I'm having a thought.

So.

I've posted a grand total of about 4 posts since I started this blog, what, a year and a half ago? I started because I was all "I HAVE THINGS I WANT TO SAY" and then I made the blog and then my brain went all "...."

I'm thinking about trying to revamp my blog a little bit. Not changing the appearance necessary, but trying a different approach to it - try to steer away from the "this is what I've done today" type and more towards random musings on anything that crosses my mind. As in, things that might actually be interesting for people to read as opposed to a braindump of "What I Did On My Midwinter Vacation" type of thing.

Yeah. We'll see.

Bleh.

2 out of the 3 big events today really, really sucked. General feeling of today = :(

Jon Schmidt and Stephen Hatfield

So. The most exciting thing that has been happening recently is the Stephen Hatfield weekend, which we're currently in the middle of. We don't have to be back at school for dinner/warm-up before tonight's concert until 5:00, but there isn't quite enough time to come home in between, so I'm lurking in the Newport Way library doing this. (I definitely didn't know this place existed until today. Huh.)

Anyways. So I discovered this guy, Jon Schmidt, who's this amazing amazing amazing pianist and his music is incredible. This is my favorite one. Listen to it.



So that's him.

And then a certain Canadian named Mr. Stephen Hatfield. Coming into rehearsal yesterday morning, I honestly didn't know what he was going to be like. I had heard that he was crazier than Francisco Nunez, which I found hard to believe. But he is, in fact, extraordinarily crazy and energetic and dynamic and funny and an amazing musician. Before this weekend, I was lamenting the fact that I'd be at school all weekend, but all the rehearsals with him have been so much fun. And he interjects everything with random anecdotes of his every so often.

The thing I like about both him and Francisco Nunez is that both of them work with young choirs a lot, so they know how to work with kids and keep a crowd of kids entertained and focused for a long time. Although, in my opinion, you can't really compare Hatfield and Nunez; they're so different. But both extraordinarily awesome.

The best part of yesterday was when Hatfield related a few of the pieces of music we were singing to physics, and he talked about how Einstein actually discovered his theory of relativity because of music and all this awesome physics shenanigans. It kind of blew my mind. And then after the chamber rehearsal I went and talked to him re: the physics and it was awesome. And THEN after the concert, which was freakin' EPIC, I was a gigantic nerd and went and got him to sign my copy of La Lluvia (sorry, Ms. Seaton, I stole another piece of sheet music) and he wrote "For Hannah, Lady Einstein; it was a relatively fabulous day." FTW.

So then today, we had physics all morning (woooooo) and then Nancy and I went to Taco Time and then when we were lurking in the commons waiting for the massed choir rehearsal to start, Ms. Seaton and Hatfield came in and I waved to him and he came over and he remembered who I was and what my name was and it was exciting. And we had another brief physics conversation. He knows a lot of really random exciting things.

Wow. I just rambled for a thousand years.

So yeah. The concert with all the other schools is tonight, and that should be really cool. But then I have to go home and do all my homework that I didn't have time for this weekend...fail.

But yeah. Good, good weekend.

Random happenstances.

This is going to be one of those lovely braindumps. Not a happy list, not a rant list, nothing in particular. Just some ramblings.

My friends Johnathan and Jackson, their band is awesome. I've been listening to some of their stuff on their site and I really need to actually go to one of their gigs sometime. They have a song called "Attack of the Pegasi," as in plural of Pegasus. It's fabulous.

We're leaving school tomorrow at 10:00 to drive to the airport to go to Spokane for Knowledge Bowl State (WHOOOO!) On an entirely different note, I first typed "Knowledge Bowel" just now. Completely different meaning. Gross.

Castle FTW. My mode of procrastination the past several days has been watching behind the scenes stuff with Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic and it's quite fun. They're like a married couple. She's hysterical/crazy/random/badass/Canadian/adorable. Platonic lady crush. In one such interview, she demonstrated how to properly kill someone with a knife (a skill she learned for some movie). Whilst wearing heels. Badass.

