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I have pictures up here of my trip. I'm not sure if I'm going to do a huge post describing every day, mostly because I don't think I remember everything we did in the earlier part of the week.

I auditioned today for the Wind Ensemble here and the director told me there's definitely a spot for me, he's just not sure if I'm going to play tenor, bass clarinet, or clarinet. I really hope I get to play tenor. But in any case, I'm excited. The idea of being in band again makes this place feel a little more normal, and hopefully through it I can meet new people and such. Before my audition I met this one girl who tried out on bari sax and we talked for a few minutes. She seems really nice, so I hope she made it too.

I'm kind of flipping back and forth between being homesick and being really happy. I think it's worse at night/in the morning for whatever reason. But I'm still really looking forward to classes. I think that'll improve things a lot. Not that it's entirely awful now. It's just not as good as I'd hoped it would be. But it's only been 4 days. If things completely suck in 3 months, then... well I don't know what. But it'll suck.

I went to San Francisco with band from Thursday to Sunday, so that's why I wasn't around then. I probably won't be able to catch up with entries I missed, so let me know if I missed anything huge.

( Details from the trip. )

( Pictures! )

So this week the only TV I watched was Veronica Mars, Gilmore Girls, My Name is Earl, and The Office, since it was pretty much a hell week for me (I had something major in every class: test in chem, quiz in calc, test and essay in French, test in physics, midterm and essay in English, and jazz band auditions) and then on Friday we had an away football game even though we already had our last football game ever because our football team was in CIF (like... championships, or playoffs, or whatever? I mean, they didn't even make it, they got a wildcard spot or something, but yeah). So today I had like 12 hours of TV to catch up on, and I watched everything except the now three episodes of Supernatural I've missed and last week's Torchwood (which I'll watch in an hour or so). And I'm very surprised to say that out of all the TV I watched (Prison Break, Heroes, Studio 60, House, Ugly Betty, The O.C., Doctor Who, and Battlestar Galactica), the episode of The O.C. was my favorite. I just don't understand how this has happened, how The O.C. is suddenly so good again! I loved Ugly Betty a lot too, and everything else was very good as well, but somehow The O.C. was my favorite. Weird.

Anyways, at the end of the football game yesterday (which sucked, by the way, for many different reasons, and I'm glad we lost 28 to 2 so we don't have to go to another), Mrs. Daley announced that she resigned. I don't really know how to feel about it, because I didn't really like her and I wasn't really happy with how she ran things, but at the same time I did feel bad for her. So now I don't know who's doing jazz band (Mrs. Bentley, maybe? Or Mr. Johnson?) but that explains why Mrs. Bentley announced on Thursday jazz band results would be posted next week but couldn't explain why.

I'm glad next week is Thanksgiving because I could really do with a break. Ah, but this year feels like it's moving so fast! Thanksgiving means it's almost December, which means it's almost winter break, which means it's almost January, which means first semester is almost over and I can stop studying so hard and just get B's in all my classes and in January I'll hear from the three schools I applied to early action (Goucher, Colorado College, and Lewis and Clark). So weird to think about how senior year is almost half-way through.

Marching band season is pretty much over. We're marching in a parade at Disneyland next Friday, but that's it. My last Band Spectacular was Wednesday, and my last football game ever was Thursday. Don't care much about Band Spectacular, but last football game... ah. So sad. It was a fun game, and the senior speeches were nice (so weird actually giving one, though! It still really hasn't sunk in and I still believe I'm going to be going to more football games and comps next year), but... last ever! Last time I'll ever perform in a marching band show, too! I really can't believe it.

I've caught up on all this week's TV except for Lost. It would take too much time to write up about all of them, so I'll just do a sort of summary-ish thing:

Shows I'm "eh" about this season: Gilmore Girls (better than the last two seasons, but that's not saying much. It's still nowhere near the quality of seasons 1 and 2), Lost
Shows I'm liking this season: Studio 60 (I loved it at the start, but my love for it has sort of worn off over the weeks), My Name is Earl, The O.C. (only one episode so far, but I really liked it. We'll see how the rest of the season goes), House
Shows I'm loving this season: Prison Break, Heroes, Veronica Mars (I think I've seen that some people aren't feeling VM as much this season, but I still love it as much as ever. I think season 3 is starting off a lot better than season 2 did), The Office, Ugly Betty, Supernatural, Battlestar Galactica, Torchwood

In conclusion, yay TV! :D

First weekend in 4 weeks with no competition! I'm not quite sure what I'll do with myself.

Caught up on Thursday night TV today (since we had a football game Thursday night so I couldn't watch):

( My Name is Earl )

( The Office )

( Ugly Betty )

( Supernatural )

Thursday night TV makes me happy. :D

This week was another crazy week, so I haven't been around. I probably won't be able to catch up on all my friendslist unfortunately, but I'll try.

