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box_of_doomHmm... I figure it's time for an update. So... in the words of the song of the post... "1, 2, 3, go!"
First of all, I guess I should go over March Break. Basically, it was spent in *puts up hands to represent mouse ears and speaks in singsong voice, with music-box-ish version of It's A Small World playing in the background* the happiest place on earth. *back to normal*
Yes, Disney World was fun. LOL I went to this improv comedy club at Pleasure Island, and two things happened. 1) they wanted the name of a sandwich that didn't exist, I came up with "triple decker peanut butter and fudge" 2)they wrote a song about me, and my hatred of my sister's alarm clock waking me up at 6am on the weekend because she forgets to turn it off, and sleeps through it. One thing though, they thought I'm in the same room as her. My room is across the hall. It stillwakes me up sometimes. She's gotten better at turning it off lately, and I keep my door shut now, but still...
Oh, and for the record, virgin raspberry daiquiri = yum! ^_^
...so, that basically sums up my break of March-ness.
As far as this week goes... well, Monday in MUN we FINALLY got hold of the info on what we need to put in our position papers for CHAMUN. There's this booklet that they came out with and put up there as a PDF, so Ms Lang got Jeremy to print it off. She then proceeded to photocopy it for all 10 of us... SINGLE SIDED. So... there were a group of us mourning the trees. Y'know, even though I was taking part, it was sorta funny seeing people stroking the paper and putting it up to their cheeks, etc. as if in mourning. I (at least half-jokingly) suggested holding a séance begging for the forgiveness of the trees (Jen later volunteered to join me when I was telling her about it, saying she has incense and candles enough, and a completely useless Literacy Test prep booklet). We cheered up when Ms Lang said we could recycle them, and then Stuart suggested burning them *shakes head*. Ah... LOL at the beginning of the meeting, we were going over what everyone did on March Break... supposedly the Wright house is the happiest place on earth. *shakes head again, amused* Sometime between then and now I came up with a list of the many "tragedies" of MUN, which I shall now list... and explain in lj-cuts.
1 Ms Lang doesn't have a bus licence.
Okay... there are 10 of us going to CHAMUN. Last year, there were 4 kids, and one Lang. They took the GO train from what I've gathered, but Lang-sensei was at least able to get them all to the station in her car/van/whatever kind of vehicle she drove at that time. Or maybe she didn't use it, I don't know, because I've heard stories of Alex getting lost in the station. Anyways... she was saying if there were less of us, she could have driven us downtown for it, or at least have gotten us all over to the station, since we all have to meet at the school, but now she can't so we're trying to round up a driver or 2. In the meantime, someone brought up the idea that she could still drive us all if she were to drive us in a bus, but she informed us of the "tragic" news that she doesn't have the license needed to drive one. Needless to say, we were grief stricken. ^_~
2 She doesn't have a bus either.
She added insult to the injury (see above) by telling us this.
3 Creighton's slipping
Ever since the beginning of the year, he's had to miss meetings due to other commitments/forgetting... I don't know what all... and he's usually one of the last to hand stuff in... so one day he said that he was slipping... and it stuck. So, whenever he's not there or forgets to bring something or whatever, we blame it on the fact that he's slipping.
4 No one's signed up for our MUN.
We're planning to hold a Durham-wide MUN thing, and though we've gotten a few groups asking us for more info, no one has registered for it as of last Monday. Me likes Stuart's idea though... should worst come to worst, and no one signs up at all, we send a memo out to all of the people we sent info to saying "we hate you!"
5 THE TREES!!!!!
Remember the 25-page, single-sided package I made reference to earlier?
6 There's a spelling mistake in the booklet
Yup, not only is it 25 pages long, thus killing trees, but there's a spelling error on page 22. I don't know if anyone else has spotted it yet. Will ask on Monday if I remember.
