Dear friends ( Read more... )

So I just realized that though I lived in the South African epicenter of HIV/AIDS infections for 5.5 months, I never once noticed. People weren't dying all over the place like the TV and documentaries show. This certainly goes to show that HIV/AIDS has an incredible stigma attached to it and that it's prevalence resides more in the rural areas.... ( Read more... )

So I left the country for 5 months. Tonight I discovered that while I was gone Lindsay Lohan became a lesbian and Ashlee Simpson got married and pregnant.

Huh.

Is anyone interested in teaching Brandon HS's guard this fall? Or know someone who would be?

So I'm torn over which high school guard to teach this fall. Right now I have Brandon HS and potentially Crestwood High School. They run their band camps the same week, which is shitty. Even more shitty is that Crestwood holds camp on the day of DCI Finals. Not ok.

Fuck.

Brandon HS is a commitment to a high school friend, but I'm more interested in ( Read more... )

Sometimes, I miss the way it used to be.

Winterguard is wrapping up and drum corps season is almost upon us. I'm getting restless.

I've been seriously considering staying in SA for an undetermined amount of time after the semester ends, I love it here that much...

But then I listen to some drum corps and know I have to come home.

At least until next April.

State of Arters: I wish you great ( Read more... )

Hey-ooooh, I'm going to start sending out a weekly email I think...because I'm just bad about blogging and updating people. Post your email addresses and I'll try to figure out how to make some sort of mailing list.

Cheers!

Movie quote thing. You've probably seen the rules already. Here goes. I don't think I have 10 favorite movies, but I'll just throw in ones I know I don't hate.

1.  "I don't love you anymore.  Goodbye."
2. "You changed my life. You changed my life, and I've known you four days. This is the start of something really big, but right now, I gotta go."
3. " ( Read more... )

South Arica has some of the biggest leaves I have ever seen. True story ( Read more... )