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1 Well, where we goin' here? 2 I apologize to everyone I was to visit last night, or be with. I just got home and conked out for hours. This year has been murder, I tellya. 3 It's winding down nicely however. I taught everything I could possibly teach, with all my heart and soul, especially in the past three weeks. 4 But last week's block schedules were just grueling. I guess they have to squeeze that sort of thing in at some point in the year, but d00d! Block schedules at YB in late May. Recipe for disaster. 5 Well I've seen LOTS of those lately. 6 But much of the insanity seems to be subsiding. I've come up out of that rabbit hole I fell hopelessly into when the year started and I'm starting to live again.
7 Tonight: We have the piano classes, the Orchestra, the Choir, AND the Concert Band bringing us the always wonderful Spring Concert beginning at 7 p.m. EVERYBODY should come and celebrate the gorgeous sounds that will be coming out of that Theatre tonight. 8 I was a bit of a mouse in the corner back stage yesterday and the band sounded awesome. I can't wait to hear all that fun music tonight! 9 And Thursday night beginning at 6 0'clock we have a Music Marathon featuring rock music this year. It should be fun, with several of the bands from the last concert out there doing it for us again, plus some amazing things from an immortal retro-band called Voodoo Lounge.
10 The Music Marathon will be presented by the ATFNL club, and will cost only $3, and you can pay at the door! 11 INSTA fun! I may even jump on stage and do something, not sure what, but it's just that Spring fever thing that seems to be getting to all of us. 12 Good times. 13 I think today's DN will just cover that, the news of the day and none of my ridiculous folderol or half-nekkid pictures of Sarah Jessica Parker.
14 Enough fooling around with pictures aimed at getting people to read this.
15 How'd THOSE get there? 16 Clearly belong to SJP but I had NOTHING to do with it, I swear. 17 This all started I think when I said I thought she looked somewhat like a hermaphroditic version of John Kerry and a horse in a skirt.
18 Ah, this is getting OUTTA control! 19 Baby booties. 20 Yeesh. 21 Go to the Spring Concert. Then go to the Music Marathon. 22 Then go to church. 23 I'm outta here! 24 Peace. ~H~
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Month: May 2006
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WHO IS THIS CHICK?
1 Okay, so I'm forced to mention Bonds.
2 There.
3 Moving on: Did you know that Sarah Jessica Parker was the third actress to play Annie on Broadway? AND that she's married to Matthew Broderick?
4 I don't really care either. Sort of how I feel about Bonds.
5 I love that the guy who caught the ball was buying peanuts at a concession stand at the time. Funny, because it landed right near a souvie stand I have worked many times. And I'll tellya, NOBODY in their right mind would have been getting peanuts on a Sunday getaway day in which a ball worth half a million dollars might be shot into the seats.
6 Except THAT guy. Andrew Morbitzer, congratulations. A beer. Peanuts. And a small fortune. Pennies from heaven. And your fifteen minutes of fame.
7 Gotta love it.
8 I just think of how little foot traffic there is in that area at that point in a game.
9 Ah, well.
10 Would I have sold the ball? Almost immediately, provided there was no capital gains involved!
11 I didn't KNOW that about Sarah Jessica Parker, by the way.
12 That's her at the top of the page. I have NO idea what that picture is about, but I couldn't think of a good way to draw people into reading the DN except with a shameless sexist picture of SJP upside down doing whatever it is she's doing.
13 Worked. Got YOU lookin'.
14 Ha!
15 Sex sells.
16 She actually looks sort of like a horse in real life, but then, I do too. At least every time someone takes a picture of me, I'm in transition from human to horse.
[no picture here.]
17 I think that's the law of pictures. People snap them right when you are yawning or changing an expression, or tired of cheesing.
18 My generation in particular doesn't know how to pose for video cameras or pictures. We never got filmed that much, so we're sort of used to looking like horses when people snap our pictures.
19 Younger people smile, pose, and flash their cresty teeth, which, when overdone, look sort of horsey anyway.
20 Well, enough of this. Let's get down to business.
21 We have a Spring Concert that needs a little promotion, so tomorrow night at 7 the piano students, the Choir, the Orchestra, and the Concert Band are all performing for all of you!!! Come on out and support these guys; they've been working for a long time, and it's finally time for a performance!
