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2003 16 November :: 5.38 pm
:: Music: Bring Him Home-Les Miserables
BRING ME HOME!!
nicole and i just got back from les mis if you hadn't caught that. it was pretty good! and they were NOT JOKING when they were like 'omg bring him home is the sexiest song ever!!' cuz it really is. nicole and i were in the car and we were like
me: nic's falsetto is like the most beautiful thing ever!!
nicole: nic's voice is like the most beautiful thing ever!!
it was sooo funny.
the boy who was javert was comme ci comme ca, but definately had a low voice. (which is good, considering javert has to have a really low baritone/bass range to survive. *i'm not sure how Will DOES survive...*)
it was all pretty good, but highlights include Bring Him Home, On My Own (sung by emily borromeo...she's soo good),I Dreamed a Dream (sung by nicole) and Empty Chairs and Empty Tables (sung by Dan). Man, i had no idea dan had such a nice lower range! it was really nice!
the supporting rolls were kind of icky singers. it's just such a singing oriented show that people who aren't learned musicians or harmony singers have a REALLY hard time with it. and it showed. but oh well.
they played the first movement of the Requiem mass in church today for Bishop Stewart who passed away wendnesday evening. God that movement is SOOO PRETTY. i must look stoned or something when i listen to it...i just go all jelly-like and happy. it's like full conentment. i love how good music does that to you.
saturday was our fall finale and another competition. we took pictures too. our performance was okay, at least it wasn't raining! it was a little embarassing taking our clarinet boxer picture in front of random public people, though. haha.
we got 5th out of 12 in our competition!! yay!! i'm actually surprised, though...i thought our show wasn't very good. oh well. we're improving!!
had a very serious conversation on the bus ride back. definately painful, but it remains to be finished and what the outcome will be. i'm thinking it'll be positive though. i'll update you if anything major comes from this. (sorry to be vague at the moment, though.)
well, i must go do homework...:-( bye!
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2003 15 November :: 9.59 pm
:: Mood: traumatized
:: Music: Clay Aiken-Invisible
and you thought YOUR life was traumatizing
OMG. so there was a girls 21 concert tonight. (shame on you for not being there) deb had like freaked out in my face during girls ensemble this morning, desperately needing a page-turner, but knowing that i had prior plans. (the party with my dad). my mom had talked to her at choir the night before, and she said she wouldn't even mention it to me. WELL SHE DID. so i freak out and call to see if i can ditch the party to turn pages. so i do.
things are going along fine, deb walks me through the nightmare song with the second endings and the crazy repeats and the d.s. al fine. no problem there.
so...it starts. i turn pages. no biggie. so then it's time for acacia's solo. one page turn. i breathe. it's the second page, and i'm sooo confused because the french isn't lining up AT ALL. at first i was like 'can she just not pronounce it?!?' but no... so deb just like stops. just like completely stops. and says, 'sorry, but we need to start again. the pages must be messed up or something. this can't be right.' so she has acacia come over to compare pages. so deb like sticks her music like RIGHT in my face (oh so dignified) as she tries to look on with acacia. they figure out the problem, and deb rips the pages apart (they were taped) but then asks some other girl from Girls 21 to help her, completely shoving me out of the way. so i'm standing there along with all of Girls 21 feeling REALLY STUPID as the other girl helps deb with the pages and acacia sings heavenly. IT WAS SOOO TRAUMATIC!! YOU HAVE NO IDEA!! i felt soo bad even though it wasn't my fault AT ALL. I HAD TO STAND THERE WITH GIRLS 21 IN FRONT OF LOTS OF PEOPLE!! FEEL SORRY FOR ME, DAMNIT!! I WAS A VOLUNTEER (well, half-forced into it by deb) AND I DIDN'T DESERVE THE PAIN!!
(this is where you feel EXTREMELY sorry for me, promise to give me a hug tomorrow, and be glad you weren't me.)
well anyway, i've had a traumatic evening.
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2003 14 November :: 4.38 pm
:: Mood: guilty
oops
i feel sooo guilty. for two reasons.
1) alison's mom came to watch the football game (seeing as it is our last home one and ali was dancing). this is where you say 'but how is this making mel feel guilty?' well, she walked by the band room (as you must in order to get to the football field) where i was 'keeping warm' by cuddling with howdy and terrance. christiana and some other people were in our little group too. she looked over at me and smiled, but i could tell she was thinking 'omg...what is my daughter's friend doing?!!?' i felt SOOO bad. it was just embarassing. i don't want anyone to think of me as a slut!!
