Summer school hasn't killed me yet, but if its going to be this much work for the rest of the 2 semesters, I'm going to be little more but a bloody pulp that can tell you the abbreviations of elements off periodic table by the end of the summer. Seriously, with four summer assignments (including 3 papers that are due in a little over a month), "hell weeek" for waterpolo, and preparing for my audition for CYO at the beginning of the year, it's not going to be easy. It doesn't help that I'm somewhat of a procrastinator :P.

On Saturday I woke up, did some stuff at home, and then went over to Chris's house at around noon-ish. Then Chris's mom drove us to the Del Mar Fair where we would meet up with Caitlin, Roxanne, Ann, Jenny, and Megan about 2 hours later. While by ourselves, me and Chris covered literally every foot of the fair, and that we did not cover was covered later at night. Ahhh, there was a 93 year old singing on one of the stages and I felt really sorry for him because he was trying to be funny, but it didn't really come out as humorous, but I think that people were still laughing and clapping for him out of pitty >.<. I wanted to jump up there and make a jackass of myself so that the attention would be on me instead of the of the 93 year old. While watching him singing, we saw everyone else.

Walking through the carnival area, Chris and I would meet with the group and then break off onto our own little adventure. We went on a few rides... I got lost in the house of mirrors, and then we went on the ride called Sound Wave which was the BEST ride there =D. We both went on that ride a total of 3 times by the end of the day. While in the carnival area, I saw some people I knew, like Zander, and Jesse the base player from orchestra, and Ben Deguzman (sp?).

During the day, the fair was filled with mostly old people and young couples with children, but by evening, you could tell that punkers were gradually taking over.

About 2 hours before a show that "The Used" were gonna play with, me and Chris went over to scout out seats in the grandstands. There was already a crowd of people in front of the stage where the mosh pits would mostly have been if it weren't for all the security guards :P. It was fun finding seats, cause me and Chris were exploring the whole building and there were some floors where there would be no one but us. lol. Entire floors and just to ourselves. In the end, I think we got some pretty damn good seats. Near the beginning of the show, Laura, Alexandra, and Jessie showed up to watch with us. The whole group was together now.

The opening act was by a band called "The Haitz" or something. I felt extremely for them because they sucked, and the crowd was letting them know it. Throughout their songs, people through trash at them, booed them, water, a stuffed dolphin, drumsticks, and even a full bag of popcorn which exploded in the air which sent popcorn raining all over the stage. It was more fun to watch what was happening in the crowd than to watch these guys. Heh... we saw people trying to mosh with the security guards, people crowdsurfing, security guards wrestling people down, fun stuff!

Then "The Used" started playing, and the mood of the crowd changed completely. There's not much to say except the concert was pretty damn kick ass, and that its awesome that they would play for free at the fair. At one point, I looked around and there was no parent in sight. It might as well had been like this, cause there's was a crap load of cussing, flicking off, etc, but all of it was encouraged by the guys on the stage... "Fuck... oops, I forgot about the F-word rule. This is the county fair and all. Its supposed to be family oriented, right...? Ahhh, who gives a fuck. If you don't, raise your middle fingers!!" I don't think a single person watching didn't.

After the concert, most people left, and it was just me and Chris walking around the fair again. I tried to call my mom, but for some reason her cell phone was turned off so we didn't head home until about 11 when we bumped into them in the carnival. Then my parents gave Chris a ride home, and we came home, and I took a shower, watched SNL, and went to bed.

Only 3 days of summer chemistry have passed, yet I feel like I've been in that damn class for weeks. I hate the speed that summer school has to go by. Its just too fast for me to learn anything and learn it well. People told me that chem would be hard, especially summer chem, but I didn't believe them. Thank God Thomas sits at my table :P. It'll feel so good when we end this.

I'm pretty certain that I'm joining waterpolo next year.

Today after summer school I went to Ayesha's potluck at Parkvillage Park. If I hadn't had asked Chris to come the night before, I would have been the only guy there among about 10 girls. Not that I wouldn't mind... haha.

I do believe that tomorrow I'm going to the Del Mar Fair with Chris, Ann, Caitlin, Kirsten, and Roxanne. We're going mainly to see The Used show, but who can resist the milking of the cows??

Its been a hell of a busy week.

