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Greetings from Planet Earth (or another cliched title of your choice)
Posted by Steven on Fri 2005-04-15 06:51:11 UTC #Okay, so according to my statistics I've had 15 visitors to my blog this week... and I'm pretty sure that at least 10 of them are human. Must be some sort of new record. Maybe I should write more.
Let's see... the jazz choir went to Monterey last Friday. I drove up with Amy, Courtney, and her mom. We watched The Incredibles for a good portion of the drive up. After we arrived in Monterey and had dinner, we went to the concert at the convention center where the festival was. All of the adjudicators performed, as did Branford Marsalis. Needless to say, they were all good. On Saturday we had our performance. Because all of the choirs were one right after another, I was only able to see one other choir (the one we beat)... well, that and LA School for the Arts didn't show up. So, we got third place... most people in choir were expecting first or second. But Sioux City came in second. This got the occupants of my car rather frustrated. For some reason it didn't bother me. Anyway, after that we left for home. After Courtney and Amy got past some of their frustration we listened to/sang some barbershop music, and after they fell asleep, we listened to Vocalpoint and chatted until we got home.
So... now jazz choir's getting ready for Reno. We got the list of groups that are going to be there. Surprisingly, neither Hamilton nor LA School for the Arts are listed. However the rest of our usual competition, like Folsom, will be there, as will the various college choirs , including Bellevue (who won college vocal last year), CSUN and USC (Matt Falker), and CSUS (Kerry Marsh). Oh, speaking of Kerry Marsh, I'm kind of annoyed because we won't be able to see his clinic on vocal jazz arranging, as we will be warming up for our performance during it. Hopefully someone will tape it. Oh, and also annoying, Folsom sings at the same time as the DP band plays, Bellevue sings at the same time that our combo plays, and we'll have to probably literally run from the end of our combo's performance if we want to see the beginning of Garfield's band (overall instrumental winner last year).
In other news, I've been making the DPEA website for Mr. Shaeer. It's pretty good, except for a bug in IE5 Mac that makes the navigation bar cover up the entire screen. Hopefully I'll be able to fix that soon. So... making websites for Mr. Shaeer involves very long phone calls. One of them was something like two hours long, and there were a couple more in excess of an hour. But at least the site's getting done. And the work pays well, too. I just have to become a full employee of the district first so I can get the grant money he's paying me with. Paperwork, fun.
Uh... what else to talk about... I had a compsci midterm yesterday (easy), a physics test today (easy), and a calc test tomorrow (hopefully easy but who knows). Choir car wash is on Saturday. Reno next Thursday. AP Physics test on May 9. English paper due who-knows-when. Calc final sometime May 16-18, I think. After that pretty much all my classes are done except for jazz choir, which has our concert on May 22 with BBVD. Well, technically econ isn't done either, but that never really started, save for homework about once a month. But calculus, computer science, English, and most of physics (still doing labs, etc.) will be done.
I never know how to end these entries...
Let's see... the jazz choir went to Monterey last Friday. I drove up with Amy, Courtney, and her mom. We watched The Incredibles for a good portion of the drive up. After we arrived in Monterey and had dinner, we went to the concert at the convention center where the festival was. All of the adjudicators performed, as did Branford Marsalis. Needless to say, they were all good. On Saturday we had our performance. Because all of the choirs were one right after another, I was only able to see one other choir (the one we beat)... well, that and LA School for the Arts didn't show up. So, we got third place... most people in choir were expecting first or second. But Sioux City came in second. This got the occupants of my car rather frustrated. For some reason it didn't bother me. Anyway, after that we left for home. After Courtney and Amy got past some of their frustration we listened to/sang some barbershop music, and after they fell asleep, we listened to Vocalpoint and chatted until we got home.
So... now jazz choir's getting ready for Reno. We got the list of groups that are going to be there. Surprisingly, neither Hamilton nor LA School for the Arts are listed. However the rest of our usual competition, like Folsom, will be there, as will the various college choirs , including Bellevue (who won college vocal last year), CSUN and USC (Matt Falker), and CSUS (Kerry Marsh). Oh, speaking of Kerry Marsh, I'm kind of annoyed because we won't be able to see his clinic on vocal jazz arranging, as we will be warming up for our performance during it. Hopefully someone will tape it. Oh, and also annoying, Folsom sings at the same time as the DP band plays, Bellevue sings at the same time that our combo plays, and we'll have to probably literally run from the end of our combo's performance if we want to see the beginning of Garfield's band (overall instrumental winner last year).
In other news, I've been making the DPEA website for Mr. Shaeer. It's pretty good, except for a bug in IE5 Mac that makes the navigation bar cover up the entire screen. Hopefully I'll be able to fix that soon. So... making websites for Mr. Shaeer involves very long phone calls. One of them was something like two hours long, and there were a couple more in excess of an hour. But at least the site's getting done. And the work pays well, too. I just have to become a full employee of the district first so I can get the grant money he's paying me with. Paperwork, fun.
Uh... what else to talk about... I had a compsci midterm yesterday (easy), a physics test today (easy), and a calc test tomorrow (hopefully easy but who knows). Choir car wash is on Saturday. Reno next Thursday. AP Physics test on May 9. English paper due who-knows-when. Calc final sometime May 16-18, I think. After that pretty much all my classes are done except for jazz choir, which has our concert on May 22 with BBVD. Well, technically econ isn't done either, but that never really started, save for homework about once a month. But calculus, computer science, English, and most of physics (still doing labs, etc.) will be done.
I never know how to end these entries...
