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bah weep gwa nop, weep nitty baum

5-27-'^o1: 1:31pm

i was prettymuch bored out of my skull by 8:00pm yesterday. it's not like talking to merrick and the mike wasn't interesting or anything...i just needed to get out of the house, and badly. i decided that i was going to take a long walk...in the process killing two birds with one stone by getting out of the house and getting excersize. i decided that i was going to walk up garfield hill to ruth's place, stop by and chew the fat, then walk back. the fact that i would be walking back in the dark did not concern me.

i decided, however, it would be much more polite to call ruth up before i just showed up on her doorstep. she made the mistake of telling me that she had gotten ahold of a copy of the transformers movie. what that translated to: movie marathon. she invited me over to watch this striking cinematic masterpiece and hang out for awhile. i still insisted on walking, though. it's not like i don't need the excersize or anything.

when i got to the house, no one appeared to be home. dan and jane were out on their newly finished deck [ which is niiiiice ] drinking wine. i walked around back and said hey, and they informed me that fred and the gang were out trying to find me and ambush me with water balloons. apparently, they had done a VERY poor job, as i walked straight down kennewick ave. and straight up garfield, not taking any detours. i talked with them about college and concerts for awhile before they informed me that ruth was in fact home, and was inside.

then we watched the transformers movie...hell yes! "lets crack open the shell and get to the nuts!" or something. i think that's one of the best lines. besides "bah weep gwa nop, weep nitty baum" or however you'd spell it. we booed the decepticons and cheered for the autobots. unicon is such a toolbar, that sucker. he was a fool to ever mess with the power of the matrix. optimus prime shall rise again!

then, to make it a true marathon, ruth busted out her copy of the g i joe movie she bought at pik n' save. yet another masterpiece...and the music! whoever wrote that theme song was a genius. i sat there analyzing it...the part where they'd sing about cobra was always in a minor/modal key, and when they'd actually say "co-bra", it was a tri-tone! beautiful. and when it would switch to singing about g i joe, it would be in a major key...and it would eve do a glorious half-step modulation! i was in awe. anyway, i really enjoyed how all the bad guys had british accents. are they trying to tell us something? yo, joe!

the rest of my satruday wasn't nearly as exciting. i got up early to go to sherry's house and rehearse my solo with nic...i'm afraid i scared them a bit, seeing that i'd never heard the piece before and i was putting my emphasis on all the wrong beats...but i got it eventually. i think [ hope...pray... ] that it'll be fine by thursday. i just need to pratice! then, we got coffee and headed off to the music store...i think our original intent was to see about this one clinic but i ended up getting the white fender electric violin off the wall and playing it for like 45 minutes or so. i think i played almost everything i know. i found a few solo books and played stuff i knew out of there, played the solo i need to practice, etc. those electric violins are neat...that is my next instrumental purchase. i ended up getting out of there with some solo books, a fiddling chord book, and a hookup so i can plug my mic into the computer without using the direct box [ which makes it way too hot ]. then, made a trip to costco to get slim-fast...they didn't have it, so the next stop was fred meyer...they had the slim-fast but not the hairdye i wanted...so the next stop was safeway. it was like the domino effect.

friday isn't even really worth mentioning. i looked through my yearbook, finished the perks of being a wallflower in one sitting, and eventually just went to bed. i would have gone to battle of the bands but...i dunno, i just didn't feel like it.

and i have tomorrow off because ruth and i decided that working on our project would be too much of a pain. i'm glad we came to a rapid agreement on that. TIP will have to wait until next week.

oh, procrastination.

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