I'll start out with Saturday night, the Instrumental Music Awards Banquet (more commonly known as "Band Banquet," but I hate how everything that has to do with music has the tag "band" attached to it). Half an hour before 4:30 PM, or, yeah, at 4:00 PM I took a quick shower and got dressed up and ready to attend the 7 hour banquet. I did all this while at the same time chatting with Ann online. Talented, no? lol. When I get to the Doubletree Hotel in Mission Valley where its held, there weren't many people there yet. But gave it a few minutes, and the hallways were brimming with people. Reception was 45 minutes long, so I just wandered the halls of the hotel with fellow musicians (jeeze, that sounds cool... "fellow musicians" hahaha). The bathrooms had hands-free soap dispensers with motion sensors asdfklj?! It was that cool :P. At 6-ish the doors to the ballroom thingy open, and DAMN that place was huge. Huge enough to fit 40 or 50 tables that sat about 10 people at each, plus a stage and a dance floor. I shared the Sun Clan table, table 12, with Ambrose, Vladik, Meg, Melissa, Brittany, and Katie. Unfortunately, Peter, Jessie, and Johnny couldn't make it. Dinner, blah blah blah, awards, more blah. Jeeze, the awards took a long time. It was so damn long primarily because each senior got an award and a little shoutout they could give. Atleast some of them were funny :P. Mr. Torns gave me the Sundevil Scholar award, the one that was given at the school awards ceremony on June 1st, but I didn't get it. I didn't get it on June first because I left the ceremony early to go to orchestra rehersal. So instead, Mr. Torns calls my name for me to come up to the stage to get it o.O. You know you've won when the good people of the audience cheers and applauds for you louder than those before you =D. I'm thinking that not too many freshman were expected to get awards, so when I did, it was a big deal, even though it shouldn't have been. lol. At 9 PM, the passing out of awards ends, and the dance begins. Before the day of banquet, I had read on the MC band website that "Many consider the dance at the banquet to be more fun than all of the school dances. Combined." My initial thoughts were "Pssh, yeah, right." But after spending 3 hours dancing, I have to agree with it. lol. I think the reason why I liked it more was because the songs were student chosen. The majority of them were still rap and hip hot and stuff, but there seemd to be a bit more variety than your average school dance. Out in the lobby, there were items up for raffle, one of them an X-Box. All students got one free raffle ticket, and most of them put it in for the X-Box. If you wanted more raffle tickets, you'd have to buy them. Me, Vladik, and Ambrose made a deal: if any of us won the thing, we would go to the winner's house to play it. lol. Ronald put like 15 tickets in for the damn X-Box. But in the end, the winner of it was some girl who won it with her the ticket that she got FREE for just being student. Haha. The dance ended at midnight with the last song being Greenday's "Good Riddance." That song is WAAAAAAAY to overated, yet it fit perfectly the mood of everyone at banquet. It was essentially the last get together of all the music students of the entire year. Seniors will be leaving, and freshman will be filling in their places, and the circle of life moves on. One year ends, and another one begins. With final hugs and goodbyes, everyone leaves full, exhausted, and satisfied.

End.

On Wednesday I was supposed to get an award for 4.0 GPA, but the ceremony was taking too long, and I had an orchestra rehersal so I just left before my name was called up. lol. I sat in a row with all these other orchestra people who were schedule to get awards, and when the time came close rehersal, we were all wondering if we should leave or not. So then Danielle was like "okay, Michael go!" And I got up to leave. I look back, and everyone is still sitting. Well, too late to go back now and look like a dumbass =P. Oh well, I don't really care much for a 4.0 award anyway. Freshman year was by far the easiest year for me in my whole school career, so I don't think I deserve it that much.

Fast foward 3 days to Friday night, the night of the concert. I get to the bandroom with Megan and we're the first ones there. But it doesn't take long before everyone else starts arriving. We did really good, I think. Our pieces were mediocre compared to the ones we chose for festival (In my opinion, atleast), but we still did really good. It sounded like Megan performed her best solo of the year :). At the end we got a standing ovation and some guy yelled "BRAVO!!" lol. Afterwards, 20 minute intermission rolls over and I go talk to people and head over the the refreshments thing. I hate how the people behind the table are always like "... and donations go over there!" Then if you don't give a donation, they glare at you ~.<. Intermission ends, and I head into the audience to watch Wind I perform. They did good, too. When they finished, it took like 10 seconds for people to start standing while applauding and no one shouted "bravo" for them, so that just proves that orchestra is better =P. jk, jk. lol.

Concert ends and Ambrose and I bum a ride over to TGI Friday's with Meg and her dad. We're the first ones there, but after a few minutes, like 15 other people from the orchestra come (its tradition). To fit about 20 orchestra people together, they need to pull together 3 tables. lol. Peter wanted to get a picture of me and a waitress, so when our's came by, I asked if I could, and she said "Well, if you can wait a few minutes, I'll get one of the cuter waitresses to come." Then everyone was like "Michael, bust out one of your pickup lines!!" Wtf, since when do I have pickup lines? I don't believe in such crap. lol. We didn't get a picture, but the waitress seemed to remember me for the rest of the night cause, for example, I gave me order along with everyone else, but she said she would have to take it down at a later time if we wanted to get all our food together. So later when she comes by, she askes everyone what they wanted again, but when she gets to me she's like "Ahh, I remember what you ordered ;)." lol, I wish I'd have gotten her name =P. I don't leave until about 11 PM and once again, like it seems with every other party, I was one of the firsts to leave >.<. It was a fun night.

And then today, Saturday, definitely the boringest day of my week. I spent just about the entire day studying for the Chinese final I have tomorrow in Chinese school. Fun.

I hope all you SAT test taking people did well today.

Did you know that today is the anniversary of the eve of D-Day? Now you do =).