May Day

Last Monday I had an orthodontist appointment. I ought to be getting my braces off in two weeks -- just in time for prom. I'm extremely excited. It took a lot longer than they initially said it would, but it's worth it to have my teeth be nice and straight.

On Friday I took Rachel to my school's Evening of the Arts. It's their annual shindig where they hang up or otherwise display people's visual arts and erect a stage for visual and aural performances. It runs the gamut; there's the usual traditional, stunning artwork mixed in with the lower-schoolers' crayon drawings, a suit of chain mail, a motorcycle, paper-craft, there's just all kinds of things.

It's much the same with the live performances. There's the lower-school performances, the occasional spoken word or interpretive dance (neither of those this year, thank the gods), and then all the singers and bands play. There's the misinformed singers (they were informed they could sing and that anyone liked the songs they did), the amazing singers, and then all the bands where you just know they could have been good if maybe they had rehearsed (that's where I fit in). Anger Core performed again, and sure enough, they had improved.

On Saturday, after we dropped Rachel off at the train, I went to see my friend Chris. We chilled out at his place for a while and ate dinner, and then we went to see his old school's production of High School Musical. To be fair, I can't really fault the performance based on their choice of a terrible musical. I never saw the movie but I'm judging it anyway. The performance itself was underwhelming. The lead female role was pretty good, she could sing well. The male lead was adequate, although a little perturbing since his voice was higher than the lady's. There was one other female part with a good singer, and the rest was not really where it should have been. Prop-wise and so on it was good. Great stage-crew, too. It was awesome seeing Chris again.

On Sunday my sister and I went out and had lunch with my dad. It was good and then afterwards we went to the nearby Eckerd and I got some awesome dart guns and some better juggling balls. It's great because they're much better than the tennis balls I've been using. I can actually juggle better with them. There's stuff that I couldn't do at all well before that I'm doing now. So that's promising.