22 Good luck to all of you!
23 ALSO, on Thursday night at 6 p.m. there will be a Music Marathon with all rock music in the Theatre! Admission will be only $3.00 and will be at the door. Proceeds go to the ATFNL.
24 So that's the news for today! Ah, the only GOOD Tuesday of the year.
25 Smile, but only if no cameras are around.
26 Here's a funny picture I just had to show you, for no reason whatsover except when I was gathering pictures together for today's DN, I just ran across it:
27 Just caught in a bad pose. See?
28 Haha!
29 Peace.
~H~
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1 Honors Night.
2 Honors Night was last night. I had to miss it.
3 I didn't exactly WANT to miss it, but I had another in a series of life's wrist-grabbers. In fact, I had my shirt, tie, and Pert ready for a classic tech shower, when I got a phone call.
4 Another emergency, but I won't go into it entirely. They happen. I just needed to go.
5 But I missed Honors Night, and I never miss Honors Night.
6 So to our Senior Class, I apologize.
7 I DID manage to get in there and change the lighting so that everybody didn't look purple.
8 The last light design was the rock show. The night before last I went in to change the lighting for Honors Night, had to leave, came back, and there was a meeting I knew nothing about going on.
9 The stage was lit, but everybody up there was purple, green, pink, and red. I HAD put a white light up, tried to bring it up, but it just didn't work.
10 There was nothing I could really do since NOBODY bothered to tell me there was anything going on.
11 So that meeting looked like a grown-up version of Doug.
12 You Know You're Getting Old, Dept: Uh...Doug?
13 Please don't say, "Uh...Doug?"
14 Doug was this pretty wholesome cartoon that used to be on Nickelodeon "back in the day". To me it was more like "back in the night". It was witty, sweet, and a great little cartoon that depicted school children as young people each of whom was a different color. It actually had humor and pretty good values.
15 Yeah it was called Doug, and...
16 Nickelodeon? Ah, come on! Not the one with Sponge Bob Squarepants. The Classic Nickelodeon.
17 Isn't that a bit of an oxymoron? I can't believe I said that.
18 Anyway, yeah, Doug. Come on. Yer KILLIN' me.
19 Roundhouse? Rugrats?
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20 Are you afraid of the dark?
21 Omg.
22 Nevermind.
23 Those were the great ones. They also had Ren and Stimpy.
24 Much less classy, but always riveting.
25 And of course, Clarissa Explains it All...
26 Clarissa was responsible for teaching kids that parents are essentially idiots, and...
27 Nevermind.
28 I saw a lot of this listed on some website entitled Classic TV and Movies.
29 Classic.
30 Well, in many ways, Nickelodeon was. Roundhouse was a Godspell-type show that was more creative than about 90% of what passes for kids' shows now.
31 Who's feeling old out there? Are you afraid of the dark?
32 For those of you who haven't a clue about any of this, here's a website that is a sort of encyclopedia. It's what the guys who created it call a "Nicklopedia". Works for me. Once you're on, it's sort of fun and nostalgic.
http://www.nickelodeon.com.au/blammo/nicklo/nicklo_a.html
33 I remember thinking at one point that Ren and Stimpy was pretty much the end of Western Civilization as we know it. I was a huge fan of Roundhouse and Doug.
34 I'd take any of it now.
35 Okay kiddies. That's it for today's lesson.
36 Today's homework: Rediscover. Have a beautiful day!
Peace.
~H~
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THIS guy is the American Idol????
1 Amazing. The winner of this year's American Idol is the bastard son of Jay Leno.
2 Hahahaha!!
3 M'bad.
4 Man I've been outta town!
5 Ryan "I-Don't-Quite-Want-to-Shave-So-I-Look-Scruffy-Chic" Seacrest said that over 63 million people voted for their favorite American Idol.
6 Hey, they oughta just do Presidential Elections that way. Make those bastards sing. Let Simon decide:
7 American Idol, I swear.
8 And now they're making clone shows.
9 A GREAT clone show would be American Midol, in which you get a BUNCH of girls on their periods each month and let Simon just TRY to be sarcastic and snide.
