Why do I sleep till noon every day on weekends?

Oh yeah... it's because I'm forced to get up BETWEEN 5:30 AND 6 EVERY WEEKDAY, a few minutes after 6 if I'm lucky (if I oversleep my alarm), and endure 6 1/2 hours of school plus after school stuff when all I really want to do is SLEEP!!

Still, it makes it kinda hard to be tired Sunday nights, and then I can't get to bed until it's late, starting the whole sleep-deprivation cycle over.

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Yesterday was FUN... instead of going to a movie, we went skating. I hadn't been in forever and neither had anyone else that went. There were 7 of us, all band people. We had a great time.

On the bus to the game we pissed off the cheerleaders... when I heard on Friday that we'd be riding down with them, I was like, "...that's NOT the best idea.." Before we left the parking lot, someone did this weird annoying little laugh thing, and the second time he did it one of the cheerleaders' (Julia's) boyfriend, who's a trainer or something, was like, "Shut up!" And Collin yelled back, "You shut up!" and we were all like, "He could kick your ass..." We didn't say it that loudly though. And I'm pretty sure all of them were pissed at us the whole time.

It's sad though, cause I used to be best friends with Julia. We've known each other since I was 6 months old, and we used to hang out ALL the time. It's not like we hate each other now, we don't even dislike each other. We're still pretty much friends, but we hang out with NONE of the same people and we don't talk to each other that much. She went to the Catholic school until high school, but in middle school she started hanging out with people from my school that I didn't dislike, but they were kind of the "popular" kids and I wasn't. It really wasn't as clique-y as it might sound, and they were never mean to me. But if you've ever lost a friend that way, that shit is NOT fun. There was a period in eighth grade when I cried every night for weeks about it. She was on our middle school track team and she would never hang out with me at practices, always with her other friends. I don't think she was avoiding me and I know she wasn't trying to make me feel left out. But it hurt because we used to be SO close, and now it was like she didn't want to be my friend anymore. I've always found that people don't really gravitate towards me, it's usually me that has to take the initiative..

Ugh. Well, at least I have stable friendships, and I'm becoming closer to a group of people who I really like.

We have to write a Goals Essay that is required for graduation. The topic is: "Who Are You, Where Are You Going, and How Are You Going to Get There?" Everyone is complaining about it, but I'm definitely not as upset as most people. I would much rather write an essay about who I am than about most other topics. And I've made up my mind that I'm not going to B.S. my way though this one, I'm actually going to try my 100% best and make it really good. Essay writing comes naturally to me, and I usually don't have to try that hard to get good grades on them. I have to TRY, but definitely not my best. But this one, I AM going to try, and I'm going to be a perfectionist about it. I've already got a pretty good opening paragraph.

Wellll, I better at least attempt to sleep if I want to have any amount of fun tomorrow. :/ Good night!

Basketball game tomorrow. :)

The boys are in the playoffs, and my band director informed us today that there is a game tomorrow an hour away, and that we are going. Then he asked how many people for sure wouldn't be able to go, and like 75% of the band (the upperclassman band...not the freshmen) raised their hands. I didn't because I'm not doing anything else tomorrow afternoon, oh and also, band is pretty much my FIRST PRIORITY. I was disappointed by how few people were coming... but I'm pretty sure more people will actually come than the amount that said they would.

I can't really think right now because the Olympics are on... I would take the laptop into my room but something's wrong with the internet, so it has to be plugged into the little thingy that allows us to have internet, which is by the computer in the living room. I wish my mom and sister would turn the TV off. Not that the Olympics aren't cool but I feel like writing now, and I've been planning on it ever since I got home...

Anyway, we're getting back from the game at around 3:45, and then I'm hanging out with my friend Natalie, and then later I might see a movie with some band people. Well, actually so far it's just me and Bailey (Bailey and me...whatever) but we're probably going to get some more people. I want to either see When in Rome or Sherlock Holmes... uhh, for the third time. Hey, it is THAT good. I love that movie sooooo much... the first time I saw it was when I went to an honor band in Tacoma with Emma, and my dad came down the night before the concert and took us to see it. I think what I liked most about it was the intricate detail in the plot... I like movies that actually make you use your brain. I didn't understand a lot of it, and I still don't understand a few parts of it after seeing it a second time (on my birthday), but that makes me appreciate it even more... SO much thought must have went into coming up with the storyline, but I still understood enough of the details for it to make sense. Plus, it was hilarious and had a good soundtrack. SUCH a good movie.

STUPID TV! Grrrr. "Right after this race we're going to bed." They better. All I want is a few minutes of silence so I can write! Is that too much to ask?

I love Emma too. She is a sophomore, a year younger than me, and she plays the tuba. Emma understands a part of me that almost NO one else does... the I AM AN INTENSE MUSIC GEEK part. I've known her since elementary school, and our parents know each other, but we didn't really become closer until the honor band thing. Her mom was going to pick us up at around 5 after play practice and drive us down to Tacoma, but it turned out she had to go to Emma's brother's basketball game. So me and Emma (Emma and I...)waited in the band room together. I found one of our band director's scores, and brought it over to the piano and started trying to pick out parts and put them together. I had to transpose some of the parts... it was FUN. Emma had gone to the bathroom and she came back and saw what I was doing, and she came over and we started figuring things out together. We turned to this AWESOME part, and I figured out the flute and clarinet parts, and she figured out the lower voices, and then we put them together and it was SO COOL! We played it over and over and we had it stuck in our heads all weekend. While we were there, there was a 2 hour period before our concert where we could pretty much do anything, so we went into one of the practice rooms with a (REALLY NICE) piano and just played for the whole time. We composed part of a song, and we also recorded ourselves playing the song from band on her phone. And she was JUST as excited about it as I was!! My friends all know that I'm like this, but Emma UNDERSTANDS.

