writhingmoonbeam

First off, it always takes me forever to remember where that stupid and sign is. You know, the &? It's dumb, I know, but hey. It just does.

I just figured I'd put that as the title because I like both those animals, and, heck, alliteration is always nifty. Nifty. Nifty. I think I'll make that my signature.

So! Currently I am on the lookout for another potential bass. I'm crazy, I know. But, well, kinda sorta not really no, I'm not - I have a 7/8ths classical bass, and yes, my SuBigkeit is gorgeous, but he's not a jazz bass. So, therefore, the hunt for a cheapish but good jazz bass which happens to be the right size is just what's going down.

Other than that, not much is going on, except the end of the school year. Yeah, I know, you people got out way back in May or something like that. Tomorrow's my last day as a sophomore. It's weird. It really hasn't sunk in yet, and I doubt it will until I'm swamped with projects and homework and all that.

Not that I don't have summer assignments. I do. And I'm planning on getting them done ASAP. But this year I think I've pretty much screwed myself over. A normal person's schedule would look something like this:

- Regular English
- Regular History
- Pre-Calc
- Some easy science class
- A Focus class
- An easy, fun, and relaxing elective

Instead, mine looks like this:

- AP English
- AP History
- Pre-Calc
- Chemistry
- Band focus and orchestra focus at the same time
- A cappella choir (almost the top level of vocal)

...plus PYP. Yup, I'm gonna be swamped. Oh well.

Senior projects will be fun, though. Mine's also going to somewhat be my junior project, I think. I'm going to build a bass. It'll end up like crap - don't tell me it won't, because I have the facts and it's my very first time doing anything remotely like this - but I'm okay with it. If it turns out playable, then wow! Double victory.

Yup, so this journal is pretty much just a trial for those nifty-looking skin things. Here's to hoping it looks good. Cheers!

(and screw the mood thing anyways)

I want to watch the new Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Just a craving. Yup.
Toodles.

EDIT:
Well screw that. Need a subscription, do I? What turds.

I'm..."off hiatus," I guess, although right about now I need to kick my butt into gear even more. So yeah. Still, maybe I'll upload something every now and then.

My hiatus kinda failed... but I stayed off here for a whole however-long-that-was! That was good. An improvement.

Lots of things have happened...and a public journal is certainly not a good place to put them all. Suffice it to say, lots of things have happened.

I have realized that I feel like a bloated toad or, to be less refined and more accurate, a lump of rancid shit after - and now while - I've been using the computer. Unfortunately, at the same time, I'm rather 'addicted' to it. So, for...at least a little while, I'm going to completely give up the computer. (Including, probably, the writing of papers - although if it's at school, then I'll use one). Yes, sorry, this means that I won't be able to talk with my usual aim or msn buddies, but...this is kind of important. Half of you I have phone numbers for anyways.

Talking on the phone is always a wonderful thing to do - you get a more personal conversation with whoever you're talking to, and all that without having to resort to emoticons and phrases like "omg!" "lol" "rofl" or any of the others. Talking on the phone usually leaves me feeling much better than I had been. So, yes, that will still be a means of communication. Texting is always a good way to reach me if you need something, but yeah, leave a message. If you've got my number, it hasn't changed, even if my answering machine thing doesn't sound like it belongs to anybody. I just never have reception for long enough (at my house, at least) to program one in there. So yes - call, text, leave a message - it's all cool. But please remember this: my phone is always on silent, due to the fact that I spent a heck of a lot of my time either in classes or in rehearsals. And I have had Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" blasting away at top volume from my left pants pocket in the middle of a dress rehearsal for a symphony WHILE PLAYING WITH THE OREGON SYMPHONY. So thanks for understanding why it's kinda important to keep it silent.

All in all...I guess I'm trying to say I need to get my ass up off the couch and computer chairs - for laptop and computer, respectively - and get my butt in gear. After all...my music load is a pretty staggering thing. And I need to work on it. A lot.

TVs are overrated. You can live without your iPod. Computers AREN'T that vital. Cell phones...we used to get along just fine without them, so why can't we now? Again, not important. And yet, our society has modeled its values around anything and everything shiny, colorful, expensive, flashy...in short, around the materialistic values we all claim to not have. But I know we all do - let's just try and curb our addictions and reliance upon them, just a little bit.

This has been Franny, signing off for the month of January, 2009.

And this is Franny, going to practice.

A newt is a salamander. Did you know that? I didn't. Totally thought they were different species or something. Like, newts were in the colder climates and salamanders were in the warmer (you know, cuz of that whole salamander fire thingamijig...probably from HP or someplace. Ahhh)

Seriously though! Weird.