Today was a good day. Not that anything super special happened or anything like that. It was just good.

Woke up on time for my 8am theory class. Today, we brought our instruments to class and played through our compositions. You see, this project involved partners: one who’s primary music clef is treble and another who’s in bass. In this instance, we said that the horn played in the bass clef and I was paired with a clarinetist. For my composition that I wrote for my partner, I quoted the theme from Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind by John Williams. Pretty simple, but I enjoyed it.  My partner didn’t show up, however, so no one heard my composition (not that it was anything particularly special), but no big deal. I did well when I played her composition; ironically enough, it was titled “The Consequence”…

Moving on. I showered after theory. Yay hygiene!

SHMRG was boring today. But it was better than filling out five of those darn sheets like we usually do, so that’s a plus. We’re still waiting to get our grades back from the test we took on Monday. We should know by Monday how we did. The final in that class seems like it’ll probably be pretty simple (knock on wood!). I’m not too worried about it.

History history, Watergate Watergate, blah blah blah.

Oh, I was walking to History when I saw that the Will Rogers statue at Memorial Circle is totally wearing a Santa hat! It kinda made my day. Oh, Christmas.

Marching band was simple today too. All we did was play in concert arcs (I make it sound like it was nothing; in reality, we played some really high stuff a lot of times. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay first horn!). But it was enjoyable. Better than marching the same thing over and over again for an hour. Also, congrats to Shane and Catherine on their newly acquired Goin’ Band Drum Major status! I kinda wish Chelsea had gotten it over Catherine (GO FRENCH HORNS!), but we win some we lose some, and I’m sure Catherine will be great. She seemed like a funny person, so that’s a plus.

After band, WEEKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEND!!!!!!!!! (gratuitous use of the multiple vowel/multiple punctuation excitement technique) I went back to the room, explored the Interwebs a bit, and then, around three in the afternoon, I put on some Christmas music, turned on the fan, turned off the lights, and proceeded to take a two-and-a-half hour long nap. God bless America. (This would explain why I’m sitting here typing this at 3:30 in the morning!) It probably would have been longer if Andrew hadn’t shown up, but it’s a good thing he did or I very well might’ve slept through the Carol of Lights at 7.

Carol of Lights was pretty cool, by the way. For those who don’t know, it’s a Texas Tech tradition that began back in 1959. Several of the buildings on campus are decorated with Christmas lights, and there’s a big ceremony-type thing beforehand that involves a long progression of people carrying torch-like lights, one of the choirs leading everyone in Christmas songs (<3), and stuff like that. Here’s a video picture (I can’t figure out how to share my video off of Facebook) of the lights around Memorial Circle (where the event is held):

SHINY

Forgive me, I am not a professional photographer, not to mention this was taken on an iPhone camera. Ha. But yeah, the whole thing was very enjoyable. Apparently, I need to brush up on my lyrics of obscure verses from popular Christmas songs because half  the time I was mumbling everything but the FA LA LAs or other random words I had somehow picked up (thus the title of this post; aren’t I clever?).

Oh, I forgot to mention something that happened immediately before Carol of Lights. Now, the logical thing to do would be for me to scroll up, click in the space right before my Carol of Lights paragraph, hit enter, and type this paragraph, but that’s just too obvious. Who do you think I’d be if I followed common sense? Anyway, Andrew had to go to Carol of Lights because his fraternity, Chi Ro, was  helping with the lighting of ambient candles and the like, and I was, as of yet, not out of bed from my nap. I showed up around 6:40-6:45 or sometime around there, and so I asked him via iPhone where he was. He told me he was “near the street on the mathematics side in front of the Texas state flag”, so I start looking on what would be my right if I was facing the three flags (from L to R, Texas Tech flag, American flag, Texas flag); if someone told you “in front of the flag on the right”, wouldn’t you look on the right side? That’s what I thought, but Andrew’s perspective is slightly different from us non-gifted people. I finally found him almost dead center, right in front of the American flag, and we proceeded to argue about what “in front of the Texas flag” meant. His big “brother” (who’s really a girl) sided with me, as did Megan (who helped me find him in the first place). We’ll give Andrew perspective lessons later. 😉 (To Andrew if you read this; I jest.) Oh, shenanigans.

After Carol of Lights, I hit up Subway for dinner all by my lonesome (Andrew had a party with Chi Ro) and then came back to the room, where I proceeded to play Halo 3 on XBox Live with Matt Weddle, who I hadn’t talked to in months, in excess of four hours. Good times. It was nice to just sit back and enjoy some good ol’ vidya games with a good friend. By the time we were done playing that at about 1:15, I played various games on Facebook (but don’t worry, Farmville was NOT included), including Snake and Snowboarding until about 2:45 when Andrew got back, at which point he went straight to bed and began snoring, and I decided to start typing this. Yay, blogging!

Speaking of blogging, I had mentioned in my first post on here that I first got my start with Xanga. Well, I looked up a few of my old Xangas today (yes, a few; I went through Xangas like flu patients go through tissues), and was quite embarrassed. I might post the links at a later point in time, but for now just think about what they might contain and how you can use them against me. Feel the anticipation rise.

Earlier today I had an argument with someone I don’t know on Twitter (yes, I know Interweb arguing is pointless, but bear with me) over the initiative to raise awareness of child abuse by changing Facebook profile pictures to cartoons. She claimed that it was pointless and was doing nothing to help the cause at all, and she even indicated that it might be poking fun at those who have experienced child abuse in their lifetime. I, of course, replied with a hearty “LOLWUT?” and began to argue against her point. I said that while some may be changing their profile picture to cartoons just to join the hype and bring back some memories, some actually made the change to support the cause. In fact, many of my Facebook friends explained why they changed their picture in a post explain the theory behind it all, and a couple even posted helpful links to information pages explaining more and giving background on the subject. I claimed that the very act of changing pictures to something so unusual raised questions, which presents the opportunity to explain the cause and get people passionate about it. She eventually came to accept my point of view (though she held her own opinion), and we virtually shook hands and smiled. It was an enlightening and enriching experience for all involved. (By the way, my profile picture is now of Ed from Ed, Edd, n Eddy. That show ROCKS. /nostalgia)

Update on what I mentioned last night about the man who was hit in the street by a vehicle that then fled the scene; his name is Eddie King, and he is 40 years old. He’s still alive, but, by the way it sounds, it’s just barely. No headway on who hit him just yet, but hopefully the culprit will be caught. Please just continue to keep all involved in your thoughts and prayers.

Also, today is my now 9-year-old cousin Carson’s birthday. Yay Carson! I love that kid. I called him at midnight to wish him a happy birthday. He told my uncle that it wasn’t his birthday yet (in the mind of a 9-year-old, the next day doesn’t start until you wake up after sleeping). He had to explain that it was midnight and that the date had changed, making it indeed his birthday. Oh, you.

And now we’ve reached the end, and I’m way over my 1000 word post quota by now (1602 total {including postscripts}!). I get Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in the mail via Netflix tomorrow! 🙂 /excited Goodnight everyone, and God bless.

Chad

P.S. – Maybe I should start typing these during the day so that people will actually be awake to read them! We’ll see.

P.P.S. – There’s still several people moving around on my floor outside my room. They must be crazy; I have an excuse. GO TO BED.

P.P.P.S. – I think I added four paragraphs after I thought I was “done”. Go me.

P.P.P.P.S. – I figured out how to share Facebook videos: