in other words, my computer is a nice big, unused, expensive hunk of metal and plastic. i posted at nightly for the first time in two weeks yesterday, and you may have noticed i haven't touched the weblog, which makes me very unhappy. i haven't had time to redesign it. i haven't had time to read the two books i want to read because i'm too busy reading crap for school. it makes me so mad, i would actually learn more if i were just left to my own devices and initiative. but school just totally murders any kind of pleasure i get in learning. arrrrrggggh. *fumes*

anyway, like i said, i took up piano lessons again. i'm getting them from the same teacher my brother is, and i've only had one lesson so far. i played her the music i was working on from the movie amélie. she said i did a really good job and that i have good technique, but she did mention that the music was pretty easy. i knew that, but i was really scared to play anything harder because i wanted to make a first impression without screwing up a song. she invited me to a master class she was having that night as an experiment to see if we could have fun and make progress as a group. so i went over and we had pizza and cokes and just talked about piano. everyone else had been working on bach's tocatta in d minor, and they had a playoff contest with it. a long of friends from school were there, and it was a blast. i'm really looking forward to getting better.

i really should find a design for this thing. the problem is that i was waiting for smitha to kill her water layout for her weblog, so that i could put up a happy summery beach layout. except she replaced it with... a beach layout. darn you, smitha. darn you to heck.

i'm thinking, i don't care, since emily is doing a sort of watery layout as well, so maybe we can be the beachy triumvirate™ or something stupid like that.

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my spanish teacher totally flipped out today. i wasn't very happy with her today to begin with because i found out i'm making a b for no good reason... i mean, i'm really good at spanish. i'm used to making b's in things like history and english, but i shouldn't be in spanish. anyway, i got a quiz back today, and i had gotten an 85 on it. all of my answers were good and made sense, but they didn't match the ones in the teacher's manual. (for example, "tiempo" can mean weather or time in spanish. "hacer muy bien tiempo" can either mean "there was good weather" or "i made good time." since the sentence preceding the one in question was talking about being on the way to the zoo, i figured that "i made good time" was a good way to conjugate the sentence. but they wanted "there was good weather," so andy loses.) anyway, i kind of argued with her about the answers and she totally wouldn't concede anything. she went across the room to help someone else and she overheard me telling the person next to me that i still thought i was right. she like, totally started screaming at me that i was wrong. arggggh. she's retiring next year. goody.

planning on seeing anger management tonight. coincedence? actually i've been thinking it looked really funny ever since i saw the preview when i was in new york. i've been waiting for it to come out, and conveniently tonight i feel like i'm going to explode and need something to do outside of the house.

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anyway, so when we got there, we were in line to get our tickets and saw kat so i ran out to get her and she hadn't gotten her tickets yet so leif went and guarded seats for us while they bought tickets and stuff. anyway, when we got up to leif, some lady was just sitting down in one of our seats and leif was looking helpless. i went over and told her the seats were saved and she said, "i don't care, i paid for this ticket and you're not going to make me move. if your friends aren't right here, right now, then they don't get this seat." i kindly showed her that all my friends were standing right behind me. but she just repeated herself and made half of our friends sit somewhere else. meanwhile she was motioning her son over to the seat she had saved for him. stupid bitch. i was so completely tempted to go sit on the other side of her and tell her i paid for the seat. gah. what is it with me and movie theatres?

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we currently have this little jungle gym thing in the corner of our backyard that's relatively close to the fence on both sides. anyway, we're going to extend it to the fence in either direction and then put a cool domed tarp tent roof over the top.

yesterday and today i spent clearing out the amazingly large number of vines and growths from where we want to build (consequently i have lots of scratches all over my arms but whatever). dad's at home depot getting some lumber at the moment, so as soon as he gets back we're gonna start building. yippee!

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in other news, the clubhouse is coming well. will post some pics later of the work we've done on it yesterday and today.

