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Some somewhat important changes have happened in my life.
Firstly I don't hate myself anymore. Or at least not nearly as much. It's a really weird thing to come out of though because if you stop hating yourself you have to start... loving yourself? I guess ideally. And then you fall into narcissism. There's a delicate balance. I do not at present think I am in danger of falling into narcissism but let me know if I do.
And there's this boy. His name is Kris and he is brilliant and good looking and we love eachother.
I finally got into a McAllister production. My ninth audition for him. I am in The Recollection of Flight and I'm pretty sure I have the smallest part in the play but really that's okay what with I have no time to go to rehearsals anyway and I didn't expect to get in to begin with.
I am going to Ometepe, Bainbridge's sister island in Nicaragua, for two weeks around spring break. It's this program BHS does that I applied to and didn't get into last year and thus was automatically accepted this year. You go and live with a family there and help with a project for their community and speak lots of Spanish and everyone who goes just loves it.
Coincidentally there is a choir trip to Disneyland the week after I get back. Talk about culture shock. I may end up quitting choir, though, so it might not even be an issue. But this is something I have to decide soon.
Also there's been that debate team I'm on. I'm doing Ted Turner debate as well as Lincoln-Douglas this year which is done in teams (my partner is Kris) and is extremely fun. And the Bainbridge kids doing Ted Turner are all really really fun to hang out with and I have gotten to know them a lot better, particularly Joel, who was also in my group for this movie project for American Studies so I saw a lot more of him, who is amazing. These people are so incredibly into debate that we have extra meetings at random and, for instance, yesterday spontaneously had two debate rounds on made up topics just for practice and laughs. And on Friday because the tournament we were going to go to turned out not to have Ted Turner we are having a Ted Turner party at which we are going to eat and dance and debate. I love these people so much!
And speaking of debate there's duo again. Adrian and I finally settled on a script which is Variations on the Death of Trotsky and is amazing but I was sort of against doing for nebulous reasons, but which I had always sort of assumed since last year I would end up doing this year and here I am. But I adore duo so I am thrilled and we have a tournament a week from Friday.
And oh hey. I got my first shiny thing in LD at the Whitman tournament at which I totally surprisingly broke to octafinals which isn't particularly astonishing but I honestly thought I had lost every round I debated so it was really cool to find out differently, plus I had an awesome final round which I only lost by one ballot, whose reason for dropping me wasn't great anyway.
We also had our first jazz choir competition which was relatively disastrous in that one of the soloists spent the entire concert in the bathroom throwing up and there was some drum mix up, but was really fun because I spent a lot of time with Henry Atkinson whom I love and Emily Gargus, who I was friends with a long time ago but then we forgot eachother and got to know eachother again, and who is also dating one of Kris's best friends. Also I saw Bill from band camp and ah. I miss Bill. And I played piano on one of the songs which I had five days' notice on, while Nissa who normally plays it played bass, which she doesn't normally play but played wonderfully, and that went okay which was rockin'. I would really like to play piano on more songs in choir. It's such a freaking rush. But we had an amazing clinician who turned out to be the old choir director from BHS who told us perfect things that were exactly what we need to do, but then Mr. Vandenhole took the message and went somewhere irrelevant with it and when I confronted him he told me if that's what I want in a choir director maybe I need to be in a different choir. So maybe I'll quit.
Some bad things: I never do my homework at home anymore and although my grades are improving from the beginning of the year they are still not good. It is arthritis season. I have a sinus infection although thanks to advances in science it is nearly gone. Sean is doing something educational and adventurous in Washington, D.C. and I didn't really realize when he was leaving or say goodbye. My computer did horrible and boring things but is mostly fixed now. These bad things are pretty positive. Here's worse: War. Starvation. Tree-killing.
Oh yeah. Earth Service Corps is doing another waste-free lunch which will be Friday, December 10th, and is getting really publicized and will hopefully be successful. I got interviewed for the morning broadcast today and they're doing a big story and I'm really excited about it. We throw away four dumpsters full of trash a day at BHS. Three from lunch alone. So ridiculous. I hope this raises awareness.
We now have to practice two hours a week and chart it for choir. I think I'll do some of that.
Hasta la vista. Or should I say, buenas noches.
