Not Your Average Jane

So its 9:30 on a freezing cold Friday night.... If I were home I would probably be at whatever show I had decided to go to tonight... No idea whose playing but thats what I would probably be doing... Or hanging out with the guys... My life at home is somewhat predictable but never boring... Here, I'm watching the NASCAR awards thingy from New York... I went to that Show Your Stuff 2 talent show thingy earlier but that was over by like 8:30.... My first unofficial music review will come here in a second.... So now I'm thinking I'm going to watch Madagascar... I watched Smile earlier and it made me cry... I had Pizza Pro for dinner and I observed for a few hours at Westside... Only like 12 hours left to do next week... Whoo hoo... I also have to do a couple of hours onmy birthday on Tuesday.... (3 more shopping days, what are you getting me? ;0) ) Double whoo hoo.... I don't mind observing, I love kids, which is why I want to teach, but having nothing to do for hours on end just drives me nuts... I took notes on stuff that happened today but I think I may have to take my notebook on Monday and take notes and be able to doodle... I have ADD I have to doodle or something or I go NUTS... And sitting still for hours on end, not talking at all, yeah its trying.... and not interacting with the kids at all is just crazy.... They all stare at me and they look like they want to say something but their teacher has told them not to... argh.... I do sort of know their names though after one day, which is kinda cool....
My review of the show your stuff 2 thing.... I walked in during Andrew's comedy bit and I'm easily amused but the boy couldn't make me laugh... He hit on all the wrong subjects for me to be able to laugh... Gays, the military, but the basic girl/guy observations that are almost common sensical made me giggle a lil since I don't really think about them anymore... (you know girls talk alot more than guys, etc....) Then there were the 2 guys doing a song... One played acoustic guitar and the other played violin... The violin guy was off and the guy singing and playing guitar could barely do either.... Then Shala did a song that I thought sounded pretty nice... Very Jewel/Sheryl Crow sounding.... Not bad at all... I think I'm missing one but then there was the ending... A band called Affectus (I think I spelled that right)... I know at least one of the guys in the band go to school here and I have to admit I did dig their stuff... It was a bit rough sounding, but with a bit more experience they could be phenomonal... The crowd wasn't digging their stuff at first but after the 3rd song (a cover of when doves cry) demanded an encore... The lead singer had a fabulous stage presence. He moved around and acted like he owned it. Not bad at all... He did do a few Justin-esque (Justin Furstenfeld) moves... It could have been just me since I know he's influenced by Blue October.... The lead guitarist was awesome... I haven't heard guitar played like that in a while...
School stuff.... I got an email back from Wilma (the registrar) that said I didn't have to walk the stage... She told me that she knew this was a big accomplishment for me and that she didn't want me to look back later in life and have any regrets about my graduation... How can I regret something I wasn't planning for in the first place? I didn't want to walk the stage when I was supposed to graduate last year either... I don't know what I would have done if Mamamaw hadn't have died (that sounds back I know) .... It provided me the perfect excuse without lying so I could go to La's graduation from TCU.... Now I have another ceremony for her when she gradautes from law school and one for Linz when she graduates from U of H.... She (Wilma) also mentioned something about it was up to me about inviting my family and friends... Um yeah... Thats all in Texas and none of them can take off in the middle of the damn week to make the trip, sorry. So it looks as if I'm stuck going to this damn thing I don't care about where 28 other people are graduating (of whom I know like 2).... Which probably means I won't get to leave till Friday and miss Boland at the Firehouse Friday night... Dammit. That was going to be my big birthday/graduation party.... Yet another reason I'm a bit bitter about this place....
So I'm taking tonight off of doing homework.... Since I'll spend most of my weekend so working on my unit on space, my observations from today and making sure my notebook for Dr Betty's in order... So I'm going to go watch Madagascar now.... And then sleep as late as I want tomorrow, work on homework and go to the Formal... I have the dress, the shoes match, kinda and I may have to go to Walmart to restock on some makeup but I'm ready.... yeah so if i dont stop now I'll keep babbling... so yeah... laters....

posted by Ali @ 9:33 PM