Current mood:	tired
Current music:	"Lady Madonna" by the Beatles

Various Ramblings...
Wow. I need to write more often. Lots of stuff has happened. George Harrison is dead; the 60th anniversary of Pearl Harbor is over and done with; I've grown a small Simon and Garfunkel obsession; our orchestra had a concert; now the Pops Concert is coming up. What to talk about?

I suppose we can start with orchestra. We had our winter concert, and we did well. First we played Concerto Grosso by Vivaldi, and I have half a mind to buy a cd of our concert just so I can listen to it over and over again; I love that song. It's in D minor, which, as very few of you knew and cared, is my second-favourite key, after E minor. Then we played Finlandia, which is a very uplifting song, though I don't really enjoy playing it much. The cool thing 'bout FInlandia is that it was a full-orchestra piece rather than just strings. I've never played full orchestra before, and I must say that it's really fun, though I had to sit behind the french horns, and they can be pains at times.

Well, next, how about Pearl Harbor? We were talking about it Language Arts. That day, we had a sub. He was born six months after Pearl Harbor, and he told us interesting stories about when he was a child. We all supposed about the future, years from now, when our descendants will ask us what it was like living after World Trade Center, through all this tumult. It was sorta hard to imagine, but it was interesting all the same. Slowly, we came around to the topic of death, suicide, and that sort of stuff. There's someone in our class who tried to kill themself, and all of us knew people who died, so we had more interesting conversations. At the end of class, there were a lot of people crying. It was a good class that day.

Well, George Harrison is dead. I found out at five-thirty in the morning, when radio stations had just gotten word of his death. I ran upstairs to my mum's room, woke her up, told her that he was dead, and left. It was a very sad day, for my family is filled with Beatles fans. George was my favourite, and so his passing greatly affected me.

Simon and Garfunkel. I've grown an obsession for their music. I've started to listen to the oldies station non-stop, and now I live for when they play "Scarborough Fair". I've begged Mum for a cd wih their music, and she promises to get it for me for Christmas. Unfortunately, I don't think I can wait that long. All day on Christmas, I think I'll be listening to the cd, playing "Scarborough Fair" and "Feelin' Groovy" over and over and over and over and over and...

Pops Concert stuff can wait. I've got to get to bed; I've got my first voice lessons with a new teacher tomorrow morning. 'Night-night!