David's Blog

Today is the first monday of Febuary. This marks a wonderful time of the year. It’s so nice to have school bogging you down, eating away at you life. HA.

I think the only good thing about Febuary has got to be the Day of St. Valentines. Yep. For all you lovebirds out there. Oh!, but I just remembered that Febuary is also black history month! Thats even better! Let us have a moment of silence…………………

yadda yadda. The past few weeks have trickled by…actually rushed by. Last thing I knew, I was at Miqra reading da Holy Scripture!!! But yes, that past few weeks have also been interesting. Take for example, choir. It’s been pretty fun. Actually the first week or so was really fun, and it’s slowly gone downhill. I think now that I’m in the group, and realize that there are a lot of people in the class that don’t exactly care about singing, I’m getting a little irritated. I thought there was mixed chorus, then concert choir, then Choraliers. That is correct. And, I also thought you had to have the directors permission to enter concert choir? Yes, correct also! Then why did Mr. Doole let in a whole bunch of “no-care-ers”?!?!?? ARGH. Enough ranting. Another interesting tid-bit from choir… Last week, Amy finally came to the edge of her section, to sit next to me at the end of the tenor section, and I could tell she was getting more confident and such with her singing, and not being shy around me (WHICH IS ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL!!!, IN MY OPINION). Well, Mr. Doole went around, and asked the basses to sing a really low note, and it turns out that my flexible voice can hit that note, so he wants me as a bass now. YES!!! I’m a bass!!! But, NO!!! No more sitting by Amy. Mixed emotions…as one should be able to see.

Yes yes. Two weeks ago Ryan and I got a warning from Fletch, because of our “disruptions” in Independant Study, which was interesting. I guess I didn’t listen close enough, becuase last Friday I got a discipline referral from her. Now don’t look at me and say “Ahh David got a D.R., he is EVIL” becuase, really, actually, frankly, I’m not. I guess, caught in the situation, I didn’t realize when Billy’s, Fletch’s, and my conversation turned from a “discussion” to an “argument” and when my “talking”  turned to “talking back.” So after Billy and I backed down on our “argumentativeness” we went to reading. And of course, within a few minutes, I was very quietly giggling to myself about an inside joke between Billy and I…and I decided to write it down, and pass it to Billy. “I love Billy’s Willy” is what it said (long story). And so we burst out in quiet laughter, appearently catching the attention of Heather and Betsy (other friends) and Fletch. Fletch didn’t like this, so she asked for the note…and then proceeded to staple it to a D.R. slip. Ahh yes, I felt a plethora of emotions. “What is she doing?” “We weren’t that loud” “I wonder what the principle will think of the note?” SOOO, LOONG story short: ever since Fletch made the D.R. two days ago, I haven’t heard from the office about it. One of the following may be true:

1. She dicided not to turn it in (likely)
2. The office hasn’t gotten to it yet (very unlikely), or
3. The office didn’t take it seriously. (likely)

End of Fletch story for now.BOOK TALK TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I finished Left Behind a few days ago, I was pretty suprised at how obvious it is that you need to read a second book. I thought perhaps, like most sequels, the first book had been recieved well by readersl, and the writer decided to take the story and run with it, tacking on books for sales or something. But no, the end obviously points to a sequel. NOW WHY on earth would they make it so blatantly obvious, and not include the second book glued to the back of the first one?! or taped?! or stapled?! or packaged in a nice little Left Behind Series Tote Bag?!?!? It’s quite frustrating. So now I have to wait a few days until I get number 2 in the mail from the library. Argh. I’m also waiting on God’s Debris. I explain that some other time.

That’s about how life is right now. Thank you VERY MUCH for reading my entry! Feel free to leave a comment or something of that fashion! Thanks!

1/30/06 – Music

Music. I don’t know what I’d do without it. Now don’t think that I am someone who is addicted to my iPod or CD player. Those poeple are just consumers. I’m a producer. I do all sort of percussion stuff. I write music that the drumline uses, and I give drum lessons. I’m looking forward to possibly making music my career, either performing or teaching. I don’t want to be a rock star though…that’s too typical for today’s young musicians. “Oh I want to be a lead guitarist and make millions!” That is totally bogus. I usually don’t like bands that are popular but have barely any talent. I’d much rather pop in a CD and say “Wow! How the heck did they do that?!” Music.

