Saturday, October 15, 2005

Inaugural Post

I decided to finally try this blogging thing. I've previously signed up for myspace and xanga, but blogger seems to be the best to me. There's a number of reasons, but I won't get into that now. From your point of view, the big difference is that you don't have to be a member to leave comments! Also, it's fairly simple for you to use an ATOM feed to "subscribe" to the blog, even if you don't have a Blogger account. (I can even help setit up if you like)

The reason I'm starting this blog is that I feel like I've forgotten so many exciting experiences by trusting my brain cells to keep everything straight. The middle part of 2006 will have three of those events: my second All-State experience, the Ars Nova trip to California, and my summer trip to Chile. Of course, none of those are set in stone, but if even one of them happens, I want to be in the habit of writing things down and taking pictures. This blog will be the public form of that goal.

Finally, I'm hoping to use this to sort through some old pictures from previous trips. This one is from Hawai'i by a sea wall. We had to take this photo so many times, it might as well be first.



Yesterday was mostly uneventful. Watched way too much TV. Drove with my dad over to his house for the weekend.

That evening though, I went to PLU's fall choral concert. I was really surprised to see how many people I recognized, on- and off-stage. I was already expecting to hear Marty Peterson, but it hadn't occurred to me that Sarah Voelpel would also be performing. There was also another girl from Seven Brides for Seven Brothers that I hadn't seen in a couple of years.

In the audience was the third member of "Please Don't Squeeze the Midget," a barbershop quartet that I'm in, (BTW, are there any guy singers interested in joining us? We need a Baritone or Tenor II) Alex Barnes(?) from All-State, and Sarah's younger brother, Jake.



This morning was the PSAT. I think I did well, though there were two I didn't quite have time to go back to. There were a surprizing number of Juniors there, so I guess I'm not the only one who didn't get to it last year. (Though in my case it's quite literal: last year no-one remembered about the PSAT until 15 minutes before it started)

Alright, I'm gonna go watch some shows I recorded last night, (Firefly, Threshold, Numb3rs) so I'll see ya' around.

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