Eh (hmm)

oh noes. I are sitting hereon  this couch and not doing anything  – which is exactly what I  haven’t been doing, and I can’t stand it.

I watched an hour TV show,  but because lame it’s over.

So,  scrubs is on, but it’s not  interesting  or funny, so I checked email and  stuff and an now updating my blog.  I really  could do stuff, but I’ve exercised, practiced, done some homework, and stuffs, and I’m  not in the mood for much.

I suppose I want to do Something like cook or file or  something, but the problem lies within the vagueness  and indefinably of “something:   obviously, I think “something” means  write long and dumb notes which are  read by me  and me alone, (thank god  I read them, hits) and procrastinate  until bedtime.

However, I’m so amazingly awesome that I make this post awesome just by having written it. (Sshhh.)

Is it going to rain?

I find myself asking whether it is going to rain or not; is it going to rain? The weather here in Rapid City is thunderstormy at the moment, so perhaps a better question is “will I be struck by lightning?”.

Today was the second day of classes, and the first for SDSMT, so I had every single one of my classes todayyyyyyyyyy, so yes. I’m taking AP Government, Chamber Orchestra, Sociology of Courtship and Marriage, Calculus II, and Computer Science I. So, yes. I haven’t much to do, although I suspect an added load of homework when I begin to get homework.

I’m going to go outside anyways; I’m probably more striking than lightning anyways =D

Oh, My

Well, I’m going to Ottawa Sound Encounters String Camp this Wednesday; I’ll be there till the Saturday after next. A few days after I’m done with that, our family is flying to Europe (London, Podgorica (Montenegro), Paris).

Relatives are going to stay in my room, so I had to clean it. It was really, really, really, really super filthy, especially my rug, which deserves a vacuuming even now.

The lots of rain in rapid caused the basement to get somewhat wet, and fungus makes us recarpet and repad. Everything downstairs is exiting, except the server, which will have a special stand to keep it running for my brother. My regular computer has no internet–something fixable–but doesn’t anyways.

So, yes.

I am Alive

I find myself occupied with task of writing a heftily procrastinated research paper–the time 1:29 displayed on my fuzzy computer screen is a homage to the great God of Tomorrow. I have waited too long to begin writing on my paper. Although I feel distraught to leave a book unfinished and begin reading another, I have had to leave seven riveting books unfinished in order to attain enough workable perspective. I admit part of my fascination is due to my self-imposed ostracism and my unremittent dedication to my God of Tomorrow, but excuses still do not relieve the mental instability of leaving books unfinished. Continue reading »

New York

If you have no idea where I am, I am in New York for easter and a little bit more. I am at my brother’s, and it’s awesome here.

 Today I got up, tried in vain to sftp files from my home computer to my brother’s laptop, got some empanadas for lunch, or maybe that was yesterday. Somewhere along in there we all got out the door and did some stuff. We visited a machine which you play a few notes and it builds music by computer software. The sound is created by shooting pingpong balls at xylophonic wooden things and swirling finger-like object around various wine glasses filled to various levels and various other things. We practiced some music.

My brother’s band, Leigh-Ra!, played in the Mae Mae Cafe; I opened with Symphonie Espagnol (which I botched completely after a reprieve from practice of it) and Ashokan Farewell (which I guessed at and did as good of job as if I read the repetitive music). I also played in one of their songs, which might’ve been called Bohemian.

 I’m supposed to be doing English on this trip, and I will do some.

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“Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.

Four be the things I’d been better without:
Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.

Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.

Three be the things I shall have till I die:
Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.”
–Dorthy Parker, “Inventory”

Today I had German 1, AP Calculus, and AP Physics, and of course Chamber Orchestra. I had fun in all of them, although the majority of the fun was concentrated in Calculus, Physics, and Orchestra, and not German. We took a quiz in Calculus, and did impressive-sounding but easy problems in Physics.Overall, today has been pretty good. I thought I’d end the day with another poem:

“Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green,
That host with their banners at sunset were seen:
Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown,
That host on the morrow laid withered and strown.”

–George Gordon, Lord Byron, from “The Destruction of Sennacherib”

Sunday, Day of Warships.

“Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!
Long has it waved on high,
And many an eye has danced to see
That banner in the sky;
Beneath it rung the battle shout,
And burst the cannon’s roar;
The meteor of the ocean air
Shall sweep the clouds no more.”
–Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., from “Old Ironsides”

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School and the Weekend

“…I wrote out the characteristic packing lists of my parents and my friend, and described packing the car and driving to the camp site: ‘They had packed so much that it was spilling out the doors and windows [of their car]. … They were ready. “Wait! Did we pack the tent?”‘ The book was unfinished at 17 pages, leaving off as I found a magic ring and showed it off to my mom on the beach near our campsite.”

I am writing my two AP English 12 papers this weekend. They were due the second day of school, the first time I had AP English 12. Unfortunately, and regardless of fault, I was unaware of this assignment. As it is late work, I will get at most a 50/100 if I write a perfect paper. Although this is demoralizing because there seems to be no hope in the paper, I will continue to write my papers.

My whole family took a hike today. We hiked along the Flume Trail to Sheridan Lake; it was enjoyable, but the weather is colder now that fall and winter are nearly here. Each of us wore a light or medium coat; I wore a scarf and headband, Luka wore a hat and hood, my mother wore a headband and gloves, and my father wore a headband with his jacket unzipped.

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Back from Oregon

Hello! I am indeed back from my vacation in Oregon, I got back last night at about seven in the evening. I had a very good time with my relatives and of course my cousin. (And the other two cousins that only hung around for about… two days, being quite liberal in my evaluation)

We stayed my uncle Peter’s house in Ashland, Oregon, which he bought and then added a loft, garage, and redesigned the whole house. It wasn’t really built for quite as many people as it held, but it was ok. My parents and I slept in the real bedroom (being the first to arrive), and although they got a bed with tempur-pedic foam, I slept on a piece of nice, but regular foam on the floor. Peter and Ariella (uncle, aunt) slept upstairs in their loft which was the most spacious room of the house and had their bed and their own bathroom and such.

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