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Suuu busy but doing well-ish. And regionals '04.

Thursday, March 18, 2004

Wow, yes, I am indeed alive. Praise symphony week comes again-- this time I'm not writing the music, but I got to do some directing last rehearsal! Mr. Beatty was helping me a lot, telling me not to conduct backwards xD and how to break apart the sections and put them back together. I feel so blessed... and being a public school orchestra director is starting to sound really good again... it would be more gratifying than graphic design, I think. Even though Pastor Hugo makes the latter sound like the ultimate job ^_^. Ahh...

A few nights ago, I started writing about this year's regional math competition from last week on a piece of paper, planning to post it here later. It [combined with one other topic] got to be 5 1/2 pages long! Thus I'm not going to type that all up right now. I will say that it was great. I guess I wrote a lot because I had just finished reading Elizabeth George Speare's The Witch of BlackBird Pond and I was feeling really emotional. *Dies* That was such a beautiful story. At one part... when a little girl was reading some verses out of Proverbs in the middle of the faulty witch trial... I started crying really hard. That felt good. Man it's crazy. I basically found a [temporary] little garden of peace in that book. The "love" in it is elementary-level, but I really felt it. To be innocent! To have cute little adventures! To be SAVED by someone you love, who loves you back! To be wisked away to a perfect ending! Ahhhh!!

What else... 4H, I made a little impromtu but premeditated speech about why it is good to be judged in a fair-- 'tis because you will learn a lot more hearing from people who aren't biased in your favor. Finale 04 arrived in the mail! w00t! Give me song/arranging ideas! And it was ALMOST springtime, and then it snowed, oh well. I am starting to take Karate again, which has been ok. Hehe.

Last day of math 118 at COD came along. I really miss all those different people. It was so interesting being with them. By finals, there were two people in class with mohawks XD; but it's something else. The different ideas, the different upbringings, the startling new thoughts. The "philosopher guy," as I affectionately call him (one of the guys with a mohawk) was more of a humanist or something, but wow! To meet someone with seemingly no sense of ethics or manners at all! Out of nowhere he would declare to me, "You dress really dark. Is it because you have a dark personality? It's very... mellow." At my suprised stare, he said, "What... not used to people talking to you like this?" "No, I think it's rather interesting," I said. Another day he announced, "I think it's ridiculous for someone to have ten children. I think it's ridiculous to have even three. It's SELFISH!" You may see nothing in that besides that it is wrong... but think about it! Ah, I'm around conservatives so often, it's just fascinating for me to see what other people have to say. It is a little sad as well, might I mention. How lost he was! How insecure, though he had his mind made up so! How much he needed the pure love of God! And God's perfect Word! The others were great too; I was planning to write a short description about each of them in fact, for memory's sake, but that will have to wait.

About the other half of my life... it's been nice-ish... I was moved to an aparment-like place with 4 really awesome girls in my suite [suite sixteen!], and there is a piano in the lobby. So I'm good :D. My first day there, we just sort of talked and sat around for a long time into the night [I was doing math homework of course xD]; one girl was playing the guitar, and some were singing; I got that nice campfire sort of feeling. Sometimes living here gets to be really... uncomfortable, but there are some sweet moments, definately. Shiopei was all incredulous that I was staying home part of every week, saying that she liked being focused in one place better. I, however, don't think I could have it any other way. For now, at least. Especially because of my growing involvement in church music stuff ^_^. Ah, I was meant to be busy, I feel it.

MY BROTHER ROCKS. I am going to compile all his quotes into a php script and have them randomize somewhere on my site by next version!
Weien: I mean
Weien: WHERE
Weien: wouldst it go?
Weien: ont he site?
Weien: on the site
Weien: on th esite
Weien: o nthes ite
Weien: eh?
Weien: NONONONONO
Weien: On the no, eh?
Weien: haha mad brother, mad brother!
Weien: WHAHAHA
Weien: nothing,
Weien: nothing.

:) God bless you guys.

8:11 AM

Comments

It's true. All of it.

Posted by Weien at March 19, 2004 5:15 AM