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[03 Oct 2005|09:24pm] |
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I tried out for the One-Act Play series today and I think I'm definitely in, I just need to see what I'm casted as. Not a lot of people were really interested and/or already comitted to "Proof" or something else. But I was definitely proud of myself because that way my first ever drama audition and it went pretty well. =)
Marching band got 3rd at our first competition and 1st at our second one Saturday. We have a double-header in Pennsylvania this weekend which is gonna be tough. A 9 hour drive and then two competitions. It'll be crazy, but I'll probably just sleep the whole way up there anyways.
And I'm actually going to homecoming this year. I'm excited. I still have to talk to mom about dress shopping though. There's this one dress at Jessica MicClintock that I've been wanting for months now but I'm not sure if my mom will shovel out $100 for a more-than-likely-one-time-use-only dress. =P We'll see though.
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[26 Sep 2005|02:48pm] |
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School has gotten a lot better and a lot less stressful. I guess the teachers are apologizing for super-loading everyone with work last week so we're taking it easy now.
Marching band's first competition was Saturday and we got first place with a score of 76.05 (it's decent, but not good enough). The show was so exhilerating. I was so caught up in hating practice that I forgot all about the love I have for people cheering in the stands and the judges prying for mistakes, even though you aren't making any when they look at you. =P
But, back on the bus, I quickly forgot all about that and was in pessimism land once again. I'm an odd child. I'm still afraid of the dark. And since we were traveling on the highway at night I left my seat light on and everyone was getting so pissed off at me. It was ridiculous. There was a person screaming and shouting the whole way home and people were gonna say that they couldn't go to sleep because of one stupid light? That's just crazy. Sometimes I think I'm the only level-headed percussionist out of the whole bunch and that's just pathetic.
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| cars and their accidents |
[18 Sep 2005|01:06pm] |
This house is bad luck. Within exactly a month of each incident, my dad and brother's cars have experienced some sort of windshield damage. Someone took a bat and knocked out Dad's back windshield and a limb from our neighbor's tree feel on my brother's car and shattered his front windshield last night. I'm scared Mom's car might be next, but who knows.
Marching season is gonna get tougher this week because our first competition is Saturday in Delaware. And AP Euro has gotten easier because I know what I'm doing now.
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[14 Sep 2005|09:45pm] |
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I have all of my pictures on my computer now!!!
But I'm too lazy to do anything with them. ^_^;;
Tomorrow a hurricane is supposed to hit not too far from here. We're expecting nothing more than a lot of rain. If there's too much rain, we'll get a delay from school. If it floods, we get the day off.
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[11 Sep 2005|10:01am] |
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I'm just sitting here. I'm supposed to be writing a DBQ for AP Euro but Mr. Clouser didn't really explain well enough for me. I've got one paragraph written though and I'm very proud of that. The rest just isn't writing itself and that pisses me off.
So, Donald finally got a job last night but he hates it. He's washing dishes at some unknown resteraunt called Jimmy's Crab and Shrimp Place. Mom told him he had to start somewhere and I told him he should've filled out his other applications and turned them back in the very next day or sooner. He never listens to me, but oh well. At least he'll get a paycheck now and Mom won't have to worry about his financial life anymore.
Band is still a drag and school made me really tired this weekend. But after AP Euro, I still have Algebra homework to finish. Joy. >.
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| crappy principal. |
[07 Sep 2005|09:28pm] |
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So the first two days of school are done and over with. I like everything about this school year except our new principal and all these new rules he's added/changed. He's such a stickler for rules and all of his punishments are either Wednesday detetion (3 hours of gum scraping and eraser cleaning) or suspension. I'm almost too afraid to pee at school for fear of getting suspended. We're not allowed to eat, loiter in the commons after school, chew gum, wear flip flops, take our shoes off, and use the back gates to the school to get home faster. It's pretty lame. And yet, notice how the school was never severely vandalized and the student population (as a whole) was never so rebellious until he came along...
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[28 Aug 2005|09:53pm] |
Okay, so this isn't the picture update I was promising, but I can't find the USB chord to my dad's camera so I can't get them onto the computer. But band camp is over, so I'll have all week to find it. There's about 6 good pictures from the trip and around 60 or so from camp? But I won't put them all up on here and lag your computers - I'll only put the absolute best ones up.
One more week until school starts and I couldn't be happier. I'm such a nerd haha I have all good teachers this year, except for my Honors English teacher, but she can't be any worse than the one i had in 9th grade.
All the freshman are already obsessed with people "hooking up" and they barely even know each other - there was freshman orientation night and that's it. It's nuts.
