Procrastination!

I have a history project due on Wednesday. But I really don't want to do it right now, so I think I'll blog. Yay for procrastinating!

I've decided that I talk about history way too much, so I think I'll refrain in this post. Sorry for the previous geeky-ness. Why don't I talk about TV. Yea, that sounds good.

America's best dance crew just ended. Yay Jabbawockeez! I liked them. Kaba Modern was pretty cool too. Mario Lopez drives me crazy though. He's one of the worst TV show hosts I've ever watched. Battle 360 is still doing good. Bruno Gaido- aviation captain first class- just died in the last episode, so that was depressing. But Tivo just recorded another, so I'm excited to see that one. I watched one episode of Miss Guided. It's a weird show. I don't think I like it. Pushing Daises comes back on in fall. I miss it. I think that's all the TV I've been watching lately... Yea.

The other day we watched Peter and the Wolf. It's an Oscar winning short film about this boy who tries to save his pets from this wolf. I don't know, it's kind of strange. Each character was represented by a different instrument. Like the cat was a clarinet, the crow was a flute, the wolf was a french horn. It was pretty cool. It's hard to explain. The poor duck though, gets eaten whole. I liked the duck, he was an oboe.

Spring Break was more eventful then planned. I watched a movie with some friends. Went bowling too. I'm a much worse bowler than I thought I was. Too bad, it was fun anyways. Then I got together with other friends and drew on fruit. Lots of fun.

Easter was good. We did an egg hunt with my moms side of the family, and I lost to my 8-year old cousin. It brought down my self-esteem a bit. But I had fun. I spent the rest of Easter with some other family, and it was just good to see them all.

Okay. I should go write about the Soviet Union now.

-Julia

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Yes, Happy St. Patrick's Day. And Happy belated Pi Day. And I might as well wish you a Happy early Easter. I had this revalation today remembering that I am indeed Irish. I'm dissapointed in how little I have celebrated St. Patrick's Day today. Oh well, I'm not that Irish.

Saturday the 15th was the day of the long- awaited Solo/ Ensemble festival. The trio I played with Melissa and Marcea got Superior, which was a complete shock. And Monochrome III also got Superior as well as command performance. That was exciting, and I'm really thankful for being a part of that ensemble and playing with such great clarinetists. So afterwards I went over to Sheena's house with Marcea, Josh and John. It was so much fun and probably the best time I've had in the past few months. We played ping-pong (during which Sheena was conveniently pelted with multiple ping-pong balls), pool and guitar hero. John is an idiot and was an amazing guitar hero player. It was all a ton of fun. (Thanks for inviting me Sheena!)

So the other day I went up to my grandma's house and we met with some family friends from Modesto. There, I found out about their son Chance, who has a band. I don't know how dedicated they are, but they sound really good. It's called the Kinzie Affair. (By the way, the link is to myspace, which I'm kind of against, but it was the only way I could show everyone what the band is about.) Another story: Chance's dad teaches a human relations class at some high school, and he needed a song for this video they were doing. So Chance just wrote and recorded one. I really like the video too. So yea, you can check it out if you want to.

Spring Break brings lots of rest and lots of boredom. I've watched 2 movies and it's only Monday. We rented a few more too, which I plan on watching tomorrow. Among them are "Amazing Grace" (It's about parliament and British politics. I'm such a history geek.), "Ocean's Thirteen" and "Michael Clayton". I also plan on watching "The Princess Bride" and possibly "Hunt for Red October" (It's about Russian submarines in WWI. Yes, history, I know.) I also watched some of "Howl's Moving Castle". I like some of the soundtrack. It's nice and it really fits the movie.

I just went to Costco yesterday, so now we have a very wide selection of fruit. It's really exciting. Let's see, we have kiwi, bananas, tangerines, apples and a pineapple. I love fruit.

I think that's all I have to write about. Other than school work, and Solo/ Ensemble I really haven't done anything worth mentioning. Have a wonderful, relaxing spring break!

