Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Jesus christ, today was bad. One of the worst I've had in years.

For the past years, I've never had a day like this. It was just the weather and the fact that I could have come into school by 12 and not missed a THING just depressed me.

I need the trigonometry project like I need a hole in my head.

Digital photography was alright, I basically was working with Katie Truchon and the show for the block party with the band line up. I offered to do sound, and suggested the cafeteria as

A.) The auditorium is under construction, and as the rest of the project has been behind schedule I'd assume this would be too.

B.) It seems to be a better room. Small, tiled but some stuff on the ceiling and wall to absorb the sound.

Hopefully should be fine, can't really see a problem, and if I'm soundguy, I get to do my own sound for my band! yaaaaayyy. And also play house music. Aw yeah.

Band sucked for all the wrong reasons. Could not find the JBL Eon speaker I use (used ever since the school's bass amp long story short was tripped over.) nor could I find the other one. Apparently Mrs. Lopes borrowed it for the junior prom and has yet to return it to the music room. So I spent the period practicing runs and dexterity as I couldn't play amplified. I'm going to be incredibly pissed if come thursday it is not back.

Dressed up for Civics, for them to make sure we have the proper clothes for our presentation. Wasn't bad, looked good and was semi-comfy. We also had to have the stuff for our actual presentation, which meant dragging my guitar and amp and all various knick-knacks I needed. I volunteered to go first, because I didn't want to drag in all this shit just not to go, plus I worked on my outline last night. Started out kinda iffy, but got better as it went on. Glad I went first because it means I'm receiving feedback quicker. Which also means I can improve this presentation quicker. To my surprise, the class loved it. Especially the gamelan section where I looped a 5/8 phrase that I composed, and the drumsticks. Glad to see that if they liked it then I won't have to worry so much about what to say, and it definitely cleared a lot of crap out of what I don't have to present. Barely made it to 12 minutes, I had so much stuff I wanted to say again but couldn't. Maybe I'm just elongating what doesn't need to be elongated.

Home: Nap, walk to Mission Of Burma, home, get dinner, but not before trying to get gas for my car. My debit card is declined so I just take $15 out of my wallet that I put aside for lunch money and used that. Bought me about a quarter of a tank. What the fuck. Get home with the food. Chinese from Bamboo Garden. They fucked up my order (and just mine) and instead of General Tso's they gave me Chicken Fingers. God damn.

Went to URI's open mic night, last one of the semester and year for Astrid. Saw her read two poems. They were good. Also saw Jay read three poems, loved the second one, other two were pretty good. Split afterwards, home, blogging, showering, bed.

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