So, I've begun streaming.

I'm awful.

It's to be expected, of course. I'm just learning, and I have no real content to put out (which may be a good thing, considering that way I can't screw it up).

I've considered a multitude of things to do, but for now, I'm content with laddering while figuring out what in the hell I'm doing.

One real disappointment is the fact that I can't listen to my music while playing, or else have no sound on the stream. It's an unfortunate side-effect, but I don't have the cash to pay royalties.

What makes it worse is that I'm not even putting out an entertaining laddering session. That is, unless you like to see people get owned because they're hopeless at keeping their money low because they haven't played in months.

Be all this as it may, I cannot change it without time, which I will have to let work its magic.


So, it's Tuesday. This leaves not only today, but two other days to describe and sum up.

Monday: Wake up, shower, walk to school. Be in school, do school, pretend to care about school. After school we had the musical practice, during which my partner and I tried out our first few songs. Wow, those were... painful. Very high (pitched) songs. Our plan is to switch parts after every few songs (One of us takes the higher, the other the more comfortable lower) so neither gets shafted the whole time. Blocking and lines went well, though.

Came home, relaxed, listened to a book, the basics. Went to sleep, enjoyed the hell out of it.


Tuesday: Wake up, realize I love sleep still, sleep another hour. Get up and dress super fast then speed-walk to the bus. Get a test grade back in World History, owned my "rival" in that class by having finished 20 minutes before him and getting nothing wrong, whereas he accidentally skipped a whole section of the test. Substitute in Pre-calc who was kind of crazy. School over.

Play practice was mostly blocking, very little singing. All the leads were there, so we were hanging out while the director yelled at the extras (middle school kids are rowdy) for being loud. Shared some laughs, enjoyed ourselves.

Afterwards, a girl who had been hounding me for the last few days finally got to me. She had been asking profusely to give me a ride home, because she and her siblings (all in the musical. Strange family) felt bad I had to wait for my dad to come pick me up after school. So, for the whole day, whenever she saw me, she said, "Hey, you're coming with us, you know."

She also tells me something strange. She tells me that I am, literally, exactly like someone that used to go to Holly. My voice inflections are similar, I wear the same hats. Yes, hats. Not just one, but both of my rather uncommon hats. I also play video games like this guy. I act like him, and I talk like him, and apparently we both are really intelligent. Oh yeah, and we're both super hot /sarcasm.

Not only is it weird having a clone, but having one with... the exact same personality traits and mannerisms? The only person that close to me is my dad, and, obviously, we're related. Strange times.

I did end up taking the ride, even though I only got home a few minutes before my dad. We hung out an hour, then drove to a bi-weekly counseling appointment that my mother requires me to go to to be here. This, in itself, is a long and painful story. For as many things as I've screwed up (Grades, mostly) I don't need counseling. I wish I were just being a naive teenager here, too, but I'm not. I was never the issue with my mom, it was always her, and her manipulation, and her crap. I swear I'm not the only one who could tell you this, either. It's not just me being dumb.

But we got to the office, and waited for half an hour. We were then told that there had been a mix up but that we could still see him if we waited another forty-five minutes. We said screw it, and went home. Along the way we stopped by a Jimmy John's (Sub-sandwich place. Delicious, infinitely superior to Subway). Then I came home, streamed for an hour (All losses again, very frustrating).

At eleven I started typing this, gave up, and listened to my book as I went to sleep.

Wednesday: After a more fitful sleep, I woke up, showered, realized I needed to do laundry HARD, and went to school.

Another kind of boring day. We did in-song solo auditions in choir. I screwed up hard, but had a good time doing it. Spanish was a test I continued to finish faster than anyone else. Civil War was talking about the 2nd battle of Manassas. In the World History class we were introduced to a project we'll be doing that is based off Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire." That song is catchy in the worst way. Pre-Calc was all about re-learning what the sub could not possibly have taught us yesterday, and, surprisingly, that was my favorite class today. I don't know why, but I enjoyed the heck out of learning something I didn't understand at all. Now I feel I have a much firmer grasp on the subject.

Play Practice was nice. Again, the four leads hung out and talked. Apparently my female counterpart is also remarkably like me. There was a scene we were doing, however, where we're in a train and someone is sleeping while leaning on me. Since we're practicing, though, we ran through the scene three or four times. So that's almost an hour of being leaned on by someone who is almost twice my size. Ooh, fun. I couldn't feel the right side of my body, afterwards. We're having a great time with it though.

Waited for my dad out front, and was joined by my female counterpart, who's name is Taylor (Real name, not character). So we hung out and talked, then my dad pulled up and I regretfully left. I enjoy talking to her. She's neat.

Nope, not interested in her, sorry.

My dad and I ran to the store to get some quick little groceries, came home, admired the couch that finally arrived today, and that brings us here.

I'm sitting here listening to Rich Mullins and Keith Green while I write this, and I remember every time I hear these guys just why I listen to them. Every time I hear them, I fall in love with their music again. It's just so brilliant.

And that's it. I have nothing else to say currently, except thank you for reading. I think I'm going to go stream here for a little while, but first: as always, ladies and gents, have a lovely evening.