Other than TV, nothing really important has been going on, just been very busy. Had our first marching competition last Saturday. We got 5th out of 5 for both colorguard and drumline, and 4th for band (half a point away from 3rd, though!). Not very surprising, because we've never been like... well-known for being a great marching band, and that show was definitely not our best. To place as well as we did for band is actually really encouraging. We performed really well at the football game so hopefully we can do that again tomorrow, since we have another comp tomorrow afternoon.

Ok, time for Doctor Who and Battlestar Galactica in 15 minutes!

New layout (to reflect my new obsession)! brokenrecord__. It's Jim/Pam, surprisingly enough. Wheee, I'm actually really happy with this. The last layout I was just kind of eh about but I didn't want to try to make anything else, and I really hated the one before that, so I just left it up, but this one I really like. :D If you can't see the header then I'm not sure why, but for some reason my header (and all the images, actually) haven't been showing up on my LJ when I use Firefox, but do when I use IE. And they totally have been showing up for the past like 6 months when I used Firefox, so I don't know why today is suddenly different. I'm hoping it starts working again, because I've come to really like Firefox over IE.

Anyways, guess how many hours I spent working on a new layout for my LJ? (Answer: roughly, 4-5) Now, guess how many hours I spent the entire weekend studying for finals? (Answer: 0) It's a good thing I only have three finals, and on one I only need a 75, and the other I only need a 77. But I probably shouldn't be blowing them off entirely. Whatever, finals don't start until Tuesday. I have most of the late afternoon and night on Monday to study for my only final Tuesday (the one I need a 77 on).

Most of the time making the layout was spent trying to make the header. I knew I wanted a Jim/Pam header, but I just couldn't make one I liked. I actually finished three different ones before making this one. If you care to see them, here they are: one, two, and three.

Anyways, I should go to sleep now, but something very quickly: Mrs. Bentley sent me the announcements for band this week to put up on the website and she included this excel sheet to post for the chair results for next year, and wheee, I made Wind Ensemble. Not shocking, but I guess I was a little concerned, what with a tenor from Rancho trying out and Parsa suddenly telling me Mrs. Bentley wasn't sure if she was going to put him on alto or tenor (she put him on alto. Also, is it wrong for me to be slightly happy about the fact that she put him third chair out of the three altos after I had to listen to Paul spouting off all last week about how Parsa was the best alto sax player he had ever heard [at our school]? Because yeah. I'm just slightly pleased about that).

Uh, yeah. Anyways. That's about it. Tomorrow is graduation for the seniors, but everyone in band has to go to play Pomp and Circumstance 50000000 times (actually, I don't really mind. It's nice being able to see all the seniors you know one last time), so I should have pictures when I get back from that.

A slightly more positive post than my last:

1) Oh, man, I just watched the season 1 finale of Doctor Who. I always forget how freaking amazing that episode is. It's definitely one of my favorite episodes of television ever. I mean, "my doctor" and "You were fantastic. And you know what? So was I" and just everything. sigh. I cry from like start to finish, it's just so amazing.

2) My French teacher decided randomly, after telling us that our final was going to be 200 points and would consist of 50 multiple choice and a like 500 word in-class essay, to cancel our final. She didn't give a reason, but I'm pretty sure it's just because she didn't want to have to write the final or grade them. But whatever, I'm not complaining. Unfortunately, her complete asshole-ish-ness to Galaxy totally takes away from cancelling our final. She accused Galaxy and Kimberly of copying each other on this French packet we had to do (based on the fact that one sentence in each of their paragraphs was similar. It didn't even have the same construction) and so she took like half off the 127 point packet for Galaxy and it brought her 91 down to an 88. Bitch. She seriously just hates Galaxy. She needs to be fired, like, now.

3) I got selected for this freshman mentoring program (called IMPACT) I applied for in like April which I thought I had been rejected to since it's been like 2 months since I applied. We had a training sort of session Thursday and I'm in this group with a bunch of people I don't know and it sucks and I have no idea why my team leader chose me and I wish she hadn't because if she hadn't then Richard could've and I would be in a group with Richard, Galaxy, Andrew, and Michele Wong. sigh. So much better. We did some stupid activities and I'm not so sure about this so far, but I like the idea of what it's going to be in the fall, so I guess I'll stick with it. Hopefully I'll get to know my team better and it won't suck as much.

4) I'm... kind of feeling fine about the whole section leader thing, now. I mean, it's not that I didn't want it, because I really did, but I think the wait was worse than pretty much anything else. Finally knowing is just kind of a relief. And I vented all my frustrations earlier, so I've gotten those out. Yeah, I would like to be section leader, but Emma will do a great job, I'm sure, and hopefully it'll be a lot of fun next year. So now I just have to concentrate on getting appointed as Historian for BEC. I'm kind of nervous about that because I think there are a good number of people trying out and I really want it, but I have several reasons why I think they should choose me which I'll tell them and hopefully they'll choose me.

5) I watched De-Lovely tonight before Doctor Who. I heart John Barrowman. And his voice! ah! Such a lovely voice! Small part, but I loved every minute he was on screen. ...heh, and, of course, the rest was good too. I was just kind of distracted during it, so I don't think I enjoyed it as much as I should have, but oh well.

