Talent Show @ MindSay

was so much fun! i thought i did pretty ok, like i didn't squeak on the sax or completely choke while i sang, although i did start a little early. oh well. i'm just glad it was over.

and i'm so proud of sam! well that and pissed. wouldn't watch me, didn't even want to perform until nick threatened him. but when he did get up there he totally had the audience spellbound. like it was quietest it had been the whole night, including the national anthem. and he got a business card from this singer lady who wants him to perform sometime and it's so cool and was just so beautiful.

but yea, it was a good night.

only thing was i totally missed james... wish he could have seen me doing what i do best

Yesterday during Paganini & Pie (my music school concert which I played on) I was feeling really exhausted and kind of dizzy with a sore throat, so today I missed my first ever day of school.  I did pop in at noon to take part 2 of my math midterm, because I thought it would be a big pain to make it up.  It actually went amazingly well - for the first time I'm expecting mid 90's for the test.  Tomorrow is a half day with 20-minute periods, which is completely ridiculous.....but I'm glad anyway, because I get kind of a break.  Then I have my Earth Science midterm on Wednesday, then I'm done.  Woohoo!

The talent show was amazing.  I've never heard such an explosion of sound as when I finished playing Orange Blossom Special on Saturday.  I'm used to the ITE parents, who only care about their own kid playing and most of the time leave the concert right after their kid is done playing.  This was a lot different.  First of all the MC, Marlene, announced me coming on by saying "I'm so depressed, because this next kid is a freshman, and he totally kicks my butt in orchestra!!"  I played it about as close to flawlessly as I could have done.  I was really really nervous, which I'm not usually, but this was different because all these kids know me from school and stuff.  I also knew if I screwed up they probably wouldn't let me forget it.  It was so much fun though, and random people kept coming up to me afterwards saying "Oh my god, you're like my new best friend!  You rock!"

I need to figure out some way to learn English outside of school.  I tell people I'm still homeschooling for it but it's not really true.

So I got 84% on my most recent lab, and I should get my math test back tomorrow (usually I get it on monday but a lot of kids still had to take it so he decided to wait).

I put in a submission for the talent show as a violinist.  I'm going to play a fiddle tune called Orange Blossom Special that sounds really flashy.  I've been playing since I was 4, and a lot of my friends want to hear me play, so that should be cool. 

I've also been trying to sell tickets for a fund raiser event for my music school.  My violin tour group and my orchestra are playing on it, as well as the advanced cello group.  I've been telling people about them at school.  Some people won't come because I'm "betraying them" by being in a second orchestra (which is MUCH better than the school one, by the way), or maybe they're just being idiots.  I haven't sold any tickets yet but about 5 people didn't have money with them and were interested in coming.

I'm sure anyone interested already knows who "Lexus" is, so I hesitate to write too much about him.  But then I wonder at my hesitation, and then realize it doesn't matter.  Nobody's hatred of me overpowers his laziness. 

Lexus has yet to talk to me.  That's fine, because he hasn't actually been avoiding me yet.  I think that, if by one week he still hasn't confronted me, I'll have to confront him...again.  Not sure I want to, because I don't know if he's someone who, wanting to avoid someone, will AVOID the person rather than say, "I'm going to avoid you."  (I'm someone who, wanting to avoid someone, TELLS THE PERSON, "I DON'T WANT TO TALK TO YOU"--THAT'S RIGHT, STUPID HAZEL WOOD.) 

...Anyway. 

Talent show was okay.  My solo piece was first, and apparently it was awesome (at least, I've had more people tell me than any other year).  I know what I did wrong, I know what I did un-artfully.  I don't know how to take a compliment for anything I'm not satisfied with. 

Jabberwocky got cut because of time restrictions. 

Here's my beef:  Hazel KNEW he had too many acts, and did not shorten it any more than 15 acts.  He had over 100 minutes of performance, and only 50 in which to allow performance.  Jabberwocky was scheduled near the end, but instead of telling us THE DAY BEFORE that NO, THERE IS DEFINITELY NO TIME, he lets us get all dressed up and excited only to tell us AFTER SECOND BELL had gone! 

A better solution: RUN THE TALENT SHOW AFTERSCHOOL!  It's been done--some five years ago, DM refused to cut anyone from the talent show, so it was held TWO EVENINGS.  TWO!  AND PEOPLE STILL  ATTENDED! 

(By the way, this isn't THE reason I won't aid Hazel, but it's certainly something to add on.) 

As Ed says, "[Hazel] Wood is the bane of my existence." 

Talent show, this time, wasn't great.  I made a needlessly cruel statement about one singer, that I wish I could take back.  I only wrote it because it was so funny at the time, but I really do regret it now (even if only two people saw it).  I think there were a few bands that were okay, and Chris and Yanick's performance of Creep (Radiohead), and also, The Violinist's performance of a modern piece WERE OMG AWESOME. 

Out of both bitterness and spirit, most of our Jabberwocky group (except, sadly, Chris) got together afterschool and performed anyway, for whomever would come.  We had an audience of, I think, two (I couldn't tell, I was BLINDFOLDED.)  RM said later that it was the most awesomest act he'd seen!  Yay! 

Our siege onager is coming along nicely. 

I think we'll give it a name when it's finished.  Schteve says its name is Maximus.  I haven't helped much in its building, but I would like to give it a meaningful name--but I couldn't, because I haven't ACTUALLY BUILT anything. 

It's got legs.  We wanted it higher so the sling could hang freely, but didn't want to shorten our arc length, so we gave it legs.  It now looks like a real beast.  Hehehe, it's going to be so awesome!  *love* 

--Driftee

I think a friend of mine is very attractive.  I'm not attracted TO her, but, still.  This feeling is new to me: it's not envy, but it's like envy.  It's like admiration, but a little more self-centred, like, "If I had to point out a very pretty girl in the world, it would be her." 

Neek says, "this is actually bery disappointing for me to hear from to be honest...  I ddi not know you thought this way about yuorself and others." 

And it's true; I'm not generally one to compare myself to others, especially others' bodies.  It's just, this is strange for me, so I document it.  (Hm, does this mean I should document what is normal of me, just to make a more accurate record?)  And by "document," I mean write--including conversations with Neek, because those are like literary works in bad spelling and grammar. 

Neek is convinced that I could be bisexual with a little help (I think he wants me to be gay), so I'm not sure why he think it's SO odd (and disppointing) how I compared/contrasted myself with my friend. 

Anyway. 

Tomorrow is going to ROCK!  I'm in the schools' talent show, and I'm actually doing something different this time!  Well, I mean, I'm still playing an impressive-looking solo piece on piano--but I'm also in a group!  Wow!  Driftee is SOCIALIZING??  WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN?? 

Our group is performing a choral arrangement of Jabberwocky. 

There's one choruster on each part  (except, sadly, we're missing a high-soprano..or was it second-soprano?).  And Chris--we have Chris.  But, I guess you'll have to come see what he does :P  (it'll be stupendiferous, fabulmazing, wondrious, marveltacular, thrilltastic...) 

Plus, I'll be playing blindfolded (take THAT, VIOLIN PLAYER!).  :)
--Driftee