Ah, the stage where much butt kicking took place! Flat or sharp, we still did the best we could under the circumstances and I think we did a damn fine job. Other than that, it was a good trip!
I think you can view the rest of my pictures here if it lets you:

http://uab.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2010073&l=571f0&id=20500468

I'm too lazy to make it a link. I think you can just copy paste.

poem.

Let's play!
Otherwise life would be boring.
Very boring - normal,
Even.

how many baritones does it take to assemble the risers?

...how many can you spare?

my voice is dying! It was very unhappy with me today, and also it hurts.
Also my car died.
Today was not such a good day.
TOMORROW IS FRIDAY!!!!!!!!

sooo...Keith explained to me what Rockytop means (correct me if I'm wrong!):

He said that my head is like Yahtzee! and when you shake it up and pour it out, you never know what you're going to get! He then made references to maracas, and those little egg-shaped percussion-heads that they sell in most music stores.
I think he meant to compare me to a box of chocolates in a Forrest-Gump way.

Thanks a lot, Keith. :oP



I'm in the library, writing about Jane Eyre and thinking about my grandma, and this song popped into my head:

Oh, you musta been a beautiful baby
You musta been a beautiful child
When you were only startin
to go to kindergarten,
You musta drove the little boys wild!
Oh ya musta been a beautiful baby
Cuz baby, look at you now!!!

Also, my dad sent me this joke yesterday!

Hillary Clinton and her driver were cruising along a country road in New York State one evening when an ancient cow loomed in front of the car.The driver tried to avoid it but couldn't - the aged bovine was struck and killed. Hillary told her driver to go up to the farmhouse and explain to the owners what had happened. She stayed in the car making phone calls to lobbyists.
About an hour later, the driver staggered back to the car with his clothes in disarray. He was holding a half-empty bottle of expensive wine in one hand, a rare, huge Cuban cigar in the other, and was smiling happily, smeared with lipstick.
"What happened to you?", asked Hillary?
"Well," the driver replied, "The farmer gave me the cigar, his wife gave me the wine, and their beautiful twin daughters made mad passionate love to me."
"My God, what did you tell them?" asked Hillary.
The driver replied: "I just stepped inside the door and said, I'm Hillary Clinton's driver and I've just killed the old cow. The rest happened like lightning!"

By God, I love our choir. What a crazy group you have assembled, Dr. Copeland! (The better to fit in with me, my dear...) HEY. Speaking of wolves, you should see Hoodwinked. It was better than awesome. Take a small child if you need an excuse....I will serve substitute if you can't take a kid and are willing to pay! Haha! It was so hilarious. I want to go again. Take me! Please! :)

My birthday is this weekend. Yep, Sunday. The Day of the Everlasting Concert. Like the Battle of the Five Armies, but there are four, and we're not eagerly awaiting the destruction of The Ring (whaaaat? wow, I am a literature dork! hurray!)! Domenica, ho ventuno anni. Booo. I don't want to be old!

Gwendolyn Brooks is an awesome poet. Check out her poem "the mother" if you have any free time. It is more than moving. Consider this my warning and if you are not ready for an extreme emotional upheaval, don't read it.


Good ol Rockytop! I still don't know what my nickname means. Today was a good day. I had subway for dinner and spoke up in my 19th Cent British Novel class...and then in Italian, they couldn't get me to STOP talking. But it was okay! I know my numbers, and also they like me. "Te presenti Johnny Depp! Lui e molto bello! Si! Pirates of the Caribbean Due, giugno sette!" Haha. No real knowledge of Italian needed for that Esame Orale! I win! Whee! But... I did say that "Il ragazzo mio e un cantante. Stasera, lui e a chiesa." Oh yeah. I'mma genius. And for now, I'm going to bed. See you soon!

This is me getting attacked by a pirahna!

We went to the Georgia Aquarium yesterday! It was amazing. I especially liked the Bowmouthed guitarfish but Donna's favorite (and probably everyone else's) was the whale sharks: Ralph and Norton. They were very, very cute. And one day, they will fill half the display window! By themselves! One at a time! HUGE. It was amazing. And kind of reassuring to know that there are two feet of acrylic between you and the shark when it doesn't appear to be turning fast enough! Haha! The beluga whales were really cute, too. Their faces were so intelligent, you could imagine them talking! Well, I could. And I touched a sea urchin and an anemone and I almost touched a cownosed ray but I freaked out and didn't because Donna's dad walked up behind me and yell "woo!" when he poked me because I didn't know he was there. That happened to me twice: the other time I was watching a huge fish and waiting for it to circle to me so I could take its picture but I was so intent on it that I didn't see the HUGE black fish coming up to my right so it scared the crap out of me when it came into my line of sight and I shrieked. Oh well. I got everyone's attention. Haha! Also there are neat crawly things that we went into, and we went down the whale-slide, and we saw stinging nettles, and moon jellies, and pirhana, and piraya, and sea otters, and sea lions, and African penguins, and Girabaldi, and LEAFY SEA DRAGONS and WEEDY SEA DRAGONS (if you don't know what those are, check it out. REALLY!!!!) and so. It was exciting. And Dreamland for dinner! And then we watched The Talented Mr Ripley which I'd never seen before and it was very upsetting. Particulary the part with the oar, if you've seen it. But. Enough out of me! Goodbye!

Love is like diving into an ocean that is certainly too deep
To feel, the sand in your toes, and the bottoms of your feet
But for, some strange reason you stay cold and wet
'Cause you know deep down that you haven't seen, the best of it yet
And all the while you wonder...
Is this right? How do we know
If we never been here before?
- Toby Lightman

um...did i promise not to post this one? :oD

I called Mrs Lisa today and hopefully secured a job for the summer!

I need to sleep more.

I have good pictures on facebook.

Construction workers are nice guys...and the ladies who work at McDonald's aren't so bad, either.

I have to get up in the morning and buy my other textbooks for African American Lit. BOO.

I'm hungry. goodnight.
I'm excited about West Virginia!!!