Moving on to later on Monday... We were going over choreo for the two Munchkin numbers in Musical Theatre that day. We were supposed to just quickly go through them and then go to our production areas. Only one problem: I was basically the only one to remember half the steps. No, really! There's only one part that I'm even slightly shaky at, and I've more or less got it down now. So... we were supposed to get through 2 songs. We got through one and got it looking decent, and went over the other, which we have had less time to go over, and only half the people were there to learn the steps for once. I was one of the only people who remembered all of those steps too. ^^; After school, Jen and I attempted to go to improv, but we were lock-ed out, so we hung around with Heather, and her boyfriend, who goes on my bus but whose name I can not remember, and talked, while Jen played her guitar. Then AJ came around and played Jen's guitar. Then Jen and I headed to my house where we played an overly old version of LIFE. Anyone have a new copy that they'd like to... give me?
Tuesday, we finally got everyone back together in band. It was a good practice. The pieces sounded amazing from where I was, especially the 1st one... Where Eagles Soar. Supposedly we only have 5 practices left till Kiwanis. While this is a little scary, we are gonna be SO ready. It's going to be great.
On Wednesday, I went shopping with my mom, looking for something business-ish, as I need another outfit... or at least another nice top... for CHAMUN because they've got a "business wear" dress code. We found this cute pink outfit, but the jacket didn't fall right in the back. :( I didn't end up getting anything, so I'm going to have to go out and look somewhere else one day. Anyone know somewhere to look/something I'd look good in?
Between yesterday and today, we managed to run all of act one of The Wizard of Oz with the pit band in musical theatre. It looks pretty good. Oh, and further proof that we need more time for munchkin songs: in the words of Tina, "If you forget what you're supposed to be doing, just look at Claire!" According to Emilie, everyone was looking at me trying to get the steps to Follow the Yellow Brick Road. Anyone who knows me probably knows that I'm not a dancer, but my memory's pretty good, so this made me feel oh so special and happy. There are lotsa little funny parts in this 1st act... but I won't go over them because I don't wanna ruin anything for those of you who are going to come and see it *big, pleading eyes* I will go over one little blooper though. They were trying to set the underscore the scene that takes place in the poppy field, and needed to start over numerous times from when the Scarecrow yells out "HELP! HELP!" after scolding the Tinman that there's no use doing it. Nikki, our resident Lion, managed to fall asleep during this. She's already supposed to be asleep in character... but she actually fell asleep. Mrs. Dawson gave Stuart permission to kick her should it happen again. :D
LOL At lunch today, Jen and I were scaring a few people by looking over and reciting from the Men's choir script thing from 2 years ago, when they did a "best of" thing at our church's Christmas talent show thingy that we have after or annual turkey dinner. The thing is, our men's choir doesn't sing. They attempt to, yes, but they can't. (It's supposed to be a parody/bad singing, don't worry.) The best part is the ending. "Unfortunately, while on my way over here, a big guy dressed in red and white and mumbling something like 'yo, yo, yo' landed his sleigh in front of me and took all of the CDs. He said something about running out of coal. So we're all safe for another year." LOL I love that stuff... and there's a lot more where that came from.
...and that, in a nutshell, is how my last 2 weeks have gone.
I sort of half feel like going on for a while longer ranting about different things, but I figure this is long enough. I think I might do another one of those long, disjointed, everything in lj-cut posts again soon. Those are good for just ranting myself away.
In the meantime, time for more of these
Bubbli-dude(tte).
Yes, we know that anime rocks. But sometimes you're
a little too happy. You're alright how you are
though-- DON'T take this the wrong way, get all
suicidal once, and then think you're goth.
PLEASE. You're pretty kew. ^^
What realistic stereotype are YOU?
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um... somehow, I don't think that whole goth thing's ever gonna happen. Don't worry.
You are a trombonist. You are quite smart, and have
a very logical thinking style. This is good,
but one thing about trombonists, they need to
stick up for themselves more.
Find Out Your Psycological Band Instrument Stereotype
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first time I've ever gotten the 'bones on one of these. All the trombonists I know are very much taller than me...
Your half- angel. Not exactly human, but not quite
angel, you walk on earth freely. Half-Angels
have no wings, but tend to show some signs.
Some ways to notice these are that the girl
never menstrates, she cannot bleed, and her
touch seems to give of a glow. No one really
knows how half-angels are born. Some say that
when a child is born, one of the angels blesses
her with her gifts. Others say that they are
cursed creatures, because half-angels cannot
die, while their familly and friends around
them do. Hlaf-Angels are very beautiful and
Kind, and have the power to speak to animals,
but at the same time, sad that they are this
way. Some Half-Angels love being human. Being
able to see, smell, hear, taste,and feel are
all miracles to them. They crave to be more
human-all the time.
