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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.

I finally got my braces off today for good! I got them on in 4th grade, off for a year in 7th, and now I'm in 12th and I finally have them off! Very happy about this. :D

( Torchwood )

Marching band comp last Saturday was eh. We performed really well I thought, and then we got 3rd out of 4 for band, 4th for colorguard, and 9th out of 11 in all the divisions for drumline. Disappointing. But I got to see Annie! And it's really fun to march a comp in Irvine rather than going off to like Anaheim or wherever because the other schools in the district also march it so they actually recognize us when we're on the field and it's just a lot more fun.

blah. I'm tired. I stayed up till 1ish last night watching Torchwood and I usually don't stay up that late on school nights, so I think I'll rest now before studying for my chem test.

( First day of senior year! )

Yeah, so overall I'm pretty happy with my teachers and classes. And I have people in every class except French! I'm so surprised by that. Last year I had no one in pre-calc or euro.

Now I have to rush and do calc homework and physics reading and possibly small prep for the essay tomorrow if I have time before going to the school at... like 5-ish for the football game. sigh. I hate having football games the first day of school. I hate having football games on Thursdays period, I guess. Luckily, we only have one more Thursday game.

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.

Whee, I have new glasses now! (Last time I got a new pair was the 7th grade. This is like my 4th pair of glasses ever, and I've been wearing them since I was 6.) It doesn't matter too much since I wear my contacts whenever I'm in public, but at home I get lazy and wear my glasses a lot on the weekends. But before my prescription was so old that I couldn't watch the TV from the couch because it'd be all blurry and I'd have to put on my contacts and it was kind of ridiculous. But yay, now I have a pair of glasses that is actually the right prescription! They don't look much different than my old ones, but I still like them.

Today was the last day of marching band practice, and tomorrow is our last tournament. Then the season's over. I've been kind of looking forward to it just because our marching isn't really any better than last year's, it's just more enjoyable because of the lack of Bentley and because I don't just stand in the corner and watch other people have fun and pity myself because I have no friends like last year. But now I'm kind of sad about it. Especially since today was also Mr. Austerman's last day, and I doubt I'll see him much after tomorrow. It's sad, because he's totally awesome. sigh.

Oh, today in band Mukul was all "Oh hey. So I was talking to Lulu [violetmist2003] earlier today, and she said you had this dream about me and maybe Ziyad and we were playing random instruments? And then--" and I was all "wtf?" because that was a total lie and I wasn't sure if Lulu was lying to him [GLARE] or Mukul was lying to me because he found out I'm friends with Lulu, but I was all "I think Lulu's lying to you" and then Emma was all "Ah you seem like you're lying!" and Mukul agreed and no one would believe me that I hadn't had a dream about Mukul and Zi playing instruments. It was very bewildering. Especially because why would I tell Lulu if I had a dream like that? I forgot she knew Mukul at all, and I had no idea that she knows Zi (although she might not and Mukul could be just lying about it). I don't know. It was odd, but now I'm curious as to who made it up.

I totally failed a Euro test today. Sounds like I'm exaggerating, but going through it there were 5 I knew for sure out of 80. I should really start studying for that class. sigh.

Don't forget to tell me what you want for Christmas/Hanukah/etc!

This post is kind of random, but I felt like posting and didn't have much of significance to say, so this is what came out.

So, yesterday was Disneyland. It was one of the best days ever, until we arrived back at school and Mr. Austerman sat us down and told us that after Temecula, two weeks from today, he's no longer going to be working as assistant band director. He said his financial situation has gotten to where the job just isn't enough money to support himself (and my mom told me this morning that she thinks it's really taken a toll on him too, since there've been times where he's had to resort to sleeping in his car because he wouldn't have enough time to drive home and back). He may not have been as great of a marching instructor as Mr. Dawson, but I don't care. He was still awesome, and I think he did as best as he could do, and I don't know how much more we can ask of him than that. He did a great job with the band, and I'm really thankful for how hard he worked for us.

Anyways. The rest of the day prior to that was awesome. We went on Space Mountain (twice!) and it was loads of fun, and the music reminded me of Doctor Who's theme, which made it even more fun for me. And the entire second half of the day was just like... unbelievably hilarious. I could not stop laughing.

First off, at dinner, I got pasta, apple pie, and strawberry shortcake (yes, two desserts, but I wasn't planning on eating all of both of them, and they were too good to resist). I had eaten most of my apple pie and about... 1/4 of my strawberry shortcake and all but a few pieces of pasta and was pretty much done, so I went to the bathroom with a few people. When I got back, I heard Emma and Justin and whoever else was at th table start to shout "AH SHE'S BACK! RUN, RUN!" I kind of figured out what had happened before I even saw my plate. But when I got back to my spot, all my food was gone except for a couple bites of strawberry shortcake. I was all "...hm. So, did aliens come and take all my food?" and Andrew was all "Yes! That's exactly what happened!" while still chewing. Then when I was on the way to Splash Mountain with Emma and some people, Emma told me the most hilarious part that I had missed: the second that I got up from the table, Andrew had immediately sat in my seat, took my fork and stabbed all the pasta he could, and, for some reason thinking my apple pie had been pot roast, smothered the pasta with caramel from my apple pie and stuffed it in his mouth. Then for like 10 seconds he just sat there with the food in his mouth with this horrible expression all "...WHAT THE HELL DID I JUST EAT?!" This story was much funnier told out loud, but ah well.

