CTY homeland. yes my life is complete screw those ivies

We are so screwed for CMEA today. :x But somehow when I think back it seems like it's always this way for the CMEA concerts...

maeglin_arandur is more obnoxious than he used to be! but he's still got nothing on Manoj so I guess it's OK. don't you dare seduce my little sister I will kill you~ /protective sibling

grahhhhhhh CTY seems like so long ago.

grahhhhhhhhhh everything seems like so long ago.

You know Jeff Lee thought our class had graduated already. More proof that life seems too too long ago!

(Srsly Jeff, you're not that much of an old geezer...)

piano class time o______o;;;

concert over.

no more rachmaninoff.

... /sad.

How does Boitz do it?

That was just, whut, 20-30 mins sectional and my back is already alkjdglak;sjdfkldja;fljdlgkja; PAIN

How does he stand up on that podium for 70-80 minutes straight... T____T;

Maybe it's just me. Maybe my back is just destined to die. Maybe I've prematurely attained the health level of a grandma. Maybe it's because I'm so tired today - that might be it, I tend to get more pains/aches when I'm tired.

:(

Ahh I forgot to tell them the best way to practise the fugue when they get home. Oh well...

In other news, I feel I am steadily turning into a Korean. I speak bits and pieces of Korean, me and some Koreans are going to start a ramen club and a chocopie club, I went out to lunch with two Koreans (and engaged in Koreanglish talk, small bits of which I could actually understand), and afterschool I gave a Korean person a ride home.

...and tonight there will be orchestra with a mob of Koreans.

@.@


edit: I don't want to go to piano or cpyo. m'back will die. I just know it. ... ... /HATES ON FRIDAYS

Dear Livejournal,

Today I had the foresight to bring my contacts to school, which helped me enormously as Felicia and I were called upon to read Concerto Grosso, which neither of us had practiced!

...very much. >>;

Boitz really favours the B-seating, for some reason or the other. I call that favouritism. Can there be favouritism in favouring a SEATING, though? Well, it's nominally the PEOPLE that make up the SEATING, isn't it, so I say yes.

I don't think he's fully conscious of it, though. If at all. It wouldn't fit with his ideas of "fairness" and healthy amounts of switching, now, would it? I also, however, think that whoever brings it up will get subconscious anti-brownie points, so I shall refrain from commenting.

Upon arriving home, I spent the next hour meticulously destroying what little sight I had regained by staring fixedly at a computer screen and typing in email addresses.

The things I do for Tri-M.

Love,
Adela

aish baidu cleared up or something. searches bring up a lot of vids, but no more mp3s.

what a pain. D:

I mean, I could still use vixy to convert the vids, but there goes a very large and very easy source of all Chinese music.

laaaaaaaaaame.

In other news, I got second chair which was OK until Walter got a bunch of solos which I could have (on a purely unbiased POV) read and played much better than him, but more importantly, which he did not want to read, and you have no idea how sucky that feels; 's worse than CPYO in some ways, coz everyone's really good and everyone in the first 3-4 stands would LOVE to read the solo and there are seating FIGHTS when Mrs. Kim says: "first come first serve" but no... spite or anything, at least not against the people, because it's just about the standard and maintaining a certain standard of excellence and that is separate from the people.

not saying that SHS is spiteful or hates each other or anything - rather, the standards are just different. and CPYO standards, brought over, 'd be seen as overkill.

... i ♥ cpyo cellos. :)

In any case I spent lunch ranting and raving my devastation to Wooho, who wasn't paying attention because he was reading The Odyssey (and coz he made it to concert master ;p), but he bought me spring rolls with my own money and we raced a bunch of people on the way back (and won! hahaha) and I have spent all of my complaining &frustration &whatever etc in one overly large dose so that is, officially, over! (By which I mean, if I ever mention it again, do me a favor and slap me in the face.)

So that's the selfishness for the day.

In more fun news, I have... made progress in the dare they gave me @Stephanie's! Don't think I am allowed to divulge what it is for awhile, but tis very fun. &appeals to my prankster instincts. :D

(almost makes me excited for school to start again, because then I can put part 2 in action)

school is starting in less than 36 hours!

...what a distasteful thought.

the past two days have been decently fun. had lunch with Frank and a couple other guys at J&J on Friday. very amused by Frank and his brother's racist jokes:

what's a group of white people running down a hill?

avalanche

what's a group of black people running down a hill?

mudslide

what's a group of Mexican people running down a hill?