6) I can't believe there's only 1 real week of school left (and then of course finals, but that week doesn't really count). It seems like I've been waiting for the end of school for awhile, and all of a sudden it's here and it doesn't seem real. I almost don't want it to end now, just because it's been such an awesome year. A million times better than sophomore year, and even better than freshman year. Here's to hoping next year is even better.

Heh, this weekend was very productive. Saturday I went to Emma's house along with a bunch of people and grilled burgers and just hung out and played lots of cards until like midnight (actually, I left at like midnight because my mom wanted me home, but they were still going on with it then). The rest of the weekend I spent watching my season 1 Everwood DVDs. I didn't think I would get through them, but I did. Season 1 is so freaking good, and it made me really wish the season 2 and 3 DVDs would come out (which, btw, I've heard is very unlikely at this point and there are no plans for them to be released).

Today was section leader tryouts. eh. I think I did better at drum major tryouts (although I think maybe my answers to questions were better this time, but questions aren't as important). Oh well. Even if I had done amazingly I don't think I'd get it. [shrug] Won't know until Friday for sure, though.

Ugh this morning when I was putting my car keys back in my pocket, I cut my finger on one of my house keys. I didn't realize it was so sharp! Bleh.

wheee, Everwood series finale tonight. I'm both excited for it and dreading it at the same time. sigh. Hopefully it's amazing.

Yesterday was good. I went to see our school musical, Miss Saigon, with some friends. I almost wasn't able to go because earlier in the week I had left my ticket on the floor of my room and... if you've seen the floor of my room, you'll know why this is a bad idea. I have just so many papers and SAT books and other books and old junk on my floor. And in between that time, the cleaning lady came, and when she comes, all she does is push all the stuff to the perimeter of my room and vacuum. So when I realized I had no idea what I had done with my ticket, I was like "...oh, crap." And I put every single thing on the floor on top of my bed (which was a lot of stuff) and still couldn't find it and was freaking out, but then I went through all the stuff on top of my bed a second time and finally found it, thank god.

Anyways, I'm glad I was able to go. Annie came! (She's one of my closest friends I know from middle school but goes to a different high school.) And the musical itself was pretty good, too. I think I liked Urinetown better (and definitely Wicked, but I'm like obsessed with that) because, I don't know, even though it wasn't a happy ending or anything, it mixed in a lot of humor, so it wasn't just completely depressing, which is what Miss Saigon was like. I mean, it was good, but I didn't come out of the theater with a really good mood.

After that, I took Galaxy and her friend who's in the pit orchestra for the musical to Starbucks, and then we went to the band bowling event thing that was going on from 11 PM to 2 AM. That was mostly fun. I'm such an excellent bowler. On my first game, I got a total of 38! (I think Andrew said he got 19 on one game, though, so he beats me.) The best part, though, was definitely when a couple of us got tired of bowling so I went outside with Emma, Jackie, and Andrew and we played a card game (which sounds kind of lame, but it was a lot of fun). Although Soan attempting to dance with pretty much everyone was also very amusing.

( Pictures from bowling! (Very image heavy!) )

Then today I went to get my haircut, finally! ( The Pictures! )

Yesterday was long. Had Solo and Ensemble Festival afterschool and a 5 chapter Euro test on Friday that I had to study for. Solo and Ensemble Festival went better than I expected. I played in a sax trio with Nathan and Sado, and I didn't think we did that great, but we got a Superior and Mr. McBrien seemed to really like it, so that's good.

Yesterday I also almost got a Saturday school (like a detention, except on Saturday morning, and I think for 2 hours? Or maybe 4. Or maybe it depends on how much they feel like giving you. I don't know, I've never gotten one before. But you're not allowed to do work, I heard, you just have to sit there). During French I got a note to go to the attendance office and I was freaking out because I never get sent to the office and I'm just this little goody two-shoes and so when she asked me to come in I was like shaking. And then it turned out I just made a mistake last week in leaving school to go to my orthodontist appointment, but she said that my previous attendance was really good and I had done it right in the past, it was just a mistake, so she was just going to give me a warning. So now I just have to be sure not to make such a stupid mistake in the future.

Today we got our essays on Wuthering Heights back in English. With the curve, I got a B+! And the curve was only 3 points, so it's not like the ridiculous 20-point curve I had in Euro that raised my C+ to over 100%. Actually the area I did the worst on the essay was grammatical errors, which is irritating because I usually do grammar correctly naturally (which might not be evident on my livejournal, since I use all sorts of bad grammar, but in essays it's usually pretty spot-on). And while my first paragraph's analysis was kind of week, she said the second was really strong and I chose really good evidence. So yay. :D We have another essay on Monday, and I was dreading it, but this puts me in a slightly better... frame of mind, I guess.

Veronica Mars this week was so excellent. I love this show so much.

Thank you to people who requested stuff for me to take pictures of for the Photo Meme. I'll post the pictures in about a week.

Now I should probably catch up on the shows this week I missed.

1 school week left before spring break! :D