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props, YO!

6-8-'xx: 3:06pm

it's finally over. i'm free for a few months! i know it sounds kinda dumb to be saying....like signing someone's yearbook when you don't have anyhting to say....but it's weird to think that i'm a senior now. one more year and i'm off to that big adventure they call college.

and what a big deal those who are in college make of it! i don't see how it could be any different than what i'm expecting, and i'm not expecting much. then again, i'm not much of an idealist.

but it's ultra weird to not have to be stressed out about something school related. no, i won't have a history paper due next friday. no, i don't have to work on my music theory project. no, i don't have to put off doing that ocnsumer ed crap and longer. no more IB tests, no more essays, no more trig quizzes....at least, until next year. but i won't have to worry about math anymore, at least. no more math for me in this high school experience.

and i know that ben says that i shouldn't be stressed out at all, but...it just doesn't work that way, y'know? if it was THAT easy, if i could just sit back and say "i don't give a shit"...wow, things would be so much easier. but would i get anyhting done? no. because really, the only way to not be stressed out is not to care. and if you don't get anyhting done, there's nothing to feel good about. i can't feel a sense of accomplishment of doing well on a paper if i don't care. i would never have won the instrumental outstanding junior and instrumental/choir academic awards if i hadn't worked hard. and what comes with hard work? stress. naturally. and marching band....that's all stress....but the performances are well worth it. jessica and i discussed it, and the second performance in vancouver, WA was worth the whole goddamned year. any day.

my birthday is in 21 days! sweet action.

and speaking of jessica, we've been hanging out and talking a lot lately. and it's really cool, because we always have stuff to talk about and she never gets boring even though she talks about maxon all the time. she's cool because she's mormon but she still drinks diet coke and she watched orgazmo with me. and went to center stage last tuesday with me. maxon gave us a free frozen coke. the person who invented frozen coke should be commended by UNA. muy delicioso.

i sent wyatt the finished a-capella arrangement of "you and i" that i did...the best compliment i can get as an arranger is that the original composer likes my arrangement...and not only that...he said "wow, you made me like that song again!" haug liked it, too. he loved the lyrics, how wyatt likes "i" sounds. i bet i could make some profound symbolism with that one but i'll leave you to think about it yourself.

oooooh i just remembered....see....school isn't really out yet, i'm just out a day early so i can go to my mom's graduation tomorrow (UW tacoma, buisness administration)...but the sad part is that tomorrow lizzy is going to confess to the freshman about the love me tender balloon and the crush cans. and i won't be there! ha, though.....5 bucks says it doesn't really happen.

i have a loose tooth....my mouth is screwed up. see, erin's mom gave me a free dental inspection on friday and told me that the loose tooth is a baby tooth, and that the tooth that's next to my big tooth is really supposed to be where the baby tooth is, and there's supposed to be another tooth next to my big tooth that isn't there. fucked up. anyway, so i've been trying to pull out the baby tooth with no luck...it's just painful that's all. i figure though, that if i pull out the baby tooth, then my dad will remember to make me a dentist appointment.

well. well well well. it's been all that time and i'm still out of witty little endings.

word, props, YO!

(that is for mike arends

and so is this cool haiku

i'm sooo cool, huh mike?)

b a c k / f o r w a r d