10 That guy would head for the hills in a New York heartbeat.
11 Moving on: you know what I caught myself doing the other day? I was at Carrow's, right?
12 I was having breakfast with my daughter.
13 The waiter came by and I told him I wanted some breakfast or other, but that I didn't want the pancakes.
14 He said, "Certainly. Would you like fruit instead?"
15 I just said, "Nah, I'm just not that hungry." And I just wasn't.
16 But for some reason, Americans eat SO much that the guy couldn't think along those lines. It was like I HAD to have WAY too much food or he might get fired. "Would you like twice as many hash browns?"
17 "Well, can I get a milkshake?"
18 The guy looked at me funny. THAT just wasn't possible. Two extra pieces of buttered toast, yes. Fried shredded potatoes, yes. Fruit, yes.
19 But no sir, no milkshakes for breakfast, sir. Are you some sort of Communist sir?
20 I said, "It's okay. I'll just have the breakfast without the pancakes."
21 Twelve seconds later he returned with a bowl of fruit.
22 Later on I noticed I do this: I'll eat like an egg and a half, hash browns, three pieces of toast, and even steal someone else's saltines from their soup, but I'll ALWAYS leave around a twentieth of an egg and half a piece of toast, and maybe an inch of bacon, just so the waiter doesn't think I'm a pig.
23 It's hilarious. Yeah, like I couldn't squeeze that last inch of bacon down. Oh, HAAAAAIL nah. I'm stuffed there, padre.
24 I always worry about what other people think.
25 I don't really care what other people think.
26 I don't know WHAT I think.
27 Haha!
28 American Midol
29 Yeesh.
30 Have a great day.
31 Peace.
Taylor Hicks, Senior.
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~H~
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1 Reflection.
2 Oh my.
3 Yesterday my mom called me with three minutes left in the school day. My dad became really pale and shaky and had to be rushed to the hospital.
4 I dropped everything in life at that second and flew up to her house to see what was wrong. He had just gotten dizzy and weak, and started shaking. He couldn't even push the buttons on the telephone.
5 I met my sister and we took off to the hospital, where he was pale and incoherent. He recognized us, but kept blinking and staring off.
6 Well, they gave him some shots and things, and after around an hour his vitals seemed fine, and the color returned to his cheeks. The doctor was a beautiful, vibrant young lady, and that may have put the blush in his cheeks. Either way, it was good to see him becoming his cheerful and friendly self once more.
7 The Doctor said he was going to be okay, but that he needed to spend the rest of the night in the hospital. We stayed late. He woke up and slowly came to, flirting with the doctor and telling his usual clean jokes.
8 "I'm glad I got a doctor as pretty as you," he said, and meant it in all sincerity.
9 "Why did the chicken cross the playground?" he asked.
10 She hesitated.
11 After a moment came his usual dry response. "To get to the other slide." Deadpan.
12 Later we were watching Idol. Both my sisters were in the hospital room and all of us agreed that Katharine McPhee looked and sounded beautiful. Dad just stared.
13 After a bit of a pause, he spoke out. "I don't know how any of the rest of you feel, but don't you think she looks like an old cow?" More deadpan.
14 That's my dad.
15 The further into this year I get, the more I see what life is all about.
16 It's been quite a week for learning all of that.
17 But miracles come to us all in seemingly small packages.
18 I don't know how many miracles I've seen this week, but there are many, from spinning out of control and suddenly stopping on Friday, to Jenny's wedding, my walk with Thuy through Mountain View, to spending time with my beautiful daughters, and finally, to listening to my dad's subtle wit and charm, and my family rallying together for my father, it's been a week of very real, very spiritual happenings.
19 I pay attention to miracles. Sometimes life throws pain and troubles our way. Sometimes it seems unfair, or even brutal.
20 Ironically, I was listening to a radio station yesterday in which people were calling in and telling about how some of the most difficult times in their lives turned out to be the best things that ever happened to them.
21 I don't always see that, but the more I think about it, the more it makes sense, especially in times of pain and troubles.