I can't decide whether I want warm springy weather or wintery weather still. I don't mind either.

My dad's brief rant about the casting choice of Pierce Brosnan in Mamma Mia kind of made my night just now.

I'm REALLY REALLY REALLY excited for Camp Huston this summer.

I had something else to say, too, but it just completely fell out of my brain. Fail.

Nuvole Bianche

Wow. I haven't written anything here in a looooooooong time.

Today was kind of suckish, so I'm going to make a list of things that have made me really happy in the past several whiles.

1. The adorable old couple holding hands and saying grace together at Taco Time on Friday.
2. Facebook chatting with Ally tonight and her telling me that something I said made her literally laugh out loud in the middle of the library. And that Ziggy said hi. :)
3. This amazing, amazing book that I just finished reading, City of Bones by Cassandra Clare. It's the first book in a fantasy series about demon hunters and magical stuff and werewolves and hot men and all that lovely stuff I like. It's excellent. And it's set in New York.
4. The look on Evan Lysacek's face when he realized he had won the gold medal.
5. Seeing the sloth right up next to the window at the nocturnal house at the zoo the day before it closed.
6. Getting a letter back from Homer Hickam!!!
7. My stuffed tree kangaroo, Sebastian.
8. The fact that we have a Dumbledore's Army at school now.
9. Chicken bacon ranch flatbread sandwiches and macaroni-n-cheese for dinner tonight. Nom.
10. Watching Olympic curlers screaming "HARD! HARD! HARD!" nonstop.
11. On that note, the Norwegian Curling team's pants.
12. I found this song and it's among the most incredible things I've ever heard. It falls shortly after Bon Jovi's rendition of "Hallelujah," which has the permanent #1 spot.



I should do happy lists more often. They're nicer than furious rants about the suckish parts of life. I'll remember that. :)

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Sr. O'Dea really makes me want to punch walls sometimes. I hate how she just EXPECTS us to understand things. Like, in class today when we were going over the questions that we had to do last night, she yelled at us and asked us WHY we didn't understand it. Um...I just didn't understand it because it didn't make SENSE. How the hell am I supposed to know what Jonathan Swift is satirizing if the reading doesn't make any damn sense???? Thanks for making me feel like a complete dumbass, woman. I needed that. Because it's not like I don't already have self-confidence issues. Thanks.

And I'm really freaked out for starting rehearsals for my one-act because I'm directing CM and she is one of those people that is IN CHARGE. So I don't know how that's going to go down...having me in charge of her. I'm also a bit stressed about the fact that we have almost no rehearsals before tech week. And when I say a bit stressed I mean I'm thoroughly panicking.

So yeah. That's kind of how life is going right now. Great.

Africa

Okay, just gonna say that THIS IS THE COOLEST THING I HAVER EVER SEEN.




I've literally watched this about a hundred times in the last two days. I want to do this in choir.

Okay. That's all. Watch it.

Oversexed guppies

I'm going to have to say that today was a good day for pretty much the whole day, which has happened extremely rarely in the past few weeks. Handbells. Religion class, where Ms. Triebold spent about ten minutes telling me that Peter was naked in a boat while fishing with the rest of the disciples. I'm actually a little bit excited about the research paper in history for this trimester. I'm writing it on the Manhattan Project, which should be really interesting. Plus, it makes me think of Watchmen, so that's an extra exciting bonus. (On that note, Nite Owl is on my team.)

Thespian officer meeting was fun; I'm still unbelieveably excited about getting to wear battle armor in the play!!! The biology lab was fun. And now, considering it, it would have been funny to watch. Seeing Mr. Fenoli and fourteen juniors crawling around on the floor scooping beans and macaroni into paper cups...Hmm. English class was actually not bad. Sr. O'Dea was in a relatively good mood and told me that my thesis was good (I don't know if that's ever happened yet). She even smiled a few times! (ON THAT NOTE. We decided in rehearsal today that Sr. O'Dea is LITERALLY the Professor McGonagall of Forest Ridge. No joke.)

