can i have a cookie?

I went to Tuba Christmas at the mall this morning, a bunch of my friends were in it.  Basically a bunch of tubas and baritones get together to play christmas songs in the mall.  I want to learn baritone for next year, since it’s similar to trombone.

It’s snowing here a lot, got several inches already and no sign of it slowing down.  Roads were very slippery this morning, took forever to get anywhere on account of driving slow.

I promised myself I’d bring this thing up to date sometime, here I am and I don’t know what to write.

Did I ever mention I got into all-state? Apparently another district didn’t pick anyone, I got called a week later. They took one [bass trombone] for orchestra from our district, I was 2nd alternate. Me and the 1st alternate went to the band, I got 1st chair which was very sweet. Usually my audition is the week part of the all-state process, but the chair audition couldn’t have been better.

I’ve been so busy on account of my AP English class, we basically have to write an essay and read a novel every week, lately I’ve been working on a 15 page biographical analysis of Ray Bradbury. Great writer, but this paper sucks. I’m trying to drop the class for 2nd semester but they might not let me…

Sometimes I think I have friends, then suddenly I don’t. I’m not trying to be all emo, but I really have no socal skills at all. They’re just nice enough to take me in and talk to me sometimes. Sometimes I’m funny, sometimes I say stupid things and act annoying, then brood about my suckiness all weekend.

I’ve always found a way to define myself, if I wasn’t popular then I was good at band, when I wasn’t good at band I could always fall back on being smart. So then those times when I’m not so smart, when I fail a test or get a bad grade, I really have nowhere to go. That can start a whole process of being apathetic about school for a while and really regretting it later. Snowball effect. I was worried about my chemistry grade, but I think I have time to get back up to an A. I was worried about AP US history, but that should come also. AP English has really screwed me over because even when I’m motivated, I don’t have enough time.

I suck at jazz improvisation. We have a concert on Monday, and half our trombone section, even though we’re all all-staters, sucks at improvisation. The only thing more embarassing will be the contest the Saturday after that.

I wrote a letter to the editor on how great that face transplant was. Hope it gets published. I got one published 2 years ago for a science project on the environment. Some of my friends’ parents loved it.

Guess that about sums it up for now. I really should take my picture off my profile.