a day of the memory of war

we're out of school today, totally took me by surprise, normally i keep up with off days fanatically, but really didn't notice this one coming at me at all...a rather nice surpirse though, i must admit... so i'm going to spend the day painting and practicing...then maybe some more practicing, followed by a nice quite round of practicing.... *growl* have i mentioned playing sax in this house, with the musical prodigy that is han, is a quite the expirence in tourture, what with her howling in agony (yes, i know i'm horrible, but she needn't scream like that)... luckily, she's away to lenoir rhien (sp?) or some such place today with jason and casey...jason is another of the ones collected by the us :) , nice boy really, awesome musician, fanantically political...casey is a very good friend of j's though i don't know him well...anyway, i do hope they have fun...i'm going to hang out around the house in my warm woolen socksies (thank you sooo much reb!!!) and probably get paint all over them... *scowl* so maybe other socksies, do you think? speaking of socks (and we were, trust me) i think that lilly-child, with her poetry on monday quite stole the show...i don't know what it is about teenagers when they get togather and write in rhyme, but were awfully depressing...even mine, a rumination on love (which was written about three months ago, so get no ideas) was a bit harsh and dark..but lilly's was hysterically funny, hers being about the "sea of randomness", "cool shoes", and "cool socks"...i think tina should have come and thrown a bit of her musings out into the wilderness too, she's not a bad poet (when i say not bad, i mean awesome) i thank han and mum for coming out to support me, though han says it's only because i went to so many of her jazz performences (the ones where i held up big signs) they say i did ok, but i think i could have done better *shrugs*
talked to finnegan aboot joining up agian day before yesterday, he is of the mind that i should go through the rotc in college, which sounds good to me, but i told him i'd rather get all of my scholarship stuff done beforehand, i'd rather not tell finnegan this, as he is a bit rabid, but the army for me is something i'd like to do, but also something that fits my path, know what i mean? it's sorta like a means to an end, with the nice side effect of getting to serve the motherland... which is something i would like to have said that i've done...then i can piss and moan about the way the country is run without being caught with my pants down...mum is heavy aginst it though, she got ahold of finnegan when han and i went to take the asvab...poor guy, we were cringing in the recruitment office, gesturing frantically, it was rather like watching a mouse walking towards a tiger unaware...i did talk to one of my teachers, a vietnam vet, to balance out finnegan's greenness (sorry man, but you are) and he was in accord with what i'd found out so far, so that's always a good sign...*sigh* a month ago, i had no idea what i was going to do about my future, now, i would appear there is at least one path i can follow that has it all planned out for me up to three years after college...
someone called here with an unlisted number at like midnight last night...(yes i was awake, it's a nonschool night, i sleep like a teenager, and that's not a myth thank-you very much, we're studying it in psych)...and no, i didn't answer the phone, who the hades would be calling us that late?...decent people are asleep at that time of night...though i wasn't...hmmmm...ah well, if it was important, they'll likely call us back...don't know why i put that in here, but i did, so there...i just noticed that you have to set the time on your blog when it's posted...how odd, ah well, too much trouble, i'll just keep you people annoyed, no one really looks at the times anyway...