Friday, August 3, 2007

Business

This week has been interesting. Preparations for Peter's wedding, first week of summer camp (I got the lead role, too, which makes it especially busy), etc. Pretty crazy, but fun at the same time. :)

Monday, June 25, 2007

Sadness :(

Fiddler is now over. Cast party tonight, and then... no BYT until Summer Camp. Darn.

Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Whoa... That's Odd

I was reminded today that, based solely on school standards, I'm now a senior in high school. Interesting thought.

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Lucky Day

I got an e-mail today notifying me that I'm one of six lucky winners of two free premium tickets to the Masters of Harmony Christmas concert. All I can say is, if I had to pick something to win by a random drawing, this is a very good choice. I'm happy. :)

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Poe, a Poet

Poe, a poet, placed a raven in a poem with skill engraven
But the poem was much too morbid for a cheerful one like me.
Death of beauty, says the poet, is the best, and you should know it;
I like life of beauty, so it's not so certain I agree.
Life of beauty is the best, and so I have to disagree
          Death's not all it's cracked up to be.


Poe's rhymes are the best around; in fact, they're always marv'lous
          soundin',
But this makes it difficult to write a perfect parody.
Fortunately, I'm not writing parodies, I am just chiding
E. A. Poe on his abiding melancholy melody.
'Tis a very much abiding melancholy melody,
          Singing so unhappily.

Poe may like his subject matter. I, for one, would be much gladder
Reading something pleasanter than Poe's poems will ever be.
However, I must admit, his poems are better far than this is,
But I'm not a poet; there is quite a lot 'tween him and me.
Since I'm not a poet, he is better than I'll ever be
          But I see life more happily.

(It's not perfectly in the meter of the Raven, but I did the best I could.)

Saturday, April 14, 2007

Vacation in Solvang

I got back last night from vacation in Solvang with my family. I've never been there before, but I had a lot of fun. We left Wednesday afternoon and arrived in Buellton about 5:15 PM, where we had dinner with some old friends of my parents at a great restaurant called A.J. Spurs. It was rather expensive, but it was worth it. We stayed in Lompoc for the night.

In the morning, we headed out to Mission La Purisima. We stopped by the Visitor Center:














We also saw some other interesting sites around the mission. Once we were finished looking around, we took a short hike up to a cross on the hill:














My dad took a great picture of a butterfly perching on a plant stem.














We spent some time walking around Solvang in the afternoon. The next morning, we rented a Surrey quadricycle for an hour and explored a bit more. We rode past the big windmill,


















and went through a few more shops


















before driving to Quicksilver Ranch to see miniature horses.


























In the afternoon, we drove down to Santa Barbara and had lunch at the Montecito Cafe, a 3-diamond restaurant in Montecito on the southern border of Santa Barbara. It was quite nice. :) Then, we took a short walk along the Santa Barbara pier before heading home. All in all, it was a very good three-day trip.

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Bartleby the Scrivener

Interesting discussion in class today... does anybody else think that Bartleby could be an allegory? It seems rather far-fetched, but someone in my class brought it up, so we considered it. As far as I remember, we found a fair amount of evidence that could easily support it being an allegory, and none really against it being allegory, but it still doesn't quite seem right. Thoughts?

Friday, March 9, 2007

Dracula vs. the Loch Ness Monster... With Ninjas?

It was amazing. :) Congratulations to all who were in the play!

Sunday, February 25, 2007

How do you deal with it all?

How can a person sort out all of the questions in his head? How can he come up with answers to even a small fraction of them? Why do we ask so many questions about everything? And here I am, doing the same thing...

I think that's why I like to read books. When I'm reading a good book, I don't have to think about all of those questions. Instead, I can get out of myself for a few hours. I barely even notice the time passing if I don't have anything else to do. I definitely need it; there's no way I can keep trying to answer the questions my mind comes up with. I just wish that I could put the questions aside more often.

Monday, February 19, 2007

Good news or bad news?

Good news! I get to be the bringer of bad news! I will be Avram the bookseller in Fiddler on the Roof. :D

Thursday, February 15, 2007

Callbacks!

Well, I called about half an hour ago, and found that I did indeed make it to callbacks! I'm not entirely surprised, but I didn't want to be too sure of it before it happened. Now I just need to pray that I get called in for at least one of the parts that I really want, and that if I don't, I can still be happy with what I do get called back for...

Monday, February 12, 2007

Auditions

Two days until my audition... I will be seeing some of you there. Good luck to all who are auditioning today or tomorrow!

Sunday, January 14, 2007

My Fair Lady

We had an amazing opening weekend. Praise God, and pray the next one goes at least as well! :)

Saturday, January 13, 2007

Micro-Miniatures

Micro-Miniatures

Read this. It's simply amazing.

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Satisfaction... Revisited

I think I've gotten my satisfaction back, and it's in large part due to the devotion tonight at rehearsal. I'm very happy now. :)

Thursday, January 4, 2007

Satisfaction

How do we find satisfaction? I know that lasting satisfaction can only be found in God, but can we have any other sort of satisfaction other than God? Do we only have satisfaction from things in which we include God? If so, how do we include God in everything?

Lots of questions, to which I wish I knew the answers. Last night, I noticed that I felt rather dissatisfied. I don't know with what, though; just dissatisfied. I wish I knew what I could do about it, because I don't like the feeling. I'm not even sure what caused it, because I've been really happy recently. *sigh*

Tuesday, January 2, 2007

Decisions, decisions...

Winter Formal is on February 4th... to go or not to go? My youth group's winter camp is that same weekend, so I could go to that. On the other hand, I haven't felt as connected to my youth group recently, although I think I'd still enjoy it. In one way, I'd like to go to the Winter Formal, though... and I know who I'd like to invite, but I'm not sure if I'm ready to invite her to something like that yet, and that's the other problem. I want to, but I'm not sure I should...

I think the cost would be pretty comparable between the two, so money isn't an issue, at least.

Monday, January 1, 2007

Happy New Year!

It's 2007! Funny to think that in one day we go from writing 2006 to 2007 on everything.