In mourning. For those turkeys who lost their lives recently. Also, in mourning for those who lost their lives in the shootings in Mumbai. It is certainly worrying. I hope all this turmoil ends soon. It was certainly worrying while Akash was there. I am so glad he’s home safe and sound. Yeah. This thanksgiving has been one of the more eventful. We were headed to my dad’s, but my family came in a day late on the plane due to a heart attack on the plane. (Not one of my family thankfully.) So, they were finally here. Yesterday was sort of a chill out day, but it was still relatively crazy. We drove down, which required me to be sociable with those I was driving since we only had 2 drivers and 2 cars. Quite crazy, it will be good to drive away by myself tomorrow. Loud music, hot coffee. Mmmmm yes. So yeah…. we had our big dinner this evening. I didn’t even eat that much, but I was still full to bursting. And I feel a bit sick. Yeah, heavy food doesn’t go down so well with me. I’m more of a salad and buns kind of girl. Although avocados could be perceived as heavy. :/ Eh. You get what I mean. I spent my day reading, texting, and practicing. I’m playing the Meditation and Processional by Bloch. I enjoy the Meditation, but the Processional isn’t so great after you hear the 1st piece. Oh well. I can’t like everything I play. Kreutzer and octave scales have been killing my hand. It seriously needs to stretch out or I’ll be dying by the end of my career. I’m trying not to play it too much though or I will get a stress injury like before. That is not fun. Looking at music school has been interesting. I keep going back and forth in what I want to do. Performance…teaching…performance…teaching. AH!! I don’t know what to do… I feel like I’m living someone else’s dream. I will see. Performance sounds so appealing. I really want to do conducting. But you can’t do a whole degree as an undergrad. So, maybe as my masters? I don’t know!!! So difficult to know. *dies*

History class with fumo is SO boringggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg. *dies*

I never seem to get around to reading the books on my list because they always end up not interesting me. So, I don’t know. I’m going to try to make one, but I’m not guaranteeing that I will stick with it. We shall see. We shall see.

• Georgina: Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman
• La Casa en Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
• Without You by Anthony Rapp
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Let’s just see if I can get through those in the month of November (Yeah right). It’s been so crazy with everything, but I’m about to gain back my Sunday evenings. I guess I shall see…? It has taken me forever to get through 100 pages of Georgina even if it is a fantastic novel. :/ I guess I shall see what happens… maybe I’ll get those done by the New Year. Then I can set some resolutions.

Holy crap, it’s nearly 2009.

Wow.

Happy Election Day everyone! I know. The title is a little random. I’ll explain later. I am very excited to track the election today. I can’t wait to see Obama win. Hopefully. It’s not over till it’s over. Yesterday, many people’s reactions towards Obama annoyed me. “Oh. He’s a communist.” “Oh. He faked his birth certificate.” OH SHUT UP. Excuse me, but no. Just no. I don’t care what dumb controversy you heard, this is a state official. Don’t you think that they would have done beyond numerous background checks. You can’t just fake a birth certificate. It’s a legal document. But regardless, if you can. GO VOTE. I don’t care. Look up the issues that are most important to you, think of who would be a better leader, a good face to the nation, and then go out and vote! I think it’s probably the single most important thing you can do as an american citizen. Can you tell I’m excited?

Anyways. Other news. Ok. The Mammoths running around thing. Scientists have decided that they are going to be able to clone dead animals. Like extinct species. I mean that’s REALLY what I wanted. Linky Yeah. seriously. I don’t want a mammoth running around my neighborhood. Or even in a zoo. Really. That is crazy. Hm. Not much else here. I’ll try to update more. It’s just been a little crazy. Stuff is beginning to calm down though. GO VOTE.

Marijke

I am in need of a revamp. I don’t know what I’m going to do, but expect changes hopefully soon. This blog is getting boring…

I’m supposed to be working on my project for government. It’s basically a commentary on a bunch of crap that has happened in the gov’t here in the past few days. I’ve found the articles and all that jazz, but right now I’m far too lazy to do anything. Besides, it’s not due till Wednesday.  Oh the things I do to get ahead on graduation. Yeah. I’m pretending to read the articles that I already did in the car after my lesson while eating Panera. One of the articles I need to respond to is about the whole gun control issue and it’s partially based in San Francisco. There is so much I’d like to write in response to the article and how it affects me. Quotes: ” the chief plaintiff in the suit against the city is a gay man living in a public housing development, owned by the federal government, who wants to have a gun to protect himself against potential hate crimes.” That SO goes two ways, one could say, keep the guns away completely so that these gun crimes aren’t happening, or you could say… give him a gun to shoot the guy about to kill him. I don’t know what to say. Some of those guns are like if you take off the trigger lock, the semi-automatic becomes automatic. And it’s not like having a semi-automatic (SA for now) is very good in the first place. Oh it could so go two ways. I just don’t want people to have guns I guess. Oh the debate. I could go on, but no one really reads this so it doesn’t matter. Maybe I’ll expose it one day… maybe. But until then, it’s just my thoughts and probably 1 or 2 people reading them. I can’t wait to get home though. I have 8 minutes left then I can run out of here. Blahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhrgh. My stomach hurts majorly. I also didn’t have a great lesson today. My tone was so weak, he said it was, I knew it was. I’m just REALLY tired right now. Parties all weekend. My birthday, Anthony’s, it goes on. Sunday was insane, I just ran around everywhere and Saturday, my actual birthday, I got up super early. Go figure. 6 am. I guess I was excited? It’s just another year gone by… oh well. I finally put together all the furniture in my room. Finally. Except one book case, which should take at most 30 minutes. I’m excellent with IKEA furniture. Really. I’ve been putting it together since I got out of the womb. We have these ancient little tables that we’ve had since I lived in California. Ok. Maybe more later… I should be out of here.

