Got a call from Bill last night as I was about to shower, asking for a ride into school this morning. No problem. I'd pick him up at 7:05. Get up at 6:20, slowly get out of bed and just go have a nice talk with him.

Wake up, open my eyes.

It's 7:08. FUCK. Literally throw on the first shirt, jeans and sweatshirt I find, rush out the door with a cereal bar and frappwhatchamacall it. Pick him up at 7:10, doesn't seem too pissed. Make it school on time.

School? Schooly. I got called to Guidance, they said I should look for my musical director and send him an email regarding the hours I spent in pit band the past two years than do it all over again. Was refreshing to hear that. We also went over my graduation portfolio, and found I have more than enough entries to graduate! Huzzah! So that's off my mind, which is good.

I wasted time in civics. Well, not waste. I just spent the period looking up Coltrane, Fred Frith, Peter Gabriel, Derek Bailey and other free jazz artists and tearing my hair out that I will never be as good as them. Made me want to listen to Ascension again when I got home, but I forgot. Oops. Was nice to be home on regular time for once. Jamie stopped by with the finale spanish poster, which is good. I need to finish the worksheets tomorrow but eh I don't care. One is done...

Jazz band tonight. Small number, so we just work on improvising on a Bb blues scale. Some take quickly to it, some have a little trouble. For some reason on the call and response section, I keep spilling over into a 3rd bar, don't know why. Not really happy with my solos tonight, but they're just for educational purposes. It's pretty obvious Dan Labove has never really had practice time behind a kit. This kid Christian asks to try out my bass. I agree, just saying not to break it. He plays "Smoke On The Water" and pretty well too, for not really being a bass player. I was impressed. Jazz band ends relatively early, Mr. Healey, Kevin, Christian and I talk about band, and the way things are going. We are all really impressed with him and hope it'll keep going this way. Talk to him about Narr. Wind ensemble he invited me to. If he can get a double bass from URI and I spend a month on it I will join (Oh jesus christ those poor poor souls...) Seems like a good time to improve my musicianship.

More Brian Eno before a shower and to sleep. (With my alarm set this time).