jamming in the basement...

after the killers kicked my ass...

wow. that's all that could be said about thursday night's deck the hall ball. we only got to see 5 out of the 6 bands (thanks for the ultra-fast set there snow patrol!), but oh my god, they were all SO AWESOME! i'm so glad that HEW and i got seats where we did, cause we had a great vantage of the stage and all of the bands and the stuff that went on backstage. it was a great show. keane came out and rocked harder than most bands do...and they have no guitars to speak of. that guy on the piano was all over the place, just goes to show that kurt was right, it doesn't matter what you use-use your guitar to hit the drums, just play something, mean it, and you're the star. (i'm paraphrasing of course) anyways, two scoops of thanks go out to HEW for making deck the hall my christmas present. don't know how to counter that one...hm.

i had class the very next day. it was my last day with my 8th graders. it was so sad. i liked these kids. i kind of wish that i could have done my student teaching there, but i went and visited my fifth graders today to let them know that i'd be coming back, and they were so happy. it's nice to be wanted. so, anyways, i had class the next day and i brought the 10 1/2 dozen cookies i made to share with the kids. they loved them and we had a great final day. the kids organized and bought me a startbucks travel mug and a $20 gift certificate for coffee there, i guess i need to actually dedicate myself to coffee drinking once and for all. i brought my guitar in to school and i got to play a few songs for 4th and 5th periods. it was great, they told me that they wish they had bought me recording studio time. they also told me to try out for american idol. umm, no. it was sweet of them to say so, but american idol isn't my thing. i love to sing and all, but american idol isn't my style at all. all the different periods also got together and gave me a huge card that everyone signed, it was really nice of them. i was sad to leave them. and now we move on...

after my 4 hour seminar on my student teaching that i will do starting in january, i headed on back to oly where i was invited to hang out with jeremy from my cohort. his wife was out of town (two weeks in a row, hanging out with a guy who's wife is out of town...strange), so it was guys night were we just chilled and cooked some dinner and watch a local trivia show on public access called "Trivia King". it's a call-in show where these two guys from olympia high school (total nerds-but funny cause they're so nerdy!) ask questions and you call in to answer them and if you get the answer right you get to tell them what your team name is and you compete for "Trivia King" for the night! perfect game show for drunk people on a friday evening! it was so funny watching this show you don't understand! we never made it on, but we will next week! There's also a show on directly after that that must be addressed.

it's a dance show! there's this performance space in downtown oly where people can come in and dance for free to really strange music and they get put on tv. it's awesome! i still don't quite understand it, but it's so random and cool. everyone MUST come down and be on this show with me. we'll all meet at a bar before the show and when it's time we'll head on over and dance! i'll record the show and we'll all come home afterwards and watch it! the best part is it's all LIVE! anything can happen! WOO!! we MUST do this. get back to me on it.

after the shows were over we decided to move to a friend of jeremy's house to play cards. I SUCK at cards. it was texas hold 'em and i was out first. HOWEVER, one thing i have not mentioned is that this house has the basement of my dreams! it's basically a really cool recording studio. there's a really great drum set and mics and amps and distortion pedals and guitars and bases lying around everywhere! i went downstairs and the guy who owns the house came down and started taking off all of the covers on the instruments and told me to have at it! i was in heaven. i picked a really nice gibson guitar and started just messing around. after a while another guy named eric (another friend of jeremy's) came down and got behind the drums and we just jammed for like a half an hour. it was such a great half an hour though. i've never actually jammed before, but it was awesome! neither of us was the best at our chosen instrument, but we really sounded good! man i want to start a band.

so yeah, saturday i went to football practice and sunday was pretty uneventful. today is monday and i've already taken a test, written a rough draft for a major paper and begun work on my health/fitness final. i'm gonna call it a day here soon and get a good night's sleep. i'm so glad that i don't have class tomorrow! yeah, nothing like sleeping in on days when everyone else has to get up and work! HA! just kidding, i'll get up too. i have to finish a bunch of stuff before i take off to AK, finals and papers to fix.

well, take it easy everyone. don't work too hard this week. remember, christmas is coming and we can all relax a little bit here soon!

love you and miss you all long time!

-weatherboy