This is my 30th post! Hooray!

Up this morning, no music, didn't feel like any, listened to NPR. Story on the 4,000th soldier to die in the Iraq war. A little depressing but put it in perspective.

School: Schooly. Didn't really do a lot today but that's fine by me. Managed to scooch out of giving a presentation in civics by literally SECONDS. Bill gets down from the podium, teacher looks at me, I look at teacher, bell rings and I give high-fives. I wouldn't have minded giving it, but it's the principle of the thing. Driving home, "Talk of The Nation" on NPR had the same story on the 4,000 dead soldiers. A wife giving her testimonial on how her 4-year old daughter is coping since she never saw her father, and never will. Almost couldn't handle it. The fact that I have actual physical real-life friends over there (shout-out to my main man Joe Parker kickin' it in Iraq) makes it all the more real. I fear that one day I'll be reading over the obituaries and find his name. Hopefully not.

This war is all kinds of fucked-up.

Home, internet, taking the dog out. Listen to "English Settlement". Alright, not amazing, not bad either and at least it's warm out. Home, no homework except study. Have to re-write my english reflection for the portfolio as Ms. Tarasevich graded it but lost it. Not really a good teacher academically. We don't do dickity-shit in that class but at least it's a rest period for me from spanish and B-days in general. Pick up pizza from Junction (oh my god all the way in North Kingstown), take the scenic route and listen to Meccalily. Speaking of...

Wayne Belanger emailed me saturday asking how everything was going. Long story short, he's asked me to faux-audition for his band. He mentioned he has scrap of songs, and I do this a lot online, taking scraps of songs and putting parts over them, pretty much like Brian Eno, without being Eno (Remember, Justin is the fourth deadly finn). Honestly I think I'm usually better at this in a pop-songwriting environment than on my own. He's invited me to his house to put my grubby mits on his instruments to see which combination work out the best. We shall see....


Oh great, and now I've blogged myself away from studying. Well, time to go rectify this...