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[21 Aug 2005|08:55pm] |
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I've been busy the passed couple of weeks - marching band and school preparation-type stuff. In the passed 3 weeks this is what went down:
- Summer school ended and I got a B overall for Geometry, but only a 405/600 on the SOL.
- I went to Warped Tour, which was fun but not better than last year.
- I've gotten addicted to "The 70s House" and "Beach Girls".
- I went to the DCI finals.
- DONALD CAME HOME!!!!
- The first week of band camp came and went.
- Donald started college.
- Chris left for college, but hasn't started classes yet.
- I got my school schedule. And my A-Days are hard, but I'll deal with it.
Right now, I'm supposed to be cleaning the bathroom because some people from Dad's side of the family are randomly popping by tonight. They're sleeping here because they're coming home from New Jersey and all so yeah. Mom was pissed because she hates when people don't call until 4 hours before something happens. The only thing that makes me mad is that they'll be here around 1am and I'll be asleep, so they'd better not wake me up because i have camp tomorrow morning.
Anyways, next time (which will probably be after I find the USB cord to my dad's digital camera) I'll have a picture update for you guys because Ross and I took some cool pictures at the show and when we drove through the Bronx.
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[31 Jul 2005|10:37pm] |
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Mom got our DCI tickets tonight, but she can't go. =( So I'm taking Ross instead. It was so funny asking if he could go - in two minutes, I practically made that kids entire life. It's great. Anyways, yesterday I finally saw Batman Begins with Cameron. There were only 8 other people in the theatre since it's been out so long. I'm just happy I got to see it - it's way better than all the other Batman movies. And that was the first time I saw Cameron since school let out, so that was nice. And tomorrow Chelsea's having a party at the beach and even though I hate the ocean, it'll still be fun. :)
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[27 Jul 2005|08:39pm] |
HAPPY JULY 27TH, AMIGA! <3
Percussion camp started Tuesday and we really haven't done too much since we don't have music. We actually had a kindergarden-like nap today because we were so bored. We ran warm ups, gossiped, and joked the rest of the time. My Geometry SOL is tomorrow too and I know I'm gonna pass it. I'm doing okay in the class now and I think I'll end up with a B overall.
People are getting really immature and out of control around here. Last night, someone vandalized my school. They drew the nazi symbol and wrote 'KKK' and 'Fuck You' on some of the windows. They did it with washable paint, so it wasn't permanent and the janitors got it off pretty quick. Gary told me a girl in his Algebra class knew who did it an she thought it was FUNNY. A lot of people thought it was funny which is lame, because it really wasn't. Anyways, the girl was a friend of my friend, Ross. When a bunch of people were hanging around talking about, the girl was laughing about it. Then Ross tells her he was jewish and she was shocked because she didn't know. So she felt really bad and I guess she told on the boys who did it. I'm really losing more and more faith in humanity.
Oh, and I really dislike people who believe they can never be wrong. They always argue and they even but into other's conversations to put in their 'correct' ten cents. There's a kid like that in my Geometry class and I really cannot stand him. He's always arguing with our teacher and trying to rush the people who don't understand it and he's usually wrong - afterall, if he were always right he wouldn't have failed the class in the first place. Gag.
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[23 Jul 2005|10:36pm] |
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Saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.... IN IMAX. whee! However, the screen made me so dizzy and I was sitting right up front. I have a crick in my neck now, but oh well. =) And all of the academy kids were there... it was serious fun.
Mom's making me make my Christmas list super early, but I really have no clue what to ask for. Paint Shop Pro? An iPod? Books? DVDs? Eh, I'll figure it out later. But PSP and the iPod are definitely on the top of my list if we can afford to get both.
Mom's drafted me into her extreme-binge-summer-fitness routine. We power walk every day (about 3 miles), some days we do some running (1 mile or slightly less), and every night after dinner we do a 30-minute pilates work out. Crazy. I don't know why I let her have so much control over my life, but I suppose all of this is best for me. It'll keep me from getting lazy and out of shape and, later on in life, morbidly obese blah blah blah.
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[20 Jul 2005|10:08pm] |
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The new principal at my school is a jerk. He came into my classroom and tried taking away my Harry Potter book because I was reading it instead of doing work (even though I'm 2 worksheets ahead of where I needed to be). I can tell I'll be super annoyed with him this year.
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[19 Jul 2005|11:08pm] |
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Well, I abandoned my computer for two days to some vigorous studying for my geometry mid-term... which i still failed anyways. But I have a C for the semester and my teacher is actually teaching now so I'm pretty happy.