JAILBREAAAAAAAK

ahahahhahahah. ran around campus laughing at link leaders for a little bit (honestly, do YOUR schools' link crews do anything? it's so pointless.) and went home.

CPYO reunion party was... moderately fun. it would have been much more fun if I joined the people in the water instead of the people on land, unfortunately I couldn't because I didn't want to, um, bleed into the water, and that's probably more information than y'all need to know so I'll move on now.

Grace Kim is killer competitive at Mario Party. it's hilarious. :3 She rolls around and pounds the floor and screeches at the top of her lungs and throws her hair around like a dust cloud.

mmm Saratoga informal retreat was all right, all the same games and nowhere near as amusing as freshman year but maybe that's just me, hopefully the freshmen had fun which was the point. Also I missed the first, wut, half of it, which may have contributed. & seeing people was nice. I don't recognize half the people though, coz I missed all the icebreakers. :( oh well.

iiiin other news, all my instrument teachers demand first priority and as a result, I have all of them first priority, which is the same as no priority at all but there is no other way to do it and it is a little -.- in that regard.

I still feel as though summer just started.

ahahahhaaha see how good my work ethic is, out of two lists of things I ought to complete, I barely finish half of ONE of the lists... and feel GOOD about it because it's probably more than what I normally would have done anyway.

That said, some highlights of West Side Story week! In no particular order.

Friday's performance--

OFFICER KRUPKE: You dirty hoodlums! *chase*
KRUPKE'S STICK: CLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANG.
PIT MEMBERS: O____O *stares cross-eyed at stick in the pit*
AUDIENCE: HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA

Thursday's performance--

TONY: Oh Maria!
MARIA: Oh Tony!
GUN: Bang!
MARIA: Tony! No! TONY!!!
SOME GUY IN THE AUDIENCE: *loud snort*
PIT MEMBERS: .....

Friday's performance--

TONY: Oh Maria!
MARIA: Oh Tony!
GUN: Bang!
MARIA: Tony!!! NO!!!
AUDIENCE: *collective intake of breath*
PIT MEMBERS: ...lol.

Saturday's second performance--

TONY: Oh Maria!
MARIA: Oh Tony!
GUN: BANG!
Random girl: Ohmygawd!!
Random man: *shocked laughter* Aha! ha! haha! ha-
MARIA: Tony! Tony!
Random man: -ha- haha! ha. ha!
PIT MEMBERS: ... >>;;

Friday intermission--

KEROPI: Chan chan!
ADELA: Keropi!
*mutual love ♥♥*

Saturday intermission (first show)--

TIFFANY: !! jiejie~!
ADELA: !! meimei~!
*mutual adopted siblings love ♥♥*

Friday end of Act I--

MR. BOITZ: *cues us*
STRINGS: *completely miss all of the pizz*
MR. BOITZ'S FACE: I am a dark vortex of doom. I am blacker than a black hole.
MR. BOITZ: I am growling on the inside and IT SHOWS ON MY FACE.
PIT MEMBERS: We cringe in fear. Someone save us!

Saturday pre-show (first show)--

ADELA: Yeah mom, call time's 1:45, it starts at 2, don't worry.
GMAIL: I hold records of all emails, past and present.
ADELA: Hmmmm I'll check, just to make sure...
CLOCK: It is now 1:50.
EMAIL: Call time, 1:15!
ADELA: *chokes and splutters all over keyboard*

Saturday pre-show (2nd show)--

ADELA: Starbucks~! ♥

five minutes later...

ADELA: A COOKIE~ I JUST HAAAAAAD A CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE~ (most respectfully to the tune of Maria)
KIMBY/PAULI: Oh dear.

more of Saturday pre-show (2nd show)--

JASON: *sitting with his girlfriend*
MR. BOITZ: Why, Jason Huang, a girl's attacking your lap!
JASON: Why yes, Mr. Boitz.
MR. BOITZ: Here, here, let me help.
*Mr. Boitz, a man 2-3x the size of Pamela, who's a willowy-figured small Asian girl, crams himself onto Jason's lap*

ahahahaha. :3 and more!

