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well, another year, another notch on the pole of wasted time. another year in which i squandered my time by going to that tedious establisment commonly known as carroll high school. i maintain that there is very little that i have learned there, and the only reason to attend at all is so that one has time to mature before going to college.
there have been a few highlights of the year. my first year in madrigals, for one. a new choir director. I must confess that though i like mrs. brannen, if she had worked us harder we would have come out of this year a much better choir. in german i was once again able to sail through doing absolutely nothing, but i WAS able to direct our classes production of Rumpelstizchen (Rumpelstiltskin for those who suffer from intelligence deficiency). that was pretty fun.
and of course, the crowning of my glory in carroll high school, academic decathlon. i was truely blown away to be given an opportunity to compete on a team with such fine individuals (valencia excepted, of course). the rest of the year (much like the rest of my high school career) was just there.
tonight was seminary graduation, in which i was given the 'opportunity' to sing. I sang "I Heard Him Come," one of my personal favorite songs. Of course, I botched the whole thing by skipping a verse (I went to the final chorus instead of the regular chorus after the third verse) but I got back on track and all went relatively well. For the most part i didn't even show in my face that i had royally screwed up, but i clenched my fist until my fingernails almost drew blood.
o well. tomorrow is graduation. should be fun. except not. it is a stupid pointless ceremony. it congradulates mediocrity.
"Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity."
Charles Ives
there have been a few highlights of the year. my first year in madrigals, for one. a new choir director. I must confess that though i like mrs. brannen, if she had worked us harder we would have come out of this year a much better choir. in german i was once again able to sail through doing absolutely nothing, but i WAS able to direct our classes production of Rumpelstizchen (Rumpelstiltskin for those who suffer from intelligence deficiency). that was pretty fun.
and of course, the crowning of my glory in carroll high school, academic decathlon. i was truely blown away to be given an opportunity to compete on a team with such fine individuals (valencia excepted, of course). the rest of the year (much like the rest of my high school career) was just there.
tonight was seminary graduation, in which i was given the 'opportunity' to sing. I sang "I Heard Him Come," one of my personal favorite songs. Of course, I botched the whole thing by skipping a verse (I went to the final chorus instead of the regular chorus after the third verse) but I got back on track and all went relatively well. For the most part i didn't even show in my face that i had royally screwed up, but i clenched my fist until my fingernails almost drew blood.
o well. tomorrow is graduation. should be fun. except not. it is a stupid pointless ceremony. it congradulates mediocrity.
"Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity."
Charles Ives