Then after that, as I said, Emma and I were off to Splash Mountain with Mukul and Jessica and Duncan (hee. His name always amuses me because of Veronica Mars. He's a sophomore in college now, I believe, but he used to go to UNI. And did you know, we also have a Veronica and a Logan in our band? Crazy awesome) and someone else I'm totally forgetting. So it's like 9:00 PM and there's absolutely no line, because, duh, no one wants to get wet at 9 at night except crazy people like ourselves. We seriously just walked straight to the front of the line, there was no line at all. While we were walking, Mukul was totally all "We're going to be like this [pose] during the picture, but like this [pose] during the splash, because duh" and everything. Then, about 10 seconds to the ride, I hear Mukul go "OH GOD, THIS IS THAT RIDE?!" It was the best. thing. ever. I wish I'd turned around, though, because Emma says Mukul had the most horrified expression ever on his face. It was hilarious.

Um, yeah, I don't know. The whole day was just great (besides the end). There was some other pretty funny stuff that happened, but those were the best. My friends are awesome.

New layout! brokenrecord__. It's multi-fandom. The text is some various lines from "Aside" by the Weakerthans, which is one of my favorite songs ever. The header wasn't too bad (took awhile, but wasn't incredibly hard), but trying to get colors to match were a bitch. Finally I just settled with grays, which I think is all right. I might change it sometime if I can figure out something that'll go better with it.

Anyways, yesterday was fun. Animal shelter in the morning, but a lot of the cats have been getting sick and so a bunch were in quarantine and they weren't doing volunteering with cats, so they told me I should go outside and see if I could help with the rabbits. There were two women out there and one asked if I'd ever had any experience with rabbits (which I did; I used to have 2) and then told me I could take any rabbit and just sit with it and pet it a bunch. I actually think I liked vounteering with the rabbits more than the cats. I did it again this morning, and yeah. It was nice. Made me want rabbits again, even though I barely paid attention to the rabbits I used to have.

Then after volunteering yesterday, I had a marching band competition in Anaheim. We didn't place very well (6th out of 6 or 7 in both colorguard and band), but I thought it was the best we had done the show thus far, so the results didn't matter as much. ( I also got some stuff... )
Um, but yeah. The comp was overall much fun. Only one more marching band comp left this year! Only 3 weeks left of marching band left! Insanity!

Nintendo Fusion Tour tomorrow! eee! Should be so freaking awesome.

I guess now I'll watch last Thursday's Everwood episode. Didn't watch Charmed tonight because I'm like 2 weeks behind. Need to catch up on that sometime. I caught up on Lost Friday night, though! So at least there's that.

Today was so freaking good. ( Today! )

Tomorrow should be pretty awesome as well. I'm volunteering at the animal shelter from 10:30-11:30ish, then off to Westpark at noon to watch a movie with a bunch of people (either Wallace and Gromit or Corpse Bride. I mean, I'll be pushing for Serenity, but I don't think I'll be able to convince them to see it, so eh. It's ok. I'm fine with seeing either of those movies), and then going to Irvine Comp at Irvine Stadium at... 3? I think? Irvine Comp is a marching band tournament and we marched in it freshman year but not last year, so instead we went to see it last year and it was fun so... doing it again this year! Anyways, it should be good.

guh. I am dead. We stayed 15 min over on the day that we already have a longer rehearsal on the hottest day ever. It was like 114 degrees in the park car, and it hadn't been parked there for more than 15 min.

But the essay and test are over! I'm so happy. The test wasn't nearly as bad as I thought, and the essay could've been worse. Can't begin to guess how well I did on either, but hopefully I did all right.

We also got the scores of the seminar project I was bitching about Monday today. We got a 98/100, and that's without the 10 points extra credit. So, 108/100. Not bad.

VERONICA MARS TONIGHT. EEEE. :DDDDD I'm so excited. I couldn't be properly excited before because anytime I'd be like "OMG VERONICA MARS!" I'd instantly be "...oh, fuck, essay and unit test." But no more! Now, I can be all "OMG VERONICA MARS!" freely. :D

LULU. Ask about Serenity! I don't know if you did, but we didn't really have much time to talk today in class, so yeah. ASK IF YOU HAVEN'T. I checked the listings and there's one at the theater by Annie's house (Westpark? I think?) playing at like 7 PM, which I think would be good. Anyways. Let me know.

...VERONICA MARS! Can't be exclaimed about enough!