IT'S HEATHER MARIE SMITH'S BIRTHDAY!!!!

she's my flavorite.

so...in english we're reading macbeth. not a bad play, in my opinion. i rather enjoy it. except for the fact that my teacher ruins it. grrr. it just frustrates me so much when we analyze the life out of a literary work...it leaves it so dry and empty. and it makes me bitter. like, yeah, it's shakespeare, it requires analytical thinking for understanding purposes...but COME ON PEOPLE!!!! we've gone too far. **shakes fist**

i've officially dubbed my car Marty (as in McFly). i'm totally diggin it.

tomorrow's gonna be a really busy day with choir stuff, but get this...i get to eat CHIPOTLE!!! that makes me want to do a little happy dance. i love chipotle. you see, we're singing for this Family First thing, so we're getting out of school early anyway, and our director loves chipotle, so he's gonna let one of the girls in our class leave to go get chipotle for the three of us. i'm so excited! it's some good grub. woot.
bad news about tomorrow: khaki pants. gross.

"i was just thinking of the timeless words of Socrates, who said, 'I drank what?' " --Real Genius

missing my parental units......:(

"and, believe me, you don't wanna see Donna in Deep Ellum." --Dan Riskey

don't you just love it when teachers extend deadlines for homework? it's a great feeling, really it is. because it means that i don't have to do novel notes tonight...or tomorrow night, if i don't feel like it. but the freedom of knowing i've got a few extra days is really cool. i'm diggin it.

so...today we had class elections in choir. i've never actually made officer before, though i've tried to. today i was voted student director. it doesn't seem like much to the rest of the choir, but to me it's really awesome and a fun way to serve my class and use my God-given talents. see, basically, the title means i fill in whenever our director isn't there, or needs to get some work done. which is really cool. and of course i'll have to enlist some help from time to time from alex, who i think most likely deserves the role more than i do. she's a very talented singer and pianist, you see. and she made all-state choir last year (the first one from marcus in i think 10 years!), in case you haven't heard her sing and need some proof of how incredible she is. anywho...i'm excited about the job and thankful to have someone who will help me when i need it.

i bought some new books tonight, and i'm really excited about it. see, i get about as crazy about book-shopping as normal girls get about...well...shopping. i pick up gagillions of books off the shelves and look longingly at them before placing them gently back...and still ending up with 5 more books than i intended by the time i leave. but books are just...well...i just love them so much. i think reading has made a big impact on me, intellectually and personally. but yeah. i love it. nuff said.

i taught my first EVER piano lesson yesterday, and i teach one more (i think) tomorrow. i'm earning money!! heck yes!!!! and it's really fun, too. i enjoy it a lot. but at the same time it's weird cause i'm teaching beginners, so for me it really seems kind of like not much has been accomplished by the end of the lesson. at least, it seemed that way until my student told me that our lesson was the first time she had ever played piano reading music (she plays a little bit by ear). and i'm so proud of her, cause i know that's a big deal for her. it was so cool to see the look on her face when she said it. she was so happy, and very eager to learn more. man, i love this.

it makes me sad that all of my now-college friends are starting to head off to school. they're all growed up!! *tear* i'll miss them while they're all gone to school. and i absolutely can't wait till i see them all again!!!

it's the onset of allergy season and...i'm already sick. how lame is that? do i just have a really bad immune system or something? i don't know. but it sucks being sick--because with sickness comes no sleep and excessive tissue use. but school has been okay, with the exception of feeling icky all day. and my BCIS teacher is really boring...but actually that is okay with me because it means that i don't have to be fully conscious during that hour and a half. woot. anywho...i hate being sick. laters!!!

i don't wanna go to school tomorrow
i don't wanna go to school tomorrow
i don't wanna go to school tomorrow
i don't wanna go to school tomorrow
i don't wanna go to school tomorrow
i don't wanna go to school tomorrow!!!!!