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rob ended up coming over to my house at 10:30 last night to work on the project. we blitzed through it and had it done by 12:30... he ate some pizza and then we went to bed. this morning i drove him to school and we presented it, and i think we did a really good job. that's the best procrastination we've ever pulled off, i think. i hope we get graded well on it. we actually did a really good job, but i wonder if she'll be able to tell that we did it in two hours. :op

i've lost my keys. i had them last night when i was working on the project and when i went to go pick up rob. this morning i couldn't find them, though. i slept in my jeans last night because i didn't feel like changing after working and they should have been in my pockets then. so theoretically they could have come out of my pocket while i was sleeping, but i can't find them anywhere around my bed or in my room. i had to steal my mom's keys to my car and the house, which i assume she wouldn't need since she'd be at work later than me and i would have my car. but i still need to find mine.

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had my second piano lesson today, where i got a copy of the toccata in d minor that i want to work up... my left hand managed to totally not want to do anything at all at my lesson and i totally sucked in trying to sight-read it. but all is okay, because i was able to come home and play a lot of it really well, so if i can just keep from sucking next tuesday, i should be able to make the teacher think that i can play this.

my little cousin samantha came over tonight and we watched her while my aunt went somewhere, i'm not really sure where. she's almost a year old and she's really cute. unfortunately she wanted to cry all night, so yarg. i was able to get her happy for a little while, but only by constantly doing something that just totally confused her. it's hard work keeping a baby quiet.

i have uil contest for band tomorrow, and lately my left ear has been all screwed up. mom thinks i have a viral ear infection (as opposed to a bacterial ear infection... the ones people usually get and that can be treated with antibiotics). anyway, it feels like my ear is inflated and there's tons of pressure on it. when i play in band, everything i play reverberates in my head and i can't hear anyone else. it made it virtually impossible to not suck in class yesterday... i'm hoping i really don't screw up at uil tomorrow. :o/

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got fun fun history homework to do... essay type things. not fun. but tomorrow = half day. and friday = holiday. w00t^2.

oh, and also notice the neato floating comment thing. i did that last night as an experiment with javascript and layers and stuff. i got a lot of the code from patrick and modified it to do the comments and stuff. anyway, i thought it was cool.

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log e^(w00t) + log e^(-w00t) = (2w00t)^[-e(log w00t)]

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went to the doctor about my ear yesterday. he said there was really nothing he could do about it, and that i would just have to keep doping myself up on medicines until it went away. hope it fixes itself before i go to florida next week.

today i plan on going to stations of the cross, and then later to do my movie day with my brother (his christmas present from me was a day with a movie and going to eat somewhere, so we're going to see holes and eat at mr. gatti's pizza).

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anyway, had a really fun time with allen tonight, even though he can drive me crazy sometimes (read: he doesn't remember how to tie his shoes because it's been about 3 years since he last did it). now i just have to figure out how i'm going to afford this little outing of ours. :op

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1. who is your favorite celebrity?

hmm... this question probably wants me to name an actor or somebody, and even though i really enjoy some actors/actresses (russell crowe is one of my favorites... who else can pull off a psycho mathematician and roman gladiator, both convincingly?), but i would have to say that my favorite celebrity is john williams, if he counts. i enjoy his music more than any actor or singer alone.

2. who is your least favorite?

anna nicole smith, michael moore, howard stern, take your pick. they're all annoying and mentally empty.

3. have you ever met or seen any celebrities in real life?

yeah, nobody too big up until dragon*con last year. just like running up and getting autographs and stuff. but at d*c, i actually had lunch with tim zahn and rode in an elevator with kenny baker. and jeremy bulloch is just the friendliest guy ever and kept coming up to talk to the swc group there, which i was usually a part of.

4. would you want to be famous? why or why not?

i dunno. i would like to be famous if i knew i wasn't going to make myself look stupid. like, if i ever became a singer, i would probably trip and fall off the stage at concerts, so that's not a good idea. i'd most likely want to be famous by name and not by face (like john williams.)

5. if you had to trade places with a celebrity for a day, who would you choose and why?

uh...? anna nicole smith, so i could commit suicide and do the world a favor? (dang, just typed "anna nicole smitha".)

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