:: 2004 3 July :: 12.22 pm
:: Mood: blah

In between sessions of camp...
I've been at camp for the past 2 weeks with Ali and Nicole. It's been okay...for some reason I started acting really antisocial after the first week. :0/

Nothing especially exciting happened. Drama sucked. Wanna know why? Well besides the fact that no one can act or read, MR. T WAS THE DRAMA TEACHER!!

No joke. Being the optimistic person that I usually am, I thought that it would be pretty neat. He had already picked out the plays that each class would do, so that was pretty neat.

Too bad he's MEAN!! He'd stand there yelling the kids, who were like 7-11 years old!! Might I remind you all that Camp Unique IS A SPORTS CAMP?!?! Nicole ended up dropping it, so I was all alone. I wish I'd gotten out with her. I didn't mind memorizing lines last year for The Lion King, but it was torture for our oh so boring play, "The Monsters are Due On Maple Street."

No hot guys. *tear* Didn't dance with anyone at the dance. I just didn't feel like dancing with 10 year olds...

It's still nice to be away from my parents, though. I'm looking forward to next session, but I think maybe I'll be okay if I do something with band next year...

Speaking of music, apparently there is a $20 concert choir dress fee that I never paid so I can't get my schedule. Hmmm...

And I'll end with a quote: (Nicole trying to get me to make noise when we were playing sardines at night) "I hate Mr. Shaull! I hate his methods and everything he does! He's too strict and only sings one kind of music!"

Funny stuff. I thought it was hilarious that she thought to do that. Sorry for the boring entry. Maybe later.

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:: 2004 19 June :: 4.21 pm
:: Mood: surprised

HEY!! WE WERE GOOD ONCE!
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:: 2004 19 June :: 2.09 pm
:: Mood: bouncy

I LOVE IT!

What kind of disease are you? Melissa:
Melissa is caused by monkeys.	Melissa disease causes a constant lack of clothing. Melissa is cured by never wearing shoes ever again.
Name?

oooh i'm a unicorn!

You are the most universal mythical beast ever. Sightings of the unicorn have been reported from all over the world, even in modern times. Unicorns are pure and incorruptible. In China, unicorns symbolized gentleness, good will, and wisdom. Christianity links the unicorn with Christ. It is said that unicorns would only allow virgin girls to see them, let alone touch them. They were easily lured into fatal ambushes by a virgin with some poachers waiting for the unicorn in nearby bushes. A unicorn's horn was a highly prized possession, which was reputed to have great healing capabilities. With the touch of its horn, a unicorn could bring back a person who had been dead for several hours. But when separated from the unicorn's body, the magic was significantly reduced. The unicorn had the body of a horse, a unique spiraling horn, and a lion's tail. They were pure white in color.

What mythical beast best represents you? Take the quiz!

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:: 2004 17 June :: 3.00 pm
:: Mood: excited

So the bottom line would be...
SEND ME LETTERS!!!

I'm going to be at camp from June 20 to July 17!
PLEASE SEND ME LETTERS!


Here's the address:

Melissa Rose
Camp Unique
302 Portola Avenue
Portola Valley, CA 94028

(Okay, so I kinda just copied Ali's 'friend's only' entry but made it public. So yeah. Don't send us anthrax for posting the camp address on the internet!! Not that you couldn't find it on the camp WEBSITE anyway...)

But yeah! Candy, letters, presents, love, and anything else you'd like to send me (us) are welcome!

So since I didn't do the whole 'summer plans' thing in the entry below, I'll just do it now.

June 11-Got out of school!! Party at Molly's and then sang at graduation.
June 12-Went to see HP with Nicole and then to Alexandra's EOTYP movie night thing. (End of the year party)
June 13-Ditched summer sunday school ("exploring our faith through movies" featured film of the sunday: The Ten Commandments) and sang with the choir...some Rutter "Clap Your Hands" thing. Then youth group party which was lots of fun!
June 14-Went to Great America with Sarah and Ali! Fun stuff! Then slept over at Sarah's.
June 15-Woke up with icky puffy eyes (allergic reaction) and was driven home by Becky. Heard about Jeff's hot nerdy cousin (HECK YEAH!) but then was shot down when I asked Jeff himself about him. (Thanks...NOT! Haha oh well...) Horseback riding at 6 on Dante, jumped high, lots of fun!
June 16-Left at noon for Pleasenton, where I am now, with Dad. Learned to cook spaghetti with meat sauce, ate that, and went to see The Day After Tomorrow. Scary stuff. Cool movie.
June 17-Woke up, learned how to make bacon and cheese omelettes. YUM. Watched "What about Bob?" (finally saw the whole thing!) and began dough for rolls. Came up here and signed online for the first time since I arrived yesterday. *breathes* Almost had withdrawal there...
June 18-more cooking @ Dad's
June 19-more cooking @ Dad's
June 20-leave Dad's, finish packing (madly) and leave for Camp Unique!! WHOOO!!
June 20-July 17-Camp Unique!! First 2 weeks with Ali and Nicole, second 2 weeks with Ali. YAYYYYY!!! *SEND ME LETTERS!*
July 17-get on a plane and leave for Maui!!
July 17-two weeks after July 17-In Maui with the family!! July 18 is with Nicole! Yay!
Rest of the summer includes: oral surgery (wisdom teeth...fun), ears getting pierced (AHH!), white water rafting with church people, BAND CAMP!!! WHOOO!!, and back to school shopping!