2) I called Brian to ask mom if I could get out of going to my dad's housewarming party because i 'had to' turn pages for Deb for the Girls 21 concert tonight. Mom said it was okay, and called Dad to ask. apparently he said something like 'whatever makes her happy. i just want her to be happy' but clearly he was dissapointed. I FEEL SOO BAD!! AHHH!! i wanted to go to the Girls 21 concert SOO BADLY (and now i can! yay!) but like...i feel like i should be there. my dad REALLY wanted me there. it just was such a hassle. i wanted to go to this Girls 21 performance...i had to wake up early in the morning to get to the school for marching band...i just REALLY didn't want to go. but then, i knew it would make him happy if i went...
so now i've gotten what i wanted, but i feel really lousy about it all. well, not REALLY lousy, but i feel bad for ditching my dad's party. AND for looking slutty in front of one of my best friend's mom.
2 things that made/make me so happy shouldn't have such bad repercussions!!
oh well. life goes on. obla dee obla da life goes on...lalalala life goes on. okay i'm hyper now. bye!
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2003 13 November :: 8.49 pm
ya know what i want?
i want to hear: sing we now of christmas! sing we now of christmas...christmas...sing we now of christmas, sing we here noel...lalala. IT NEEDS TO BE CHRISTMAS, DAMNIT! AND I NEED TO STARE AT ALL OF THE SEXY MSS GUYS IN TUX'S!! and then i need to brag and be like 'yeah...i'm dating one of the basses...yeah i know, i'm special, you're not.' sounds good. and then it needs to be the alumni performance and i need to see heather and yahya and the other sexy alumni people!!
CHRISTMAS! WHERE ART THOU?? screw thanksgiving, thanksgiving sucks, I WANT CHRISTMAS!!
need...christmas...songs... want...advent...dinner...
on a random note, marching band gets excused like WAY early tomorrow for the football game!! yay!!
one other request, can i sing well? please? that would be lovely. thank you.
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2003 12 November :: 4.03 pm
i don't want to do homework!! it's not fair!! nooooo!!!
i just played oboe for a while. although it's not the oboe i'd been playing for my years at egan. it's jeff's old oboe. and man does it suck!! it's horrible!! do you EVER grease the cork on it, charlie? i don't know how you even put it together! well, the good news is, at least i have an oboe to fool around on from time to time, and i can still play. i need some oboe music though. maybe i can make my mom buy me the 'les miserables' oboe book for christmas...les mis has some REALLY pretty oboe parts in it.
on a random note, okay people, piano is NOT THAT HARD!! we must have spent half an hour on about 5 pages that basically taught you how to keep your hands in C position and finger little melodies. then we worked on *gasp* a C major chord!! and then we learned a C7 chord (i think that's what it was anyway). and then we practiced going from one to the other. i'm not sure how people managed to not get that after about 5 minutes of fiddling around, but we were to spend like 10 minutes working on 4 pages of simple melodies using only those 2 chords underneath. i got bored sooo quickly (seeing as last time we were in the piano room, i taught myself all that and went on a few more pages) so while everyone was supposed to be working on pages 14-19, i was off somewhere arond page 27. he was like 'now just practice those pages guys, no one has shown me that they're ready to move on yet.' haha yeah. whatever. maybe i'm gifted at piano or something, but it wasn't that difficult.
grrr. my dad's throwing a stupid housewarming party for himself (even though he's been in his new appartment since the middle of summer) this friday and i have to go. fun...except not. he lives in dublin (not ireland, like by pleasenton) and it takes like 45 minutes to get there. so for this stupid little party thing where all i'll get to do is shake hands with random people and have them ask about my life (which they'll most likely know ALL about from my dad) i have to miss the Girls 21 performance. grrrr... and i'll have to wake up at a reasonable time because i have to be back at school by 8:45 to practice for the Fall Finale and the competition.
soo...what is this Fall Finale, you ask? COME!! give us your money! see me perform! I'd give you a flier but i don't feel like it, and this is easier.
LAHS Instrumental Music Boosters Presents...
Fall Finale and BBQ
Date: Saturday, November 15th
Time: 11:00 am
Where: LAHS football field
Come & enjoy the award-winning LAHS Eagle Marching Band & Color Guard perform their 2003 Field Show- Colours.
Admission for Show and Lunch: $5/person $15/family
so come! yeah!
(there, are you happy jeff? i did my part...this should count!)