22 I didn't really go through much pain or trouble this week, but I certainly did this year, sometimes almost unbearable pain. And I kept my arms wide open for a miracle, and none seemed to appear.
23 Looking back, I had lots of miracles. And in the end, I found I think what I was looking for.
24 I found myself, and I realized who was important in my life.
25 These past four days have taught me a lot.
26 It's right in front of you.
27 Just look, you'll find a miracle too.
28 I have the nicest dad on Earth.
29 Know what's important.
29 Peace.
~h~
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Congratulations Jenny and Jeffrey Ramirez!!!
1 May 20, 2006.
2 A picture perfect wedding!
3 Here's Jenny in her beautiful Cinderella dress:
3 We watched a fairy tale.
4 The wedding of Jenny and Jeff worked on all levels. The church was beautiful, but I didn't get any pictures of the ceremony itself; I was hesitant about interrupting the solemnity of the moment.
5 I had to use my old camera which pretty much sucked. But it's the only game in town.
6 It began Friday afternoon when I was off to the rehearsal. I was in the process of merging on to the freeway when some lady coming around 85 or 90 mph almost hit me. I swerved, and the TOOONDRA did a 360, spinning completely out of control.
7 All I saw was the cab, and that I was on a death ride, spinning round and round, not knowing where I would wind up. I wound up all the way up an embankment! I backed down, checked the TOONDRA, realized I was FACING traffic, and turned it around, and then proceeded to the rehearsal!
8 You can't hurt steel. <slow down my beating heart!>
9 The whole way there I saw God and angels, I swear to you. I thought, "What if this is like the Sixth Sense and I don't realize I'm dead?"
10 But I'm guessing I was alive, which made this whole wedding a spiritual and miraculous one.
11 The rehearsal gave way to a beautiful morning on Saturday, the day of the wedding. Jenny called me at the crack of dawn to see if I could pick up the cake and bring some things to the reception hall. I said sure, and wished her the best.
12 I got to her place and got the stuff, flew to the reception hall, and it was LOCKED! NOOOOOOOOO!!!! But fortunately some people were there and I got in with the cake. I flew back to San Jose, hit some traffic, picked up Thuy, and we shot back to the church, arriving at exactly 1:59 p.m. Our orchestra played and angels seemed everywhere.
13 Within what seemed like seconds, I was up at the pulpit reading from St. Paul's letter to the Corinthians 13:1-13.
14 Just now, Jan Leno: "The Lord is TALKING to you! Listen!" I swear. As I was just reading St. Paul's first letter to the Corinthians!
15 What I loved about reading that was that the very last part of that passage happened to be almost the exact last lines I spoke in my last high school play, Our Amazing Journey, so many years ago. It went like this, although slightly paraphrased since then. Here are the lines I spoke at Jenny's wedding.
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three, and the greatest of these is love.
My lines were a bit different, but with the same basic sentiment in my Senior year. Here are the last lines I spoke as an actor in high school:
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I understood as a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, as also I am known. And now abide faith, hope, love, these three, but the greatest of these is love.
Amazing coincidence.
16 With that, I'll report a brief overview of the wedding that beautiful day. Jenny and Jeff looked like Cinderella and the Prince, and everything went beautifully.
17 I walked around Mountain View with Thuy for a bit; we just talked about everything and nothing, as I love doing, and talked of all things. We went to the reception and I saw lots of people I hadn't seen in years.
18 People talked; Jenny's sister Rachael spoke poignantly about how much she would miss her baby sister, and others talked as well. Jenny spoke to the crowd of how this WASN'T the wedding of her dreams, because the wedding of her dreams had everything going horribly wrong, and that this was better than she ever could have imagined. Just a sincere and beautiful thanks to everyone who helped get her there.
19 From there we toasted, danced, chatted, and enjoyed a wonderful celebration of a perfect wedding.
20 I don't usually devote an entire DN to one person, but Jenny has meant more to the Drama Workshop perhaps than anyone over the years. She joined in when she was 11 years old, and I had the pleasure of watching her grow from crayons into the beautiful bride who graced all of us with her joy on Saturday. And Jeff seems just as in love with her as she is with him.