*If anyone would like to take over my contact info for concert choir 2004-2005 project, I'll send you what I have and tell people to forward their e-mails to you! PLEASE DO THIS!! I'm leaving for camp and don't have a school directory and will not have a cell phone at camp, so that'd be great if you want to finish this up for me!!*

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:: 2004 15 June :: 1.01 pm
:: Mood: contemplative

Finally...what you've all been waiting for...
Melissa's Words To The Seniors, Freshman Memories, and Plans for Summer!


Darin: Wow, there are a lot of things to say here. (Which is ironic, seeing as it's been over a year since we like...have said practically ANYTHING to each other.) But yeah, I think we both know how important we were to each other at that time in our lives. You really taught me a lot about life and what it means to be happy. It's been a long time since I've had one of those 6+ hour AIM conversations... Those were good. I'll never forget those. There are a few other things I'll never forget as well...but I've decided that I've learned from the mistakes and am glad to have made them, if only for the learning experience and the fact that I won't find myself there again. There's not really much else to say besides thank you for what we had and what I've learned from it. I can't say I needed to hear that I'm a pretentious bitch, but hey, I'm sure you're not the only one who thinks that. Have fun at Chapman and I hope that you are able to do whatever your heart tells you to do. (I'm sure YOU'RE capable of anything, there's just the matter of parents being unsupportive and whatnot.)

Matt: You awesome drum major, you! We love Matt! We we love love Matt love Matt! I'll miss your suppressed leadership (coughFerruccicough) and your friendly smile. You always made us laugh, even if it was because of your still-changing voice. You rock for being so supportive to the freshman and for being the musical God that you are. Have a blast at Davis and keep playing horn! You know that instrumentalists are sexy...

Jon: TUBA! You were my favorite leadership staff member. You're so friendly and happy and approachable and huggable! It's awesome! I'll remember you as being the first and pretty much ONLY leadership staff member for giving me little sticker stars for doing well during marching band camp! Thanks! I'll also remember going to see Fame and sitting with all of the marching band people and having a nice little conversation with you. I couldn't believe that I was talking to a senior! Haha! I know you'll do well in college and make tons of friends! Keep spreading your awesome personality to the world and you'll go far!

Laura: ASB President, Homecoming Court for Marching Band, Section Leader...you rock! Bassbone all the way! You are an inspiration to us all both as a leader and a musician. Have a crazy good time at Santa Cruz and keep being the amazing role model you are!

Dana: Okay, so maybe I've only talked to you a few times, but you're sooo cool! You're my favorite, crazy, wacko MSS alto! It was a pleasure standing next to you for graduation singing and hearing your lovely voice during concert choir! You have an awesome sense of humor and I'm sure you'll love college!

Brian: With your mad trumpet skills and marching ability, I look forward to seeing you in some championship marching band somewhere or hearing you play some mad solos for some philharmonic in the future! You're another leadership staff member who really welcomed the freshman and helped us all adjust to high school. Thanks for being such a friendly person and for making us all laugh!



Melissa's Freshman Memories
(Now I know I can't possibly recount all of them, but I'll go for a few...)

*Marching Band!! Soo many wonderful times with that group of people. I was really nervous coming in, seeing as I'd retaught myself how to play clarinet a few days before band camp started!! Then I REALLY wished that you could march an oboe. How wrong I was, though!! I bonded with my clarinet homees and hung out with them WAY more than my own friends outside of marching band during the season. I am so thankful to have met so many wonderful and talented people through the experience! I learned so much about the activity and what it means to work as a team in that short time. I only wish that I could have marching band in my life year-round!

*My first boyfriend. I think I wrote enough about that as it was all happening, so I'll leave it at that.

