Archive for the 'G-E-T' Category

Thanks, But No Thanks

June 5, 2008

I was hoping for a great realization about how I feel in regards to graduating. It did not come. Instead, graduation seems like a petty insignificance to the whole. Do not get me wrong. I enjoyed my grad party and the graduation ceremony immensely but graduation, per se, does little to make me feel like [...]

Stowaway on the Train of Thought

May 29, 2008

Even after walking ceremoniously down the hall, passing well-known friends who shake your hand and give you a pat on the back and say “Good luck, man”, the fact that I am done with high school has not quite yet registered in my head. Four days until graduation feels like six weeks left of school. [...]

Do blind people hallucinate?

May 20, 2008

Author’s note: This blog is a very long account of my recent adventure to Six Flags this past weekend. I won’t make you read all of it if you don’t want to.

Friday afternoon I left with the vocal jazz and jazz band for Chicago, IL to perform for a music competition. We left around 1p [...]

A Letter to the Music Department

May 13, 2008

The G-E-T High School band and jazz band will be performing tomorrow night, marking my last high school band concert. This has sparked many thoughts about my high school band experience and my adventures through music. I learned how to play a hand-me down clarinet I bought from a guy down the street at a yard [...]