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2003 11 November :: 4.50 pm
i want to go on a date. why? because of the book i'm reading, probably, but i'm just in a really romantic mood. and i'm listening to mandy moore again. but anyway. i want to go out. and then make out. a lot. and i want it to be normal that i made out. not like some huge deal. i wish i knew more french. then i could write french love letters. how cool would that be?!?! so cool. okay now i'm being random. and i wish i had a locker. to recieve romantic french love notes. haha. wow someone slap me. or just be romantic. either way.
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2003 11 November :: 1.36 pm
:: Mood: disappointed
:: Music: Dark Ivy
darn
that book that i was reading just got worse. it turns out that the guy that the girl made out with in the car is a drug dealer. well that takes ALL the sexiness out of him. oh well...
we got let out late from marching band AGAIN. my parents are starting to get really ticked about it. it's not my fault! and sometimes i wish mr. florendo didn't know my name. it seems like he uses about 5 people's names all the time (the REALLY bad marchers) and then has about 15 people he mentions on rare occaisions. i'm one of those 15. today he revealed that he even knows my LAST name. he really didn't have to say it...there aren't any other melissa's! and i really didn't think i went early anyway... but still, it was embarassing. always is. it seems like he NEVER calls on like more than half of the band. does he just not see them? i don't get it!
i want cookies. but i don't know how to make them. grrrr.
I WANT MY OBOE BACK!! *sniff* Apparently it's in better condition than jeff's, so charlie asked mr. ferrucci to make me give it to him. WAAAHHH!! so what if i haven't touched it since i randomly wanted to see if i could still play a couple months ago? IT'S MINE! except that it's not at all...but still! I MISS IT ALREADY!! *tear*
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2003 11 November :: 9.03 pm
cool
i realized i haven't read anything that i actually WANTED to read for a while, so i picked up a random book from my bookshelf that i bought a while ago and started reading. i got sooo lucky. 60 pages in, and the main character has found her true love, and spent her first hours knowing him in the back seat of his car, making out. NICE! so yeah, i'm pleased with my random book choice.
i haven't started any of my homework yet. this is bad. but i'm tired so i'm going to go to bed and dream of things other than my unfinished homework.
i have to wake up at a reasonable time tomorrow, thanks to mr. ferrucci. sooo excited for marching band at 9:00 on a day when we don't even have school. but hey, there is ALWAYS a good side to marching band...;-)
hung out with Ali today and saw 'Elf'. the previews made it look funny, but it was just a TAD made for oh...maybe 6 year olds. yeah. the entire ending was a bit embarassing to watch. just SOOO christmassy sappy. one of those 'believe in santa!' type things. one thing is for sure- i don't want to see will ferrell in tights again. EVER.
*yawn* well i'm going to bed. goodnight!
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2003 9 November :: 1.49 pm
ALISSA BRADBURY NOKE!! and WE DIDN'T GET LAST!!!
only nicole knows who i'm talking about, but TIM AND MICHELLE HAD THEIR BABY!! AND IT'S A GIRL!! AHHH!!! how exciting is this?!?! well I'M excited...haha.
our marching band WASN'T LAST in our competition yesterday!! YESSSSSS!!!!! we got the music award too!! (although we placed 7th out of 10...) but hey, WE WEREN'T LAST!!
it was sooo cold out there, though. we sat in pouring rain for the AAAA bands...it was sooo miserable. 10 of us (yes, 10) were huddled under one umbrella. it was a big umbrella, but still...we got quite a few strange looks from other bands.
because we were all so cold, jeff decided to have a hot tubbing party at his house afterwards. so we hot tubbed. it was fun. joseph and derek then taught us how to play spoons. that was fun too. :0) so yeah, that's what i did yesterday.
WE DIDN'T GET LAST!! :0D
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2003 7 November :: 7.55 pm
I KNEW IT!
so this is copied from 'thenicfanclub', a xanga webring thing. i soo knew it!!
