Swing, Swing
dude...yesterday was sweet! senior farewell was 6th hour, and I managed to get through it without crying. I almost lost it when Kelsey was singing "Bittersweet," but I managed to not start bawling. go me. too bad they didn't have the slide show running, though. it was defective, apparently.
then last night I went to 2 open houses, and that's when the fun really started.
First I went to Tricia's open house, which was pretty cool. I got to hang out with a bunch of band kids and some kids from my calc class, so that was kinda nifty. definitely spent so much time laughing that my face hurt...
after spending about an hour and a half there, I went over to Heather Gaden's open house. wow, it was grand. when I first got there, there were only about 10 people there, so we played frisbee for a while. then Gaby, Jenny, and Heather H decided to go steal Rich's car, so Rich, me, Amanda, and Spencer all hopped into Spencer's car to follow them. that was...mildly crazy...I definitely don't want to be caught in that again.
then we all just went back and hung out for a while...we moved to the basement when it started to get cold, we went inside, and that's when the party really started. I dunno, we just hung out for a while not really doing much but talking, but that was pretty fun. Jaron kept randomly hugging me because I was wearing my "I'm a fermata, hold me" shirt...that was pretty funny. besides the fact that it was great to be hanging out with people that actually understand the fermata thing...
Jaron is one cool kid. random observation. it's funny, I knew him when I was a freshman but never really talked to him, and then yesterday we were talking a lot...he didn't actually remember me from quiz bowl, but that doesn't really matter anyway.
anywho, back to the party...there was a lot of random singing involved (I was actually singing, isn't it a miracle?) because there were so many choir kids. I think I was the only non-drama kid there most of the time, oddly enough.
but the most fun part of the entire evening was when we brought out the swing music (oh, I'm so glad I carry so many cd's in my car!). the revelation of the evening is: Matt Rossman knows how to swing dance! he's seriously the first guy I've ever met that knows how...so yeah. we danced, and it was crazy fun. he taught me some new stuff too, since I didn't really know any of the fancy stuff. we also managed to teach half a dozen other people to swing dance too. it was überfun.
that is seriously the most I have ever danced in public...but it was so much fun!
yeah. then we listened to a bit of ska (and danced to that), then I had to go home...Heather G. didn't want me to take my music away. I told her she needs to come over this summer and we can have a cd-burning party.
I was so incredibly energetic after that...when I got home, I stayed up until like midnight talking to Mum about the party, and it took me a while to fall asleep because I was so hyper.
and yeah, I woke up at 7 this morning, spent half an hour lying in bed, and then gave up trying to fall back asleep, because I'm still so energetic.
so it's the consensus of Jaron, Matt, and Randy that I remind them of Teresa Zbiciak...which is the nicest thing anybody's ever said to me, because Teresa is one of my all-time heroes.
yesterday was definitely one of the best days of my life. I seriously can't remember the last time I had so much fun in one day.
then last night I went to 2 open houses, and that's when the fun really started.
First I went to Tricia's open house, which was pretty cool. I got to hang out with a bunch of band kids and some kids from my calc class, so that was kinda nifty. definitely spent so much time laughing that my face hurt...
after spending about an hour and a half there, I went over to Heather Gaden's open house. wow, it was grand. when I first got there, there were only about 10 people there, so we played frisbee for a while. then Gaby, Jenny, and Heather H decided to go steal Rich's car, so Rich, me, Amanda, and Spencer all hopped into Spencer's car to follow them. that was...mildly crazy...I definitely don't want to be caught in that again.
then we all just went back and hung out for a while...we moved to the basement when it started to get cold, we went inside, and that's when the party really started. I dunno, we just hung out for a while not really doing much but talking, but that was pretty fun. Jaron kept randomly hugging me because I was wearing my "I'm a fermata, hold me" shirt...that was pretty funny. besides the fact that it was great to be hanging out with people that actually understand the fermata thing...
Jaron is one cool kid. random observation. it's funny, I knew him when I was a freshman but never really talked to him, and then yesterday we were talking a lot...he didn't actually remember me from quiz bowl, but that doesn't really matter anyway.
anywho, back to the party...there was a lot of random singing involved (I was actually singing, isn't it a miracle?) because there were so many choir kids. I think I was the only non-drama kid there most of the time, oddly enough.
but the most fun part of the entire evening was when we brought out the swing music (oh, I'm so glad I carry so many cd's in my car!). the revelation of the evening is: Matt Rossman knows how to swing dance! he's seriously the first guy I've ever met that knows how...so yeah. we danced, and it was crazy fun. he taught me some new stuff too, since I didn't really know any of the fancy stuff. we also managed to teach half a dozen other people to swing dance too. it was überfun.
that is seriously the most I have ever danced in public...but it was so much fun!
yeah. then we listened to a bit of ska (and danced to that), then I had to go home...Heather G. didn't want me to take my music away. I told her she needs to come over this summer and we can have a cd-burning party.
I was so incredibly energetic after that...when I got home, I stayed up until like midnight talking to Mum about the party, and it took me a while to fall asleep because I was so hyper.
and yeah, I woke up at 7 this morning, spent half an hour lying in bed, and then gave up trying to fall back asleep, because I'm still so energetic.
so it's the consensus of Jaron, Matt, and Randy that I remind them of Teresa Zbiciak...which is the nicest thing anybody's ever said to me, because Teresa is one of my all-time heroes.
yesterday was definitely one of the best days of my life. I seriously can't remember the last time I had so much fun in one day.