2/1/06 – My Favorite…

My favorite band is currently Tool. They have tons of talent, especially their drummer, Danny Carey. He is originally from Kansas, which indentifies with me. Oddly, the whole band (Tool) is into occult studies, which sometimes gives them a bad name. I totally disagree with that, and don’t base my love for their music on it. The foundation of my love for them is their totally innovative style of music. They are the front runners for new rock, and are completely awesome!!!

2/3/06 – Freewrite

Life has been pretty good this week, but tiring. I haven’t gotten to bed before 9.45pm this week, and I’ve been feeling it during the day. On Wednesday night, I had an Eagle Recognition dinner, where Steve Riley from Baker Universities percussion department, was my mentor. He gave me a ton of good advice, and may be a useful “percussion contact” down the road. Last night (Thursday), I taught my third drum lesson with my frist drum student. He is doing awesome for his third week. Even though he is only 10, he stays focused and interested, giving great effort and asking questions. It’s very satisfying to teach someone what you love while making $15.00 an hour doing it!!

Thanks for reading!

It is 7.48pm and I’m already in bed. Once I finish this entry, I’m going to sleep!

This weekend was pretty alright. Friday night I went to a friend’s Eagle Scout Award ceremony. That was quite fun, and I must say, the reception afterward was awesome, becuase I heard jokes! I hadn’t heard good jokes about much of anything for a VERY long time! They are mostly offensive to various ethnic groups and such, so I went get into that. Saturday was alright, too. Janae and Amy came over, and we played RISK!. It was Amy’s first time playing, and she didn’t seem to like it. She also just seemed kind of mad all day, but I didn’t really ask. Later I found out that she actually enjoyed RISK! quite alot, and she was sorry for her bad mood. She also offered an explaination, but I won’t get into that…and no it wasn’t that time of the month…anyways. Sunday was interesting. Church was good, actually REALLY good. I’ll explain this in a moment. After church, I went to band practice, and now my band has a new bassist! He is pretty dang good, and that makes us happy. Our old bassist is a pretty good singer, so he is going to be singing full time.

I’ve been reading the first Left Behind book the past week or so…and I must say, with all my previous questioning, it’s pointing things out in a way I’ve never seen them, and is leading me back towards “believing.” Also, at church the past few weeks (I feel guilty when I realize this) I’ve been listening to the sermons more than I ever have. This past week’s was awesome. And my church website has an audio clip of it on their website. This sermon addresses the bible and its truth, and the truth of other writings. I don’t want to sound weird or anything. But, I guess if I feel so inclined to share this, it must be beginning to mean something to me. I think I’m getting it! And I want others to get it!

WOW – I just got a phonecall from the percussion director at Baker University! I’m going to an Eagle Recognition Dinner on Wednesday night, and he is going to be my mentor for the evening – talking to me about percussion and my future involving it! I’m super excited!

I took Amy home after her voice lesson today. Quite honestly, after Saturdays “bad mood” of hers, I was feeling a bit worried about her. But all of that has been resolved. I’m not saying that becuase we made out or something, because we didn’t, because our relationship isn’t built on that, but becuase I find that I just can’t ever be mad at her or find myself unhappy around her. I swear, I haven’t had a bad day since Sept. 11th, when we started “going out.” For real

Tonight I went to jazz band. We started a couple new tunes. One is by Dave Brubeck, my dads absolute favorite jazz artist. I figured my dad would be totally pleased to hear I was playing it, but I decided something different this evening. For once, I decided to let the other drummer, Chelsey, take the peice that she really wanted. For some reason, most of the time, I find myself saying “Well I’m first chair, so I want this song and that song.” Well tonight, for some unknown reason I suddenly decided, “You know what? Chelsey can do it!” So I gave it to her. I felt very good for doing it too, which is completely weird, because usually I feel totally mad if I don’t take the hardest or funnest ones.
Tomorrow I’m taking the AMC 10 test (American Math Competition). I hear its hard or something, hehe, and I haven’t prepared at all. Oh well – there is still the AMC 12 for my junior or senior year.
So thats the update. I know I’ve been writing less, and thus making my entries much longer. But HEY, doesn’t that make them all the more exciting?! Yeah! That’s what I thought.

Thanks for reading!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1/23/05 – Invent a Holiday

I believe if I were to invent a new holiday, it would be “help the poor day.” Instead of spending money on building projects, investing in the economy, exploring space, or worrying about getting rich, we should stop and think for a day. We could all plan to re-budget or something, to include donations to shelters, the homeless, poor countries, etc. Just think, if we weren’t giving money to NASA we could feed millions of people everyday. The holiday could be September 1st, so we could make sure people had enough money to get through the winter. I guess this all sounds pretty dumb but one must admit it would make the world a better place.