What Kind of ANGEL are you? (For Girls only) This Quiz has amazingly Beautiful Pictures!
brought to you by Quizilla
Cool! ^_^
You have a twisted soul! Twisted Souls are never
bad, and actually, are a rarity amongst souls.
These souls are a little combination of
everything, with always a little of their own
chaos to add. Twisted Souls are kind, loving,
weird, zany, temperamental, and very talented.
They have their own firm opinion, and can at
one time be very outspoken and passionate, and
the other time shy and feeling insignificant.
Twisted Souls have good senses of Humor and
other times can be a bore. You can act quite
intelligent at one time, and grasp concepts
easily, while other times they can find it
difficult to understand. Twisted Souls are
always very fun and Kind, and can be party
animals. But, if you love someone, youre
serious about it, intense, and forever loyal.
Congratulations-the world should have more like
you.
What Kind of SOUL do you posses? (For Girls only) Incredible Anime Pictures!
brought to you by Quizilla
I agree with everything but the party animal part.
Angel of Music. Living in your own fantasy perhaps;
naive.
Please rate my quiz!
Which song from The Phantom of the Opera are you?
brought to you by Quizilla
Je suis ton ange de la musique... Viens a moi ange de la musique...
Random fact: *sings* There is just one moon and one golden sun... *stops* Ahem... I mean...
The Scarecrow was originally supposed to be played by Buddy Ebsen. Ray Bolger, originally cast for the Tinman, switched with him because Ray knew he'd make a perfect Scarecrow (I think we all agree with him). Thus, Ebsen became the Tinman. There was an aluminum (I think) powder used that he had a bad allergic reaction to, and nearly died from and thus Jack Haley ended up with the role. Buddy can still be heard on the soundtrack (in the We're Off To See The Wizard songs) and outlived all the major cast members of the movie, even after coming so close to death during its production.
First of all, I guess I should go over March Break. Basically, it was spent in *puts up hands to represent mouse ears and speaks in singsong voice, with music-box-ish version of It's A Small World playing in the background* the happiest place on earth. *back to normal*
Yes, Disney World was fun. LOL I went to this improv comedy club at Pleasure Island, and two things happened. 1) they wanted the name of a sandwich that didn't exist, I came up with "triple decker peanut butter and fudge" 2)they wrote a song about me, and my hatred of my sister's alarm clock waking me up at 6am on the weekend because she forgets to turn it off, and sleeps through it. One thing though, they thought I'm in the same room as her. My room is across the hall. It stillwakes me up sometimes. She's gotten better at turning it off lately, and I keep my door shut now, but still...
Oh, and for the record, virgin raspberry daiquiri = yum! ^_^
...so, that basically sums up my break of March-ness.
As far as this week goes... well, Monday in MUN we FINALLY got hold of the info on what we need to put in our position papers for CHAMUN. There's this booklet that they came out with and put up there as a PDF, so Ms Lang got Jeremy to print it off. She then proceeded to photocopy it for all 10 of us... SINGLE SIDED. So... there were a group of us mourning the trees. Y'know, even though I was taking part, it was sorta funny seeing people stroking the paper and putting it up to their cheeks, etc. as if in mourning. I (at least half-jokingly) suggested holding a séance begging for the forgiveness of the trees (Jen later volunteered to join me when I was telling her about it, saying she has incense and candles enough, and a completely useless Literacy Test prep booklet). We cheered up when Ms Lang said we could recycle them, and then Stuart suggested burning them *shakes head*. Ah... LOL at the beginning of the meeting, we were going over what everyone did on March Break... supposedly the Wright house is the happiest place on earth. *shakes head again, amused* Sometime between then and now I came up with a list of the many "tragedies" of MUN, which I shall now list... and explain in lj-cuts.
