Wow

That's cool. Look at the prevvious picture.

One of my favorite towns I've ever been to.

Keeping up the Habit

Winamp is great. I recommend it almost fully over itunes. I'm still pissed it deleted my artwork though...but the CD burner is excellent and the sound quality is leaps and bounds above iTunes. I love my sound quality like none other. I'm in the process of ripping the DRM encoding off of all of my songs. It's a pain in the ass. Grrr. Damn digital rights. I'm really angry that they asked me to buy all the songs AGAIN. I already bought them once, geeze.

Track was okay today. But when I got done with my "workout" there was mayo all over my lock. I was pretty pissed. It smelled foul.

Whoops. Forgot this was up.

Maine

Nostalgic?

It's been kind of...a guess nostalgic is the best way to describe today. I missed musical for the first time. I couldn't concentrate on the music as well today because I was watching the musical with a twinge of sadness. I was just thinking about Seussical, and then Oliver and finally Beauty and the Beast. I miss being part of the cast. Pit is more professional and...I guess more professional is just the way to describe it. I went into the changing room the last two days to feel like I was part of the cast again and it felt great until I left. Boxer runs were great. I really miss drama class too. It's weird because I've never missed these things before. Except Seussical. I'll always miss that a little. Meh.

I've been reading the copy of Once a Runner Loughran let me borrow during most of my free time today and it's made me really think about running too. I've been running a damn long time. It's been a dominant part of my high school life. And I really miss cross country. Track is cool, but it's not the same.

I don't miss high school it self at all. Just the good experiences I've had. If I go to JMU I'm going to really miss running. I really think Mary Washington is where I'll feel best. I still need to visit it to see if that's true. But I want to get back into acting and singing. I want to take composition and theory, I want to run.

Ughhh! I really miss...stuff right now. It's kind of a foreign feeling to me around high school. I've never really missed anything about high school. I missed camp a lot when I left, but it was different.

Hm.

I'm going to go play some guitar.

More XC

Emory and Henry

I'm a little confused. I got home from pit today and my mom told me to take a look at a letter from Emory and Henry on the table. The letter informed me that I had been accepted into their college and they were looking forward to seeing me on one of their prospective student days. I didn't even complete my app. I just checked it. It's still incomplete. Yet they sent me a letter saying it was complete. I guess it feels pretty good that I got into a school I didn't even finish applying to.

Pit was ok today. My fingers are legit bleeding though. It's a good thing I have a set of new strings cause mine are dead.

I really need to get off blogger and do my homework, but if senioritis hadn't kicked in a little while ago it sure has now. But I'm going to write my paper anyway.

Slash

Got a little slash going on.

Good Rehearsal.

Pit went well today for me. Like really well. I think having a drummer really helps. Or maybe all my practicing is just paying off finally. My hands are pretty sore though. Not even my finger tips, just my hands in general.

I don't know why, but I've never done well in early morning practices. My muscles and lungs just aren't awake yet. I died pretty hard this morning. When we started running, I could barely see anything because it was snowing so hard but when I came back the sun was in my eyes and all the snow plastered on me melted.

Anyway. I'm going to go read in bed now.

So I'm At School

And I'm reading google news. I managed to get the most of my homework done, so it's nice to be able to relax for a little. I'm really not too excited about going to practice in a few hours, but then again, I rarely do. I thought regionals was this weekend and it's not. So I'm going to have to drive down...up? to Liberty behind the bus and then drive back right after the mile. Fun Fun Fun...

I can't believe it's Friday. This week felt reeeeeally long. I guess that's because it was our first one in a few without a snow day.

I recorded a video of Canon Rock last night finally. Well, 2 videos and I spliced them together. It's not my best version. I think the best one I've ever done is the recording I have but whatever. I think it's good enough. My strings were really dirty though so my hands got stuck a few times. www.youtube.com/fichtezxc

I've gotten really bad headaches for the past...3 days? I always get them right around now and they last through the end of the day and through most of track and until I get home and in the shower. I occasionally get stomach aches with them too. Off and on stomach aches. I'm kind of worried...but whatever. I think it's just because I'm not used to being so tied.

I wonder if I have pit tonight...I forgot to ask Snow during theory. I need to go ask after school. I need to practice, but I kind of hope we don't have it. I'm really tired.

So. I'm gonna leave.

No Real

No real post today. Just a picture

Picture V

Yeah, I miss XC.

