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.