"heehee anywayz, tonight was another orch. runthru... and gess which song was absolutely the most beautiful thing ever sung!!!!! thats right...... inkeepers song!! HAHAHAH!!!! i kid, i joke.... but yes, serious... 3 words: Bring...Him...Home............ . . . this is when we all fall on the floor b/c our knees have just turned into gelatin...... yes, i got closer so i cud hear nic sing (basically sat in his chair as he stood up behind it)...... o my..... i cudnt get up afterwards... note to nic: SING ME TO SLEEP EVERYNIGHT PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!yes... it was that good... actually, even better!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "
Bring Him Home...i KNEW it would be the sexiest thing EVER!! it has the sexiest part at the end in a falsetto and it's like AHHH! i cannot WAIT to hear nic sing it!! but darn...nic'll certainly have to make his rounds at night...with so many people wanting him to sing them to sleep... personally, i think it would be easier if he could make a cd...but there's no substitute for his voice like RIGHT THERE next to you. well anyway, my mom's being evil about letting me see Les Mis twice, so i'm not sure what to do. i don't want balcony seats!! i don't know what i'm going to do...oh well. i have some time to think about it.
and just for clarification, i might have a crush on nic's VOICE, but not nic himself. didn't want to mislead anyone there...
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2003 7 November :: 7.28 pm
the moon is so beautiful tonight
well i am SOO ready for a 4 day weekend. it was so funny, both mr. shaull AND m. youatt commented on our lack of energy and enthusiasm. (although one blabbered on in english and the other in french...haha) even mr. smith told my mom that all of his students seemed lethargic and unhappy after homecoming, especially the ones in sports and band. well, that would be me. although this year it's band, not sports. i hate how we have to play while the soccer try outs are going on. i want to be out there trying out sooo badly!! oh well.
well anyway, i haven't gone to the barn since the time change, and it was soo dark by the end of my lesson!! it was really pretty though, the moon is really beautiful tonight. *sigh* i wish i could ride more often. it's so nice.
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2003 6 November :: 4.40 pm
mmmmm....hot chocolate....mmmm
who's excited for les mis?? me!! but fine, be that way, don't come with me. i'll just enjoy nic's voice alone!! (actually, i won't be alone, everyone in the entire theatre will be as close to heaven as they could possibly be, and everyone backstage will be sighing and hugging each other, but whatever) but i guess going alone or with my mom would be a little less stressful because with a group i would feel the need to go and say 'hi' to everyone and be sad because i'm not a popular PYT peson. but hey, that's not new. haha.
well i'm actually pretty happy. my mom went to pt conferences and talked to mr. smith and mr. shaull. m. youatt and mrs. olsen were full.
*random note: RENT IS THE COOLEST MUSICAL EVER!!*
okay so...mr. smith said i was an amazing writer and blah blah blah. yay for me! i was actually sort of worried because he called me up to look at my intro paragraph for my essay (which sucked) because he said i looked like i was slacking. which i was. how the hell am i supposed to work on an essay in class? it just doesn't work. oh well. but anyway, mr. smith said good things about me.
but the MAIN reason i'm in a better mood is because of what mr. shaull said. after about spending half of the time talking about what the costs of the tickets for the Advent Dinner will be, (hahaha, my mom's the treasurer for the church choir and they're supposed to be selling tickets for this AWESOME dinner right now...) Mr. Shaull finally asked about me. my mom said that i was very disapointed in my voice right now, and didn't know if i wanted to try out for concert choir because of it. mr. shaull was actually concerned and told my mom that i was one of the best sight singers in the class and he was pleased with my progress. he also said that although concert choir auditions are like real auditions, he knows all of our voices and what we can do already, so, in a sense, the decision has already been made who will make concert choir from girls' ensemble. and...since he didn't say anything bad about me...at least from what my mom told me, chances are seeming pretty good for me making concert choir!! yay!! i also don't have to worry about it until second semester, though, unless mr. shaull changes his mind yet again. he told my mom that he plans to 'catch up' the new guys that just made it recently, so he'll add the girls for second semester.
so...life is pretty good right now.
but alas, i must go do my french homework. i'll be online later, never fear.
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2003 6 November :: 12.04 am
:: Music: evenescence-tourniquet
angry, dark music is just so soothing sometimes. it's just so passionate when things aren't going amazingly well. for some reason, i REALLY didn't want to do homework today!! it was horrible!!
i really want to be 18 and go to some night club and get drunk enough to not care about anything but the music and dance the night away. that just sounds really good right now...
haha don't mind me. i'm being random.
