. *fumes* i hate hate hate hate hate our school board. i've heard talk that we're going to have school uniforms next year too. if we do, i'm seriously dropping out. and i'm not kidding, either. i'll just home school myself.

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1. what is one thing you don't like about your body?

ummm... teh fat. my matabolism is teh sux0r. and i'm gonna cheat and put two things. i hate being short, too.

2. what are two things you love about your body?

i don't think i can think of one. okay, maybe my sexy legs. ;o)

3. what are three things you want to change about your home?

(decides to take this one literally) um... i want to switch my bed from being in the middle of my room to being up against the wall... i want to add a sunroom onto the back of the house, and i want to make the dining room into a dedicated music room.

4. what are four books you want to read this year?

cryptonomicon, return of the king, heir to the empire, interview with the vampire

5. what are five promises you have kept to yourself?

to do better in school, to not let myself get depressed, to finish cowd.net, to learn spanish, and to make new friends in high school (these were all goals i wrote down at the beginning of 9th grade)

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1.) are you comfortable spending time alone? do you actually look forward to that time? why, or why not?

yes, i go to a school with 4500 people and live in a house with 4 other people. alone = good.

2.) what's the next best thing to your best thing?

shredded cheese. second only to aerosol cheese.

3.) what do wish you you'd done last week/last month that you didn't do? if you're someone who accomplishes everything you set out to do, please let us in on the secret.

hmmm, dunno. guess i wish i'd worked on my solo more. it's totally going to blow.

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