PAUL/ME/KIMBY/PAULI: We are discussing things of little importance!
MICHELLE: PAUL!!!! *glomps him from behind*
MR. BOITZ: Paul's very huggable, don't you think?
PAUL: .... *slightly pink*
MICHELLE: Paul's very huggable! In fact, he's adorable!
MR. BOITZ: Popular with the ladies, I see.
PAUL: I... uh... *turning redder*
MICHELLE: Of COURSE! Paul, you should get a girlfriend! *spazz dances in a circle around him and prances out*
PAUL: UM. UH. *RED* EHEHEHE. *backs out of the room* BYE GUYS, I'M GOING TO GO NOW. EHEHE. HE. HE.

ahahaha though I think the best would be...

Saturday intermission (2nd show)--

LITTLE COUSIN: Adela...
ADELA: Yes?
LITTLE COUSIN: You know the guy who plays Riff?
ADELA: Yeah. What about him?
LITTLE COUSIN: Is he a guy or a girl?

LOL. :3

Other fun stuff includes lunch at Jake's in between first Saturday show and second Saturday show, where a table failed at the cup game (especially with those cheap paper cups), and pizookie at BJs later that night. mmmm yeah I think I've officially decided that I find guard members distasteful. Excepting Lilith and Jessie, that is. Or, at the very least, I find them distasteful when together in large groups. Way to be rude and obnoxious and annoying and loud and, best of all, completely unaware of it. >>;

Yeah there were some issues with Kevin coming behind me into the parking lot and honking a lot for no particular reason. And also of them squishing 3 people into one seat and squishing people next to them and overspilling onto other seats and all the while waving about and gesturing and laughing maniacally at things that aren't funny with a rather horrifying disregard of other people's personal space.

On a happy note, had funny conversations with Yang about her college interviews. :3

Oh also Yang's little sister is really really cute. homg. ♥♥ She's adorable. I want to steal her and take her home to be my pet.

Ah that's about it. It's over! And everyone's happy. :D Except Ray-Young, who was in a terrible mood yesterday. God knows what happened to him. Aside from that, most everything's good. 'cept the fact that I barely completed 1/4th of my to-do list. woohoo.

OKOK so, picking up where I left off... I. will type up the stories later. If I find them. Anyway, skipping over that for now.

( I'm being kind to your flists. THANK ME. )

mmmmm more later.

I can't believe I haven't gotten past one day. x____X Oh well I suppose I started on Wed night, so it is technically a day...?

Soooo... we're playing this piece in school orchestra called the Armed Man. A massed piece.

So then! We're rehearsing and rehearsing, and then we hit a section called ANGRY FLAMES. Angry. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

That section, in its essence, is 15 measures of rest, and then the entire orchestra playing + holding the same whole note for about 20 more measures.

...we're not the angry flames, we're the log beneath the angry flames. And we're not the log that's burning, either, we're the slightly damp piece wayyyyy on the bottom that the flames will never reach... BUT is still necessary to hold up the other pieces of wood so the fire doesn't collapse and can look impressive.

.......... *depressed*

I have this vision of choir/band/whatever concluding their angry flaming with a flourish! then silence. supposedly. And the conductor's eyelid starts twitching as the audience begins to look at one another in confusion, because all the strings are still playing that chord, that stupid chord, because we've all fallen asleep and are playing purely from reflex. >_____>

Harker didn't go, but MV did go, BOTH of them, so I saw Charity!!! who was ironically wearing the Falcon's Marshall Clark shirt, but not Louis because he's presumably still sick with the flu. And Paly peoples! such as LILY who is extremely bouncy and hyper, and random Paly guys painted P-A-L-Y upon their shirtless bodies and then stood and spelled PLAY instead of PALY and Lily was like "... *facepalm* don't know them" and! I did horribly because I completely miscalculated and thought there was a lot more field to go after the turn, so I was saving my sprint for like maybe 1/2 field and there was literally only like 1/8th field, and it was a horrible horrible miss and you can't SEE how far there is to go until you round that sharp corner and then it was too late. Could've started sprinting so much earlier and probably could've passed ~6-7 more people or so if I HAD. >___>

No times! but I am #58 again, just like Firebird. exactly the same! ohohohohoho.

Skylight is beginning to lose its appeal. Despite the fun jazziness. because we play it so much. Hence, volunteered for solo improv! Following the improv sheets, of course. >>;; Major fail, but fun. :D

I want to play Concerto Grosso with someone. All the celloes forgot the parts. It is rather sad. Too bad Tiffany DITCHED us for CYS. Otherwise she would join! Like we always did in Aussie. sigh~