I can't believe I'm making duo references already.
Firstly I don't hate myself anymore. Or at least not nearly as much. It's a really weird thing to come out of though because if you stop hating yourself you have to start... loving yourself? I guess ideally. And then you fall into narcissism. There's a delicate balance. I do not at present think I am in danger of falling into narcissism but let me know if I do.
And there's this boy. His name is Kris and he is brilliant and good looking and we love eachother.
I finally got into a McAllister production. My ninth audition for him. I am in The Recollection of Flight and I'm pretty sure I have the smallest part in the play but really that's okay what with I have no time to go to rehearsals anyway and I didn't expect to get in to begin with.
I am going to Ometepe, Bainbridge's sister island in Nicaragua, for two weeks around spring break. It's this program BHS does that I applied to and didn't get into last year and thus was automatically accepted this year. You go and live with a family there and help with a project for their community and speak lots of Spanish and everyone who goes just loves it.
Coincidentally there is a choir trip to Disneyland the week after I get back. Talk about culture shock. I may end up quitting choir, though, so it might not even be an issue. But this is something I have to decide soon.
Also there's been that debate team I'm on. I'm doing Ted Turner debate as well as Lincoln-Douglas this year which is done in teams (my partner is Kris) and is extremely fun. And the Bainbridge kids doing Ted Turner are all really really fun to hang out with and I have gotten to know them a lot better, particularly Joel, who was also in my group for this movie project for American Studies so I saw a lot more of him, who is amazing. These people are so incredibly into debate that we have extra meetings at random and, for instance, yesterday spontaneously had two debate rounds on made up topics just for practice and laughs. And on Friday because the tournament we were going to go to turned out not to have Ted Turner we are having a Ted Turner party at which we are going to eat and dance and debate. I love these people so much!
And speaking of debate there's duo again. Adrian and I finally settled on a script which is Variations on the Death of Trotsky and is amazing but I was sort of against doing for nebulous reasons, but which I had always sort of assumed since last year I would end up doing this year and here I am. But I adore duo so I am thrilled and we have a tournament a week from Friday.
And oh hey. I got my first shiny thing in LD at the Whitman tournament at which I totally surprisingly broke to octafinals which isn't particularly astonishing but I honestly thought I had lost every round I debated so it was really cool to find out differently, plus I had an awesome final round which I only lost by one ballot, whose reason for dropping me wasn't great anyway.
We also had our first jazz choir competition which was relatively disastrous in that one of the soloists spent the entire concert in the bathroom throwing up and there was some drum mix up, but was really fun because I spent a lot of time with Henry Atkinson whom I love and Emily Gargus, who I was friends with a long time ago but then we forgot eachother and got to know eachother again, and who is also dating one of Kris's best friends. Also I saw Bill from band camp and ah. I miss Bill. And I played piano on one of the songs which I had five days' notice on, while Nissa who normally plays it played bass, which she doesn't normally play but played wonderfully, and that went okay which was rockin'. I would really like to play piano on more songs in choir. It's such a freaking rush. But we had an amazing clinician who turned out to be the old choir director from BHS who told us perfect things that were exactly what we need to do, but then Mr. Vandenhole took the message and went somewhere irrelevant with it and when I confronted him he told me if that's what I want in a choir director maybe I need to be in a different choir. So maybe I'll quit.
Some bad things: I never do my homework at home anymore and although my grades are improving from the beginning of the year they are still not good. It is arthritis season. I have a sinus infection although thanks to advances in science it is nearly gone. Sean is doing something educational and adventurous in Washington, D.C. and I didn't really realize when he was leaving or say goodbye. My computer did horrible and boring things but is mostly fixed now. These bad things are pretty positive. Here's worse: War. Starvation. Tree-killing.
Oh yeah. Earth Service Corps is doing another waste-free lunch which will be Friday, December 10th, and is getting really publicized and will hopefully be successful. I got interviewed for the morning broadcast today and they're doing a big story and I'm really excited about it. We throw away four dumpsters full of trash a day at BHS. Three from lunch alone. So ridiculous. I hope this raises awareness.
We now have to practice two hours a week and chart it for choir. I think I'll do some of that.
Hasta la vista. Or should I say, buenas noches.
I can't believe I'm making duo references already.