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I can't decide what's sadder, that I got a MySpace because I'd been half-wanting a Music one so I can upload stuff and because Nicola harrassed me to (why, yes, I do occasionally bow to one-person peer pressure, if I am very bored, or with the right bribe [ glares]), or the fact that I hate the holidays. (Or maybe the saddest part is that I love Monday mornings?) The first day of school was wonderful, I attacked just about everybody with hugs, accosted Sophie in the doorway, actually managed to bowl Johanna over into a billboard and a pole afterschool (had not seen her in TWO WEEKS, three days, twenty-three hours, ten minutes - sorry, was just curious).
First music performance in three-odd weeks! GLEE! (Wednesday May 31st, 5:30PM, WGC hall, come along eh.) I'm doing Defying Gravity from Wicked if I can find a bloody accompanist because it's insanely difficult, and hopefully Jewel's Foolish Games with Johanna accompanying maybe, I'm not sure it contrasts to Defying enough. And first composition due next Friday :( I'm doing Home, which I suppose I should post in Spiral Unbound at some stage. The problem with this is that I finished another song (the lyrics anyway) in the middle of trying to get the music for this and I like the new one better and now I'm just doing Home because I've done so much of it. I think I'll give up on doing the piano accompaniment, I haven't even finished the vocal melody because I have so many issues with timing (ie. I'm doing it on my phone composer because I have no idea how to write down rhythm).
This debate is also driving me insane. Why the hell are we debating professionalism in the O-bloody-lympics anyway? Old news, man. We're flogging the rocking horse. [/gratuitous Bic Runga reference]
Yes, due to it being NZ Music Month, I am listening to nothing but NZ music (of my own volition, if someone else plays overseas stuff it's not my fault). My RealOne playlist is all Kiwi (even if it is NZ Idol, because otherwise that'd be probably half of it gone -_-) and all the mp3s on my Palm Pilot are NZ. It's awesome. It disgruntles randoms looking at music on the Palm Pilot.
Being Sponsored+ kinda bites. The ads make my pages wide and my entries narrow and generally screwed up. But at least I have more icons. Being paid is addictive, you get so used to having so many icons that you can't handle going back to six...
Entered the North City Shooting Star Talent Search again. This is my second-last year to do it apparently, they seem to have dropped the age limit to sixteen, I could have sworn it was eighteen last year. July hols. It'll be fun.
We went shopping today, just the three of us, Mom, me, Raeann. It was awesome, we all got something! Mom bought herself a new phone, Raeann got a blazer (it is hot), and I got :O a gorrrrrrrgeous black skirt (it is going to be SO fun to dance in), a dusty pink bolero, and a black...I'm wearing it as a dress but it came up on the receipt as a skirt but if it's size Small and almost ankle length as a dress on me who the hell is going to wear it as a skirt? for $25! I love Jay Jays.
I read The Will of the Empress - Tamora Pierce on Tuesday. It was OMG!so good. Cannot remember the last time I finished a novel two-odd inches in about nineteen hours. (In retrospective, it was a dumb thing to do, I spent a lot of the time I should have been doing my Latin project reading.) The romance, man, the romance! She didn't handle it all that well but she handled it better than JK. It was slightly ridiculous though: Ooh, she's touching me, fizz fizz, I'm going to go and buy her expensive presents. Fizz fizz. Tris was so very Tris. Sandry really grew up, albeit to some extent into teenage idiocy, but we can't begrudge her that just because she's nobleborn. Briar, oh, Briar, always my baby, he's a complete joy as a flirt ex-streetkid, could not help cooing to learn he hates sleeping alone, though I had a WTF? spazz every time the Emperor came up, I can only remember an epidemic. Daja, oh, god, Daja, in some ways I think she lost a bit of that Trader spark to love as Tonks did, but I loved having her and Briar back (all of their bonds actually).
I did this depression test that apparently psychologist-types use to help diagnose depression, and I came out with twenty-three. I'm somewhat worried.