1/25/06 – “The Pen is Mightier Than the Sword”

“The pen is mightier than the sword.” I disagree with this statement. For example, if someone from one country shows a peices of paper to their enemies that declares that country now owns it’s enemies’ lands, the enemies can totally reject it. Even if they did agree, they could tear up the document and burn it. On second thought, perhaps the pen could be mightier, in the way of public persuasion. Maybe, before a political election, people write things about canadits. This could sway the vote and completely change the outcome and future. I guess “The pen is mightier than the sword” could be argued true or false…it’s just a matter of opinion.

1/27/06 – Freewrite

This week has been pretty cool. Sunday, I put a new stereo in my car. It sounds really good. I absolutely love listening to my music when I’m going places. It’s just so awesome. Also this week I’ve been playing the drums a lot, improving ma skillz. I showed a couple things I came up with to my older brother, and he seemed a bit mad and frustrated. The reality is we started playing at the same time, but he is seven years older than me. I’ve also had private lessons, so it seems I’m ahead of him, but it makes me feel kind of bad. Anyways. THis weekend I don’t really have anything to do, except work on a history project and go the church. I’ll probably get together with some friends, just to hang out. I don’t really thinkg there is much else I’d rather do, than hang out with friends. This is drumming but……… Also, if I had to chose between seeing a movie or just hanging out, I’d rather hang out. I can see movies alone.

Well well, its been four days since my last update, two days of absolutely no site views, three days since anyone posted a comment, and about 4000 thoughts I haven’t written about.

The week started off pretty cool. Last weekend was Miqra, a youth event at my church, where about 75-100 teens get together for a weekend, and spend time reading the bible. In 72 hours we read the entire bible. Now, if you are thinking that its like we sit down and read for days straight, its not that. We actually can sign up for hour long shifts, anytime during the day. A few friends and I decided to sign up for midnight to 2am on Sunday night (the event ran from Sat. morning to Monday morning). When we weren’t busy reading, we were around the church doing other activities. Hearing speakers, meeting in our “tribes”, watching movies, singing songs, eating, and sleeping. This year I thought it was going to be totally awkward, because recently I’ve been questioning my faith and all. I’m not really sure if I believe everything, and I’ve been trying to decided for a LONG while now. Miqra kind of just pushed things back into my face, and I still don’t really know what I believe or what I want to believe.

Right now I’m reading Left Behind and it’s pretty good so far. It’s really wierd to think what it would be like if the Rapture happened. But of course, I’m not sure if I believe that it will ever.

After Miqra, it was back for another week at school. Suprisingly on Wednesday, Janae mentioned that our choir teacher complimented me, if front of the top school choir…just randomly, during class. I’m not sure exactly what he said, but something like: “Do you guys know David? He is a good singer” or something like that. I don’t agree, but I guess if he says so…..  Then, on Friday, when I was in his class, Amy and I went up to ask him something, and then he asked me if I was going to be getting an audition peice ready for next year. So I guess I’m going to……OH and I just realized that I haven’t told my parents this yet!!! ahh!!!!

I’m really liking school right now, because everyday I have two easy classes. On Tuesdays and Thursdays it’s Band and Idependent Study, and on Wednesdays and Fridays its Independent Study and Choir. Ba-da-ba-ba-ba – I’m loving it.

Today was pretty shweet. We (me and some friends) went out to the movies and Red Robin. We saw King Kong. Honestly, the first half of the movie sucked, because the diologue was stupid and things didn’t really flow. As it went on, though, it got a lot better, and it ended up pretty good. Except the last line in the movie was dumb. Like trying to be all deep and emotional, but not happening because of the actor and stuff. See the movie, and you’ll know what I mean. All in all I give King Kong 3/5 stars. After the movie, Amy, my beautiful and wonderful girlfriend, had to go home. So we all had a few minutes at Red Robin, and then she had to go. But the rest of us stayed a bit long and finished our food, then headed to Billy’s house. That was pretty fun, because we did a bit of DDR, completely sucking, then some pingpong, then some Risk, then some more pingpong. It was pretty awesome. Sorry Amy, that you couldn’t come.

I gave my first drum lesson on Thursday night, to a fourth grader, who’s parents are friends with my parents. It was pretty cool, and he seems to have potential. We’ll see how it goes. I’m excited.

Alrighty, well thats the update for the week. There is much more to tell, but this is already pretty lengthy. Hopefully I’ll get back to updating more often, and then posts will be shorter and more plentiful.

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