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I'm back
Posted Jul 17, 2006
Well, I am back from Minneapolis. Jazz camp was nice. Minneapolis was nice. Though I am saddend that this was probably the last time I would be be in Minneapolis for a long time, because my sister and her boyfriend are leaving for a while to literally 'take a show on the road' and they don't know if they will move back to mnpls afterwards or not. So that will probably mean no more vistiting them there. 
So anyway, the way jazz camp worked was everyone needed to go to instrument specific placement auditions, so you can be placed in a group of people of about the same skill level. Then there were five different groups and each group had a teacher, then we would rehearse. Then there would be other things like jazz history lectures, insrument specific lectures, theory and so on. This went for five days, then on Friday afternoon, the last day, was the concert at a jazz club downtown called the Dakota.
So non-jazz related things we did there in the city. We went to a comedy club a couple times, one was an improve show which was pretty good, and then later on we went to another show at the same place, called 'Magic is a Lie' and it was really funny. We also ate a lot, we went to an Indian place, a Medetarainian place and an organic pizza place. 
On Saturday, we went to a friend's house of my sister's and watched movies all day. We saw 'Gremlins', 'The Rutles', 'Jesus Christ Superstar' and a documentary about the Flaming Lips.
On Sunday morning, my sister and her boyfriend had to do a video shoot for in this show they are doing called 'Calculus the Musical'. So I was in it. There was me, a little girl, a dog and two other friends of theirs, and we were dressed in t-shirts with numbers on them, and we were playing in a park. It was really funny. Here is the website for the show.
http://www.ftmax.com/matheatre/index.php
And here are some pictures I took. Nothing really special...
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/donpanic_42/album?.dir=15a1re2
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Off to Minneapolis
Posted Jul 7, 2006
As a lot of you probably know, since for the past few months I have been talking about it a lot, I am going to leave for Minneapolis, Minnesota this Sunday morning, and will be gone for a week.
I am staying with my sister, who lives there, and I am attending a four-day jazz workshop thingy at this music school where my sister works. The funny thing is that I barely know much about jazz, mostly just how to spell it, and have never really shown much interest in it, though that's not to say that I dislike it or anything. But it was my sister's idea really, so I just went along with it, since I don't really have anything better to do.
So anyway, I will be gone from the 9th to the 16th. That's mainly what I am getting at.
And I hope I don't go insane or anything for seperation from h2g2 for a whole week. A few months ago that happened when I was in New York City, and about halfway through the week I began to feel sort of ill. But then maybe I should have little vacations away from this place every once in a while, since lately I have become more and more addicted to this place, and it gets frusterating. This place consumes my thoughts and emotions like... A... Um... Thing that... Consumes thoughts and emotions. Often, I am on here for a good few hours a day, but it usually varies.
So when I get back, I will write a Journal Entry if I feel like it and maybe put some photos on Yahoo! if I have any good ones.
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Now a Sub!
Posted Jul 4, 2006
I am now a Sub-Editor!
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Books. (January to June)
Posted Jun 30, 2006
OK, so I have come up with a new rule for me to abide from now on. I am going to keep track of every single book I ever read. So I thought that maybe every six months or so I will publish a Journal Entry here listing them.
So I spent a little time today recalling all the books I have read since the start of this year, and writing them down in a little black journal. (They are not in order, by the way.) There may be a few that snuck in that I technically read late last year, and of course some I missed altogether, but oh well:
Franny and Zooey - JD Salinger
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Alas, Babylon - Pat Frank
Watership Down - Richard Adams
The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy
Pigs Have Wings - PG Wodehouse
Galahad at Blanding - PG Wodeouse
Uncle Fred in the Springtime - PG Wodehouse
Jeeves in the Morning - PG Wodehouse
Mort - Terry Pratchett
Witches Abroad - Terry Pratchett
The Hippopotamus - Stephen Fry
The Gunseller - Hugh Laurie
Half-Moon Investigations - Eoin Colfer
A Man Without a Country - Kurt Vonnegut
Misery - Stephen King
Firman - Sam Savage
How to be a Villian - Neil Zawaki
And in the future I will also write down when I start and finish each book. I will do another installment in six months or so.
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Hurray!
Posted Jun 21, 2006
Me again with yet another Journal Entry.
For about six years or so, (I think I was about nine or so when I started) I have been doing Tae Kwon Do, a Korean martial art, and tonight I finally received my black belt! I tested for it on May 20th, which was exactly a month ago. So yeah, this is about the coolest thing that ever happend to me so far. But I am glad it is all over with. Have some 
In other news, I got an accordion yesterday.
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