Anyways, this is pointless. I just miss Niki - it's so much easier to talk to someone in person instead of through letters and e-mails and whatever else. It's like it's a chore to converse now instead of just something fun to do. I don't get how people can commit to long-distance relationships, it seems like too much work. Work work work. Blah. But I love Niki and I don't want to forget her.
I'm watching the news and they're still talking about Terri Schiavo... my goodness.
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[16 Jul 2005|10:27pm] |
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I was the 43rd person at Waldenbooks to get the 6th Harry Potter book last night. That was the first time I've ever waited in a midnight line for anything and I guess it was a pretty cool experience? I haven't gotten too far with reading HP yet because I also bought 2 other books with the discount coupons they gave to all the people who reserved copies. I decided to read those first since they were shorter. Nikko (a new friend from my Geometry class) was there with me and she's a pretty sweet kid.
We also saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory which is seriously the best movie to hit the theatres in a long time. Johnny Depp was amazing - he scared me and made me laugh all at the same time. Tim Burton is definetely my directoral hero now. He's got another movie coming out this year that looks really good called Corpse Bride, which stars Johnny Depp as the voice of the lead character, Victor. I never realized until then that Depp and Burton work well together (Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hallow, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory).
And apart from my "magial" Friday night/early Saturday morning, there's nothing too much in life to report. Donald calls from Crown every now and then. CJ calls even more now that Donald's gone. Chris still has a really huge butt (random). My geometry mid-term is Monday and I'm not as confident about it as I'd like to be. But I'm gonna study hard tomorrow when I get some time and when I finally put my books down. I think Mom and I are going shopping for things to send Donald and also for new clothes for me.
I also need a job.
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| My friends. |
[10 Jul 2005|03:03pm] |
In all honesty, I really do not know any of my Livejournal friends as well as I wish I did. So if you're reading this, you can fill this little introductory out. =) It's a start, right? haha
Hello, my name is ___________. I am ____ years old and I live in ______________. My favorite color is _____. I like ________, ________, _______, and ___________. I don't like ________, __________, and ________.
Thank you. <3
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[10 Jul 2005|02:49pm] |
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Last night was boring until Donald called around 11-ish? I love his phone calls. Even though this particular one woke me up. haha So anyways, I think we were on the phone for an hour and a half maybe until the cordless phone in my room decided it wanted to die on me. I talked to him about how our days were. Then I talked to Chris to apologize for not sticking around long enough to see him at Western Branch and to share with him these lame "You Know You're A Star Wars Redneck When..." jokes. Then Brad stole the phone and started crying to me about how much he hated The Cadets and how "the judges are full of bullshit." Carolina Crown always loses to The Cadets and it's making poor little Brad depressed, or just flat-out angry. Whichever one.
Mom says she never wants me to do drum corps - she thinks I'm too stuck up to live on a bus and out of as suitcase for 2 months and she's convinced it shouldn't be for girls anyways. Dad and CJ, on the other hand, are completely supportive. They've traveled a lot in their lives and passed along tips on me for road survival. The entire band supports me, too. Brad, Chris, and Donald support me. Even if I get disowned by Mom, I'm seriusly going to corps to march in the 2007 season. I have it all planned out. 2007 and 2008 season will be my Carolina Crown seasons. Then I think 2009-2011 (which will be my age-out year. after you turn 21, you can't march anymore), I'll march with Phantom Regiment? But my little marching band rambles must bore you guys to death.
And, like every summer, I end up hating some of my friends. I'm not going to go back to school in September and pretend it's okay and that nothing ever happened. I'm super angry beyond words at some people.
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[09 Jul 2005|07:43am] |
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Well, like usual, my friends always seem to let me down when I need them most. Terri got in trouble with her mom, therefor there was no cocnert for us last night. I need to find a more reliable concert buddy. Plus, Mom and Dad went out for seafood. I don't really eat seafood anymore. (In the passed two months, I've pretty much warped most of my diet. I don't know why; it just happened, I guess.)
Instead, I spent all night downloading music because my MP3 player was looking sort of empty. I wanted to do my Geometry homework, but I didn't have enough will power to get up and get my binder. I ended up finding all these old old old old J-pop songs that I used to listen to when I was 11 - that left me feeling so much better.
I'm getting ready to run bingo right now, but when I get back I promise to post something so much more interesting.
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[08 Jul 2005|01:49pm] |
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Texas was pretty fun. We got to shoot off our own fireworks. I can only stay there for a couple of days before getting super bored and irritated.
I have an 83 in Geometry right now. That's a C. I guess I'm pretty happy about that. I want to bring that up to a B. My teacher is horrible, so I'm amazed I even got a C. The breaks keep getting even more fun and random. I hang out with Tim, Kathy, and Mishkee. Calleigh was there today, too. She was expelled last year but she's coming back this year, so yay! (I guess, sometimes she bugs me, but not always.)