I better go to bed, I have to get up at like 7 tomorrow for the game. Ugh. Well, I'm gonna be with band people all day so I guess it's worth it. :)

You know you're a band geek when...

• You leave the band room still holding your band folder and new box of reeds because you're in a hurry, and when you get to your next class you don't bother putting them in your backpack; you just leave them on your desk the whole period. You think you're SO badass.
• Your friend texts you to tell you that there is a cloud in the sky that is the exact shape of an eighth note.
• You have to miss things for music-related events. (Usually the things you are missing are music-related events too.)
• You have detailed discussions with your friends about band songs.
• The table you sit at at lunch is called the "band island." (I didn't make this up... Sharon did... but I WISH I did!!)
• Most of your friends are dating/have dated someone in band.

Haha, I like this, I think I'm going to do more in the future. :D

But I have to go now, I'm going to youth symphony. And missing the WWU basketball game that our band is playing at! :(

I need to be more creative with my titles.

But I can't really think of a title that sums up the past week or so... or even today. Everything's been just kind of... random. I've been really mood-swingy lately. I was really tired this morning, and then after school I was suddenly in a really good mood. And then suddenly I was exhausted, until 10 minutes or so ago when I got on Facebook.
I went to All-State band this weekenend. It was really fun. Our conductor was amazing...not only was he a REALLY good conductor, he knew how to lead a rehearsal so that we got stuff done but we didn't get tired out. Like, after we rehearsed every couple songs he would have us get up and stretch. Just that probably helped us have a lot more energy than we would have.
He also talked about all these concepts that I had never really thought about before. Like, he talked about the consonants you use to articulate your notes. You can use a "T", or a "D", or in some cases even a "Th". I'd thought about different articulations before, obviously, but I'd never really thought about them in terms of consonants. And then he talked about vowels. So a note can be a "Ta" or a "Dee" or a "Dooo", or any kind of combination. There was other stuff, too. But I can't remember it all right now. He was REALLY smart, though.
Ugh, I always plan theses elaborate posts, and then I forget what I was going to talk about, or just don't feel like talking about it anymore.
UGHH, now I'm really tired! I'm gonna go to bed, everything else is going to have to wait for tomorrow.

I love life :)

I'm in a (probably temporary) good mood. I think it has something to do with the fact that I overslept for almost an hour today. The being in a rush part wasn't so fun, but the extra hour of sleep was definitely worth it. If they would just start school ONE hour later, I'd be SO much happer, ALL the time. I'm definitely willing to go to school till 3 if we would start at 8:30 instead of 7:30.
Anyway, I got a break from the EXHAUSTION that I usually feel during the first half of the day, if not ALL day. And I got my homework done, and I practiced oboe for the first time in WAYYY too long. I looked at my All-State music that I should have looked at at least a month ago, seeing as All-State is in about a week, but didn't because of the play...apparently 11/8 and 13/8 are time signatures. Yeahhh... should've gotten on that. But again, I had NO free time.

Some people are really overachievers. Like, my friend Natalie. She's planning on taking FOUR, possibly FIVE, AP classes next year. I'll probably end up taking 2 or so. We were talking about it today in precalculus. She was like, "I don't know if I'm gonna take physics... I REALLY don't want to... do colleges want physics?" She's in AP chemistry right now, she's going to take AP biology next year, and she's wondering if colleges will want her to take physics?? And then she said something about honors physics, and I think I asked her if she was going to take it instead of regular physics, and she was like, "Well if I'm going to take physics it's going to be honors." And I'm like, "Whyyy??" And she's like, "That's a good question, I should probably think about that." And I'm like, "Yeahhh. You should." I didn't say that, though. And THEN, I was like, "What if one of the AP classes is during band?" And she's like, "That would suck..." And I'm thinking, "No. The correct answer is, 'Screw that class, band is SO MUCH MORE IMPORTANT!!'" I have this "Band Is First Priority" attitude that I'm sure pisses people off sometimes... anyway, I'm not sure if she meant that not taking the class would suck, or not being in band would suck, or making the decision would suck. But does she want to be MISERABLE? Because she WILL BE!! Personally, I don't want my senior year to be miserable.
Speaking of band, I found out recently that instead of voting for drum major, we're going to have to try out... I'm not sure how I feel about this. I'm one of the few people that know, and I think a lot of people are going to be pissed when they find out. I've spent a good amount of time trying to analyze how likely it would be that I'd win, so it was kind of a shock when I found out. I'm not sure if this increases my chances of winning or not, because I'm not exactly sure what we have to do in our audition. He said something about conducting and giving commands, but that doesn't give me a very good idea. I'm not even 100% sure I WANT to be drum major, anyway. Well, I want to, but I'm not sure if I'd be good at it. I'm not very good at... commanding people, which is kind of essential. Haha. But maybe being drum major would make me better at it... I don't know.... okay, I'm going to stop rambling now.

I was going to write more, but I'm getting really tired... I better go to bed if I don't want to oversleep again tomorrow. Goodnight. :)