Currently Listening to: Parachutes by Colplay

I’m going home tomorrow. Finally. This has almost been too much. I like it down here, but I’m starting to get to want to be home… I can only take this type of order for so long. I like coordinating my own days and figuring out what pleases me. I have class starting Monday as well, which is why I need to get back home. It’s only 4 hours a day, but I’m not too excited… Apparently I got my room number in the mail, but of course, I haven’t seen it because I’ve been gone. 

My birthday is so soon… 14 days… but I’m not really that excited. I am, in a little way, but not really. I didn’t celebrate last year, or the year before, or the year before, so I’m really out of the swing of caring. I am having a party for once though. I don’t know if my dad is staying for it though. He said he could come up for the 26-28th of June, but he might leave the 29th, which is when we’re going out for dinner and my mom said she would bake me a nice cake. I guess I’ll see what’s going on. On my actual birthday I am going out though. I think we’re gonna get indian. Yum. I adore indian food. It is delicious. I guess I’ll see what happens. But it’s my party and he can’t bother to stay an extra few hours?? Is his retirement really that much important than me? Maybe he’ll stay. 

I talked to my mom today. It made me cry. I’m kind of miserable down here with my dad. And not to be a debbie downer like I always am or anything, but I was just really sad. I nearly had another mental breakdown, which I have regularly. I had a few this week, in my own privacy, which isn’t normal. Normally it just happens and everything goes out of control. Ugh. I am so unstable… which really really really isn’t good. I’ll sort it out one day, but until then, I’m just gonna sit around in my own dumb feelings…

Welcome to the Country Home.
That’s the weather here. It’s not even the middle of the day yet and it’s already SO hot outside. If I had the bod… I’d be running around in a bikini, it’s that hot. It’s also ridiculously flooded. Driving down here, I had to drive through some water. Now let me tell you, that’s not always a good idea. Thank goodness I was in the truck. I mean, it’s really hard to describe how hot it is. One of my nephews created 2 albums on facebook from where he lives down here and basically, you find highways and roads, and they’ve turned into lakes. With really fast moving water. You cannot visualize the amount of water down through here and how many people they’ve had to evacuate. We’re so lucky we live on a hill or this would be so flooded. The sump pump nearly broke the other night. My dad had to hook it up to an inverter that he keeps in the truck just to keep the basement from flooding. It was so bad. It’s already 83 here. We don’t have air conditioning mind you… so it’s crazy. Fans running. Yet I’m wearing jeans… go figure. I’m too lazy to shave my legs till later. But, I should. Because it really is skirt and dress time. Thank goodness I brought my dress and skirts. But until then it’s jeans for me. I wore sweats last night and it was nice, but when I went to bed I was so hot. Oh my goodness. My dad has this attic fan but all the bugs were getting into my room from the screens so I had to shut the windows and just put my fan on full blast. I had no choice. I hope the predicted rain today cools things off. On the other hand, we DO NOT need more rain. I feel so bad for the people who are flooded out. There are countless houses. Ughh. I should go. I need to go paint some moulding for my room that never got done…
I will talk to you all sometime soon.
Marijke

It’s almost over. I have finals, and I’m done. Done. Done. I can’t wait. I’m so excited for this summer, road trip and all. Plus, my birthday is here in 27 days!! How exciting. I’m going out the day after. I have to interact with the fam on the 28th. I know, a party on the 29th? But… Akash has a wedding to go to, I’m being flexible. I guess my birthday is on an auspicious date. I’ve been quite busy lately. With school and all. Next week I’m heading down to my dad’s for some time while some stuff happens with my room at my mom’s house. I think it’s finally getting painted!! I’m so excited. Well, first we have to finish up the drywall, they’re coming tomorrow I think. So I will be avoiding the house as much as possible. I’ve gotten some more emails lately about teaching, which is good. Soon, I will be in the money. Maybe. That or I will simply be able to afford gas, which will be wonderful. Not much else going on around here.
I’m thinking about switching things around and planning out lessons more and making them more interesting for my students. I feel like I’m being boring. Just playing the same stuff each week, that’s not going to make them want to continue playing. So I’m trying to think of stuff to make lessons more interesting. Stickers? Ehhh… I’m gonna look it up. I want to be successful!!
Anyways, I need to go study some Chemistry so I will blog later.

Marijke

I know. It’s been a month since I last updated, but really, I’ve had no time. I think for about the past 3 weeks I’ve had a rehearsal, concert, lesson, etc. about every day. In fact, I have a concert this evening but… I don’t need to leave till like… 3h30 since it’s an hour drive. I like being busy, but this is beyond busy. I finished all my work Friday night just so I could relax a little last night. I had Monica and Akash over. That was fun. After I dropped Akash off I got really depressed. I don’t know what I’m going to do next year without Monica. I guess I will just have to make myself busy for a lack of a social life. I’ll learn all my verb tenses for french. Or something. I’m saving up my cash already to fly down there. It’s such a long drive (2 days) for me to do that in a reasnoble trip. I wish I could skip the next two years and jump straight into uni. I know, it’ll go faster than I think, but… AH. I just want to be done with this. I mean. There are things I’m looking forward to next year. More spanish and french, getting some respect in school, harder math. But I just want that year to be over. At least this year is almost over. I only have 20-some days left.
I’m glad the musical is this week. The chaos will generally end after Saturday night. Then afterparty. Then I guess I get to relax and build a wall for my room. Then… just some general concerts, Akash’s recital, etc. Oh. And EYSO with NYCO at Park West. OMGZ. So excited. That will be an AMAZING sunday night… I hope. Other than that, just pushing through till the year is over.
Hope y’all are fine.
Marijke