Tonight Terri and I ae going to the Until Next Time CD release concert. The other bands playing are Say Anything, Circa Survive, and Emanuel. Should be fun. If I can turn off the annoying super-blinding flash on my dad's camera, I will take pictures. :)
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[30 Jun 2005|11:57pm] |
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Sorry this is a little long. Feel free to skim and pick out the more interesting parts. ^.^ So, here's everything that's happened:
Last weekend, we were in North Carolina to visit my sister, Candance, and the her baby. It's so scary, but she looks just like me when I was a baby, only she's skinnier. She's cute and pretty smart for a 3-month old. But I can't stand her name at all. John (her Dad) named her Sadiayah Zekiya Faulk. It took me forever to pronounce it correctly (sah-DIE-uh za-KEY-uh). And she kept sticking her tounge out at me. Anyways, we all went shopping - my parents, Candance, Sadiayah, and I - to get some stuff for the baby because John doesn't have a super-paying job and Candance is between jobs. Mom was freaking out because she wanted to make sure the baby had enough of EVERYTHING. She's still sending care packages - I swear she mails one every day. When I tell her she's going overboard, she claims that I'm jealous. I'm not jealous of little Diayah (as her nickname shall be haha), I'm just as worried about her, but Mom is just nuts. I just can't seem to get along with her anymore.
I started summer school and, dare I say it, it's actually fun. The people in my Geometry class are so great. The teacher doesn't really teach us. He hands us packets of worksheets and (basically) tutors us when we need his help. I guess the one-on-one is kind of nice, but it's so boring. It's harder to concentrate when you're going at your own pace and don't have anyone forcing you to work. I sleep a lot. And there's a lovely 15 minute break between sessions which I love to no end. It turns out a bunch of my friends are in summer school, so it's like being in regular school - hanging out in the commons until class starts.
Yesterday (well, Wednesday since it's officially Friday by now) the marching band went to Western Branch High School. There was this thing called the "Music Is Cool Clinic" and we got to learn music and play with The Cadets (a Division I Corps). It was so exciting, but it was raining all day. Ross was making a jackass out of himself when we were observing the pit. He embarassed me to death when he kept going "that's so easy! that's so easy!" Half of their stuff was like 10 times as harder and much more technical then the stuff in high school pit music. I love the guy, but I can't stand it when he launches off on his little ego trips. Then we actually got to work one on one with members of the Cadets and I actually got to work with two of them. After all that, all of the sections got together and did a show case. The color guard did this funky dance thing at the end of theirs because "guard has all the spirit," which launched the ever-popular argument of weather a color guard was necessary to have a marching band. Blah. Then the competition came after that. Miraculously, an hour before the show, the rain let up and the weather was absolutely PERFECT. We had lame seats though - we were right in the front (with marching band, the best place to be is at the very top of the stands so you can see everything on the field). However, my seat had an interesting view. Whenever I looked straight up, the drum major was directly in my line of vision. And since the drum major's back faces the audience, I was basically staring at DM booty half the time.
So the corps all did good jobs, but I was especially proud of Carolina Crown because Chris and Donald were in it (I'm so biased). It was easy spotting Donald on the field, but I couldn't exactly see Chris. After they got done, I left the stadium to find Donald and I found him on his bus. It so great seeing him again - you have no idea. Then our parents found us, I got into an argument with them, and then I went back into the stadium to watch the awards and an encore performance by the Crusaders. After that, I went back to the Crown food truck and saw Donald again. And I saw Chris too, so I was very happy. And that will be the last time I see them until August 11th, I think. So I'll be moping around the house bored a lot.
And right now, I'm doing some last-minute packing because we're getting ready to go to Texas. It's tradition to see Mom's family for the 4th of July, so that's where we're headed. A 19 hour car ride isn't my idea of fun, especially with my Mom. Hopefully we won't bother each other too much. I'll be home late night on the 5th.
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[24 Jun 2005|01:58pm] |
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I was playing around with easypeg last night and I was supposed to be editing out the red-eye on a picture of my friend, Ross. But I decided I would toy around with it first to see how badly I could distort the picture and I ended up making this random image that was the entire spectrum of light all mixed and mingled. I think it's pretty cool... it kind of reminds me of 8th grade science when we played with the little light beams and made random colors with the filter thingies. Oh, the memories.
I'm going to North Carolina for a little while tomorrow so I can finally see my sister and my new, baby niece. It's been three months since she was born and still, nobody had bothered to tell us her name, how they are, and stuff like that. I really do not like most of my distant family, but they're blood, I guess.
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