-Julia

Fail...

For anyone that cares, I failed my biology test. I got a 28/30 on my Spanish essay and a 99% on my geometry chapter 10 test. But i still failed biology, so I'm kind of bummed. And I got a 90% on my English test and a 100% on the essay part of that test... So I guess overall I did okay. Just Biology...

I just had a burrito and Chinese food for dinner. It sounds disgusting, but it was pretty good.

Since Sunday I've practiced... 10 hours, just for solo ensemble. Our trio is starting to resemble a song. It's still not looking to good though.

Because of the exit exams recently and all of the sophmores in my classes, my teachers have been giving me nothing but busy work. It's annoying. We're watching March of the Penguins in Biology. And in History we're doing this outline that takes 45 minutes, but he gives us two days to do it. I guess I should appreciate the break but, I just want to learn something useful.

Over the course of time people have asked me what ethnicity I am, and all I can respond with is, "I have no idea." But yesterday I tried to set things straight. And it's come to this- I'm mainly German, British, Italian and Irish. I think that's mostly it. I know some of my ancestors are from Wales.

Sorry for this extremely random post.

-Julia

Happy March!

Yes, indeed. Happy March. And Happy Daylight Savings Time. As of 2:00 this morning, I believe.

This week has been pretty hectic. Lots of practicing for solo ensemble, which is coming up quickly. Just today I practiced for about 4 hours. Lots of fun. I still need to practice a lot. But it should all turn out okay. I hope...

I had a variety of tests. A history quiz and spanish essay on Thursday. Then geometry, biology and english tests on Friday. And I'm sure others that I'm not thinking of. But that was all fun. I'm fairly confident that I got decent grades on most of those.

The band and I went to Littlerock High School on Thursday for a competion. Symphonic band sounded great and got a really good score. Concert band (mine) did okay, and got and okay score. It wasn't the best we could have done it, so I was rather disappointed. But we did good in the sightreading part of it. Actually a lot better than I thought we would, even though the song was really easy.

Yesterday was the Almond Blossom Parade. I don't really have any comments. It wasn't good or bad. Average, I suppose. After the parade I went to visit my family, which was awesome. (It always is.) My dad's side of the family does this thing every 2nd Saturday of the month. It's called Taco Night and we all go to my uncle and aunt's house and eat these amazing tacos. So I did that last night. I mostly hung out with my sister and my cousin's cousin (we've decided to just adopt each other as cousins. We're close enough to be sisters, so why not cousins?) And also with this kid named Timmy. I shouldn't call him a kid considering he is kind of a high school graduate. But I was just introduced to him, and he's pretty cool. (Let's see if I can get this- he is my cousin's boyfriend's cousin... I think.) Anyway, that was a fun night. I got to be with alot of people I love, and that's always good for me.

Other things that have happened that aren't worth their own paragraph: We got new Clarinet Choir music. It's pretty. I like it; Project Runway ended- Yay for Christian; My brother is learning the clarinet; My sisters official (almost official) wedding date is September 1st! I get to be a bridesmaid. And it will also be the first wedding I've ever attended; I cleaned my room today and according to Marcea it is quite "spacious"

Oh yes, I just remembered. The other day I watched "Letter's from Iwo Jima". I don't remember how many Japanese people I saw kill themselves, or saw kill some one else. It happened to be my first R- rated movie, and it really wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. I won't ruin it for any one that hasn't seen it, but i was satisfied with the ending.

I've been watching the History Channel more frequently lately, and I saw this show called "Battle 360". It's about the USS Enterprise, and some of the battles it went through in WWII. So far there's been one about Pearl Harbor, and other various Japanese Islands. And then I'm half-way through one on Tivo about Midway. (Tivo is great, I love it.) So for anyone that enjoys the history channel/ history in general/ WWII/ the Navy, try to catch this show. I really like it.

Okay, I came on here not really knowing what to say, so I think I wasted enough time for tonight.

-Julia