21 It's a Cinderella story, and nothing else matters. It had hundreds of little moments. Here are some:
22 Jeff removed the garter with his teeth, which was pretty fun!
23 She shot the bouquet over to Rachael. Rachael later returned in a hat and danced with her baby sis!
24 The bride and groom exchanged cake a bit overly outside the mouth and onto the nose and cheeks!
25 Young people danced with old, and everyone's eyes danced in fanciful imagination. There was so much more, but not enough room here. How's this sound:
26 On Saturday, I saw a fairy tale.
27 Congratulations to the newlyweds.
28 Thank you and thank God for a grand day.
29 Peace.
~H~
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~h~
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It's SOMEBODY'S BIRTHDAY TODAY!!!!!
1 Happy Birthday Caitlin Anna Harrington!!!!
2 Today's DN goes completely out to you!
3 So we're going back through the mists of time so everyone can enjoy the miracle of you!
Here goes:
I LOVE YOU K.T.!!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER!!!!!
LOVE
YOUR DADDY
CABAL!
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1 Last night's rock show kicked pretty solid. I absolutely loved the energy and amazing soul that rock has.
2 And it was God rock. The Christian Warriors brought it. We all got served.
3 The entire night was a smashing success, and I was once again reminded why I love rock.
and now...
drum roll please...
THE WEDDING!
4 Moving on, literally: Jenny and Jeff get married tomorrow. I get to bring the cake! Jenny called me during the concert and I said I'd do that. Of course, right after I said yes I got scared and worried about it for around twenty minutes.
5 Look at all that could happen to a wedding cake.
6 The groom could fall off.
7 The bride could fall off.
8 I could brake and the top layer could slide off.
9 It could slide into my dashboard and damage a rosette.
10 It could bend one way when I turn the other.
11 So many things.
12 My dog could take a chunk out of it.
13 SPARKY could take a chunk out of it.
14 It could topple.
15 It could melt.
16 But I won't list any of this because Jenny has enough on her mind. I would hate for her to sit and worry all night about all the terrible, horrible, ridiculous things that could happen to a wedding cake.
17 So I'll just ignore the topic.
18 I mean why worry a bride on her wedding day?
19 I'll just go somewhere and think it all through.
20 There's a place where I can go and tell my secrets to.
21 Break-a-leg Jenny and Jeff. Truly, we're all rooting for you.
22 I'll miss you man.
23 Good luck and God bless.
love
~H~
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1 There are places I remember.
2 All my life though some have changed.
3 Indeed.
4 Sometimes it takes rain, storms, distance, and poetry for us to realize things.
5 I guess I've watched the immense changes that have taken place since last year at this time. It's just so different being so much further along than I thought any of us would have been. The changes happened so swiftly that before we knew it, we landed where we are right now. And now we can stop, get out, and see where we've landed.
6 For many of us, we've moved on. We've built on our strengths and rolled with the changes. We've become stronger, better, and looking forward to further growth and maturity.
7 Others have appeared to have moved on, but have retereated into insecurities and houses made of cards.
8 I guess that's life.
9 Part of growing is watching others make mistakes, especially others we are fond of. We can watch them, love them, tell them, but ultimately people need to find things out on their own.
10 I'm not sure exactly where this is going, but it's moving along with no help from myself. So I'm going to let it fly.
11 As this academic year winds down I find myself reflecting on a year of constant rain, and of umbrellas appearing every time there would be a serious downpour, and how they would disappear when things appeared nice again.
12 I lost mine.
13 It was a year of rain. It was a year of cold. It was a year of clouds, and of the sun bursting through at the darkest hours. It was a year of miracles.
14 It was a year like no other.
15 People and things have changed.
16 Some forever not for better.
17 Some have gone and some remain.
18 It was the saddest year many of us ever had.
19 It was a year of tears and of rain.
20 It was a year in which places had their moments.
21 It was a year of conquest, and of reaching above the mountains to push clouds silently across the sky.
22 It was a year in which we had to think about all our lovers and friends we still can recall.
23 I know I'll often stop and think about them.
24 It was a year in my life.
25 It was a year in all our lives.
25 Peace.
~h~
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