Rehearsal was awesome. We were supposed to do a run of the show sans music, but there were a couple people sick and the sophomores are at Camp Orkila, so we had like seven people, so we did character work, which is really fun. And we got off into crazy tangents. Yay crazy drama kids!

Tomorrow is not going to be the most pleasant day ever (Physics, Calc, and French) but Flashforward is on tomorrow (whoooooooo) and I don't have to be at rehearsal, so I might get my homework done before 11:30, for once.

I would like to share this with y'all...I discovered this song this summer and I love it. The video's kinda weird, and the first part of the song is also weird, but it's a hella cool song.



P.S. The title of this post refers to Mr. Fenoli's quote last week while we were working on the lab about mating guppies.

I really hate Tuesdays

How in God's name is it only the THIRD week of school??? I swear to God, I'm literally going to die this year. My Tuesday schedule is quite possibly the most hellacious thing I have ever encountered. The morning isn't too bad, Religion, English, Biology, and History, but then after (irritatingly short) lunch, I have French 4, AP Calc, then AP Physics. So I get to feel like a tard ALL afternoon, instead of spread out evenly throughout the day. Madame makes me feel like an idiot, then I get through calculus with difficulty, and then I usually don't get a lot of the physics homework so I feel like an idiot again. GOD. I'm going to die.

I need a Spock. For several reasons. One, because he's really freaking attractive. Two, because he's really freaking smart, and we could do a Vulcan mind-meld and I could gain fantastical genius smartness and totally kick ass at calc and physics.

I would be okay with either Spock, actually.

 

Anyways...I need to study for calc and physics but I can't focus on either when I'm around people (I'm at rehearsal), so that will need to happen when I get home...whatever. Aaaaggghhhhh.

naked Eric Bana

I went and saw The Time Traveler's Wife tonight (with my parents, which was kinda awk, but whatever). Which is an AMAZING book and I think that everyone should read it, preferably before seeing the movie. The movie left out a bunch of stuff, naturally, just because the book has so much detail, but it was really well done. And besides, what can be bad about a movie that has Eric Bana running around VERY frequently completely stark naked??? Exactly. It's sad, though. I cried. I cried when I read the book, too. It's one of those things that makes you cry without being depressing, you know?

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Well. School starts tomorrow. My math tutor this year is a young guy who is potentially attractive. I'm meeting him on Saturday, so we'll see...

gorillas and Mr. Darcy

Today I got an awesome book. It's a board book. It's called Good Night, Gorilla, and it is quite possibly the most awesome kid's book I have ever encountered.

Let's see here. Finished reading and sparknoteing Pride and Prejudice...organized all my binders and crap for school...I really have nothing interesting to say. Damn.

Oh yeah and I've recently re-discovered David Harsh and have been listening to his music hella.

peanut butter toast

Things I need to do this weekend:

• Finish reading Pride and Prejudice
• Do all the writing assignments for English
  
• My calculus homework
  
• Work on my physics lab that I don't understand
• Get all my shenanigans together for Monday

Things I have done so far today:

• Got up at 10:09
• Ate peanut butter toast
• Watched Ellen DeGeneres
• Played the piano
• Mooched around on my computer

Hmm...

P.S. I love this picture.

So...

Well...here's my blog. Of course, now that I've actually created a blog, anything remotely interesting that I might have had to say has completely fallen out of my brain. Naturally.

Okay.

I went to the zoo with my mom today, the main reason being that I wanted to go feed the giraffes, which I did. It was awesome, like it always is, and my hand got caressed by giraffe teeth and tongue, which is less gross than it sounds. I also got giraffe breath in my face, which was warm and smelled like grass. My mom literally made my wash off my face when we got home because the giraffe breathed on me. Jeez. But anyways, feeding the giraffes was awesome. You're not allowed to pet them, but you get way up close to them and it's amazing.

We also saw the snow leopard cubs, and I've decided I officially love tapirs. There were three of them and they were all sprawled out and...yeah. P.S. I want to ride an ostrich some time.

Anyways. I should go finish my summer reading. *headdesk*