1 Ms Lang doesn't have a bus licence.
Okay... there are 10 of us going to CHAMUN. Last year, there were 4 kids, and one Lang. They took the GO train from what I've gathered, but Lang-sensei was at least able to get them all to the station in her car/van/whatever kind of vehicle she drove at that time. Or maybe she didn't use it, I don't know, because I've heard stories of Alex getting lost in the station. Anyways... she was saying if there were less of us, she could have driven us downtown for it, or at least have gotten us all over to the station, since we all have to meet at the school, but now she can't so we're trying to round up a driver or 2. In the meantime, someone brought up the idea that she could still drive us all if she were to drive us in a bus, but she informed us of the "tragic" news that she doesn't have the license needed to drive one. Needless to say, we were grief stricken. ^_~
2 She doesn't have a bus either.
She added insult to the injury (see above) by telling us this.
3 Creighton's slipping
Ever since the beginning of the year, he's had to miss meetings due to other commitments/forgetting... I don't know what all... and he's usually one of the last to hand stuff in... so one day he said that he was slipping... and it stuck. So, whenever he's not there or forgets to bring something or whatever, we blame it on the fact that he's slipping.
4 No one's signed up for our MUN.
We're planning to hold a Durham-wide MUN thing, and though we've gotten a few groups asking us for more info, no one has registered for it as of last Monday. Me likes Stuart's idea though... should worst come to worst, and no one signs up at all, we send a memo out to all of the people we sent info to saying "we hate you!"
5 THE TREES!!!!!
Remember the 25-page, single-sided package I made reference to earlier?
6 There's a spelling mistake in the booklet
Yup, not only is it 25 pages long, thus killing trees, but there's a spelling error on page 22. I don't know if anyone else has spotted it yet. Will ask on Monday if I remember.
Moving on to later on Monday... We were going over choreo for the two Munchkin numbers in Musical Theatre that day. We were supposed to just quickly go through them and then go to our production areas. Only one problem: I was basically the only one to remember half the steps. No, really! There's only one part that I'm even slightly shaky at, and I've more or less got it down now. So... we were supposed to get through 2 songs. We got through one and got it looking decent, and went over the other, which we have had less time to go over, and only half the people were there to learn the steps for once. I was one of the only people who remembered all of those steps too. ^^; After school, Jen and I attempted to go to improv, but we were lock-ed out, so we hung around with Heather, and her boyfriend, who goes on my bus but whose name I can not remember, and talked, while Jen played her guitar. Then AJ came around and played Jen's guitar. Then Jen and I headed to my house where we played an overly old version of LIFE. Anyone have a new copy that they'd like to... give me?
Tuesday, we finally got everyone back together in band. It was a good practice. The pieces sounded amazing from where I was, especially the 1st one... Where Eagles Soar. Supposedly we only have 5 practices left till Kiwanis. While this is a little scary, we are gonna be SO ready. It's going to be great.
On Wednesday, I went shopping with my mom, looking for something business-ish, as I need another outfit... or at least another nice top... for CHAMUN because they've got a "business wear" dress code. We found this cute pink outfit, but the jacket didn't fall right in the back. :( I didn't end up getting anything, so I'm going to have to go out and look somewhere else one day. Anyone know somewhere to look/something I'd look good in?
Between yesterday and today, we managed to run all of act one of The Wizard of Oz with the pit band in musical theatre. It looks pretty good. Oh, and further proof that we need more time for munchkin songs: in the words of Tina, "If you forget what you're supposed to be doing, just look at Claire!" According to Emilie, everyone was looking at me trying to get the steps to Follow the Yellow Brick Road. Anyone who knows me probably knows that I'm not a dancer, but my memory's pretty good, so this made me feel oh so special and happy. There are lotsa little funny parts in this 1st act... but I won't go over them because I don't wanna ruin anything for those of you who are going to come and see it *big, pleading eyes* I will go over one little blooper though. They were trying to set the underscore the scene that takes place in the poppy field, and needed to start over numerous times from when the Scarecrow yells out "HELP! HELP!" after scolding the Tinman that there's no use doing it. Nikki, our resident Lion, managed to fall asleep during this. She's already supposed to be asleep in character... but she actually fell asleep. Mrs. Dawson gave Stuart permission to kick her should it happen again. :D
LOL At lunch today, Jen and I were scaring a few people by looking over and reciting from the Men's choir script thing from 2 years ago, when they did a "best of" thing at our church's Christmas talent show thingy that we have after or annual turkey dinner. The thing is, our men's choir doesn't sing. They attempt to, yes, but they can't. (It's supposed to be a parody/bad singing, don't worry.) The best part is the ending. "Unfortunately, while on my way over here, a big guy dressed in red and white and mumbling something like 'yo, yo, yo' landed his sleigh in front of me and took all of the CDs. He said something about running out of coal. So we're all safe for another year." LOL I love that stuff... and there's a lot more where that came from.
