It's Just About Time....

Wow.....I am suppose to be writing a five page essay on the Spiritual Journey of John Proctor in the play The Crucible....but I don't really want to....lol....

School has been crazy busy...but great! I was so stupid this summer. Everyone told me that Junior year was going to be really really tough...and in my ignorance, I didn't believe them. My thought process was, "Well....I am taking a ton of Junior classes this year....so next year will probably be a little smoother, probably not quite as busy." Haha...it's almost amusing...almost...but not quite. Oh well. I am still really enjoying school. Everyday I am filled with the realization that I am a weak vessel in need of God's help. =)

Advanced Biology is absolutely my favorite real class. (I don't think Piano counts as a class....) Mrs. Ellis is the most amazing teacher and my classmates are awesome! We have class at Starbucks.... today Mrs. Ellis treated us all to a drink of our choice. I will confess that the coloring pages get a little tedious, but they are the only homework that I can do while watching tv....so I like them.

My dad took Jesse and I to see Tower of Power on October 14th, and Grace and Janice came. They are simply the most amazing funk band around. (40 years together would probably do that!) Yeah, I can't really find the right words to express how I feel about T.O.P. Basically the song, "Soul with a Capital S" is the first music I ever remember hearing....listening to it with my dad is actually my first memory now that I think of it.

Buy tickets to see Signature in concert on December 16, 2007!!! http://www.purevolume.com/signaturemd
(You can find ticket details under, "Shows." And yes, there isn't any music up currently...but there will be very soon. So keep checking!)

Okay...time to write a paper.......then go on a vacation.....(ugh! I wish)

~J

~School is better than I thought.......

Ahh...the last day of summer. (Like what the calender would say.) I must say this school year has been awesome! I can't wait until it looks like this outside!!! Today after my piano lesson, Anna and I took a back path as we walked to her sister's house to meet up with her mom. Its our favorite to take the backpaths as when the leaves change it is absolutely lovely! Then in November when they are all laying around on the ground, we will get to hear the crisp cruching noises as we walk over them. My glasses will fog up when we reach Jessica's house and soon...her baby will be born!

Hm....I love most of my classes...and tolerate the others. Homework isn't terrible yet, so when I have a smallish amount of homework, I spend my afternoons singing. I have been working on some show tunes...which are hard because I am not skilled enough to accompany myself yet. So it's awkward to stand in front of the piano and have to pluck out the melody lines...and hope I am singing it in the proper time signature and such.....oh well, perhaps one day I'll be good enough at piano...but not yet.

I can't wait until it gets colder. Today I put on my winter coat and walked around outside for a bit. But then I realized it was way to warm to be wearing it. (Though I really, really wanted to.)

Well that's just about it.

~J

Blaah! Dis is Cwaziness!

So much school! Yikes, I'm drowning. (Actually I'm not, especially not if I am posting on a blog. Goodness! )

Anyways...Studying for my final bio exam. Kristin had Lindsey, Anna and I over to go over all the info for a few hours. Fun times. And guess what? We actually studied. I love biology and I am going to miss my wonderful teacher. But I get her next September for Advanced Biology. (I can't believe I ever didn't like Science. What was up with me?)

After Thursday, the business of school ends and another loaded weekend shall commence. It's packed with rehearsals, parties, concerts, sleepovers, meetings, shopping, and much to my liking, very little homework. Then I will fall back into my packed school week when I wished I did more homework over the weekend again. And so on and so forth and the pattern will continue. Until June 1st when I take my final drivers ed class, throw some clothes in a suitcase and drive off into the horizon with my Daddy, to meet up with the rest of my fam, off to vacation. When I come home, the seniors will have graduated, and I shall be an Upperclassmen...upperclasswomen...
upperclassgirl....upperclassperson whatever!

Back to today. After totally boring myself with nearly two hours of piano practice, and too much History reading for my own good. I went purevoluming and discovered some new bands. Grey Holiday is one of them. They have a very unique sound, but I enjoy them.

Okay, enough of this.
~J

Spring Break..it was wonderful!

Well, Godspell is officially over. And I am fully enjoying all of the extra time I've had! I spent Monday to Wednesday in Frederick. (With the Silards.) It was a blast! We watched..and slept through...a couple good movies, took walks to the, get this, one room library, walked on some train tracks at ten o'clock at night and found ourselves on a highway, played with Dude, (a cat they found.) and just hung out. Good times....

Then I came home, went grocery shopping my Anna and stopped by Starbucks to find Lizzy sitting there! So we decided to go a sleepover at my place. I watched the office first, then they showed up around 11, we talked and stuff for a few hours, then went to bed. When I woke up Friday morning, they weren't there. But off to babysitting jobs. Then I spent all day Friday with my mom shopping! It was a wonderful week.

Saturday morning I caught up on chores and stuff then Anna, Alex, Ben and I went over to Evan's house to hang. Which we did for like five hours! Ha!

Today was the Godspell Cast Party. It was soooo good to see everyone. Sarah Ryan made Mrs. Mays this beautiful album and each cast member had a page in it. The page contained pictures of us, and a note from each of us. As I flipped through the album, memories from these past seven months flooded back into my mind.

That's mostly it...Time to go.
~J

Okay...so I was wrong.

Hm....busy homework day.....almost done with my first lit paper that is due on Friday, about to start the second. Still need to practice piano today and finnish some biology before tomorrow.

Recently, I've been reading over Matthew in my devotions. It's been really great cause Matthew is really coming to life to me. So much of the Godspell script is taken from Matthew that no matter what I read, there is a moment in the show that I am reminded of. I would highly recommend reading over Matthew these next few weeks, if you are planning on seeing the show.

Speaking of which....Production week commences tomorrow!!! Very exciting and very unnerving...but I am really looking forward to the Production Nights! I am going to be sooo sad when it's all over. Man, I can hardly remember weekends without rehearsals! Please be praying that we complete a lot in this next week, but most importantly that we glorify God as we proform this show.

Well, I should go finnish my school.
~J