Dance class Thursday was awesome, despite being a midget, being one of a grand total of three teenagers there (the other two being Chris and Kimberley), and having to share Chris haha. There's a much better girl:guy ratio than with George and Jacqui. The fun part was that we did the chacha, which I picked up really fast cos we'd done that at Karori, albeit sans the random stuff we added on :D then I got a fifteen-minute crash course on the foxtrot or the quickstep or whatever it was I can't remember, cos I'd never done it before.
And by the way, I'm bi. If you have any major issues with this, defriend me.
First music performance in three-odd weeks! GLEE! (Wednesday May 31st, 5:30PM, WGC hall, come along eh.) I'm doing Defying Gravity from Wicked if I can find a bloody accompanist because it's insanely difficult, and hopefully Jewel's Foolish Games with Johanna accompanying maybe, I'm not sure it contrasts to Defying enough. And first composition due next Friday :( I'm doing Home, which I suppose I should post in Spiral Unbound at some stage. The problem with this is that I finished another song (the lyrics anyway) in the middle of trying to get the music for this and I like the new one better and now I'm just doing Home because I've done so much of it. I think I'll give up on doing the piano accompaniment, I haven't even finished the vocal melody because I have so many issues with timing (ie. I'm doing it on my phone composer because I have no idea how to write down rhythm).
This debate is also driving me insane. Why the hell are we debating professionalism in the O-bloody-lympics anyway? Old news, man. We're flogging the rocking horse. [/gratuitous Bic Runga reference]
Yes, due to it being NZ Music Month, I am listening to nothing but NZ music (of my own volition, if someone else plays overseas stuff it's not my fault). My RealOne playlist is all Kiwi (even if it is NZ Idol, because otherwise that'd be probably half of it gone -_-) and all the mp3s on my Palm Pilot are NZ. It's awesome. It disgruntles randoms looking at music on the Palm Pilot.
Being Sponsored+ kinda bites. The ads make my pages wide and my entries narrow and generally screwed up. But at least I have more icons. Being paid is addictive, you get so used to having so many icons that you can't handle going back to six...
Entered the North City Shooting Star Talent Search again. This is my second-last year to do it apparently, they seem to have dropped the age limit to sixteen, I could have sworn it was eighteen last year. July hols. It'll be fun.
We went shopping today, just the three of us, Mom, me, Raeann. It was awesome, we all got something! Mom bought herself a new phone, Raeann got a blazer (it is hot), and I got :O a gorrrrrrrgeous black skirt (it is going to be SO fun to dance in), a dusty pink bolero, and a black...I'm wearing it as a dress but it came up on the receipt as a skirt but if it's size Small and almost ankle length as a dress on me who the hell is going to wear it as a skirt? for $25! I love Jay Jays.
I read The Will of the Empress - Tamora Pierce on Tuesday. It was OMG!so good. Cannot remember the last time I finished a novel two-odd inches in about nineteen hours. (In retrospective, it was a dumb thing to do, I spent a lot of the time I should have been doing my Latin project reading.) The romance, man, the romance! She didn't handle it all that well but she handled it better than JK. It was slightly ridiculous though: Ooh, she's touching me, fizz fizz, I'm going to go and buy her expensive presents. Fizz fizz. Tris was so very Tris. Sandry really grew up, albeit to some extent into teenage idiocy, but we can't begrudge her that just because she's nobleborn. Briar, oh, Briar, always my baby, he's a complete joy as a flirt ex-streetkid, could not help cooing to learn he hates sleeping alone, though I had a WTF? spazz every time the Emperor came up, I can only remember an epidemic. Daja, oh, god, Daja, in some ways I think she lost a bit of that Trader spark to love as Tonks did, but I loved having her and Briar back (all of their bonds actually).
I did this depression test that apparently psychologist-types use to help diagnose depression, and I came out with twenty-three. I'm somewhat worried.
Dance class Thursday was awesome, despite being a midget, being one of a grand total of three teenagers there (the other two being Chris and Kimberley), and having to share Chris haha. There's a much better girl:guy ratio than with George and Jacqui. The fun part was that we did the chacha, which I picked up really fast cos we'd done that at Karori, albeit sans the random stuff we added on :D then I got a fifteen-minute crash course on the foxtrot or the quickstep or whatever it was I can't remember, cos I'd never done it before.
And by the way, I'm bi. If you have any major issues with this, defriend me.