Sr Skip

Ever had your car broken into while you were in it? Yea, today went kinda like that...


Kara and I went up to Moulton Falls for Sr Skip day, great day for it with the hot sun and the cold water. Really, really cold water. Stayed there until around 2:15 when I went back up to the car. I was changing in the back when a white car pulled up and a black man jumped out. He ran up to my passenger door and pulled out a big piece of metal. I hit the panic button, but I guess he figured he just set off the alarm because he kept trying to get my window down, so I yelled and hit the windows and he ran off. We got the plates and a good description of the people in the car, then went down to warn the people still swimming about the break-in.

Most of the people down there were seniors, skipping from Battleground, Prairie, Heritage and Skyview. When people got back up to the lot, a couple from Heritage found that their friend's car (their friend had left several hours ago with someone else and was planning to come back) had the window broken in and a purse stolen. Since they had no way of getting around, and nobody's phones work that far out in the county, we drove them to Yacolt to try to find the sheriff... now despite a sign saying 'sheriff', there is no sheriff in Yacolt. So after waiting 45 minutes for dispatch to forward our call to someone who cared, we drove down to Battleground, where we realized the falls were out of their jurisdiction. 2 hours after my encounter, we walked into the precint in Brush Prairie where after 30 minutes we were finally able to file a formal report.

Yeah, what a day. Gotta love the law enforcement around here, picking on people going 44 in a 35 is apparently more important than persuing a brazen car prowler. In related news, if anyone sees a white 1994 toyota corolla with oregon plates ZKL-619... well, I'd have you call the police, but we all know how much good that will do.


I'll continue to post off and on, but don't think this means regular daily updates.

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Suckahs

So, although I haven't had a 'real post' in over a month, I still have people visit this site daily. Amazing. Unfortunately for me, I guess I'm proving all your expectations right by actually coming back and posting, but oh well. I wish I could say it has been a busy month, or that I haven't been posting because I'm studying for AP tests, but really I'm just lazy. Well, I suppose I could say I have been distracted... just a bit... but I don't really think thats such a bad thing! Maybe soon I'll update all the dead picture links, or better (and less likely) put as much as I can up on vancouverlake.com or my new flickr account that I haven't used yet. May have to pay the $26 for a good flickr account with a 2-gig monthly upload limit (instead of a pathetic 20-megs) and some other nice features.

This weekend was State solo-ensemble, an interesting experience by any description. It was nice of the district to cover my room at the Best Western Suites in Ellensburg (they've never done that before!) Found the new music building at Central and had a great warmup at 8:15, well before my 10:00 performance. Went to see where my room was, and then the proverbial shit hit the fan.

My room wasn't in the music building, it was in a building on the far end of the block.

My accompanist had a 9:50, not a problem in the same building, but a big problem now.

After a few minutes of running around, we decided to have my mom pick the accompanist up at the door of the music building and race her down the street to my building. Problems: my time starts at 10:00:00, no matter if I'm playing or not. My time cuts off at 10:09:00, no matter if I'm done and no matter what time I started. I started a minute and a half late, a bit stressed out over the fact that my accompanist had literally run into the room less than 30 seconds earlier.

So my performance wasn't my best, but at least the two UW judges gave me the better scores. And Amy videotaped it (thanks Amy!) so my mom got to see it eventually, although the only part she caught live was the last minute through the same thin brick wall that allowed me to hear the solos on both sides of me. Oh well, I guess it was a good experience. I thought Thomas and Amy kicked ass on their solos, even if Amy didn't win anything (haven't heard from Thomas yet). Oh yeah, and Matt Wu's brother was very impressive too. Pretty terrible showing of skyview people though, even Lewis and Clark had more people there than we did.

AP tests this week, kinda looking forward to getting that all done with. Spent the better part of my afternoon with the AP Art History class at Mrs. Winters' house reviewing and just hanging out. Very fun. I'd say I'm most confident in that class, probably after AP Calculus (AB) and AP English (impossible to study for anyway). AP Comparative Government and AP US Government may be a challenge, my review for AP US Gov was reading Jon Stewart's America... still better than anything from Powers this year.