...and that, in a nutshell, is how my last 2 weeks have gone.
I sort of half feel like going on for a while longer ranting about different things, but I figure this is long enough. I think I might do another one of those long, disjointed, everything in lj-cut posts again soon. Those are good for just ranting myself away.
In the meantime, time for more of these
Bubbli-dude(tte).
Yes, we know that anime rocks. But sometimes you're
a little too happy. You're alright how you are
though-- DON'T take this the wrong way, get all
suicidal once, and then think you're goth.
PLEASE. You're pretty kew. ^^
What realistic stereotype are YOU?
brought to you by Quizilla
um... somehow, I don't think that whole goth thing's ever gonna happen. Don't worry.
You are a trombonist. You are quite smart, and have
a very logical thinking style. This is good,
but one thing about trombonists, they need to
stick up for themselves more.
Find Out Your Psycological Band Instrument Stereotype
brought to you by Quizilla
first time I've ever gotten the 'bones on one of these. All the trombonists I know are very much taller than me...
Your half- angel. Not exactly human, but not quite
angel, you walk on earth freely. Half-Angels
have no wings, but tend to show some signs.
Some ways to notice these are that the girl
never menstrates, she cannot bleed, and her
touch seems to give of a glow. No one really
knows how half-angels are born. Some say that
when a child is born, one of the angels blesses
her with her gifts. Others say that they are
cursed creatures, because half-angels cannot
die, while their familly and friends around
them do. Hlaf-Angels are very beautiful and
Kind, and have the power to speak to animals,
but at the same time, sad that they are this
way. Some Half-Angels love being human. Being
able to see, smell, hear, taste,and feel are
all miracles to them. They crave to be more
human-all the time.
What Kind of ANGEL are you? (For Girls only) This Quiz has amazingly Beautiful Pictures!
brought to you by Quizilla
Cool! ^_^
You have a twisted soul! Twisted Souls are never
bad, and actually, are a rarity amongst souls.
These souls are a little combination of
everything, with always a little of their own
chaos to add. Twisted Souls are kind, loving,
weird, zany, temperamental, and very talented.
They have their own firm opinion, and can at
one time be very outspoken and passionate, and
the other time shy and feeling insignificant.
Twisted Souls have good senses of Humor and
other times can be a bore. You can act quite
intelligent at one time, and grasp concepts
easily, while other times they can find it
difficult to understand. Twisted Souls are
always very fun and Kind, and can be party
animals. But, if you love someone, youre
serious about it, intense, and forever loyal.
Congratulations-the world should have more like
you.
What Kind of SOUL do you posses? (For Girls only) Incredible Anime Pictures!
brought to you by Quizilla
I agree with everything but the party animal part.
Angel of Music. Living in your own fantasy perhaps;
naive.
Please rate my quiz!
Which song from The Phantom of the Opera are you?
brought to you by Quizilla
Je suis ton ange de la musique... Viens a moi ange de la musique...
Random fact: *sings* There is just one moon and one golden sun... *stops* Ahem... I mean...
The Scarecrow was originally supposed to be played by Buddy Ebsen. Ray Bolger, originally cast for the Tinman, switched with him because Ray knew he'd make a perfect Scarecrow (I think we all agree with him). Thus, Ebsen became the Tinman. There was an aluminum (I think) powder used that he had a bad allergic reaction to, and nearly died from and thus Jack Haley ended up with the role. Buddy can still be heard on the soundtrack (in the We're Off To See The Wizard songs) and outlived all the major cast members of the movie, even after coming so close to death during its production.
