I suppose I haven't blogged at all for a while now because I thought that there was nothing in my life worth blogging during that time. Thankfully, I've changed my mind. It's my blog, so I'll blog my life; the good, the bad, the ugly, and the ugly. I blog, therefore I....am? Huh? Whatever. Onward to my life!

So, let's see how I've been doing with the whole "New Year's Resolutions" thing. I've failed one already: I crawled ignobly from the National Geographic Bee's running in my school after miserably failing to correctly answer my first two questions. I did get a cool little NG Bee pin, though, and a Certificate of Achievement. I guess that counts for something.

I played "Rondo Alla Turca" by Mozart in the Talent Show on 1 March, which gets rid of half of the resolution concerning the Talent Show and the musical. I played like crap, and the piano brought new meaning to the phrase "sucks on ice", adding to the wretched overall effect of my sad, sad performance. I auditioned for the musical a few weeks ago and got callbacks and I now have the part that I originally wanted: Olin Britt in the barbershop quartet. The musical that we're doing is The Music Man (albeit a shortened version designed for student productions), which is about a traveling salesman/con man going by the name of "Professor Harold Hill" who convinces the townspeople of his current location that they have dire need of a boy's band, and then proceeds to take all their money in payments for his wares before disappearing from the entire state before anybody can sue him for an encore.

I've also been putting the "current" in "current affairs" by way of a handy BBC News ticker that scrolls across the top of my screen whenever I'm logged in. If you happen to care, you can get it from the BBC web site.

As for the remaining resolutions that I have any progress on, I guess I've been exercising regularly enough, and I've compiled a massive reading list to meet the goal about reading more books. Right now I'm reading Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley, and next I've got The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Hamlet by Shakespeare, and Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Nietzsche. Three of those books appear on Time's list of the Ten Greatest Books of All Time. I highly recommend Flags of Our Fathers, by the way. Excellent read. I also found out that a good friend of mine, Perry, plans for me to tag along to a Who concert with him on 5 March (this coming Monday!), so my other friend Kelsey has been helping me "study" for the concert with numerous Who CDs and a documentary on them, so I've been listening to a lot more music recently.

Talking of Kelsey, I've been meaning to blog her insane web site, so I'll do that right now. Kelsey's web site, Caviar And Cigarettes, can be found at geocities.com/goingslightlymad3. I highly recommend checking out the Stories section, especially the "Harry's Our What?" story, as it's the only completed one that she's decided to put up. And the reviews will keep you on the site for hours. Enjoy.