Here’s that long overdue xanga entry, complete with somewhat correct grammar and spell check, because I’m not online right now. Anyway, everyone should come to the dance/show choir/jazz band spring concert that is tomorrow starting at 7 at the Walter Arts Center’s Branch Theater on the Holland Hall campus.

Bible verse of the day (and by verse, I mean plural):

Do you see what this means – all these pioneers who blazed the way, all these veterans cheering us on? It means we’d better get on with it. Strip down, start running – and never quit! No extra spiritual fat, no parasitic sins. Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we’re in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed – that exhilarating finish in and with God – he could put up with anything along the way: cross, shame, whatever. And now he’s there, in the place of honor, right alongside God. When you find yourselves flagging in your faith, go over that story again, item by item, that long litany of hostility he plowed through. That will shoot adrenaline into your souls!

In this all-out match against sin, others have suffered far worse than you, to say nothing of what Jesus went through – all that bloodshed! So don’t feel sorry for yourselves. Or have you forgotten how good parents treat children, and that God regards you as his children? God is educating you; that’s why you must never drop out. This trouble in isn’t punishment; it’s training, the normal experience of children…But God is doing what is best for us, training us to live God’s holy best. At that time, discipline isn’t much fun. It always feels like it’s going against the grain. Later, of course, it pays off handsomely, for it’s the well-trained who find themselves mature in their relationship with God…Clear the path for long-distance runners so no one will trip and fall, so no one will step in a hole and sprain an ankle. Help each other out. And run for it!

-Hebrews 12 excerpts, Message

mm…have a lot to be happy about, or to run for…so I might as well do it. There’s my motive.

Hey, how about a day in the life?

6 – wake up for jazz combo, for the concert tomorrow

7-8 – jazz combo. We add Tough Talk to our repertoire with about thirty minutes of practice. It’ll work out though, and I’m happy because I get to improv on the bass line for the entire show

8 – meeting mods. Nothing exciting, we signed up for sports and then student council elections are coming soon. I don’t think I’ll run for anything…not enough school nationalism. Oh well

9:02-9:46 – Spanish. Review on mandatos. That’s about it

9:46-10:30 – Euro. Took notes on Treaty of Versailles and then talked about All Quiet book…only thing I like about it is when it talks about corpse rats, which are the size of small dogs. And then it mentions how they’ve killed dogs and cats and how they sweep through the trenches in the numbers of hundreds and thousands

10:30-11:14 – Comp. Religion. Took a quiz and then some notes. Still can’t figure out if Taoist form of government is more like Republican or Democratic party…

11:14-11:58 – Algebra II H. Talked about matrices…kinda fun, like a giant jigsaw puzzle. Find the inverses…

11:58 – 12:42 – supposed to be English. With Mr. Butler out of state, we got Coach Gross, who lets us out earlier. We’re working on short story character developments right now. I picked a guy who goes to Rice and is my ideal techie, meaning the kind of guy that I grow up to be…weirdly, I’ve developed him so that he’s just like me + a couple of years, and has a super awesome desktop, laptop, and iPod. One stipulation…he’s an internet hacker

12:42–1:26 – Jazz Band on the WAC stage. Get psyched for concert tomorrow…awesome

1:26–2:10 – Chinese I. Chinese geography…

2:10-2:54 – working on ECU forensics science camp application. Hope it gets accepted. Want to go with Billy…

3-4 – linear stretch with track. The stretching in track is sometimes harder than the workout itself…it was the last day for me since I’m not going to Claremore on Friday or SPC (disappointed, but…oh well)

4-4:30 – went to C-Team and played soccer. We won with two goals. They had six. We still won though

4:50-5:45 – running.

6-7:30 – sound for dance. Ben shows up…hurrah. Hope I don’t screw anything up…seems like my sound levels are randomly changing with every day.

7:30–8:30 – sound for show choir. Levels randomly changing still…hope I don’t mess up (speaking of which, jazz band has made it so that if we don’t win state, we just blame it on our bass player)

9:37 – right now. Took a shower, don’t need to do homework because it’s all essentially finished….it’s like piece-meal reform. I finished what I needed to. Get to cut tomorrow to go listen to the President of Xerox talk along with Desjardins (headmaster) and the other presidents of the classes.

That was kind of fun, I guess. I’ll be happy from now on, I sure hope. Have a 3.6004 GPA, I think. Guess I can brag about latest test scores: Algebra II H – 100. Spanish III H – 97. Comp. Religion on Confucianism – 97. Essay on Euro (the one I spent a very long time on) – 87. won’t get myself down on that one. If mr. Carey decides to start grading on effort though, I’ll be set.

Come to that concert tomorrow.