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2003 3 November :: 7.21 pm
:: Music: Pippin-Just No Time At All
who got 44/40 on her biology test?? ME!! i'm so proud of myself. :0D you should be too. considering some people got 18 or less out of 40, i'm feeling pretty good about myself. i'm also hoping this will make up for my lab that's due tomorrow (and that's going to be horrible) and my ch. 6 test wednesday. hehe...i'm only a LITTLE screwed... why does biology have to be so confusing?
i think maybe the worst idea on the planet is not learning anything for like a month to work on essays in class. it just doesn't work that way. i can't concentrate at 8:15 in the morning. grrrr...
not much else happened today...i'm mainly updating to procrastinate. i must have at least 3 hours of bio ahead of me and i really really don't want to do it...ugh.
oh yeah! so we were discussing what we did over the weekend in french and charlie said that he went trick-or-treating with me and jeff. of course ali and sarah crack up because i did something with charlie. i don't know how to say 'it wasn't my fault, i didn't invite him' in french, and besides, charlie was in the class, so i just had to let them laugh. after, though, they started bugging me about it. ali already thinks that charlie's in love with me because i must be the only girl in the world who's ever been decent to him, so she decided that it would be hilarious if she teased me by making it sound like i was in love with charlie as well. we shouted (and i mean SHOUTED) all the way down the hall from the 300 wing to the portables. sarah and ali were yelling things like 'oh yeah, and you're like 'oh charlie!! PLEASE come trick-or-treating with me! i can't live without your presence' while i was defending myself (also yelling) by saying 'NO! IT WASN'T MY FAULT!! BLAME WHOEVER INVITED HIM!! NOOOO!!'
needless to say, it was incredibly amusing and mrs. whitmore said she could hear us yelling all the way down the hall...so like half the school could hear us. lmao.
and on a random note, i am available to see les mis sunday, november 16th at 2:00. anyone want to come see it with me? i don't want to go alone!! (and that's the black cast, which includes nic and beth) e-mail me or reply to this or whatever if you want to come with me!
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2003 2 November :: 1.48 pm
Halloween
halloween was pretty fun! it really didn't have to be super cold and raining in the morning, though. more people should have dressed up. i was seriously dissapointed in the lack of halloween spirit. thank you to all of you CREATIVE PEOPLE who dressed up. it's too bad that it had to have been halloween, but it was really cool to see all these random guys in tux's because of the concert choir festival. it was so much fun to just look at everyone and be like 'oo that guy sings, that guy sings, that guy sings...'
after school i packed overnight stuff for the church lock-in and then went to christiana and terrance's halloween party at jeff's house. we just sort of ate and hung around doing nothing for about half an hour until becky, jeff's mom, herded us all outside to trick-or-treat. i felt really bad because i was the only one with other plans that night, so we had to keep track of time so i was back by 8:20. highlights of trick-or-treating include 3 people stripping...haha i know, makes it sound like i hang with a bad crowd, but it wasn't really stripping stripping, christiana and sara just took off their skirts (but they had shorts under them) and terrance taking off his shirt) and a lady saying 'ooookkkayyy' and looking at jeff and charlie funny when they did their little trick-or-treating performance song/dance. it was hilarious.
then i went to church for the lock-in. for the first hour or so i wished i had just stayed to watch whatever movie they ended up watching at jeff's house. we sort of just hung around and did nothing. around 11 or 11:30 we started watching the movie 'It'. it was pretty creepy...about a killer clown. the ending was really random and the entire second tape (it was in 2 tapes, 3.5 hrs long in total) made little sense. it was more amusing than nothing and chris, being the gentleman he is, offered to hold my hand when i got scared. haha. it was cute. in the middle of the two tapes, we found that george was asleep and decided to put our skeleton thing around him and make it look like they were cuddling and making out. we took like 5 pictures of him with the skeleton, one was a group shot of all of us laughing at them. that was fun.
i spent the majority of saturday morning and afternoon in this closet room thing up on a ladder taping sheets of tinfoil on all of the walls. i don't think it was worth it for the effect. people weren't even in that room very long...it was kind of dissapointing.
the haunted house went pretty well. we made 3 kids hysterically cry and about 4 (i wasn't counting) had to leave in the middle because they were too scared to finish it. although i don't really consider this a victory or something to be proud of, our youth group haunted house goal was to make kids cry, and we did, so as a whole we're happy. i don't know if i want to be a tour guide again next year, though, my voice was hurting sooo much after yelling 'run! run! the clowns are coming!' 10 times on each tour.
today's church service was soooo lovely. it's all saint's day, so the choir sung a requem. we also hired an orchestra and they were REALLY good. well, they generall are, being professionals, but still... it was sooo nice. i could listen to music like that forever.
well, i'm obviously tired because that was WAY more boring than usual. hope you all had a happy halloween!! i think i'm going to go take a nap...
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