I finished cleaning out my band locker this morning. It's probably the only time i've cried at an ending or a parting. I didn't cry much, but simply the fact that I did signifies a lot. Music has been the most important part of my life during high school, and the Lincoln High Band... i sold my soul to it. There were so many beautiful people, so ( Read more... )

I got a letter from Paul. It made my day. Actually, probably my week!

First of all, as most of you reading this probably know, there will be a big arts campout at bluestem lake on Tuesday, June 10, so be there! Arts and zoo kids (particularly zoo soccer kids) are welcome - but you should know, arts campouts, although unsupervised are clean. No drugs, alcohol, or other bad things allowed. You will be beaten with ( Read more... )

Everyone (that's right, everyone in the entire world) is hereby summoned to LHS, Beechner Field stands (unless it's raining, in which case it's Johnson Gym) for the final concert of the year. Why, you might say?

Because i will be playing the stupendous Strauss concerto with the Lincoln High Orchestra!!!The concert starts at 6:30, with Prep Jazz ( Read more... )

That is, if you define "terrorist" as "informed, thinking citizen", as Bush and all his little mindless followers who value an SUV with an American flag on the door more than thousands of innocent lives seem to be doing.

A most excellent essay on the Iraq war by an informed thinker.Read it. Please. At least somebody has the courage to think and ( Read more... )

Yes, it's true, LHS senior awards were today, and i got the John Philip Sousa band award! I was very, very excited when i found out... i wanted this one a lot. I think it actually means something, as opposed to the type of awards that are fabricated by newspapers just so they can publish a story about smart kids (and sell papers to all the smart ( Read more... )

First of all, LHS Prom literally rocked my shoes off on Saturday night. Even though they played mostly stupid pop/rap/R&B music all night, and DIDN'T play Reel Big Fish although i requested it twice. There were lots of cool kids there, though, so it was still fun! For those of you who weren't there (grr richard - j/k), i went with literally a ( Read more... )

They never really taught me the word for "beautiful" in Spanish class. At least not the pretty word. I remember it coming up in a 5th year discussion last year, but that's about it. I learned the word for "ugly" very early on, however, and perhaps i learned "bello/a", one of the "beautiful" words in Spanish, at about the same time. But last ( Read more... )

Relative Time magazine’s weekly physics video review ( Read more... )

Guess what? I changed the headlight bulb in my car on Monday! All by myself! Well, not really all by myself, there was the guy in Wal-Mart who helped me find the bulb, and the other guy in Wal-Mart who, while taking my money, told me not to touch the actual bulb part of it "or it'll burn out in, like, a week", and then my dad supervised while i ( Read more... )