I am happy, not all consuming happy that makes me want to jump for joy, but normal happy - content.
I have lots of things to look forward to and lots of things to work on.
What else is there to keep a mind busy?
Actually, have this week passes I think I'll have a lot of school projects done and music memorized and perfected.
Then, I'll have to find more things to work on, or different things.
Oh wait, I signed up to run a half marathon in March :D! Then I need to not be the weakest link on Fusion, I don't know if I am, but I don't want to be 'that guy' and it is still a lot of fun and I like the added pressure for some pain loving reason.
Annnndd we now have rehearsals on a few Thursdays to prepare for DISNEYLAND.
Monday, January 24, 2011
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Tiny Tragedies
My congresswoman, Gabrielle Giffords, was shot today. She remains in critical condition. A number of other people died in this shooting.
She was always visible in the community. She put on so many military academy help days which is what I personally would know her best for. To apply to an academy is a multistep process involving an elected official, congress or senate, to sponser you. She always put on programs to help us high schoolers. She was shot while doing 'Congress at the Corner' or something to that affect. Basically, she was getting to know people right near where I live.
Not only are the deaths and injuries tragic.
What does it mean though?
Are they going to start attacking gun laws?
Will we never see any of our elected officials anymore?
I love seeing my elected officials and getting to know them. Just recently we had a woman politics day at my school and so many people of both parties came and we got to meet them and it was amazing.
I have always had an affinity for politics.
I'm not saying the programs are more important than lives because preserving people and their welfare is the most important thing in the world, that's just a given. This is just things that aren't being addressed yet and will only be shown in the future.
We painted our indoor percussion mat today. It was weird though, not hearing about Giffords until lunch break. It was weird thinking that about half an hour away, a place where I hang out sometimes involving a woman I've shook hands with.
On a guilty note, I had fun painting the mat and getting to know my fellow musicians.
Hopefully, we all become fairly close.
Unfortunetly, I was looking at the logisitics of my life for next year...
This is probably the last year I'll be able to be in a music group.
I mean, Fordham has a pep band and such but it seems weird as in, I have no idea how it works (there aren't any auditions) and what do I even play anymore? Mellophone? French horn? Trumpet? Percussion? And if I'm a percussionist, I play mallet percussion. Do they even have that in a pep band atmosphere and if I did concert atmosphere, I have never played auxillary percussion so, I'm useless.
Plus, I'll have other things going on... running, perhaps one day rifle team, ROTC, school in general, Circle K.
...and there isn't an indoor group closer than 2 hours away.
Yeah.
Well, first I suppose I should figure out this season's music and make it the best season ever.
She was always visible in the community. She put on so many military academy help days which is what I personally would know her best for. To apply to an academy is a multistep process involving an elected official, congress or senate, to sponser you. She always put on programs to help us high schoolers. She was shot while doing 'Congress at the Corner' or something to that affect. Basically, she was getting to know people right near where I live.
Not only are the deaths and injuries tragic.
What does it mean though?
Are they going to start attacking gun laws?
Will we never see any of our elected officials anymore?
I love seeing my elected officials and getting to know them. Just recently we had a woman politics day at my school and so many people of both parties came and we got to meet them and it was amazing.
I have always had an affinity for politics.
I'm not saying the programs are more important than lives because preserving people and their welfare is the most important thing in the world, that's just a given. This is just things that aren't being addressed yet and will only be shown in the future.
We painted our indoor percussion mat today. It was weird though, not hearing about Giffords until lunch break. It was weird thinking that about half an hour away, a place where I hang out sometimes involving a woman I've shook hands with.
On a guilty note, I had fun painting the mat and getting to know my fellow musicians.
Hopefully, we all become fairly close.
Unfortunetly, I was looking at the logisitics of my life for next year...
This is probably the last year I'll be able to be in a music group.
I mean, Fordham has a pep band and such but it seems weird as in, I have no idea how it works (there aren't any auditions) and what do I even play anymore? Mellophone? French horn? Trumpet? Percussion? And if I'm a percussionist, I play mallet percussion. Do they even have that in a pep band atmosphere and if I did concert atmosphere, I have never played auxillary percussion so, I'm useless.
Plus, I'll have other things going on... running, perhaps one day rifle team, ROTC, school in general, Circle K.
...and there isn't an indoor group closer than 2 hours away.
Yeah.
Well, first I suppose I should figure out this season's music and make it the best season ever.
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