*Singing with Mark. Up until this year, that's all I'd known him as. I didn't even know his last name until a few years ago! Girls Ensemble has turned me into a girl with thicker skin and less embarassment. I've screwed up in front of all of you, gotten fed up with all of you, and suffered with all of you. Some of those long periods....yeesh! I think, as a class, we've bonded closer than any of my other classes. We have a caring relationship with each other that comes out when we're up there singing in front of everyone. We all care about each other's voices and how they've changed, and how Mr. Shaull hates some of us and loves some of us. We've all stood together, waiting for the G21, CC, and MSS lists go up. We've laughed and we've cried, depending on our voices and Mr. Shaull's mood. I've grown so much as a singer and as a person from these experiences. I can't wait until next year for Chorale, G21, and CC!

*The lunch crew. We meet for lunch every day in the 500 wing. "We" include: Me, Ali, Sarah, Sara, Marcella, Emily, Rachel, Eveyenia, Meredith (at one point), Molly, Louise...did I forget anyone? Well anyway, it's been great getting to know all of you better as lunch buddies. We've really been a tight group of friends, even though there are so many of us! We've talked about a lot and shared a lot with each other. (Me especially. I'm good at that 'sharing' thing!) We've gone through some traumatic times with friendship fall-outs and whatnot, but it's been a great year!! Babies!! Having a baby! I love babies, but not for me! Lunch bag quotes!

Oh, and THEY ARE BABIES!! I was right!!

*My first semester finals. And OH BOY were they stressful. I've never felt that on-edge in my entire life. It was seriously like 50 straight hours of being close to tears. I'm SOO glad my second semester finals were much more relaxed... and I'm forever thankful to that one person who called me during finals week 'just to talk'. MAJOR stress reliever!!

*Concert Choir and that that entailed. At first it was the best thing to happen to me since Marching Band and then it was torture. (For reasons that SHOULD be obvious.) CC really helped me understand what a mature voice should sound like. I also got to sing harder music and experience a large SATB sound. I also have fond memories looking back on camp now that I know a bit more about a certain person's intentions... (Thanks Francesco!! I knew all of that annoying 'tell me tell me' stuff would yield some good info!)

*Voice lessons with Paige. GOD I love that woman! Besides convincing me to be a music major, she's going to give me information about summer music camps and year round schools! Very cool! She's awesome. I think I want to be an opera singer. YAY!

10 Reasons to Date an Opera Diva

1) We know how to shape our lips.
2) We can baby talk to you in Italian.
3) We know MANY stories of love.
4) We have big boobs and know how to use push-up bras.
5) We know how to wear our make up.
*more to come as i think of them*




I'll update on summer plans later. I want to go enjoy the pool!

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:: 2004 15 June :: 9.06 pm
:: Mood: amused
:: Music: Wonderful-Everclear

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:: 2004 14 June :: 9.14 pm
:: Mood: contemplative

"There is no such thing as 'in' music."
Anyway, the speaker of the quote above did not want me to reveal his name, so I won't. But I'll say that he does say profound things sometimes. And a whole lot of stupid things, too, but yeah. lol.

As I got into a heated argument with one of my best friends about the freedom of "how you sing a song", I realized something about my musical fundamentalism.

I'm very rigid, yet rigid about being FREE.

So, back to the point. There is no such thing as 'in' music. There's not. Screw pop culture. Music is what expresses what you feel inside. It's what inspires you. It's who you are.

Therefore, move beyond the "popularities" of our music. TRL doesn't tell us what the 'best' music is. It never has. It only tells us what the masses of fake, bimbo-ish, conformist teenagers are interested in. It's what they're into. But it's not about me.

I don't often know the songs on TRL. I can't hum the tune. I don't know the words. I couldn't tell you the name of the song. I don't even know who sings it. Those aren't the songs that make me tick. That isn't who I am.

Who am I? Ironically, the first thing that comes to mind when I ask myself that is a song from Les Miserables. I think of Jean Veljean on the stage, his amazing voice crying out, pleading to understand who he is and what he should do with his life.

I like performance. I thrive on the stage. I like musical theatre. I can relate to the stories of hearbreak, love, torture, pain, if even on the level of empathy.

I'm quirky and unique. I love the storylines of Wicked and the risque qualities of Avenue Q. I sing along to them both as I cook or do homework or lounge in my room. They make me feel good.

I'm a band nerd. I love orchestrations. I can often be heard whispering or shouting "OBOE! OBOE!" in ANY musical score. It happened when I first listened to The Mass of the Children, it happened in the middle of Harry Potter... I have a thing for oboes, okay? The sound of strings against winds, brass boldly crying out, woodwinds mellowing the excitement, strings harmonizing. The only radio station I'll listen to is 102.1. I wish I could go to the symphony more often. My parents don't really value the symphony.

I sing. I like to hear GOOD people sing.

