One More Year

366 more days until 08/08/08!
Hopefully, I'll be able to see by then so I can watch the 2008 Beijing Olympics on TV. I just got my eyes checked and I think their dilation eyedrops are way too strong.
It's so blurry. <-- everything

Waiting for next Thursday

At around 12:30, I arrived in the band hallway and met William, Chanyang, and Marshall. Around 1:00, the band teacher told everyone to play a part of a piece with a long name, and they went off to sectionals. Later, he took me to the ensemble room (the largest practice room), told all the saxophones to leave and stand in a small room for about 10 minutes, unlocked the piano, and the Jazz Band audition began. I played the F and B Major scales, the first two pages of the first movement of the Pathetique Sonata by Beethoven, and four pages of the tiny score of jazz music with tiny notes.
The results will be posted on either side of the band room wall (bulletin board and the band hallway) next Thursday.

Unecessary Questions

Chanyang goes to church with her younger brother and Joseph. She said that Joseph "was asking unnecessary questions" regarding a certain blog and a certain someone. I find this incredibly interesting.
Band camp is next week and I wouldn't usually care, but I'm so freakishly nervous!!!!!
Despite my stalkerness, I managed to immediately forget my own cousin's birthday. How humiliating.
I'm thinking about having a birthday party for the first time since... I think it was 3rd grade, but I'm not quite sure. Anyways, as long as my parents agree, it will be AWESOME! I should ask them some time... I hope they say "yes".
Amazingly, it wasn't very difficult to memorize the fingerings for all the major scales. I just hope Mr. G doesn't mention minor ones. William said "major scales", though, because that's probably what he had to play, but he plays the trumpet.

NOOOOO!

I haven't written for so long and I really feel like I'm neglecting this blog. Perhaps the reason I haven't updated so much is because nothing interesting really happy these days even if they're interesting. I have less than eight minutes to make that up before I got to my Head of Marketing/Travel's house for a get-together that involves most of my employees. We are finally going to see POTC3!!!!! Because of conclusion #1, Ryan is Dolohov, June is Ted, Jack is Narcissa, I'm Bellatrix, Katelyn's Luna, Anna's Ginny, and I think that's it so far. I'm not going to explain why because I've had to tell that story to about three or four people by speaking very quickly because it is so long. I'm currently on question 15 on the math test that I have to write and it is mandatory that I finish by the first day of school. I don't know how I'm going to actually see the president of MAO on the first day, though, but maybe there'll be some sort of meeting. Or, she's just warning me. Either way, I really need to work on it. Tonight should be fun. I am forced to either bike or walk there because my mother said so, so I'm going to bike, of course. I suppose I'll have to bike back, too. In the dark of Ox Bottom and Summerbrooke. That doesn't really feel very safe. I'm going to leave now and try to wake up my MVC on the way.
::EDIT:: Right. I completely forgot to mention this. Chanyang suggested that I audition for the Jazz Band on the piano, so I emailed the band teacher and he said that I need to play a few scales and some sight reading. I don't really see how this can test peoples' abilities (especially if they don't actually practice scales for over a year), and I really wish I could play a solo or something. I'm so worried!

Rosemary Beach

We went to the gulf today until around noon, walked back to the condo-thingy, took showers, had lunch, drove west towards Destin, went back when we were 12 miles away, and ended up feeling quite tired. My brother is currently watching some sort of "Lilo & Stitch" TV show on Toon Disney or whatever it's called. The front gate is painted very communistically red, which was a good welcome when we arrived yesterday. There isn't much to do right now and I'm running out of things to type. There is currently a fat, red-eyed bunny on TV. It has a purple tongue. I don't think it's very good at English. It isn't as bad at English as Ally and Luke, though, because according to the MVC, they need help in that vital subject. Now, there's this yellow, less-menacing version of Stitch who probably isn't Stitch. So queer... The weird bunny has a red cape with a yellow "H" hanging from the front. At least he's communist. I would hope the bunny weren't a "she". Unfortunately, Lilo's house is blue with an orange-ish roof. The large-ish male alien is wearing a blue dress. It is pretty scary. The other male alien with one eye has a red dress. I probably shouldn't continue describing this weird show (for children). Wow. Lilo just turned into "a teenager". I suppose the title of this post isn't extremely accurate at this point.

You never know when I might leave...

I'm currently staying at Rosemary Beach in a million-dollar apartment in a building with a small swimming pool on the roof. My parents and brother just came back from watching my brother swim. Argh gtg.

Blackmail

My MVC was photographed (by me) while wearing a pink shower cap, a hot pink "Birthday Girl" ribbon, a crate with three pink Breast Cancer Foundation tennis balls, and holding the container. His surprise party went much better than expected. My poor cousin was the only Class of '11 person because the others had gone on vacation and my VP wasn't in a very good mood, but all of us had a wonderful time. I played Guitar Hero II for the first time in my life. It wasn't as exciting as DDR, but looked like something that can entertain people for hours if they like guitars. I'm off to send an interesting email.

My brothers

One lead Jack, Ryan and me to three conclusions. I won't list them here because blogs aren't exactly confidential. The other one was asked by me if he's asexual and he said "I don't know" and "probably". Thank goodness neither were my Chinese brother.
I still have to practice the piano. I have lessons tonight and I don't think I learned much over the week. What a waste of money. I feel terrible. It's really hilarious talking to my American/German/Italian brother and American/French/English father figure on Gmail Chat at the same time, though.

We need plates.

Today, Katelyn informed me of some plans regarding one of my brothers. She and Chanyang had wanted something to happen. I called everyone except June and Chanyang about it. So far, three people have said yes- Ryan, June, and David. Most of it has gone well, but I'm still amazed at the lengths I will go to help my friends. I spoke to my MVC's favorite guy, whose voice sounded weird on the phone.
Today, I added the "Heritage" app. I convinced Katelyn to add "Chinese" to her heritage. Ryan said in his ethnic dishes that he eats "Chinese food, pizza, chimichangas". I had to find out what the last one was by Googling it. I highly doubt the Chinese food he's talking about is genuine Chinese food, but that's okay. At least it's "Chinese".
And no, I think we have enough plates. I just needed a title. We actually need food.
You know what I mean.

228 posts later,

I just copy/pasted 228 posts onto an MS Word document so I could have another copy of all of these posts. It worries me that one day Blogger will shut down or something and I won't have time to keep what I wrote. It's amazing how much I've typed during 9th grade. I told my third completed journal as of yesterday that I'm keeping a journal and a blog, but I don't have an empty journal right now and I think blogs work much better. Typing is immensely faster and my friends can read this whenever they are online. I regret not typing much this summer so far, but there isn't that much to say.