so...the task of assisting my choir director with the jv girls' choir has proved so far to be rather daunting. you see, my choir has 30 girls, mostly upperclassmen. this class that i'm helping with, however, has twice as many girls, and they are all underclassmen, mostly freshmen. they range from the 'sit-around-and-listen-to-my-ipod-all-day' types to the 'i'm-too-hyper-to-care-right-now' types to the girls who just think they're way too cool to even be in a room with all of these other people. i'm going to love working with them on their music and getting to know them...however, in the meantime, they are just more than even mr. shirah, alex, and myself combined can deal with. it must be all that left-over summer energy--but i just don't understand where it comes from. anywho...eventually, i think they will calm down at least a little bit. i hope. and pray. constantly. i am LOVING being back at school tho. as much as i may complain about boring teachers or dealing with 60 crazy freshman girls...i love it. i love the routine, and waking up earlier in the mornings (wow, did i just say that?!), and just everything about it. the whole atmosphere of school is just so cool to me. and, get this: i teach my first EVER piano lesson next week! it's gonna be a slow start until i get more students, but i'm just so darn excited that i'm earning money doing something i love and am good at. and i get to teach some good friends, which ought to make it fun and interesting! well, anywho, i'm apparently too tired to spit out another coherent thought so it's off to bed for me! i hope everyone's first two days of school were as fun and interesting and peculiar and altogether bizarre as mine were!!!! until we meet again......

"For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks." --Matthew 12:34

so today was interesting, to say the least...i got to spend a lot of time with Curly and Mo though...yes, that would make me Larry...anywho i bought some new movies at target today and i'm really excited!!! i got ever after, never been kissed, and the count of monte cristo--all quality movies that i somehow just never bought. so i think i'll go watch one of those now. and then sleep. cause sleep is good.

there is a long story behind the questions in my previous blog--i'll spare you the high school drama. basically, i have a group of friends who have not been geniune towards me, haven't held each other accountable, etc., and it affected my walk for a long time because i had very little encouragement and virtually no one holding me accountable. it has caused tears, and not just for myself. i have grown weary of the situation. i guess that's really the essentials of the story.

why can't people just be geniune? and why can't we truly view each other as brothers and sisters in Christ? why don't we hold each other accountable? encourage each other? have brotherly love for one another? when will we stop being so childish?

i'm tired of lies.

so the past few days i've had mainly school on the brain. i'm pretty darn excited. which is totally weird--me? excited about school? oh, well. it will be a really good year. i got to go up to the school yesterday and help my choir director with some stuff. also, my friend alex and i are going to be sort of co-directing the junior varsity girls' choir, so coach showed us some music that we might be doing with them this semester. there's one song in there that alex and i are both so incredibly excited about--it's really pretty. so after we left the school alex and i went to the library to look for monologues for musical auditions--we're doing peter pan! except i probably won't be able to be in it, because my schedule is just to full to add rehearsals after school every day.
i've also been doing some serious college research. i'm really seriously considering UNT, and as it turns out, my AP scores for english and french this year get me 20 hours--14 for french and 6 for english. and if i pass the AP exams i'll take this year, i could have as many as 32 hours. how sweet is that? and on top of that, we're going to check and see if anyone in my family is registered as indian, cause i'm 1/16 choctaw on my mom's side and 1/32 cherokee on my dad's. it's possible that my great-great-grandfather was registered, and if he was, i could get a lot of college money, which would be really nice. so i really kind of can't wait to see how all of that turns out.

anywho, random comment--for anyone who's interested, i think i've already mentioned this before but i'm going to be teaching piano lessons this year. i'm taking beginner students, it's one 30-minute lesson a week, and lessons are $10. call me or comment or something if you're interested!

there has been a lot of "controversy" over the harry potter books. bah.

i just don't get where people are coming from. i mean, okay, it's perfectly fine if you don't like the books. some people don't favor that particular genre. but last night i was listening to the radio (which i haven't done in a while, really...i've been favoring cd's) and there was this interview going on. they were talking to some guy about said "controversy" over harry potter. the man's argument was something like: "while many people claim that books such as Harry Potter are merely harmless fiction, j.k. rowling receives letters every day from small children hoping to attend Hogwarts. these children are devastated when they discover that no such school exists. can you call that harmless?" he went on to say that satan was using the books to mold the children of today in order to do his bidding. argh. okay. children write letters to santa asking for presents. heck, we even have a santa at every mall waiting to take pictures with the kids. children write letters to the tooth fairy when they lose teeth. most of our fiction in tv and books, at least for children, has to do with "magical" things. is that evil, too? and, as it is with santa and the tooth fairy and the easter bunny, don't the parents decide what to tell their children, and when to divulge the truth to them? for that matter, the parents also have the authority to decide whether they think their child might be too young to read a certain book or see a certain movie. okay, now i'm rambling so i'm gonna stop. but seriously...i'm not against anyone who doesn't like harry potter. it's okay. there are a lot of things i don't like either. i just think that some people's reactions are becoming rather foolish. argh.