life and nothing less
Ahhh, I have so much to write about. Let me get these thoughts straight; so much jibberish and confusion.
First, today was our pizza party in College English because we won some contest a very long time ago. The ‘party’ was awful; who wants to eat pepperoni pizza at 8:30AM on a Wednesday? But it was free food, so I had a different breakfast today.
Tonight was the big concert at JF. First was the trombone quartet, of which I consist of one-fourth. That went ok; lots of mistakes however because we weren’t perfectly practiced up. Then was the University of Tennessee Trombone Choir, which is basically a lot of different trombone ensembles. They were stupendous. I was just in awe as I watched them play these ‘ridiculously’ hard arrangements and watched them groove to some incredible jazz stuff. Wow, great! Then the Advanced Symphonic Band played our festival performance again. It actually wasn’t bad, at least for the trombones (the four of us were dead after the other performance so we weren’t expecting to be able to play much afterwards). Anyways, it went well and many people were entertained and impressed. Bravo!
I have two things to comment about. The first would be substitute teachers. Now, let it be known that I respect all teachers, even the ones that truly make me angry and annoy me. But on those odd chances that a regular teacher is not available and a substitute comes in my attitude perhaps can change. Last Tuesday was an example of that. A certain sub took over our Physics II class for the day and gave us our assignments. I had already done the assignments and was working on a special project in the class so I instead worked on that. The sub, however, didn’t believe me and felt I was irresponsible and foolish, so she treated me like the dirt of the world. So ::skip to the end:: it was not a good class and I left wanting to write something about it in my blog.
Secondly, I have further reason to dislike Avril Lavigne. I admit that there are a few of her songs that I enjoy, but her styles, emphasis on the plural, have worn out. And I noticed that in “Complicated” she has actually stolen a rhythm and lyrical pattern from a song written in 1999 or 2000 by Rachael Lampa. The part I’m talking about is the “life’s like that” that is repeated several times before “Complicated” begins; this segment was first used by Rachael Lampa in her song “Live For You” and is at the same part of the song with the same melody and lyrics. Interesting…coincidence or further proof that Avril has lost all conscious?