Just a day in the life, an ordinary life

Well, today was a pretty great day. In band, we played 2 songs, one we played yesterday and part two (with 80 measures of rest until we play). Music theory, OH BOY, we learned how to make a scale and the first five sharps. World religions we are watching Baraka, which is a very cool movie. Spanish was pretty cool; we're learning about spanish artists, which really brought me back to all the stuff we say in Spain... it was awesome. Calc, no homework! Us Politics and government, I found out that even though I hate that class it is way too easy and I am the smartest kid in the class (I got the top score on the pretest... yay). Unfortunately, I am surrounded by folks who don't care... Anyway, the highlight of my day: Mr. Hemmert liked what I said about e. e. cummings' emphasis of poetic "energy" he wrote it in his notes... that makes me really proud, because Mr. Hemmert is awesome and all his top students that I have known are awesome people, too.
So, Gold Award review went well, we're basically approved to begin! I got back with only a few minutes left to practice, so it wasn't worth it to get my instrument out or anything. Laura and I went to Penn Station for dinner; I really don't like hot subs that much, of any kind. I listened to Newsies three times through today and I want to watch the movie tonight... I'm working on memorizing the words.

For some reason I was just reminded of the ska band that Chris and Domer want to start... Haha! Yeah... I love writing parodies... I have no idea where those last two thoughts came from, they just struck me. e. e. cummings is awesome! He is a genius, and I understand his poetry pretty well. =^n.n^= Lara and I traded backpacks today, haha, we're such nerds... I love the hallway crew!

Just a day in the life, an ordinary life

Well, today was a pretty great day. In band, we played 2 songs, one we played yesterday and part two (with 80 measures of rest until we play). Music theory, OH BOY, we learned how to make a scale and the first five sharps. World religions we are watching Baraka, which is a very cool movie. Spanish was pretty cool; we're learning about spanish artists, which really brought me back to all the stuff we say in Spain... it was awesome. Calc, no homework! Us Politics and government, I found out that even though I hate that class it is way too easy and I am the smartest kid in the class (I got the top score on the pretest... yay). Unfortunately, I am surrounded by folks who don't care... Anyway, the highlight of my day: Mr. Hemmert liked what I said about e. e. cummings' emphasis of poetic "energy" he wrote it in his notes... that makes me really proud, because Mr. Hemmert is awesome and all his top students that I have known are awesome people, too.
So, Gold Award review went well, we're basically approved to begin! I got back with only a few minutes left to practice, so it wasn't worth it to get my instrument out or anything. Laura and I went to Penn Station for dinner; I really don't like hot subs that much, of any kind. I listened to Newsies three times through today and I want to watch the movie tonight... I'm working on memorizing the words.

For some reason I was just reminded of the ska band that Chris and Domer want to start... Haha! Yeah... I love writing parodies... I have no idea where those last two thoughts came from, they just struck me. e. e. cummings is awesome! He is a genius, and I understand his poetry pretty well. =^n.n^= Lara and I traded backpacks today, haha, we're such nerds... I love the hallway crew!

Diana Jones and the Antique Garbage

Wow, so as soon as I finished writing the earlier entry about my day, my mom and dad asked me to help clean out our oil barn (where I park my car and we store assorted yard care tools). It was cool to take all the old tools down that I had seen up there, like the scythe. There were a couple of old signs and horseshoes, too. THen my dad asked me to climb up on the top storage floor and get down any cool stuff. It was so tight! There were some old potato chip cans (like, large bucket sized!) and army tin buckets and some old bucket with a spout. There was an old coke and a pepsi bottle, so I pulled those down. The two best finds were an old bamboo fishing pole with a wooden bobber, and a falling-apart saddle. I had to dig around under piles of potato fences and wire and fence poles and wasps nests and old papers. It reminded me of when we ripped apart our back room a few years ago, down to the foundation, and we found an old trash pile beneath... Laura and I found old shoes then, some broken china, and I have this REALLY SWEET piece of broken glass. So... I had fun. The chicken coop is getting ripped down, too, so we'll go through that later.

So, there is an Egyptian Festival this weekend, down in Miamisburg... that sounds so cool! I think I'll go. Maybe I'll go see Brothers Grimm when that comes out, that looks cool. It's another "I <3 Boots!" type movie, so Katy, want to go?! Haha.

I think I might also have a "Plunder Party" this weekend or next week... either before the buildings get ripped down or after, when we can climb around in the dumpster... I mean, we can just get junk and make a fort in the forest out of all the cool stuff.

Diana Jones and the Antique Garbage

Wow, so as soon as I finished writing the earlier entry about my day, my mom and dad asked me to help clean out our oil barn (where I park my car and we store assorted yard care tools). It was cool to take all the old tools down that I had seen up there, like the scythe. There were a couple of old signs and horseshoes, too. THen my dad asked me to climb up on the top storage floor and get down any cool stuff. It was so tight! There were some old potato chip cans (like, large bucket sized!) and army tin buckets and some old bucket with a spout. There was an old coke and a pepsi bottle, so I pulled those down. The two best finds were an old bamboo fishing pole with a wooden bobber, and a falling-apart saddle. I had to dig around under piles of potato fences and wire and fence poles and wasps nests and old papers. It reminded me of when we ripped apart our back room a few years ago, down to the foundation, and we found an old trash pile beneath... Laura and I found old shoes then, some broken china, and I have this REALLY SWEET piece of broken glass. So... I had fun. The chicken coop is getting ripped down, too, so we'll go through that later.

So, there is an Egyptian Festival this weekend, down in Miamisburg... that sounds so cool! I think I'll go. Maybe I'll go see Brothers Grimm when that comes out, that looks cool. It's another "I <3 Boots!" type movie, so Katy, want to go?! Haha.

I think I might also have a "Plunder Party" this weekend or next week... either before the buildings get ripped down or after, when we can climb around in the dumpster... I mean, we can just get junk and make a fort in the forest out of all the cool stuff.