Now I'm

Exhausted. It took two days to do it. At least we have tomorrow off from pit. My leg is starting to really hurt me. I stood up to go get my meager snack during pit and I could barely walk until the muscle stretched out a bit. I really need to fix it somehow. It's only slowing me down a little bit at least. The only thing slowing me down is exhaustion.

Speaking of exhaustion. I'm going to go read it bed, or more likely hang out with Joy.

Good night.

Picture IV?

I wasn't lying. Mazda Miata

First Really Long Day

It was stressful, but ok overall I guess. Track practice was pretty cool. 10 400's at like...around mile pace. I must not have stretched well enough or something because when I started lugging amps around for pit practice a muscle in my leg started really hurting. It feels like a pulled muscle and it's really swollen. I'm icing it though so it should be fine.

Pit was weird. I got rearranged so I had to learn to listen to different people. I'm used to listening to David for the off beats, but he's on the other side of the pit now. I pretty much didn't talk. I looked pretty miserable, but I was fine. Just tired. I am really tired.

Not much else to say.

And for a Picture

We all know this attractive guy.

I'm on a Roll.

I'm probably going to supplement every post with a picture? K great.

Pit rehearsal today was...painful? My fingers are legit bleeding. I have huge chunks of skin actually missing from my fingers. I guess that's what almost 3 hours of straight playing an acoustic will do to your hands. I'm feeling a lot better about actually playing though. I get to use some huge, old school bass modeling amp. It's pretty nice, but I'm having trouble getting an actual good acoustic tone out of it.

Tomorrow is going to be fun... I think I'm just going to go to subway after practice for convenience. Hopefully I'll be able to squeeze a shower in somewhere. I really don't want to take one in the locker room though...our track team is rather...well. Yeah. So I don't know!

I guess I'll go to pit all sweaty : )

Another Picture

Three in a Row

I just discovered today that Paul Reed Smith discontinued the Classic 22 this year in exchange for the "sunburst 22." Psh. What the hell. That's MY guitar. Although the Suburst 22 is pretty. They also started making amps again. Very nice amps with a hefty price tag. Grrr. Acoustic guitars as well. Very nice acoustic guitars with another hefty price tag. Humph!

I've had the weekend almost completely off which is nice. I had districts on Saturday and a financial talk that ruined most of my weekend. I spent pretty much all of today reading. There's some Latin reading I feel like I was supposed to do, which I'm probably going to try to do in a few minutes. It was nice in early high school when I could remember everything I had to do without writing it down. Now if it's not written down, I'm not going to remember it until someone asks for it.

This coming week is going to be...well, stressful. It's not like being in musical where I was only on stage half of the time. I'm always playing now. I really don't know how I'm going to get any homework done if I'm spending 14 hours at school. That leaves 10 hours at home, some of which need to be spent sleeping.

Well I stopped writing. So I'm going to go read some Latin.

Well. That Was Lucky

Apparently the Hoerner boys are on vacation...so...I was ranked 6th instead of 7th and I am now going to regionals. Our 4x8 destroyed because TA and Broadway had nothing and Spotswood ran their B/C team. So yeah...good deal.

I'm really...not looking forward to going to college anymore. Why is the economy so messed up??!!??!!

So yeah.

And a Picture because I can

Wow, look... a post!

Tomorrow is Indoor districts. This is the first time I've ever been nervous going into districts and it annoys me. Unless I run 2 drop dead races, or at the very least, run a killer mile PR, my indoor season is done. That makes me angry. I'm faster than at least 2 of the people that are going to continue onto states. But maybe it will be a good thing for me to get a break for a while. With all of the musical rehearsals coming up I'd be in trouble if I was still doing track. Run till 5:30, pit from 6-10. Haha. No. But we shall see. I'm going to try and hang on Chris and then just gut it to the end. Maybe I can't beat him, but I might be able to run the region time, even on that crap track.

And now for something completely different.

Today, for the first time ever. I got an A on one of Fielding's papers. I was ecstatic. Even though I didn't really show it which made her think I blew it off and talked to me after class saying I should be proud of my work. I like knowing that if I actually turn the internet and music off, sit down, and give myself forty five minutes I can write a pretty solid essay.


I think I'm actually going to go back to blogging again. haha. no. Really this time. But we'll see.

Is anyone interested in buying a Peavey Valveking 212 with what were new tubes a few months ago? I really...need a new, small amp for college.

Yeah, I'm going to go drink some water, read some Lord of the Rings and go to bed early.