Josh Groban is a wonderful classical singer. I also have a thing for Chanticleer and boys choirs. I have a CD from a Welsh touring group that had a homestay at my house for a while a few years ago. I have a few CDs of opera. I like listening to the different tambers of the human voice. I enjoy analyzing the vibratto and tone of professional singers. I like having something to look forward to in my own voice.

There is no such thing as 'in' music. Music is on a personal level. Musicians have a very special way of expressing themselves. A beautiful, blissful way. And no one has the right to say whose music is 'in' or not.





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As an afterthought:

SOME PEOPLE ARE SUCH BITCHES!!! AHHHHH!! AND THEY NEED TO DIEE!!! DIE DIE DIE DIE DIEEE!! AND STOP BEING BTICHY TO ME! STOP STOP STOP STOP!!

Would you like a description of the type of people I can't STAND?! Alright, here ya go. These type of people:

1) Have zero self confidence.
2) Cling to you like you're their best friend when there's no one else they know around.
3) Treat you like a fucking bitch when they have people to "back them up".
4) Switch in between 2 and 3 constantly, so you never know what the hell to expect from them.

I HATE THOSE KIND OF PEOPLE! GET SOME SELF CONFIDENCE AND STOP TAKING ALL YOUR PROBLEMS OUT ON ME. JUST BECAUSE I HAVE AN OUNCE OF SELF-CONFIDENCE, YOU LEECH ON TO ME LIKE...A GODDAMN LEECH!


GAHHHHHH!!! Some people....

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:: 2004 13 June :: 5.28 pm
:: Mood: horny
:: Music: Avenue Q-You Can Be As Loud As The Hell You Want (When You're Making Love)

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:: 2004 12 June :: 6.14 pm
:: Mood: exhausted

Harry Potter!!
OMG HARRY POTTER WAS SOOOOO GOOOD!! AND THE BOYS ARE YUMMMY!!! AHHHH!!

Fred and George Weasely, DO ME!! TOGETHER!! BOTH OF YOU!! AT THE SAME TIME!!

Harry and Molfoy, FIGHT OVER ME!! HOTNESS! (And when Harry wins, Malfoy needs to make those cute wimpering noises.)

Sirius Black needs to kidnap me and take me on a ride with Buckbeak...and then he can 'ride me' wherever his hideout is...;-)


And Snape can be all cute and fatherly and protective...:0D

And...I think that's all the HP people that can fuck me...did I miss anyone?

Okay now THIS is funny:

Cookie4Nat: im joining the los altos pd officer program
Horseeyoregal: ok
Cookie4Nat: ive been recuited like 10 times for it
Cookie4Nat: there is this cop
Cookie4Nat: walking around school
Cookie4Nat: and he knows who i am
Horseeyoregal: oh
Cookie4Nat: and he keeps telling me about the program
Cookie4Nat: its like the cop version of mr shaull
Horseeyoregal: LOL
Cookie4Nat: actually...they can pass for brothers
Cookie4Nat: both bold, tall, a big tummy
Horseeyoregal: haha
Cookie4Nat: can i come arrest u once i get into the program?
Horseeyoregal: ummm
Horseeyoregal: maybe
Horseeyoregal: i'll think about it
Cookie4Nat: o yes...i will screw you..
Horseeyoregal: okay
Cookie4Nat: i have thought about it
Horseeyoregal: that w*orks then
Cookie4Nat: huh?
Cookie4Nat: orks?
Horseeyoregal: that works*
Cookie4Nat: haha
Cookie4Nat: yupp
Cookie4Nat: sarah will surely be happy with my decision
Horseeyoregal: lol


So I stupidly baked myself in the sun again today...didn't really mean to, but IT WAS SO INVITING TO GO READ AND SIT IN THE POOL!! I'm not burned though...but I'm peeling from yesterday...oops!

Oh, and I've decided, seeing that I know am running 3 journals, that I have a mild case of hypergraphia. It's some neurologic desease that causes you to have this obsessive compulsion to write...HAHA!

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:: 2004 10 June :: 1.59 pm
:: Mood: content
:: Music: RENT-No Day But Today

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:: 2004 10 June :: 9.42 pm
:: Mood: crazy
:: Music: Wade In The Water (in head)

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:: 2004 9 June :: 7.25 pm
:: Mood: thoughtful
:: Music: Lois Armstrong-What A Wonderful World

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:: 2004 9 June :: 3.38 pm
:: Mood: sing-song-ey
:: Music: How Shall I Send Thee (in head)

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:: 2004 8 June :: 1.19 pm
:: Mood: cheerful
:: Music: Lost In The Wilderness-Children of Eden

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:: 2004 7 June :: 7.33 pm
:: Mood: anxious
:: Music: Fuck, Fuck, Fuck I Should Be Studying For Geo-Melissa's Musical Magic

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